One of the Largest Puppy Brokers Shuts Its Doors!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 2:30pm
One of Largest Puppy Brokers Shuts Its Doors!

Guest blog written by Cori Menkin, Senior Director of the ASPCA's Puppy Mills Campaign.

Lambriar, Inc., one of the largest puppy brokers in the United States, has announced that it is closing its kennel doors for good. Puppy brokers like Lambriar are middlemen, buying dogs from puppy mills and distributing them to pet stores throughout the country. Brokers are an important cog in the wheel of the cruel and inhumane puppy mill industry.

When asked why Lambriar is closing its doors, owner Roger Lambert told Kansas newspaper  The Belleville Telescope “When you couple the bad economy with increasing rules and regulations and increased pressure from animal rights activists, well, it just got too hard.”

We have been working hard to shed light on the link between puppy mills and pet store puppies, and it seems to be working! As more and more people take our No Pet Store Puppies pledge not to buy anything in stores that sell puppies, the industry will continue to feel the ripple effects and be forced to make changes.

If you haven’t taken the No Pet Store Puppies pledge yet, please do! And please be sure to share it with your friends so that one day, puppy mill cruelty will be a distant memory.

Tags: 
Animal Cruelty
Puppy Mills

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Wed, 08/01/2012 - 15:38 — Jason Quinter (Visitor)
Yeah!!!

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 15:39 — Nancy Bostick Ebbert (Visitor)
Join me in pledging to not buy puppies from pet stores. Puppies are not products and their parents are not breeding machines to be kept in squalor for profit. We will never buy puppies from pet stores.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 15:47 — Joanne Stewart (Visitor)
This is wonderful news and after reading the article i can see that all of the sharing and signing that i do everyday is making a difference.I take the pledge to never buy from pet stores that sell animals....I hope this is the beginning of the end of puppy farms and animals having to spend their lives as locked up neglected abused breeding machines for profit!!!!!!!

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 16:07 — Stephanie McMillin (Visitor)
This just made my day!! Roger Lambert is a disgrace and he deserved to be shut down!! I hope this continues to happen! I already signed the pledge so I hope everyone else who reads this story will sign too!! :)

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:51 — Debbie (Visitor)
I agree!

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 17:24 — amy (Visitor)
YIPPY. NOW THESE LOSERS CAN GO GET A REAL JOB LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

Sat, 08/04/2012 - 09:34 — Anne (Visitor)
It's ALWAYS about the money! That is the cold hard fact. It's time we think of the dogs.

Sun, 08/05/2012 - 10:08 — Carol Reynolds (Visitor)
Unfortunately, my first cynical thought is that they are going to resurface under a new name due to all the exposure they've been getting lately. This is what the mills do all the time, so this broker may do the same. I hope I am wrong.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 18:20 — Bobbie Guerra (Visitor)
Maybe if these types of ignorant selfish , heartless creatures were made to be locked in cages treated poorly and used for in humane commidities, they would see just how horrid what they do truly is

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 18:20 — Bobbie Guerra (Visitor)
Maybe if these types of ignorant selfish , heartless creatures were made to be locked in cages treated poorly and used for in humane commidities, they would see just how horrid what they do truly is

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 18:42 — Brenda Maeder (Visitor)
I pledge not to buy anything from stores that sell puppies. There is just one thing, I feel terrible for the puppies sitting in their cages and worry who is purchasing them.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:56 — Jo (Visitor)
I agree what happens to them?

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 22:29 — Danielle Rackstraw (Visitor)
To those who asked about the current dogs in pet stores. NOTHING happens to those dogs. They would be sold. The deal is not everyone knows about pet stores and where the dogs come from, HOWEVER if business gets really S L O W because folks like you took the pledge the pet store owners and chains won't carry dogs because they won't be able to afford to do this. SIMPLE. Hit them in their wallet.

Fri, 08/03/2012 - 14:26 — TK Villarreal (Visitor)
I hope that the remaining dogs are not sent to dog auctions. Someone really ought to follow up and find out what happened to the dogs after the business closes. A lot of people don't know about dog auctions, that is where they send the dogs that the puppy millers don't want anymore. Just when you think it can't get any worse...

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 18:50 — dog lover (Visitor)
later gator.....

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 19:20 — krista (Visitor)
This is an extraordinary achievement but I am wondering what is going to happen to all of the innocent mothers and puppies that were in the possession of this heartless businessman at the time of closure.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 00:46 — Jess (Visitor)
It is the broker that is going out of business, not the mill doing the breeding. The broker will just stop buying puppies to sell to pet shops. They aren't in possession of any breeding animals.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 05:50 — Jackie Kennedy (Visitor)
Well at least the puppy mills won't be able to sell this broker any pups any more ! If we get the brokers closed down then the puppy mills WILL follow. We need to stamp out this cruel & vile trade worldwide.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 11:44 — Joy (Visitor)
Krista, they will be rescued by wonderful organizations like National Mill Dog Rescue in Colorado!

