What can people do to help puppy mill dogs and to help stop puppy mills?
We can help puppy mill dogs by not buying them as pet store puppies. Yes, they’re cute, and yes, they need loving homes—but to buy them at pet shops is to encourage the millers, the middlemen, and the shop owners to keep “stocking” these pups at the expense of their abused parents. If we want to help puppy mill dogs, we should adopt them, if we have suitable homes and time, when they become available for adoption through breed rescues. To stop puppy mills, we should write to our local, state, and federal elected officials protesting the ordinances and statutes that allow puppy mills to be sited in our home districts; we should testify at public hearings, if we have personal experiences of puppy mills or rescued animals from puppy mills, so that elected officials can hear firsthand about what these animals suffer; we should write to our local newspapers whenever reports of puppy mills enter the news stream; we should take our rehabilitated puppy mill rescue dogs to nursing homes, school
