Overview
- On December 25, Kim Kardashian posted Instagram photos showing each of her four children received a Pomeranian puppy.
- PETA president Ingrid Newkirk called the purchases a missed chance to champion shelter adoptions, saying that puppies are not plush toys.
- The organization urged the sisters to contact local shelters, fund adopt-a-thons and spay/neuter programs, and involve their children in volunteering.
- PETA also said Khloé's new Labrador, Peppermint, came from Indiana breeder Big Creek Labradors, a detail reported by media but not independently verified in these articles.
- The Instagram reveal included rare portraits of Kim with her children, with Kanye West not pictured, as online critics accused the family of treating pets like accessories.