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	<title><![CDATA[Attention Holiday Shoppers: Petland Tied to Puppy Mills]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-markarian/attention-holiday-shopper_b_145267.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I led a press conference this morning, packed with television cameras at The Humane Society of the United States' headquarters in Washington, D.C., to announce the results of <a href="http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2008/11/petland-puppies.html">a new eight-month investigation into puppy mill cruelty</a>. The HSUS investigated more than 20 Petland stores and found that these stores, part of the nation's largest puppy-selling retail chain, are selling dogs from abusive puppy mills in Missouri and across the Midwest, while assuring consumers that they only buy puppies from...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-12-22T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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