Sick Puppies Smuggled in From Mexico: ; Peddlers Buy Canines for As Little As $50 and Sell Them for Up to $1000 in Southern California
Charleston Daily Mail › December 22, 2005
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SAN DIEGO - Smugglers are buying puppies at rock-bottom prices in Mexico and selling them in the United States for up to $1,000, often to owners who later discover the canines are too sick or too young to survive on their own, authorities said.
The Border Puppy Task Force - a group of 18 animal control and health agencies and animal protection groups - said Tuesday a two- week operation at San Diego's two border crossings confirmed what they long suspected: Mexico is a breeding ground for unscrupulous puppy peddlers.See the full content of this document
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Sick Puppies Smuggled in From Mexico: ; Peddlers Buy Canines for As Little As $50 and Sell Them for Up to $1000 in Southern California
"It's a profit-driven practice, it's a disturbing practice," s...
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