Hunte Corporation is nothing but a middle man for the notorious puppy mills of Missouri. Don't ever believe a pet store that says they don't buy from puppy mills. Here is the proof. Puppy Love, another pet store that claims to deal with "reputable breeders" also supports puppy mills. We know someone who bought a puppy there that was from Nebraska, another of the top 8 puppy mill states. If you want a puppy, be patient, do your homework, and buy from someone who cares enough for their dogs to meet and interview the families they will be going to. Don't support this cruel industry.

Just the fact that this facility is buying from the Hunte Corp indicates their ignorance &/or lack of conscience for the animals. As previously noted Hunte is FAMOUS for delivering puppy mill dogs all over the country. Even a 12 second cursory search would have revealed this information.

The owner's comment about her training facility being separate from the pet store is a bogus argument & further demonstrates an ignorance.

Parvovirus is transmitted on the soles of shoes, etc. I wouldn't train my dog there either for fear of transmission.

This place should be closed down before more dogs are infected.

Could not agree more with the above comments. What just happened is yet another example of how horrible puppy stores are. ALL OF THEM. Close to 100% of puppies sold in puppy stores come from puppy mills and True Breeders is yet another example of that. The owner used to claim that her dogs are hand selected by her personally at local breeders. Give me a break. No legitimate breeder sells to puppy stores! Now that a tragedy happened she admits that puppy came from Hunte Corporation - the largest known purveyor of puppy mill dogs. Get your story straight! The reason puppy store dogs are more likely to get parvo is because they are separated from their mothers way too early to get proper vaccination and they catch the virus on their way to puppy stores while transported in crowded and filthy conditions. By the time they reach a store it is too late. Parvo is a horrible, fast-spreading virus and anybody who has been to that store and touched any surface in and around it may now be spreading the virus to their own pets. Nobody who cares about animals would ever buy from a puppy store, not to mention run one.

So now the real question is what to do about it. Collect for a full page ad in the Ridgefield Press?

I believe the picture being carried on The Ridgefield Patch is a photojournalist-captured shot of Hunte Corporation dropping off dogs at night a few weeks back at True Breeders. So much for their claims in literature (see their Twitter account) of providing locally sourced dogs. Was it not a puppy from this very shipment who almost immediately died, leaving a local family out thousands of dollars and heartbroken?

That whole operation is a disgrace to the town of Ridgefield. How can we see ourselves as a sophisticated and caring community when we allow a local business to benefit from animal cruelty? And why aren't we more angry about the store owner making fools of everybody in this town? All her stories about locally sources puppies turned out to be totally fabricated. She fed them to our local newspaper (repeatedly!) and to our community leaders at a meeting organized by Rudy Marconi. And whoever is working on True Breeders "image" and helps them spread the lies should be ashamed of themselves. Ridgefield should know better!

Good point. Who IS doing their slick marketing -- YouTube videos showing puppies in animated dance, perhaps even including the one who died? Who is behind "the selling of True Breeders" to Ridgefield? And why is it that more residents aren't outraged at being lied to about the locally sourced puppies? Is ANYONE going to hold DiCarlo and Erk accountable???

what i find most troubling is that all of the puppies crammed into that hunte truck on its long cross-country roadtrip could be dying from and spreading parvovirus to their cage-mates in countless puppy stores! i contacted raymond connors and asked if they were able to notify all of the recipients of puppies from the shipment that this sick yorkie came in on and he told me that they had no way of obtaining that information. if there truly is a parvo outbreak in ct, i would guess that it could be traced back to the puppy mills of america. i am so sorry for the muniz family's loss. i hope that they will be very vocal against purchasing a puppy from pet stores so that their experience and the loss of "oprah" was not in vain.

I too am amazed that the town officials and the Anconas (the landlord for True Breeders) appear to be unconcerned about this issue. Before the store opened I sat down with Mr. Marconi and showed him a vast amount of material about the pet store puppy mill connection. Mr. Ancona was also given this information. I think the only way to get a point made in this town is through the voting ballot and the family grocery budget. I am disillusioned that Ridgefield has such a cold heart. How can a town that has a great shelter, a gorgeous dog park, and citizens proudly parading down Main Street with their dogs put up with this attitude?

Just so we don't forget what we are talking about here: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/180408/pet_store_puppies_come_from_puppy_mills/