Poochie Koochie, Dixie Pups, Julie Soutullo, Tony selling sick puppies, sly puppy mill, defaults on warranty and payment, many small claims cases against them North Miami Beach, Aventura Area Florida

YES MY NAME IS JULIE SOUTULLO I DO NOT KEEP ANY PUPPIES IN MY TOWN HOUSE IWON A PET BOUTIQUE AND I WAS NOT IN PRISON WHEN I WAS SELLING PUPPIES FROM HOME I DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD TO PAY SALES TAX IMY LAWYER IS WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE TAX PEOPLE ON A PAYMENT PLAN. PEOPLE TALK ALOT OF LIES GET YOUR STORIES STRAIGHT. I NEVER WENT TO PRISON CALL THOUSAND S OF HAPPY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOURSELF THAT ARE VERY HAPPY, COME TO MY YORKIE PARTIES AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THERE PUPPIES.

YES MY NAME IS JULIE SOUTULLO I DO NOT KEEP ANY PUPPIES IN MY TOWN HOUSE IWON A PET BOUTIQUE AND I WAS NOT IN PRISON WHEN I WAS SELLING PUPPIES FROM HOME I DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD TO PAY SALES TAX IMY LAWYER IS WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE TAX PEOPLE ON A PAYMENT PLAN. PEOPLE TALK ALOT OF LIES GET YOUR STORIES STRAIGHT. I NEVER WENT TO PRISON CALL THOUSAND S OF HAPPY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOURSELF THAT ARE VERY HAPPY, COME TO MY YORKIE PARTIES AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THERE PUPPIES.

YES MY NAME IS JULIE SOUTULLO I DO NOT KEEP ANY PUPPIES IN MY TOWN HOUSE IWON A PET BOUTIQUE AND I WAS NOT IN PRISON WHEN I WAS SELLING PUPPIES FROM HOME I DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD TO PAY SALES TAX IMY LAWYER IS WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE TAX PEOPLE ON A PAYMENT PLAN. PEOPLE TALK ALOT OF LIES GET YOUR STORIES STRAIGHT. I NEVER WENT TO PRISON CALL THOUSAND S OF HAPPY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOURSELF THAT ARE VERY HAPPY, COME TO MY YORKIE PARTIES AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THERE PUPPIES.

YES MY NAME IS JULIE SOUTULLO I DO NOT KEEP ANY PUPPIES IN MY TOWN HOUSE IWON A PET BOUTIQUE AND I WAS NOT IN PRISON WHEN I WAS SELLING PUPPIES FROM HOME I DID NOT KNOW YOU HAD TO PAY SALES TAX IMY LAWYER IS WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE TAX PEOPLE ON A PAYMENT PLAN. PEOPLE TALK ALOT OF LIES GET YOUR STORIES STRAIGHT. I NEVER WENT TO PRISON CALL THOUSAND S OF HAPPY PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOURSELF THAT ARE VERY HAPPY, COME TO MY YORKIE PARTIES AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THERE PUPPIES.

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MIAMI (WSVN) -- Authorities seized a pet store after the owner is accused of selling sick puppies.

According to officials, 52-year-old Julie Soutullo, owner of Poochie Koochie in Aventura, has not followed Florida's Pet Lemon Law. Soutullo is being accused of bringing puppies from puppy mills in South America. Experts say puppies that cost $10 in Argentina, can be sold here for a $1,000. "This woman has a history of selling sick animals and just tearing people's families apart. It's horrible. And we're very pleased today to be here and be in the process of just shutting her down," said Kathleen Labrada, Animal Services Investigator.

Soutullo was selling animals without the official certificate of veterinary inspection, officials said. One of her clients, Lee Aken says he bought a puppy for his children from Soutullo, and it died a day and a half later. "And devastating. I mean, here you bring home a puppy. They want to play with it. They're looking at it and they can't get near it. I'm keeping it alive, i'm keeping it away from them because there's something wrong," said Aken. At the pet store, agents say they found medicine for treating sick puppies.

The Department of Revenue seized boxes of records and computers. According to the search warrant, the state suspects the failure to pay sales tax, file returns and the filing of false or fraudulent returns.

Authorities say before Soutullo opened Poochie Koochie, she operated Dixie Pups. Both businesses have generated multiple complaints.

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Pet store owner accused of selling sick puppies
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Video: Sick Puppies
MIAMI (WSVN) -- Authorities seized a pet store after the owner is accused of selling sick puppies.

