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Has anybody seen the pet shops in Japan? Horrible places.

and

there are no words, disgusting.

Yesterday's Huffington post article on online puppy mills.

Puppy shipping is common in the US, and they still do sell puppies and kittens in pet shops.

I am sure it is real. Ian Dunbar talks about puppies being shipped across country in his book I remember.
I also remember cooing over puppies in shop windows when I lived there less than 10 years ago, not understanding what it meant.

>I think in America it's probably not that odd they do sell puppies and kittens in pet shops or is that just on tv?
they certainly did when I lived there about 20 years ago. Shops in the mall. Pups in glass-fronted cages. I hadn't ever owned a dog at that point and didn't realise quite how bad it was - especially for the last pup left.

Puppy shipping does seem to be common practice
With predictable results. Jesus wept!

American Humane Association

Humane Society of the United States

Not sure what the difference is between the two??

Just because it might be common practice (I have no idea), but that does not make it right.
There is an animal protection thingmy... let me have a google think

I think in America it's probably not that odd they do sell puppies and kittens in pet shops or is that just on tv?

I hope its a scam too

there's a 'Contact us' button - maybe we should.

Does the US have any equivalent to the RSPCA?

If you read the section on the delivery of the puppy , she says her vet has said it's better and easier for the dog than a long drive
they're crated and taxied to the airport then flown and taxied again , I could cry

Quite apart from the "ethics" involved, HOW THE FUCK can anyone justify paying that amount of money for a CROSSBREED dog?

I thought I'd seen it all, working in rescue. Obviously not so.

i hope it's a scam. i hope anyone stupid enough to think they are doing right by a dog to buy it this way gets stung for thousands and learns a very valuable lesson.

why on earth would anyone buy a puppy they have never even seen? fucking stupid bastarding assholes, both sellers and buyers. how can any of them think that is best for the dogs?

But how?? How do you ship puppies?

I so hope this is a scam...

"Bargain Babies" - bloody hell!!

hmm, I suspect it is real - I've heard of american breeders shipping puppies before.

Might be a scam, might not - maybe in the US people are happier with puppies as commodities? In the UK the scam sales are often through effectively untraceable places like gumtree, facebook, small ads etc. That one is quite a full-on (though very unprofessional-looking) website. I wonder if the twee-sounding address of the farm actually checks out?

Oh, a scam - good!!

I wondered if it was a scam. I am on scam alert tbh as some bugger tried to have us at work today. The payment logos look really dubious that's all (paypal etc) would rather it was a money scam tbh.

tbh I'd rather it was a money scam than an actual breeder

And that's without P&P, ruby.
How on earth do you 'ship' a puppy??
Across the United States FFS!

Fuckers.