Humane Society: Happiness Is Pets in Downers Grove Linked to Puppy Mills
A dozen Chicago-area pet stores were listed in an undercover investigation released Tuesday by the Puppy Mill Campaign for the Humane Society of the United States.
A dozen Chicago-area pet stores—including locations in Downers Grove, Lisle 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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11:53 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013
I have one one of these distempter dogs, purchased at happiness is pets in Downers. (Not purchased by me, ii took him in ) He will be 2 in July , he has lost most of his teeth and has the twitching seizures every day. The good news is he is one of the cases that closed the puppy mill he came from in Missouri, the bad news is there is always another one out there. I do not have a problem with … more ›