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 19:25 — Fran (Visitor)
YEAH!!!!! This is wonderful news. When I was growing up, we never sold puppies. People would find their puppies a good home and give them to the family. It's a shame the way animals are treated from their owners to make money off of them.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 19:45 — Nikki (Visitor)
All of the animals I have (besides one) has been adopted from a pound or shelter at some point. The one that wasn't, was born within my home. I will NEVER buy a puppy or kitten from a pet store.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 19:59 — Kourtnsu (Visitor)
Yes!! Thanks for all your hard work, hopefully this is the beginning of the fall of this empire!

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 21:37 — brit (Visitor)
my cousin and her mom are puppy brokers. i think they still breed a small amount of dogs to. they live in britt Iowa oleo acres. i wish they would all be shut down.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 21:52 — Alan (Visitor)
Krista, above, asks a very crucial and important question: what happens to the puppies (and kittens) that are bred in these mills, once the mill has been shut down? I'm elated and proud that my donations have, in some small way, contributed to the permanent closing of these inhumane businesses, yet I would also like to see my donations going towards the rescue of the parents and offspring. I'm assuming the ASPCA has protocol in place regarding this; please tell us what it is. And thank you for your tireless and invaluable work.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 22:50 — Chris Fulton (Visitor)
I have the same questions as Krista & Alan. There has to be a procedure in place for the rescue of those animals displaced. If I can help financially, let me know.

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 22:51 — Chris Fulton (Visitor)
Just an added thought. I am an ASPCA guardian. I hope some of my donations go toward this effort. Anyone out there agree with me?

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 23:49 — Ms Cherry Marrone (Visitor)
Yes, where do they ALL go, the breeders, too?

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 23:51 — Ms Cherry Marrone (Visitor)
I don't mean the people who actually do the breeding, I mean the mama's and the papa's of the puppies.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 23:41 — suzyQ (Visitor)
Many rescue organizations will take the mom and dad dogs along with the pups. Just check with your local rescues and you will find puppy mill dogs

Wed, 08/01/2012 - 23:47 — Ms Cherry Marrone (Visitor)
....but we aren't going to miss you one teensy bit!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 00:00 — Tracey (Visitor)
This is the best news I have heard in a long time!!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 00:00 — Tracey (Visitor)
This is the best news I have heard in a long time!!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 01:49 — Ann (Visitor)
Thanks for making my day!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 02:36 — damian (Visitor)
Good ridence you scum... People like this sell their children to the porn trade...they have no morals..

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 02:50 — Adopt, don't Shop (Visitor)
This is good news. I hope Sharon Munk with BJ and Guys Kennel is next. Also please donate to your local SPCA, not the ASPCA. S/N your pets , but please ADOPT and not SHOP. Thousands need homes and there are not enough homes so they suffer and die. Killed by a gas chamber, needle or heart stick.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 04:25 — Linda Field (Visitor)
This is a step forward for all animal advocates!Let's hope and pray more see the light!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 05:43 — Jackie Kennedy (Visitor)
This is FANTASTIC NEWS, praying that this is the 1st of many Cruel Puppy farms /mills to close down. Let's stop this vile trade in animals for good.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 06:39 — Barbara Niro (Visitor)
I have been a customer of LVS,aka,Lambriar Vet Supply, aka Lambert Vet Supply for years and HAD NO IDEA that this family was associated with puppy distribution, which kept the puppy mills going. I am sick that I ever did business with them and I just let them know it. They lost me as a customer and I'll be sure to pass the word.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 08:05 — Barb (Visitor)
This is a big win for everyone.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 08:05 — Barb (Visitor)
This is a big win for everyone.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 08:59 — samantha maroney (Visitor)
excellent news....fairwell u parasites!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 09:32 — caroline beaudette (Visitor)
I'm happy to see another step towards such a great cause. Now, puppy brokers should use their "powers" to help place shelter animals the same way they helped promote over population :)

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 09:32 — nathalie l (Visitor)
super!!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 09:49 — linda (Visitor)
good news!

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 09:53 — Jonathan Perea (Visitor)
Great news indeed. I won't buy anything at stores that sell puppies.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 10:22 — regina hamilton (Visitor)
This is a big win. I agree, the only way to shut down puppy mills is to have stiff regulations and stop buying puppies/cats in pet stores.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 10:58 — DogWarrior (Visitor)
Another one down....now we just need to get Hunte to close down.

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 11:42 — Shonna (Visitor)
When a puppy mill or broker closes it's doors, many rescue organizations try to go and save as many of the dogs if not all, as possible, and then the dogs are fostered/adopted out of the rescue organizations. Which is why it's best to adopt and not "shop".

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:03 — Pmac (Visitor)
An online company called pure bred breeders are selling these same dogs as home raised. Please stop them it keeps Puppy mills in business. Pass the laws to help the dogs! join up with the people who are suing the company and its owner.This is a tremendous win for the ASPCA

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:17 — Jan (Visitor)
Do away with kill shelters. Do away with internet 3rd party retailors. They sell these kennel dogs sight unseen. That is how these dogs wind up in kill shelters because they are either sick or not a good family fit. The ASPCA spends tons of reasources saving these lives. Regulation will allow dogs who need homes to get one and then new puppies will go to families who responsibly meet and make sure that this is a new family member and not something they will discard when he pees on the floor or keeps you up at night!

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