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This Blog is for the love of Hope.
Hope is a five month old puppy that was recently rescued from a pet store chain called Pet Habitat. Pet Habitat in turn purchased her from a large company in the US called "The Hunte Corporation". The Hunte Corporation bought her from a dirt shack puppy mill. Yet we bought her under the premise that she is a certified "purebred", AKC registered, top of the line investment. Pet Habitat's employees are proud that 100% of their dogs come from Hunte,they sadly have no idea who they are really working for.
The shopping mall pet stores are mass-marketing these precious lives at an insurmountable rate. Treating them as stock. We rescued her to expose the lies that so many other pups are falling victim to.
These puppies are high ticket items to the tune of $2600-. They go on sale when the don't sell and are returnable for replacement, they have expiry dates and disappear from the shelves. Have you ever seen an adult dog for sale in a pet store? Hope was one of 30 puppies at PET HABITAT, at Brentwood Mall in Vancouver BC. She was on sale because she was getting too old and she peed whenever she was touched. She did this because she was so excited to BE touched. Hope's expiry date was January 30th. Her final selling price was $1188-.
The quantity of puppies, that are processed through these franchises, are outweighing the (lack of) demand and the market must de stopped because hundreds are dying of awful diseases and disabilities.
Hope is sadly only one of thousands of puppies processed through the Hunte Corporation's Processing Plant in Missouri. THOUSANDS of puppies every year are transported from the plantation by the truckload. Over the US border, into Canada large sterile trucks transport two month old puppies to their shopping mall destinations. Filtered through the Hunte Corporation, these puppies are not the healthy "purebreds" the stores tote them to be. They have mostly originated from backyard, desperate breeders that are unable to sell their dogs on their own, or from dirty chicken coop style puppy mills from various states across America.
Hope came from the Sharon Lanz puppy mill in Minnesota. A confirmed address from her official papers of lineage provided by Pet Habitat. She was sold to the Hunte Corporation in 2008 for approx. $300-. Transported 680 mi – (about 10 hours). And then held there at their metallic facility for two months of her life to make sure she would live.
To get to the pet store that we found her in, she had to travel 2,205 mi – (about 1 day 8 hours) to Vancouver BC in a cage no bigger than a milk crate with over 100 other puppies of various breeds.
Once there, in PET HABITAT at Brentwood mall, she sat in another metal cage, laying on paper shreds. For two more months Hope sat in her cage, as people came into the store pointing at the cute puppies, but walking away shocked at the prices. Hope was taken out of that cage for one daily cleaning and an occasional "run" in a three-foot square barrier. She had never seen the sun, or sniffed the earth.
We bought her at five months old. We bought her to save her. She was discounted to $1188- considered un-sellable and about to be "transferred" from the store as the other older pups that didn’t sell were. Transferred to where? We were never told. But we WERE told by the franchise owner that there is an entire other market interested in adult dogs even though they are untrained, housebroken, or socialized.
Imagine the mess this entire market has created in the guise of sweet cuddly "purebred" puppies. It's the southern slave-trade mentality at it's best. Life-for-profit, at any cost.
This is the story of Hope. Not only this one beautiful puppy, but A Hope that this market finds an end, and that these little innocent lives find a voice.
The quantity of puppies, that are processed through these franchises, are outweighing the (lack of) demand and the market must de stopped because hundreds are dying of awful diseases and disabilities.
Hope is sadly only one of thousands of puppies processed through the Hunte Corporation's Processing Plant in Missouri. THOUSANDS of puppies every year are transported from the plantation by the truckload. Over the US border, into Canada large sterile trucks transport two month old puppies to their shopping mall destinations. Filtered through the Hunte Corporation, these puppies are not the healthy "purebreds" the stores tote them to be. They have mostly originated from backyard, desperate breeders that are unable to sell their dogs on their own, or from dirty chicken coop style puppy mills from various states across America.
Hope came from the Sharon Lanz puppy mill in Minnesota. A confirmed address from her official papers of lineage provided by Pet Habitat. She was sold to the Hunte Corporation in 2008 for approx. $300-. Transported 680 mi – (about 10 hours). And then held there at their metallic facility for two months of her life to make sure she would live.
To get to the pet store that we found her in, she had to travel 2,205 mi – (about 1 day 8 hours) to Vancouver BC in a cage no bigger than a milk crate with over 100 other puppies of various breeds.
Once there, in PET HABITAT at Brentwood mall, she sat in another metal cage, laying on paper shreds. For two more months Hope sat in her cage, as people came into the store pointing at the cute puppies, but walking away shocked at the prices. Hope was taken out of that cage for one daily cleaning and an occasional "run" in a three-foot square barrier. She had never seen the sun, or sniffed the earth.
We bought her at five months old. We bought her to save her. She was discounted to $1188- considered un-sellable and about to be "transferred" from the store as the other older pups that didn’t sell were. Transferred to where? We were never told. But we WERE told by the franchise owner that there is an entire other market interested in adult dogs even though they are untrained, housebroken, or socialized.
Imagine the mess this entire market has created in the guise of sweet cuddly "purebred" puppies. It's the southern slave-trade mentality at it's best. Life-for-profit, at any cost.
This is the story of Hope. Not only this one beautiful puppy, but A Hope that this market finds an end, and that these little innocent lives find a voice.
To see more about some of Hope's story see the CBC story "How not to buy a puppy" go to :
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/
