Report: Reasons to howl about buying dogs online
Last updated 12/21/2012 at 9:16am
SEATTLE – On a single day on the Internet, more than 700,000 dogs are for sale.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) says that’s what its researchers found in a one-day investigative blitz. The group is calling for new regulations on pet sales, and says an outdated Animal Welfare Act that doesn’t address online sales has become a loophole for unscrupulous breeders to sell directly to consumers.
Tracy Coppola, campaigns officer with IFAW, says they found hundreds of “puppy mill” ads that promised to deliver any type of puppy, anywhere in the country and with no pre-sc...
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