Puppies & Babies

Stop accusing this place WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE of still procuring their pups from the mills… they have been seeking adoption for a number of RESCUE ANIMALS for some time now so OBVIOUSLY things have turned around… shut up with you «USDA» equalling puppy mill… shut up with your «protesting» equals puppy mill… it’s ALL GARBAGE.
If you’re SO GOD DAMN concerned about poor little animals I sure as heck hope you don’t EAT, DRINK, WEAR or BENEFIT IN ANY WAY – ANY! – from ANY animal AT ANY POINT OF YOUR HOLIER-​THAN-​NOW NARCISSISTIC day! Cram your bullshit reviews and go protest yourself for using products from Colgate-​Palmolive, Platex, S.C. Johnson, Bic Corp., L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble (just a small sampling of companies that test their products on animals)…make SURE you don’t visit zoos or aquariums as it’s UNNATURAL and INHUMANE to hold these poor innocent animals hostage! Oh, and check your fancy-​ass handbag, girls, what’s that made out of? And your shoes? Your belt? Your wallet? You’re such hypocritical idiots!
And…let alone your OWN animals… I suppose you rationalize they actually WANT to be with you… and not running FREE as God intended.
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If you can read past all that cuz I’m just TIRED or all that… those STUPID claims this place is still getting their puppies from puppy mills… here’s my review…
We purchased our great addition to our family on June 1… LOUIS! A super kid (which makes five for us now, seven if you count our horses). Louis is a chihuahua who simply couldn’t have come from a better set of parents, breeder OR PET STORE.
Corey, the manager at Puppies and Babies (if it’s still called that… I will agree the babies stuff should be dumped… just concentrate on the pups!) went OVER AND ABOVE to make sure our puppy was vet-​checked and cleared for his flight back home with us (the gem of the Midwest: Milwaukee… yah, right). Corey MORE THAN WILLINGLY gave me the contact information for the breeder and I CHECKED IT OUT and VERIFIED ON MY PHYSICAL INSPECTION that the breeder that Louis came from was NOT a mill… it was not a MASS-​PRODUCTION line and the conditions were CLEAN… the mother ON SITE… everything you’d want to check out DID check out.
Beside Corey’s great effort (getting us set-​up with Louis kept him a bit past normal store hours)…Wendy was great with the puppies and was the working sales person each time we were in… so yadda yadda to whoever’s review about bad customer service… either that was a rare occassion of some whiny pile-​on dig at the store.
Wendy even bathed Louis before sending him home with us… so jeez… if that isn’t just a sign that this place sucks like everyone says… I just don’t know… they clearly don’t care… right.
And the store itself is CLEAN. I visited the store on three occassions and EACH time whenever a puppy made a mess it was cleaned up in FREAKING SECONDS – no lie!
And if this place is just SO BAD why was it the night I was there to pick up Louis did three or four people from various surrounding businesses walk in to play with the puppies they had for purchase and adoption? If this place were such a terrible establishment would not the surrounding neighbors boycott it too?
I’m not saying that this place wasn’t trouble in the past. It was. I checked it out myself. Google, Unilocal,etc., they’re all very helpful as we know. I’ve read the stories on this place and I’m very aware of it’s history.
Puppy mills make me sick. I will never purchase from a puppy mill because doing so supports the abuse these sick people and their «establishments» perpetrate on animals.
But this place is legit. If you have any questions or concerns ask for Corey. He was a great help for me and is very honest about where these puppies are coming from. Check it out for yourself. This is a nice store and Corey and Wendy are very nice people. There is no reason or single shred of evidence to suspect otherwise.
And Louis says HI! and «Meatballs!!!».

I’m sorry but I need to give this place zero stars, too. It used to be a great place… the friendly employees would recognize me and my furry family and give them treats. And they carried some really cute doggy shirts and toys causing me to drop a few pennies here. But, when the owners of Pets of Bel Air bought the business everything seemed to change. The type and quality of their offerings is not nearly at the level that the original store carried. And I have to say I’m disappointed that they began selling puppies here. Very sad.

