[one less pet store selling puppy mill puppies can only be a good thing]

I was at the mall and I noticed that the pet store is closed. Well, there were 4 puppies in the store, so I don't know if the people that owned the store up and left all of a sudden and someone is taking care of the puppies that are still there-not sure if they're not sure what to do with the puppies that are still there-I would hope that they would be taken to a shelter or to a foster home.

The problem is that a lot of the puppies are frankenbreeds(I have no problem with mutt dogs but: obviously the pet stores get their animals from puppy mills-the dogs already have that against them) and the  breeds of dogs are being bred without any sort of thought to potential health problems.

Two cities(Oceanside and Carlsbad) in my area have banned pet stores that sell puppies-I forget the particulars but the one at the mall got around that somehow..but it was always being picketed(which I can totally see- the animals were in  small "cages"-there were large breed dogs-like Mastiffs-in tiny cages. Add to that that they were *always* in those cages-unless one of the dogs was lucky enough to have one of the customers play with them(the owners of the show actively discouraged lookie-lous, which is a shame because truly, it was the only way that those puppies would gets any sort of human interaction.

This is not the first pet store in the mall-there used to be one in another part of the mall long upon a time ago- this is so bad but as with the other pet store, you could smell it before you got to it-I mean it smelled BAD, I am always amazed that the stores  either side of it(a Sam Goody store-remember them?-and a shoe store) did not complain about it more. They didn't  have the frankenbreed dogs(that's a newish thing),but they didn't care about the animals(as evidenced by how bad the place smelled all of the time).As usual, lookie lous who  played with the animals were discouraged.I think they didn't want their customers to see  what bad shape the animals were in-laying in their own filth(very common for pet store puppies-pet store owners are many things, but ethical is NOT one of them.) among other things.