Franchise Petland Store in Illinois Has Decided to Support Adoptable Rescued Pets Rather Than Breeders
Well one Petland store in Wheaton, Illinois has adopted a completely different attitude.
No more puppies from breeders!
The store's owner, Adam Stachowiak, said "The idea has been there from day one, and it was an easy choice to make from the community angle and of course because we'd be saving dogs' lives, but at the same time it was scary from a strictly business perspective."
They have decided instead to have only rescue or shelter dogs and cats. They have always done the famous Petland "adopt-a-pet" format but they wanted to do more. This is their answer.
ALOHA, rescued dogs!
Because Petland is a franchise and not a chain store it is up to individual owners to decide what they will each do and where they will get their pets for sale. And although many Petlands will still sell dogs and cats they obtained from breeders, this Wheaton Illinois store will not.
Stephanie Ptak runs A Love of homeless Animals Rescue (ALOHA) and has successfully adopted out more than 300 rescued animals. And now this Petland has devoted all its space for pet sales to these adoptable animals.
It's only a first step, the hope is other Petlands will follow
It is wonderful that this first step has been taken by a pet store owner to try to humanely handle the over abundant adoptable pet situations faced in this nation and to stop supporting puppy mills or breeders that are only out for a buck. Congratulations Wheaton Illinois Petland! Hopefully soon other stores will follow suit.
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Post a CommentWhoa! Good news for a change. :-)
The owner of this store also owns the Petland store in Naperville, where puppy mill puppies are still being sold. I read in another article that he directs people who come into the Wheaton store to his other store if they want a "pure bred" puppy and not a shelter dog with "baggage." Makes me wonder just how sincere they are in this effort. Of course, Petland Wheaton denies they ever sold puppy mill dogs in the first place.
Congrats to this pet store! Puppy mills are horrible and people would not support them if they saw what they put these poor animals through
Well, kudos to this organization doing such a wonderful thing - the right thing. Good reporting. Let's hope this effort takes hold and other pet stores do the same.
Good idea and lovely pic!
Good for them. It's so sad that so many others probably won't, due to greed.
I hope that many others follow their lead. We need to put an end to puppy mills there are plenty of dogs (and cats) in shelters. Cheers :)