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Humane pet shops - Video

April 16, 6:58 AMPet Rescue ExaminerSharon Seltzer
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It’s Kim Sill’s job with the animal rights group, Last Chance for Animals to stop retail pet stores from selling puppies born at puppy mills. She and her supporters regularly protest outside of pet stores in California educating the public about the horrors of puppy mills and the reality of pet overpopulation.

And although it wasn’t Kim Sill’s intention to put the pet shops out of business, that’s what happened before a turn of events helped Kim and several pet shop owners enter into a partnership.

Instead of just educating customers about pet overpopulation, Sills decided to work with the pet shop owners too.

Gail Matthews has been the owner of two Pet’s Delight puppy stores for 35 years and her friend Shannon Anderson has owned her pet store for 20 years. Both women are huge animal lovers and neither of them had ever visited an animal shelter.

Sill took the women to the Kern County Animal Shelter which has the highest euthanasia rate in California. Their emotional visit is documented in the video below. The two women rescued 100 dogs and 40 cats that day. And they have become humane pet shop owners, adopting out only rescued shelter pets.

Click here to read the complete story about these pet shop owners.

 

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