NOVI, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Petland store inside Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi is at the center of a recent undercover operation by the Humane Society of the United States.

Officials with the organization say what they discovered was disturbing and what they saw was captured on camera.

“We have consistently connected Petland to puppy mills and so we wanted to go behind the scenes with hidden camera and see if the problems were as pervasive in the Novi store as they are in other pet land stores and the answer was yes,” said John Goodwin with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

Goodwin is the senior director of the Stop Puppy Mills campaign for HSUS. An Investigator from the Humane Society worked at Petland Novi as a kennel attendant for about two months.

“We found bloody diarrhea,” said Goodwin. “We found incisions from surgeries that were not properly closed. We found all sorts of disease problems.”

The undercover video not only showed sick puppies but also caught a delivery of the puppies to Petland Novi. HSUS claims they have paperwork that shows puppies were delivered to store from mass breeding operations or puppy mills that are based in Iowa and Missouri. The organization further claims those puppy mills have a history of animal care violations.

Petland sent 7 Action News a statement about the allegations.

“Like clockwork, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) kicked off its annual fundraising season with false allegations from an undercover HSUS...

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