By Chris Thomas
Washington News Service 

Report: Reasons to howl about buying dogs online

 

Last updated 12/21/2012 at 9:16am

IFAW

If you buy a puppy online, is it from a reputable breeder or a puppy mill? The International Fund for Animal Welfare found 62 percent of the online ads it examined on a single day were “likely puppy mills.”

SEATTLE – On a single day on the Internet, more than 700,000 dogs are for sale.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) says that’s what its researchers found in a one-day investigative blitz. The group is calling for new regulations on pet sales, and says an outdated Animal Welfare Act that doesn’t address online sales has become a loophole for unscrupulous breeders to sell directly to consumers.

Tracy Coppola, campaigns officer with IFAW, says they found hundreds of “puppy mill” ads that promised to deliver any type of puppy, anywhere in the country and with no pre-sc...



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