SPCA forms unlikely partnership with puppy sellers

Martha Boden, CEO of SPCA Tampa Bay, spent her career fighting against puppy brokers and retailers; she is now working alongside them to ensure more dogs find a loving home.

Boden joined forces with the owners of Missouri-based Pinnacle Pet and local retailer Sunshine Puppies to create the groundbreaking For All Dogs pilot program. The SPCA now rehomes retired breeding dogs from responsible breeders.

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Vintage St. Pete: The alligator farm

History did not record exactly why 61-year-old shoe manufacturer Andrew Hardee Baker relocated to St. Petersburg, from Brockton, Massachusetts – a big shoe-making town at the time – to farm and display live alligators.

Perhaps Baker wanted to see firsthand where the material for his alligator shoes was coming from.

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