Letter to the Editor
I would like to say how sorry I am to the Muniz family who endured the heart-wrenching loss of their pet. They were sold a sick animal and lost more than $2,000 trying to save it. This is sad but an all too common by-product of the puppy mill trade.
The Muniz family probably thought that when Ms. DiCarlo said her dogs were from local breeders, she did not mean Missouri. That when Ms. DiCarlo said she was not working with puppy mills, her dogs were not arriving in a windowless trailer truck from the Hunte Corporation. The same Hunte Corporation that ships more than 2,000 puppies a week and is being sued by the Humane Society of the United States for misrepresenting to consumers that their puppies are healthy and come from high quality breeders, when, in fact, many of them come from factory farms.
The truth is that getting a dog should never be as easy as picking up a quart of milk. If you are not going to a shelter to adopt a dog, you need to go to the breeder directly. This is the only way to be sure it is a reputable breeder. Its legitimacy is not via the AKC or other acronym approval, it is your ability to see where the dog is kept and, most importantly, to meet its mother.
What happened to the Muniz family is emotionally and financially horrible; it would be worse, however, if this happened and no lessons were learned from it.
Jenny Bocchino
Great Hill Road, March 15
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