Thats great for you to do that! The public really needs to be more educated about puppymills. If I even try to talk about it to my family or whatever, they just think I am nuts.

My sister purchased McKinney (bye ) from a pet store. Here is the website of the breeder. What do you think? He came from Missouri too.

As far as I know, there are no Petland stores in Utah. The only pet stores I have purchased supplies from are Petsmart and Petco.

But, there are several pet stores here. The ones closest are called Animal Ark. Is there a way you can find out info about individual pet stores? I asked them once if their pups came from puppymills and they gave me some crap about that, and they did say they came from out of state breeders.

I went into one pet store called Jay's Jungle. There was a beautiful black/white cocker spaniel in there...almost full grown..in a tiny cage. He was howling, filthy, and eating his own poop. They wanted around $600 for him.