Route 9 in Dutchess County is dotted with strip malls and destination malls. These malls have every type of stores to satisfy any consumers' needs, from the big name s like Macy's, Dick's, Wal-Mart to the mom and pop shops such as Futon King and Wits Construction.
Recently, I found out the Puppy Place has gone out of business and all its contents were removed from the store. The Puppy Place's business was exactly as the name implied. It sold puppies. Puppies were places in children's playpens on hard linoleum floor. Each playpen has a bowl of water, a bowl of food, a blanket, and some chew toys. Everytime we went in there to pet the puppies, parents and childrens ooh'd and ahh'd around each pen.
The place was clean and neat, but I still felt that something wasn't right. The puppies looked well-kept, well-feed, and cared for. But it's wrong to charge $1000 for a puppy when there are many puppies in the local ASPCA shelter about 4 miles away.
Now that the Puppy Place is out of business less than a year after it opened, maybe it's a sign that even in a community where every household has at least one dog, people are not going the shell out the big $$ for a life that was solely created to generate cash. I will miss going into the Puppy Place to pet the puppies every couple of weeks, at least I know now there will be one less place to keep the supply of puppy-mill puppies in my consumer-centric neighborhood.
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