Monday, January 25, 2010

NEWS - Ridgefield Press, January 25

Puppy store lacks documents
Letters to the Editor

I attended a meeting the first selectman had with True Breeder store owner, Christine DiCarlo. It was to learn from where her puppies would come, and other particulars. It was clearly stated that no one at the meeting had the desire, intent nor standing to interfere with the legitimate right to run the business and lease the property. Ms. DiCarlo said all the puppies would come from New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. She would personally pick them up from breeders she knew.
On a visit to the place just after opening, and, after the meeting, all four puppies there came from an Oklahoma puppy mill which, in April '09, had its recognition by the AKC revoked. Very rare - the AKC seems to "recognize" any breeder with a pulse. So, to have such recognition rescinded, the place must have been worse than awful.
Ms. DiCarlo was unable to produce any documentation for registration of either of the English mastiff puppies, nor for the Miniature Doxy on premises. For the Doxy she said she had documentation but could not produce it. Nor could she produce sign-off by the state, which she claimed had just been there and said she was in compliance with the Oct. 1, 2009 statute requiring, within 10 feet of their housing, data as to name, location and contact information for the breeder from which the puppies came. She clearly was not in compliance. She claimed, too, that the puppies not AKC registered were "CKC" registered, whatever that is, but could produce no documentation.
In 25 years as a New York state special agent for the SPCA, I have never found a puppy store, the stock of which did not come from a puppy mill. True Breeders seems to be true to that finding.

John Katz
Ridgfield, Jan. 25

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