{"id":5133,"date":"2007-11-27T23:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T23:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:10:56","slug":"indianas-puppy-pipeline-wthr-nbc-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/indianas-puppy-pipeline-wthr-nbc-indianapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana&#8217;s Puppy Pipeline &#8211; WTHR (NBC Indianapolis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Bill&#8217;s sells about 2,500 puppies a year, according to Joe Street, vice president of Uncle Bill&#8217;s Pet Centers. Most of those come from Levi Graber and his network of Amish breeders.<\/p>\n<p>CAPS did a story with NBC in Indianapolis that covered this horrible pet shop, which was obtaining puppies through USDA-licensed broker Levi Graber, who owns Blue Ribbon Kennels in Odon, IN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WTHR-Indianas-Puppy-Pipeline-Part-1\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53VwZR6cZko?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WTHR-Indianas-Puppy-Pipeline-Part-2\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqU71CNcewc?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read full article here:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indianas-puppy-pipeline\/531-9cef0281-5d8e-4a3b-8c5d-65a835b7c994\"> https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indianas-puppy-pipeline\/531-9cef0281-5d8e-4a3b-8c5d-65a835b7c994<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Bill&#8217;s sells about 2,500 puppies a year, according to Joe Street, vice president of Uncle Bill&#8217;s Pet Centers. 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CAPS did a&#8230; <a class=\"custom-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/indianas-puppy-pipeline-wthr-nbc-indianapolis\/\">Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[710,625,628,627,629,730,729],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-amish-puppy-mills","tag-blue-ribbon-puppies","tag-indiana-breeders","tag-indiana-puppy-mills","tag-levi-graber","tag-nbc-indianapolis","tag-wthr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indiana&#039;s Puppy Pipeline - WTHR (NBC Indianapolis) - Companion Animal Protection Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/caps-web.org\/indianas-puppy-pipeline-wthr-nbc-indianapolis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indiana&#039;s Puppy Pipeline - WTHR (NBC Indianapolis) - Companion Animal Protection Society\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Uncle Bill&#8217;s sells about 2,500 puppies a year, according to Joe Street, vice president of Uncle Bill&#8217;s Pet Centers. 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