Petland fights petition blocking stores from selling dogs, cats
Posted Mar 28, 2011 5:00 pm.
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A major Calgary pet store chain is fighting a petition that would stop it from selling dogs and cats.
The petition was created because of worry the puppies and kittens come from illegitimate breeders, puppy mills or kitten factories.
Petland has nine stores in Calgary, and spokesperson Robert Church tells 660news all their animals come from reputable breeders.
“We’ve been sending home puppies in Calgary for several years, and we have been doing breeder inspections since the late 1990s,” he says. “We have literally done thousands of breeder inspections. We have a 50-point breeder inspection report and we’re very, very careful about where our animals come from.”
He says the petition would actually be damaging, because it would take away places where people know they can buy animals from reputable sources.
“I think you’re far, far more vulnerable if you go online and buy an animal, you know, on Kijiji from somebody who’s going to deliver it and you’re going to buy it out of the back of a car in a parking lot,” he says.
Action speak louder Calgary, the group that launched the petition, tells the Calgary Herald, they prefer people purchase their animals through the Humane Society or directly from legitimate breeders.
