{"id":538,"date":"2024-11-17T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2024-11-17T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:51:19","slug":"pixies-and-paws-rescue-is-just-an-extension-of-cruel-puppy-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/pixies-and-paws-rescue-is-just-an-extension-of-cruel-puppy-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"PIXIES AND PAWS &#8220;RESCUE&#8221; IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF CRUEL PUPPY MILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PP.png 216w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PP-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PP-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pixies &amp; Paws, which sells animals from cruel breeders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">FROM NEWS 12 NJ AND LONG ISLAND<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Documents provided to <em>Kane In Your Corner<\/em> News 12 Investigative unit show <strong>Pixies and Paws, a self-proclaimed &#8220;animal rescue&#8221; based in New Jersey and serving the tristate area, purchased more than 160 dogs from commercial breeders in Ohio.<\/strong> The purchases were made during a three-month period alone. It&#8217;s an arrangement some consumer groups say means Pixies and Paws is acting less like a rescue and more like an online pet store.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In an investigation in May, Kane In Your Corner spoke to Jonisha Lewis about her experience adopting a dog from Pixies and Paws. She said the dog had such significant health problems that her veterinarian deemed it &#8220;unfit for sale&#8221;.\u00a0&#8220;My son was crying,&#8221; Lewis said. &#8220;And he was just like, &#8216;Why? Why Is this happening? Like, why is he sick&#8217;?&#8221;\u00a0Then there was the adoption fee \u2013 a whopping $1,500\u2026 which at first, Pixies and Paws refused to refund, although it eventually relented after Kane In Your Corner began investigating.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE ADOPTING. NO REPUTABLE SHELTER OR RESCUE WOULD ASK FOR $1500, FOR STARTERS!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/kane-in-your-corner-exclusive-animal-rescue-exposed\">https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/kane-in-your-corner-exclusive-animal-rescue-exposed<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM NEWS 12 NJ AND LONG ISLAND Documents provided to Kane In Your Corner News 12 Investigative unit show Pixies and Paws, a self-proclaimed &#8220;animal rescue&#8221; based in New Jersey and serving the tristate area, purchased more than 160 dogs from commercial breeders in Ohio. The purchases were made during a three-month period alone. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/pixies-and-paws-rescue-is-just-an-extension-of-cruel-puppy-mills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PIXIES AND PAWS &#8220;RESCUE&#8221; IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF CRUEL PUPPY MILLS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,268,36,27,240,197,13,39,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}