New York AG sues pet store for allegedly selling sick, injured puppies to unknowing customers

New York's Attorney General on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a Long Island pet store for allegedly selling sick puppies, some of which later died, to unknowing customers.

Attorney General Letitia James (D) is charging Shake a Paw, which owns two pet stores on Long Island, with falsely advertising sick puppies as healthy, fabricating health certificates and refusing to reimburse veterinarian bills for customers.

In the lawsuit, filed in the New York Supreme Court in Nassau County, James's office is pushing for thousands of dollars in monetary damages and seeking to ban Shake A Paw from selling any more puppies for violating the Pet Lemon Law, which requires the seller of a pet to disclose the animal's health to a customer.

"Shake A Paw's actions of deceiving consumers into purchasing sick or injured dogs is unconscionable and illegal," James said in a statement. "When New Yorkers purchased puppies from Shake A Paw, they did not expect to bring home dogs in such heartbreaking and horrifying conditions.

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