Lil Rascals Puppies

This place should be shut down. I stopped in for the first and last time the other night, and the first thing I noticed was the smell. One of the people with me turned around and walked out because of the strong smell of urine. The dogs are behind wire cages on the floor with a small paper thin blanket between them and the tile floor. There was a puddle of urine in the middle of the floor, and feces on the floor of one of the dogs cages. Most of the water bowls were bone dry, and the two girls working there talked amongst themselves the entire time is was in there. Absolutely disgusting!

Found the staff rude, they don’t appear to care how a person interacts with a dog before being purchased. No touching, no playing, no interaction with the animals and they have signs everywhere to make it known. Comments heard in the store by the staff.
«If you buy a puppy you can take it home and touch it as much as you want»
«Did you get your last dog through an ad in the paper»
I have adopted dogs that require interactions to demonstrate you are worthy to own a dog. This place did not leave me with an impression they cared about the animals well being after being sold.
Very unfortunate for all the animals in this place!
The only 5 star review for this place states they want the pets going to a good home but yet it also states it took 8 minutes to buy a dog… that’s just not right!

The girls in there were rude. «Financing available» is all over the windows so wtf? How are they going to let someone who can’t even afford to buy a dog let them finance it? This is a a dog not a car or a piece of furniture. This place should be shut down.

Everyone has an opinion on where to get a dog. When I was a kid, our first puppy, a toy poodle, came from a breeder in Connecticut. 14 years later, she’s still acting like she is two and very happy and healthy.
When my mom moved to FL and Sandie stayed up north with my dad, I knew she would eventually get another dog. Some people say «don’t go to a pet store».but I like to think of this place as just another breeder. All of the puppies come from certified breeders with a large file of information about their parents, shots, etc.
We honestly just popped in after happy hour at Blu Sushi on one of my 3−4x yearly visits… and popped out in what seemed like 8 minutes later with an awesome dog.
Gabriella, the happiest toy poodle in Florida, has been adopted by a caring and loving person who is going to give her 500% of the attention she would ever need.
The process was quick, and paperwork intensive — which was good. The owners want to make sure all of the puppies adopted are going to amazing, loving homes where they will grow up, living long, happy, healthy lives. If you don’t fit the criteria — you will be denied, which I was told has happened before.
I’ve been to a lot of pet stores in NYC (I too am casually browsing for a puppy while simultaneously putting it off until I get a house) and others in previous visits in FL, and Lil Rascals blows them out of the water.
Clean and open, all of the puppies have a good amount of space in which to play, walk around, and generally just be puppies all day. They scrutinize the breeders and hold them to very high standards to make sure the animals are happy and healthy.
I’m a huge proponent of adopting, rescuing, etc — anything to help give animals young and old the lives they deserve. Lil Rascals is a model of what a «pet adoption center» should be like — both in the conditions for the dogs and the family that runs it.