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Cracking Down on Puppy Mills - A Best Friends Special Feature

Cracking Down on Puppy Mills - A Best Friends Special Feature

Diva, a sweet Japanese Chin dog, looks like she’s asleep. She may be, but that’s not the reason her eyes are closed.

Profit and Loss

Time to clamp down on the factory farms that churn out helpless puppies

Best Friends’ Position on the Commercial Breeding of Pets

While four to five million animals of all breeds and species are dying in shelters for lack of homes, Best Friends Animal Society sees no reason for the breeding of pets for profit.

Puppy mill victims arrive at Best Friends

Best Friends animal care and adoptions workers walked the aisles of the kennel, sizing up toy breed dogs who either froze in their tracks or panicked when approached. Led by representatives of the Nebraska Humane Society, Best Friends staff was on a mission to help some of the dogs recently rescued from a Nebraska puppy mill.

The puppies from Nebraska

A first look at the dogs who came in from that infamous puppy mill

Nebraska puppy mill update: Twinkle takes a walk

She’s five years old, and it’s her first glimpse of the outdoors

Nebraska puppy mill update: Cookie’s adventure

“Maybe I’ll step out of my cage after all ... as long as no one’s looking!”

Sponsor a Nebraska puppy mill dog

The dogs who’ve come to the sanctuary from the Nebraska puppy mill need lots of rehabilitation and love before they are ready for new homes.

Why you shouldn't buy a puppy from a pet store or over the Internet

Reasons to help shut down the puppy mills

Man vs. Mill

Mike Fry takes on Minnesota's bad breeders

Want to help shut down puppy mills?

Here’s how:

Resources & Links

Here are some links on how you can keep up with the continuing campaign to regulate commercial breeders of puppies.
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