More Than 10,000 Sign Petition to Shut Down East Brunswick Pet Store

East Brunswick, NJ - More than 107,000 people have signed an online petition demanding the East Brunswick Township Council revoke Vincent LoSacco's license for Just Pups, his East Brunswick puppy store that was hit with 267 animal cruelty violations from the NJSPCA.

This is in addition to a change.org petition that was signed by more than 1,000 people, demanding the pet store be shut down.

An NJSPCA inspector alleges that Sacco, or his employees, kept puppies without fresh water, mixed sick puppies with healthy ones, thus spreading the risk of death and disease, and perhaps most shockingly, kept three dead puppies in a freezer in the back of the store.

Sacco, who disputes the charges, defended himself in a YouTube video, and said he is being unfairly attacked by one single NJSPCA agent.

The Care2 petition was started by Nicole Miller, a West Milford, NJ resident.

"When I heard about the 267 animal cruelty charges ... brought against Vincent LoSacco, I was stunned and horrified that this level of abuse could happen in my state,” Miller said in a press release.

Public meeting Monday night, March 28

In light of the charges, the East Brunswick Township Council will decide whether or not to renew Just Pups' license. A public hearing will be held at 8 p.m. on March 28 in the courtroom of the Municipal Building, One Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick. Learn more about what will happen at that hearing here.

The petition also calls on the New Jersey Department of Health inspect the other three Just Pups locations. LoSacco owns and operates puppy stores in Paramus, East Hanover and Emerson.

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