DNAinfo/Howard A. Ludwig
MOUNT GREENWOOD — Jim Sparks Jr. doesn't want to buy a pet from a puppy mill.
That being said, Sparks, owner of Park Pet Shop Inc. in Mount Greenwood, is in the business of reselling the puppies he buys for upward of $1,500 each. The sale of puppies accounts for roughly 60 percent of business at the small pet store at 10429 S. Kedzie Ave. on the far Southwest Side.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Howard Ludwig says that Sparks fears for the future of the business his father opened in 1959:
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