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Puppy Mill Brokers, The Humane Society Of The United States
Puppy Mill Brokers, The Humane Society Of The United States
PUPPY MILL REPORTS
A puppy mill “broker” is a pet dealer engaged in the business of re-selling puppies who were bred elsewhere. Unlike retail pet stores, brokers are middleman dealers who obtain puppies from breeders and puppy mills, and then transport and resell them. Brokers typically sell puppies to pet stores, but sometimes to research facilities, often travelling great distances to do so. In some cases the term is also used loosely to describe people who re-sell litters directly to the public that they themselves did not produce, for example, by posing at the original breeder and selling them through websites or classified …
Fact Sheet On Puppy Mills And Flea Markets, The Humane Society Of The United States
Fact Sheet On Puppy Mills And Flea Markets, The Humane Society Of The United States
PUPPY MILL REPORTS
Flea Markets are meccas for problematic puppy sellers. Since the USDA is now regulating commercial breeders who sell puppies sight-unseen over the Internet, flea markets are one of the last unregulated marketplaces for questionable puppy sellers, many of them unlicensed and uninspected. As a result, there has been an increase in the number of operators selling puppies at flea markets across the country—likely in an effort to escape government regulation.