This place looks nice on the outside but in the inside NO WAY. How horrible are they! Selling puppies. It is not even that much. I went in the first time about 2 months ago to check it out. The customer service was LOUSY. The cashier was showing some people some of thier puppies and he couldn’t even greet me. Then when I was looking around he had to answer the phone and when he came back he looked right at me, just looked away and went back to his customers. It was horrible. I could not believe how I was treated. I jetted out of there as quickly as possible and DEFINITELY will NEVER go back there. i give them NO STARS

What a drag that this store, which usd to be a great store for dog fashion had to take the low road and sell puppies. These stores take advantage of people’s ignorance about the facts. Puppy stores are supplied by puppy mills. Puppy mills are factories where the cute puppy’s mom is being tortured. The dogs live in anguish, in pain and are lonely and abused. They live in cages their entire life because the «small local breeders» only care about their cash. «Small local breeder» doesn’t mean much to a discerning smart shopper. Small is relative, isn’t it? Small is what, 30 dogs? 300 dogs? 30 000 dogs? Ask them what they mean by small. local doesn’t mean anything either. Dogs are being tortured in inhumane conditions in «local» places in the state of CA. Only a callous dummy would buy a pet in a pet store rather than to adopt from a shelter or go to a rescue organization at this point after all the bad press. Think about it: puppy mills are legal, 100% legal. The owners of these stores can get away with saying that they are doing everything legally because the courts say that it is legal to keep a dog in a small cage for its entire life as long as you give it the minimum standard of care and have a license. That means paying the license fee, getting cages, watering and feeding. Same conditions as a supermax prison. The owners of these stores will shrink from questions about the conditions of the parents. Ask to see them for yourself. They will shift the conversation to how cute this puppy is. This is an ugly subject and I hate to even spen my time writing this but these stores should get out of the business of cruelty. They hide behind cute puppies and hope you don’t look at banpuppymills dot com. (they don’t let you write urls in this template) Do the right thing when looking for a dog. Go to petfinder dot com, the shelter, a local rescue org, but don’t put yourself in the ethical cesspool of the puppy trade.

Well the name alone gurantees my husband never wants to go here, even though I dragged him once. The best thing about this store is that they sell donut beds, which are the best dog beds on earth, at a reasonable price. The staff is friendly if a little ditsy, and I went once during business hours and they were inexplicably closed, but other than that I have found them to have original stuff for better prices than the other dog boutiques in town. Their front window displays are always fun and original, so if you have a dog and you’re in the area (dining at Doughboys or Toast, perhaps) it’s worth stopping by even if you’re just window shopping.

This store sucks if you have a normal dog (i.e not a purse rat). I went in looking for things for my springer spaniel (who weighs 45 lbs… but at the time I went in he was younger and smaller). They had lame ‘diamond-​y’ stuff that looks gross on dogs, but people seem to like it (just like they like carrying around rats in their purses). Anyway, I asked if they had thing for ‘real dogs’ and the vacant girl didn’t get it. So I explained that I meant a dog that weighed more than 5 lbs. She didn’t get it. She asked what kind of dog I had. Then referred to springer spaniels as «beefy.» I think that was the word. Something that didn’t make sense. I laughed in her out of work actor face for being so stupid. Anyway, aside from having really tacky crap, they only have said tacky crap for small «dogs.»

Cute but I’m not sure this is a good marketing concept — rarely do people shop for babies and dogs at the same time. Regardless, this was certainly catering to the chihuahua size dog crowd, and although there were some cutesy things, not enough to keep us interested.

As if we needed another pet boutique in Los Angeles! Well guess what, this one caters to puppies AND babies… more for puppies though. Adorable stuff for your «babies»…
They have trendy leashes and collars for pooches, doggie treats, jars, feeders, grooming products, jewelry, charms, and a few carriers. For babies they have onesies, blankies, towel sets, stationary, t-​shirt sets…
It’s a small store but they have some unique stuff. You’ll probably find the same or similar products at other doggie boutiques in LA like LA Dogworks or Fifi and Romeo, but if you like to spoil your dog you probably want to stop by this place to see what else you’re missing! =)