Animal advocates protesting pet store purchases

vIndianz.com (Dec. 06, 2009) — South County animal activists this weekend plan to persuade shoppers to buy pets from shelters rather than pet stores. The protestors – from over 30 animal groups – plan take their posts on Crown Valley Parkway close to the entrance to The Shops at Mission Viejo from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. They expect to prevent holiday pet purchases at local pet shops – some of which they suppose obtain their puppies from Midwest puppy mills.

selter_store “We just had après conference at the OC Animal Shelter to get public to adopt shelter animals in the holiday season,” said Jim Garner, from the South County Animal Shelter Coalition and a board member for Friends of Lake Forest Animals. “Each puppy mill dog sold means a dog at the shelter will be killed.”

Gardner said the protestors – that will comprise of animals rescue groups, shelters and animal activists – would like people to understand the surroundings in which puppy mill animals are bred.

Over the past few months representatives from Best Friends’ Animal Society’s “Puppies Aren’t Products” have encouraged pet shoppers to sign petitions in The Shops of Mission Viejo to discourage puppy mill practices.

“This is a more aggressive approach,” said Gardner. “We’re taking to the streets and asking people not to shop here. We’re doing it a Christmas time we know this is the time people are shopping for puppies.”

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