Puppies and dolphins ... in today’s Times
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In today’s L.A. Times:
Staff writer Carla Hall reports on a pet store in the Beverly Center that will be moving out after puppy mill protests.
For 15 years, Pet Love has been a fixture in the busy Beverly Center mall, its brightly lighted interior showcasing furry puppies for sale behind glass-walled kennels. But for the last six months, the sixth-floor pet store has been targeted by the Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal rescue and welfare organization that is waging a campaign to get Los Angeles pet shops to stop selling animals born in what the group calls inhumane puppy mills. On Tuesday, it appeared that pressure from the group was forcing Pet Love to leave the upscale mall. At a news conference near the mall Tuesday, Best Friends official Elizabeth Oreck said that the Beverly Center would terminate the lease of Pet Love at the end of January. The owners of the store could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Also, staff writer Thomas H. Maugh II has a report on bottlenose dolphins and their use of tools -- in this case, sponges.