Friday, February 8, 2013

Make Your Voice Heard...


Tell Citipups to STOP selling puppies

To: Citipups, Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Council Members

We encourage your store to stop buying from puppy millers and brokers and to convert to an adoption or rescue-centric storefront. This business model has been successfully implemented nationally by many former puppy store operations. You can still run a successful business selling dog food,...
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  • One of the owners of Citipups taking pictures of us.
  • One of the owners of Citipups taking pictures of us.
  • Puppies in the window. Never taken for a walk and often found panting and eating their own feces in the window while left in there all day.
  • Relative of the store owner recording us.
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To encourage Citipups and all pet stores to convert to an adoption based model while still being able to run a profitable business selling animal toys, foods and other related products.
Citipups is a puppystore/petstore in the heart of the Chelsea area of Manhattan. The store has been linked to buying from some of the worse puppy millers in the U.S. by an undercover Humane Society report.
According to the 2011 Humane Society investigation: "gave breeder names and falsely stated that puppy miller/broker Sandra Blake has "wide-open spaces" for her dogs. Linked to puppy sources with problematic USDA reports, including Ruth Zuspann's Kennel in MO (See HSUS'S Dirty Dozen report update)."
You'll find two videos of the conditions and so called "wide-open spaces" of the kennels below:
Sandra (Sandy) Blakes Sanjon Kennel
Zuspann's Kennel
Here is Citipups website: http://citipups.com/
This store is protested twice weekly by dedicated community based animal rights activists every Wednesday and Saturday. If you are in the NYC area and would like to get involved with our puppy mill and pet store awareness campaign please reach out to us on our meetup and facebook pages, which are listed below:
When Katie Holmes and her daughter Suri Cruise were out puppy shopping at Citipups, we were right out front to greet them with a loud protest:https://www.facebook.com/PuppyMillFreeNYC/posts/367906953279809
If you want to donate and help support our protests and awareness campaigns, you can do so here: http://puppymillfreenyc.chipin.com/new-york-fund-for-puppy-mill-education-and-rescue
The stores owners and managers have used dirty tactics against demonstrators by leading a campaign of misinformation, harassment and intimidation. Some examples of this are as follows:
1) The store tapes up signs as soon as we arrive for our bi-weekly demonstration stating they don't support puppy mills and to come in and "judge for yourself."
2) The store engages in taunting protesters by name calling and piling trash in front of us.
3) The owner of the store, relatives of the staff and employees have engaged in physically threatening protesters while being video taped.
4) They have hired/called upon a so called "rescue organization" (1 person) who sits in front of their store 3 days a week for a half day to adopt her rescued pets. This is an obvious political ploy to whitewash the nasty record and dealings associated with this company. This rescuer also has no direct knowledge of what exactly a puppy mill is and why pet stores that sell from these operations are an utter disgrace. She has come to the defense of this store because of it's "clean" conditions.
Citipups can be reached here: contactus@citipups.com
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  1. Update #7

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on February 6
    Citipups stoops to new lows - Boycott Citipups 

  2. Update #6

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on January 18
    This is a video of a Citipups employee cursing out activists:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC_NpHgahpA Please be forewarned that there is a lot of cursing involved in this video. Boycott Citipups!

  3. Update #5

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on October 2, 2012
    If you're in NYC, please come out to our November 11th Puppy Mill Free NYC Benefit Concert: https://www.facebook.com/events/427947697263383/

  4. Update #4

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on September 24, 2012
    To keep up to date with Puppy Mill Free NYC's current activities, please like and share our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PuppyMillFreeNYC

  5. Update #3

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on August 28, 2012
    Thanks to a dedicated animal rights activist and lawyer, we now have an up-to-date Freedom of Information Law file on Citipups. The link below will confirm what the Humane Society's investigation has already stated: Citipups buys their puppies from puppy millers and brokers. One of the brokers they use called "Critersville Kennels Inc." based in Nebraska has a problematic history with the USDA. Some of those problems include: transporting puppies in cages too small, transporting puppies in...
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  6. Update #2

    Posted by Mikey Earthling Feldman (Cause Leader) on August 18, 2012
    If you want to donate and help support our protests and awareness campaigns, you can do so here: http://puppymillfreenyc.chipin.com/new-york-fund-for-puppy-mill-education-and-rescue
    Even if it's just a dollar or two, it will go towards helping us get the necessary tools to continue our battle against pet stores in NYC that support puppy mills.
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