{"id":3251,"date":"2018-07-25T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2019-09-13T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:56:58","slug":"puppy-mill-dogs-sold-as-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/puppy-mill-dogs-sold-as-rescues\/","title":{"rendered":"This New Scam Is Tricking People Into Buying Puppy Mill Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

When people buy dogs from Hobo K-9 Rescue, they think they\u2019ve\u00a0adopted a genuine rescue dog<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 after all, the group is a registered nonprofit and buyers are told they\u2019re saving these dogs.<\/p>\n

But in reality, these dogs aren\u2019t rescues at all. Instead, they come from\u00a0puppy mills<\/a>, farms that breed hundreds of dogs while keeping them and the parent dogs in often horrible conditions \u2014 and it\u2019s part of a new approach designed to trick people into buying puppy mill dogs.<\/p>\n

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Dogs at Dettbarn, one of the puppy mills that supplies to J.A.K.’s |
CAPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year, the team at the\u00a0Companion Animal Protection Society<\/a>\u00a0(CAPS) heard about a new nonprofit group called Hobo K-9, located in Britt, Iowa, that was registered as a 501(c)3 organization. When CAPS realized that Hobo K-9 was based in the same town as J.A.K.\u2019s Puppies, Inc., a brokering company that sells puppy mills dogs to stores around the country, they were instantly suspicious.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was apparent that it was a problem, because it was literally registered to the same person who runs the largest puppy broker facility that exists in the U.S.,\u201d Pete, an investigator for CAPS whose name had been changed for safety reasons, told The Dodo.<\/p>\n

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The sign Pete found at the address for Hobo K-9 |
CAPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In April 2018, Pete traveled to Britt to see if he could figure out what was going on. When he arrived at the address where Hobo K-9 was registered, he was greeted with a sign on the door: J.A.K.\u2019s Puppies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I walk around the back, the door is open,\u201d Pete said. \u201cThe key lock is turned so it\u2019s ajar, and when I walk in, you can see from the\u00a0footage<\/a>\u00a0that those women are very upset that I\u2019m in there. They want to know who I am, why I\u2019m there. I was trying to act like I\u2019m a very innocent member of the public who has walked in here and just wants a dog, but they\u2019re telling me that they have no puppies in there. They won\u2019t tell me where the puppies are, and the only answer that they will give to any of my questions is that I have to talk to Jolyn.\u201d<\/p>\n