Humane Society: Lisle's Puppy Parlor Pet Store Linked to Puppy Mills
A dozen Chicago-area pet stores were listed in an undercover investigation released Tuseday by the Puppy Mill Campaign for the Humane Society of the United States.
A dozen Chicago-area pet stores—including locations in Lisle, Downers Grove and Aurora—have been listed in a puppy mill investigation conducted by the Humane Society of the United States. The Humane Society said Tuesday that undercover investigators visited 12 stores over a three-day period in October, and found many are linked to inhumane commercial breeders known as puppy mills. During the visits, employees at the stores denied selling animals from puppy mills, but documents showed otherwise, according to the Humane Society. Investigators also discovered that eight of the 12 stores were in violation of Illinois' pet shop disclosure law, which requires stores to post visible information about the animals and their breeders, the Humane …
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Laurel B
8:15 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thanks Dianne! Confirm they buy their dogs from Oleo Acres too....puppy mill. Banned from the AKC for life. Yeah, Tammy is a real dog lover.... look at the pictures of the back of her store taken during a HSUS investigation last year and decide what kind of person would do this?! more ›