Dec 10, 2008 9:16 am US/Pacific
Targeted Beverly Center Pet Store Forced To Leave
LOS ANGELES
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Protesters have been trying to get the Pet Love store's lease terminated for years now. Shown above is a puppy being medicated as were most all puppies on a daily basis.
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Medications were normally given to the puppies of the pet store on a daily basis and usually over-medicated without proper instructions.
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Veterinarians did eventually go into the pet store and cited the owners with multiple violations, however the store continued to do business.
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Best Friends Animal Society and other animal rights groups held a press conference with the store to set an agreement for proper care and receiving of animals or termination of the store's lease.
Pet Love, a pet store targeted by a national animal rescue group for the past six months, is being forced to leave upscale Beverly Center mall, its home for 15 years, it was reported today.
The sixth-floor pet store has been in the crosshairs of the Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal rescue and welfare organization waging a campaign to get pet stores in Los Angeles to stop selling animals born in what the group calls inhumane puppy mills.
Elizabeth Oreck, Best Friends program manager in Los Angeles, said Tuesday that the Beverly Center would terminate the lease of Pet Love at the end of January, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Oreck insisted the goal of her group's campaign was to change pet shops' practices, not to shut them down.
She said she met months ago with Pet Love's owners, The Times reported. "We said: `We will propose a plan for you. We will help you get rescue animals, we will promote you -- we will get the entire animal welfare community into your store. We will tell people this is the only place to buy supplies.'" The owners were not interested, she said.
Best Friends wanted the right to demonstrate outside Pet Love. When the Beverly Center declined that request, the group filed a lawsuit asking a judge to decide if the group had a constitutional right to protest in front of the store, The Times reported.
According to a Nov. 21 letter from a lawyer for the Beverly Center's owners to an attorney representing Best Friends, the partnership that owns the Beverly Center "will terminate its lease agreement with PetLove, Inc. . . . effective Jan. 31, 2009."
In exchange, Best Friends would agree to withdraw its suit and "cease its protest activities" when Pet Love moves out of the Beverly Center.
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
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