pet shops/puppy farming

In a delightful example of responsiveness, Walmart in the US bowed to community pressure to remove pet ads from their new online classifieds website; Just days after the Wal-Mart Classifieds launched, people began contacting the corporate office with their concerns about the “pet for sale” ads. By last Friday, just days after the site launched, […]

I’m back! :) Apologies for not letting you know I was taking a three week holiday – you know how things get just before you take off! Set your alarm for Sunday morning – Kirstine Lumb, a journalist with Channel Nine’s Sunday Program has been working on a story that exposes the pet industry and what […]

Interesting wee fact brought to us by the lastest “Urban Animal” newsletter; The PIAA also has a new CEO–Dr Joanne Sillince a vet who was previously a Board Member and former President of the Australian Veterinary Association–but also former EO of the Australian Chicken Growers Council in 2001 and CEO of the Australian Meat Processor […]

Dear the PIAA, You should change your policies and get live pets out of your stores. Not because there aren’t statistics that make you look less accountable. Or because of any new laws that might be brought in to force you to stop. But because the key to the PIAA’s success lies in being an […]

From her show on puppy mills today “The fact is, what they’re doing is not illegal,” Lisa says. “But the objective I think here is to raise awareness. People go into the pet stores, and they see these cute little puppies not knowing where they come from and what they go through.”

Right now animal welfare organisations are working hard on getting pets banned in pet stores and the public is rapidly becoming aware of the issues surrounding puppy farms and BYB. This is a tough time to be in the pet shop industry from an image perspective but, understandably, pets stores continue to reject any changes […]

Telling people ‘no’ rarely makes them stop doing something. Using ‘no’ in an effort to get people to change their behaviour, when the cost of to them of doing so is inconvenience, is doomed to fail. Hence telling people “no” to pet shops has, for the most part, fallen on deaf ears. Selling change is […]