According to officials, 52-year-old Julie Soutullo, owner of Poochie Koochie in Aventura, has not followed Florida's Pet Lemon Law. Soutullo is being accused of bringing puppies from puppy mills in South America. Experts say puppies that cost $10 in Argentina, can be sold here for a $1,000. "This woman has a history of selling sick animals and just tearing people's families apart. It's horrible. And we're very pleased today to be here and be in the process of just shutting her down," said Kathleen Labrada, Animal Services Investigator.

Soutullo was selling animals without the official certificate of veterinary inspection, officials said. One of her clients, Lee Aken says he bought a puppy for his children from Soutullo, and it died a day and a half later. "And devastating. I mean, here you bring home a puppy. They want to play with it. They're looking at it and they can't get near it. I'm keeping it alive, i'm keeping it away from them because there's something wrong," said Aken. At the pet store, agents say they found medicine for treating sick puppies.

The Department of Revenue seized boxes of records and computers. According to the search warrant, the state suspects the failure to pay sales tax, file returns and the filing of false or fraudulent returns.

Authorities say before Soutullo opened Poochie Koochie, she operated Dixie Pups. Both businesses have generated multiple complaints.

(Copyright 2007 by Sunbeam Television Corp. All Rights Reserved. This

Pet store owner accused of selling sick puppies
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Video: Sick Puppies
MIAMI (WSVN) -- Authorities seized a pet store after the owner is accused of selling sick puppies.

According to officials, 52-year-old Julie Soutullo, owner of Poochie Koochie in Aventura, has not followed Florida's Pet Lemon Law. Soutullo is being accused of bringing puppies from puppy mills in South America. Experts say puppies that cost $10 in Argentina, can be sold here for a $1,000. "This woman has a history of selling sick animals and just tearing people's families apart. It's horrible. And we're very pleased today to be here and be in the process of just shutting her down," said Kathleen Labrada, Animal Services Investigator.

Soutullo was selling animals without the official certificate of veterinary inspection, officials said. One of her clients, Lee Aken says he bought a puppy for his children from Soutullo, and it died a day and a half later. "And devastating. I mean, here you bring home a puppy. They want to play with it. They're looking at it and they can't get near it. I'm keeping it alive, i'm keeping it away from them because there's something wrong," said Aken. At the pet store, agents say they found medicine for treating sick puppies.

The Department of Revenue seized boxes of records and computers. According to the search warrant, the state suspects the failure to pay sales tax, file returns and the filing of false or fraudulent returns.

Authorities say before Soutullo opened Poochie Koochie, she operated Dixie Pups. Both businesses have generated multiple complaints.

(Copyright 2007 by Sunbeam Television Corp. All Rights Reserved. This

Pet store owner accused of selling sick puppies
Related Article Links
Video: Sick Puppies
MIAMI (WSVN) -- Authorities seized a pet store after the owner is accused of selling sick puppies.

According to officials, 52-year-old Julie Soutullo, owner of Poochie Koochie in Aventura, has not followed Florida's Pet Lemon Law. Soutullo is being accused of bringing puppies from puppy mills in South America. Experts say puppies that cost $10 in Argentina, can be sold here for a $1,000. "This woman has a history of selling sick animals and just tearing people's families apart. It's horrible. And we're very pleased today to be here and be in the process of just shutting her down," said Kathleen Labrada, Animal Services Investigator.

Soutullo was selling animals without the official certificate of veterinary inspection, officials said. One of her clients, Lee Aken says he bought a puppy for his children from Soutullo, and it died a day and a half later. "And devastating. I mean, here you bring home a puppy. They want to play with it. They're looking at it and they can't get near it. I'm keeping it alive, i'm keeping it away from them because there's something wrong," said Aken. At the pet store, agents say they found medicine for treating sick puppies.

The Department of Revenue seized boxes of records and computers. According to the search warrant, the state suspects the failure to pay sales tax, file returns and the filing of false or fraudulent returns.

Authorities say before Soutullo opened Poochie Koochie, she operated Dixie Pups. Both businesses have generated multiple complaints.

(Copyright 2007 by Sunbeam Television Corp. All Rights Reserved. This

First she ask me for vet paper and I mail she refuse to receive. Today is Feb 05, 2009 and the puppy she sold me was on June 23, 2008 still not replacement puuy and no refund of the money I paid her.

Anyway anyone who has more information about Julie's activies please get in contact with the following person you will find contact information at the every end of this update.

Julie did and still does selling puppies she was never a employee she the owner/operator, if you read the following new report that is post on the internet this is proof that she is still in the business of selling puppies. I have manage to locate several of her puppies ad and notify the owner/operators of these sites about how she selling sick and dieing puppies.

