SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - Pet owners have filed a class action lawsuit against a group of alleged puppy mills.
The case, filed May 16 in San Diego federal court, names Red Rock Enterprises of Utah, Pet Connect Rescue, Jeanne's Gems, Select Puppies, Rak Transport and TBHF, LLC as defendants. The suit alleges violation of California's 2019 ban on what the state defined as puppy mills.
Rather than comply with the law, some puppy stores in California continued their exact same business model, replacing breeder information for the puppies with 'rescue,'" the lawsuit says.
"All Defendants, acting in concert and as accomplices to each other, intentionally supplied these stores with puppies fraudulently mislabeled as 'rescues' to deceive consumers such as Plaintiffs and illicitly profited from these sales."
The proposed class would cover anyone who bought a puppy from May 16, 2018, to June 18, 2020, at Broadway Puppies in Escondido, National City Puppy, Pups & Pets in Santee, Hello Puppies in Temecula and Fancy Puppy in Corona that was labeled a rescue and supplied by the defendants.
Attorney Bryan Pease is representing the plaintiffs.