4.4 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:29.2 | Hello and welcome to the corporate casket, a semi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die. |
0:38.4 | We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses and business practices that have a lot to hide. |
0:47.0 | I'm the Illuminati and today we're going to be talking about the |
0:53.7 | a casee or American Kennel Club. I know I briefly mentioned them in my episode |
0:58.7 | about puppy mills and how they can pose as dog breeders and how the a casee does little to actually stop the puppy mill practice and how they actually |
1:07.2 | recommend shady breeders to people. |
1:09.4 | So I apologize if there's just a touch of repeat information in this episode, but many of you |
1:14.8 | asked me many months ago to just cover the AKC by itself and so here we are |
1:20.1 | today because I was obviously curious how corrupt can they be and what else might |
1:24.4 | they be hiding. Also as a content warning there will be discussions of animal abuse |
1:29.5 | in this episode so if animal abuse in general is upsetting to you, then please go ahead and just skip this episode and stay tuned for the next one because I know it can get a bit rough. |
1:38.0 | So anyway, let's get into the episode. breeding dogs for show became especially popular in the 1800s and we can't really |
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