By Jimmy Orr | 12.17.08




Oops. Maybe a pound puppy wouldn’t have been so bad after all…

Everyone knows by now that Joe Biden’s got a new puppy - we talked about this a couple of days ago and it generated a big, heated discussion over whether the Veep-elect should have gone to an animal shelter rather than a breeder to get the Second Dog.

Adopt!

Not surprisingly, animal rights advocates are up in paws - arms about Biden. It’s not that they think the VP-elect would be a bad dog owner, they just don’t like where he got his dog.

Why go to a kennel or a puppy mill when there are plenty of needy dogs out there who don’t have owners, they ask? So many that some four million animals are euthanized every year.

Plus, the conditions at many of these businesses - horrendous.

Cited

Well it turns out the place where Biden got his dog was just cited for multiple violations including: unsatisfactory ventilation, inadequate maintenance and sanitation, and missing sale and vaccination records.

Here’s the kennel inspection report.

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