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Complaints tonight about a South Florida puppy seller, a seller who is already being prosecuted by the State of Florida. Investigative reporter Carmel Cafiero is on the case of these puppy problems.

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WSVN -- Puppies don't get much cuter than little Mandy here. The tiny terrier is at the heart of a dispute between Julie Soutullo in Aventura and Kim Gallagher in New York.

Kim Gallagher: "We actually found a really cute puppy online, and the price sounded right."

But Kim, a widow, says the dog she saw online and the dog that was delivered were not the same.

Kim Gallagher: "The moment I saw the crate, saw the puppy through the crate, I knew this was not the dog I had purchased."

She says it happened twice.

Kim Gallagher: "The second time we left the airport, my son said flat out, 'I don't want a puppy. I can't do this again.' It was horrible. I felt horrendous sending the puppy back."

Julie Soutullo: "It's the exact same dog that she got. This is the dog."

Julie did agree to give Kim a refund and sent her 14 $100 checks. Yet, two months later I was back at Soutullo's store. Kim Gallagher said she has been able to cash only two of the checks.

Julie Soutullo: "But I'm not giving her 14. I stopped payment on the rest of them. In this paper, it says once a dog leaves our premises, it doesn't come back."

I was there with questions about still another puppy. This one sold to Belinda Cromp who lives in the Keys.

Belinda Cromp: "It was going to be my Christmas present and birthday present to myself since my birthday is in January."

But her boyfriend says once she brought the puppy home, it was clear he was not healthy, and he claims their vet knew there was a problem immediately.

Bruce Eggett: "And she says I can feel that he has a bad heart murmur just through the beating of his heart because the blood leaks out of your heart."

Acting on their vet's advice, they returned the puppy and got a full refund.

Bruce Eggett: "Well, we really fell in love with the puppy in a week and a half. We had tears in our eyes when we took the puppy back, and then we had to leave the store."

The couple can't understand how such a sick puppy was sold in the first place since Florida law requires a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection.

The dog did come with this certificate signed by a vet, but the vet in Hollywood who examined the puppy says this is only a travel certificate and not a health certificate for sale. He says he gave the Soutullos a second document which showed the heart defect. Julie's husband is the one who picked up the paperwork.

Carmel Cafiero: "When you went and got the health certificate for the dog that had the heart murmur, what else did you get besides this health certificate? What else did you get? What documentation did he give you? It's a camera that's on you."

Her husband Armando Soutullo walked away but said he received no document that said there was a heart murmur.

And Julie insisted she did not know the puppy was not healthy.

These are not the only people with complaints about Soutullo's puppy businesses. The state says, over the years, it has received more than 50 complaints, but only three of those complaints have resulted in charges.

Julie is currently facing three misdemeanor charges for violating the state's pet Lemon Law. She is accused of making misrepresentations and two counts of not supplying veterinarian certificates.

She says she's done nothing wrong.

Julie Soutullo: "Animal control comes here all the time. I have a perfect store."

But Miami-Dade Animal Control says it comes to the store because of complaints about various puppy businesses operated by Julie Soutullo.

Kathleen Labrada: "We have received approximately 25 complaints over the past year at Poochie Koochie Yorkilicious and also at Julie's home."

The county says the complaints deal with health issues after a puppy has been purchased. Since it can only address health issues before a sale, it sends those complaints to the state for consideration.

Carmel Cafiero: "In December of 07, state agents also removed business records from Soutullo's home. What did they find? We don't know yet. The Florida Department of Revenue says its investigation is still ongoing."

IF YOU HAVE A STORY FOR CARMEL TO INVESTIGATE:

Miami-Dade: 305-627-CLUE
Broward: 954-921-CLUE
E-mail: clue@wsvn.com

DIXIE PUPS INC IS CLOSED AND WE DO NOT SELL PUPPIES ANYMORE. IF THIS WOMEN LISA NEEDS A REFUND I NEED THE MEDICAL RECORDS TO BRING TO MY VET AND I WILL SEND HER A REFUND. I NEVER RECEICED ANYTHING FROM HER. SOMETHINGS ARE NOT COVERED UNDER THE WARRENTY SO I NEED TO SEE THE DOCTOR BILLS. I HAVE SOLD OVER THREE THOUSAND PUPPIES IN NINE YEARS. IT IS NORMAL TO HAVE A PROBLEM ONCE IN A WHILE I AM NOT THE OWNER OF POOCCHIE KOOCHIE THE OWNER LIVES IN ARGENTINA