Want to help shut down puppy mills?

Here’s how:

You can save hundreds of innocent lives by helping to shut down puppy mills. Mike Fry of Animal Ark offers these tips:

• Visit network.bestfriends.org/truth to learn more about puppy mills in your state and across the country.

• Never buy a puppy from a pet store. Instead, adopt from shelters and rescue groups. Many rescue groups specialize in particular breeds, so you can always find what you’re looking for.

• Tell others about puppy mills, and offer the advice above.

• Search for anti-puppy-mill groups online, and support them by volunteering or donating.

• Contact legislators and ask them to support bills to regulate commercial breeding. (There is proposed legislation against puppy mills in several states.) Better yet, visit your legislators in person.
It is legislators’ job to listen to their constituents.

Mike Fry asserts that simply talking with senators and representatives
has a big impact.

• Celebrate your progress, even if it’s slow. “If you don’t see immediate results, you shouldn’t give up,” Fry says. “You should keep doing it, keep taking a stand. You’ve got to look at the little incremental
changes. Every time there’s a newspaper story that comes out, or a letter to the editor, or another website pops up, those are big pieces of progress that we’ve made. Changing our culture isn’t something that happens overnight.”