Montecito Pet Shop Carrys Only Rescue Dogs as of 10-22-09!

October 27, 2009

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS' PET SHOP PROJECT!

THE MONTECITO PET SHOP STOPS

SELLING PURE BREED DOGS FROM BREEDERS

October 23, 2009

Last Chance for Animals (LCA) has succeeded in convincing another pet store to carry only rescue dogs! The Montecito Pet Shop in Santa Barbara will no longer buy pure breed puppies from breeders but instead will only re-home shelter dogs!

Santa Barbara residents contacted Kim Sill who heads LCA's "Pet Shop Project," wanting to protest the pet store after watching the special Dog Whisperer episode: "Inside Puppy Mills" this past May. LCA's investigation of the Pet Shop determined that the store was buying pure bred puppies from backyard breeders. Elyse Kuhn, who has owned the Montecito Pet Shop for 22 years, agreed to work with LCA after many meetings with Sill. She decided it was time to help the dogs on death row in the overcrowded shelters in California instead of participating as part of the problem.

Newborn pups found in a hole, trying to avoid the burning sun of Mojave, CA

On October 23, 2009, The Montecito Pet Shop welcomed their first litter of rescued puppies to their store! Sill delivered the six eight-week old pups, the last of the dogs to be removed off the Bemis property in Mojave.

Click here to watch video of The Montecito Pet Shop welcoming their first litter of rescue dogs!

All the pups rescued from Mojave will be given a chance at a loving home

Kim Sill of LCA commented: "It was very rewarding to watch the change in perceptions as the customers viewed the rescue puppies. The mood is different when people know that it is a rescue, there is hope and there is change in Santa Barbara tonight."

The same pups found in a hole in Mojave, CA, now relaxing at The Montecito Pet Shop

LCA is working towards a day in making Los Angeles a no kill city, where pet stores no longer support puppy mills and breeders, but shelter animals and rescue groups. LCA is committed to oversee and endorse pet stores in Los Angeles that are willing to change their business practice and re-home shelter animals.

SB 250 - The Pet responsibility Act has been put on hold until January. This bill would provide a reasonable, fiscally responsible step towards reducing pet overpopulation in California. The bill simply requires that dogs be spayed or neutered unless their owner/guardian obtains an unaltered dog license when they license their animal. It also requires that roaming cats be spayed and neutered by their owner/guardian.

In California shelters alone, since January 1, 2009, 237,457 pets have been killed, and $118,586,524 tax dollars have been spent to house and kill animals.

LCA IS COMMITTED TO PUTTING AN END TO

PET OVERPOPULATION!

ADOPT--DON'T SHOP!