You may recall that for October’s Blog the Change for Animals, I joined several other bloggers to tell Petland USA to stop selling pets in its stores. (If this issue is new to you, learn more about the pet store/puppy mill connection here.)
Over 45,000 people have signed the petition, but Petland USA has not changed its ways. For that reason, I’m sharing a call to action from Mary Haight (of the Dancing Dog Blog), who led the charge on this issue in October.
Want to get involved? Join us in telling Petland USA that until they stop supporting puppy mills, we’re not supporting them. I’ve reproduced the instructions below. For more info and background, visit here.
From Change.org:
Sometimes pictures can be more effective than words. Since
they have the power to help stop this, remind Petland USA what breeder
puppy mill dogs look like. Estimates report there are more than a
million of them trapped in hopeless lives.
We need your help THIS WEEKEND with this simple action. It should only take 10 minutes of your time:
1) Download the images in this blog post to your computer (right-click and āsave asā).
2) Post these images to your Facebook profile and ask your network to share.
3) If you have a blog, please re-post these instructions and
share widely! If not, please email your networks with a link to the original blog post.
[Editor’s Note: Over on the Change.org post there are actually 4 steps – however, upon learning of this weekend’s call to action, Petland blocked postings of these images to its franchise Facebook pages. Guess they don’t want their customers to see where their pets might have come from….]
Spread the word and take the pledge – don’t support puppy mill pet stores!
I have been reading about this and it's a very important campaign. Well done for highlighting it.
Love and licks, Winnie
Thanks for sharing!!
Licks,
Ruthie
Yet again, I am so happy that we don't have a Petland here near us!
Thanks for stopping by, guys!
Such an important issue!
We have signed the petition and also posted on Facebook!
I'd love to sign but the problem is I don't have time with all the European lotteries I've won, long lost royal relatives in Africa I'm receiving inheritances from, and investment opportunities overseas. Only an idiot would believe this kind of stuff. Guess they got you with this one.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion… however, hard to give it much weight when it's phrased in such a condescending manner and comes from an anonymous source.
Everyone is anonymous on here, I don't know how to get a hold of you, you don't know how to get a hold of me. You attack legitimate stores by saying much worse things than I said, but as soon as someone stands up for them and attacks you it's condescending. Fact is it's not opinion, it's fact, if research was actually done people would know that. The media doesn't have proof, all they do is take a picture and put Petland's name by it and everyone follows like sheep. That's like putting a picture of a car crash next to a picture of an Asian. It's disgraceful but people start believing it's true.
I didn't find it condescending that you expressed disagreement – more the fact that you compared people who take this position to people who fall for Internet scams… and that you called me an idiot.
There are facts to back up the pet store-puppy mill connection, which you can find in the posts and websites I've linked to above.
I welcome discussion and disagreement in the comments here (and I realize that not everyone agrees on this particular issue). However, please keep it respectful or I will have to delete your comments.