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Sarasota News Leader December 13, 2013 Page 18 manages Petland in Sarasota. "We make trips "We have an obligation to stop the pet stores from supporting nationalized animal cruelty," to visit these breeders." said Laurie Walmsley, owner of the Ashton Harper added that closing his store would Animal Clinic. result in the loss of 30 jobs. Karen Ankerstar was one of the residents "No one in this industry got in this industry who showed the board photos of puppies in because we want to hurt animals," pointed tight unclean kennels. "These are the cages out pet store owner Joseph Neuman. where puppies are born," she said. "And this But animal rights advocates said industry is where this [breeding] dog stays most of her representatives are not being honest. They life." showed the commissioners photos and provided numerous accounts from people who bought pets at retail stores to stress that the puppies are coming from mills. "The pet stores say they do not like puppy mills and do not purchase puppies from puppy mills," Russell Matthes of Sarasota in Defense of Animals told The Sarasota News Leader A supporter of the ban urges County Commission support for the ordinance. Photo by Roger Drouin