Sentences with phrase «ending pet mills»

We're closer than we've ever been to ending pet mills, but we still have a very long way to go.

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Besides shedding light on and banning such cruel practices, the new regulations have also been set up to protect consumers, as pets from breeding mills often end up unhealthy or behaviourally - challenged due to how they were bred and raised.

«The retail pet industry has a system - wide problem that begins with cruel puppy mills, continues with the way they ship baby animals across the country in cramped quarters, and ends with consumers often being sold sick animals at an inflated price,» John Goodwin said.

Puppy Mill Awareness of SE Michigan is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending commercial breeding «puppy mills» and protecting families from puppy peddlers, pet stores and bad breeders by lobbying for stronger laws, setting up information booths, completing research studies and launching pet store campaigns.

I respectfully request that you do not allow this «fast - tracked» bill initiated by special interest groups to circumvent the will of voters who overwhelmingly support pet stores like Mutts & Co. and Pet Valu who make an enduring commitment to end the «puppy mill to pet store» supply chain in their business operations.»

The puppies who are deemed attractive enough to be successfully marketed by their breeders typically end up being advertised and sold online, through print advertisements, at certain flea markets, and in pet stores, thus generating a profit for the puppy mill industry and allowing it to continue.

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

Speaking in support of the original ban on sales from breeders, Quinn said: «This proposal will help end inhumane puppy mills, protect pet owners and help shelter animals find loving homes.»

I feel that in a sense puppies in pet stores are being rescued but at the same time the goal is to end this horrendous form of commerce It is necessary to go to the root of the problem - the puppy mills instead of the symptom.

Puppy mills will end for good only when people stop buying puppies from pet stores, flea markets and the Internet.

We have initiatives to put an end to some of the root causes of pet homelessness, including puppy mills, breed - discriminatory legislation and a shortage of trap - neuter - return programs for community (feral) cats.

We wanted to put an end to the whole sordid puppy mill business, and we soon realized that our most receptive audience and effective point of pressure would be at the point of sale — those well - meaning consumers who drive the demand for mill - bred pets by purchasing them in pet stores.

Unfortunately these impulse buys supporting puppy mills often end in sad results, says Summers: «We receive heartbreaking calls after the winter holidays about sick puppies purchased from pet stores.

Participate in Puppy Mill Action Week (May 6th — 12th), and support your local animal shelter in place of a pet store to help put an end to puppy mills.

I think that adopting a shelter or rescue dog from a pet store is an awesome idea and I hope that legal action to end puppy mills, like the bill in California, will eventually become law in every state.

Puppy mills By educating consumers about pets bred in mills and advocating for laws that end the sale of mill - bred pets, Best Friends is encouraging people to adopt pets instead of buying them.

In each individual's hands is the ability to stop the cycle of abuse that ends with the purchase of a puppy mill puppy at a pet store.

In an effort to put an end to inhumane «puppy mill» breeding operations, Sacramento lawmakers passed an ordinance that permanently bans the sale of non-rescue dogs, cats, and rabbits by pet stores in the city.

Companion Animal Protection Society - www.caps-web.org - The only non-profit dedicated exclusively since 1992 to ending the abuse of puppies & dogs in pet stores & puppy mills.

By choosing to support licensed breeders, like the ones shown here, as well as the pet stores that rely on them, you can help put an end to puppy mills for good.

As far as the unlikely hood of getting healthy pets from pet stores, which come from unsanitary, inhumane puppy mills, word is getting out and one day no one will support the pet profiteers and they will all have to get real jobs and work for a living instead of making their dirty money off the back end of abused and neglected animals that have no voice.

Elizabeth has led Best Friends» puppy mill initiatives, under various working titles, since 2008, and with the support of some very dedicated volunteers, she has notched up a series of impressive wins that include ending the sale of puppy mill — sourced pets at three major malls in Los Angeles — the Beverly Center, the Northridge Fashion Center and the Westside Pavilion.

These ordinances are intended to limit the market for dogs (and cats) being bred in inhumane, substandard pet mills throughout the country and imported into communities where they often end up being surrendered to shelters.

Help end this cruel industry by choosing to adopt from a shelter or rescue, and only shop for pet supplies at pet stores that work with rescues instead of puppy mills.

Our Goals The only way to end commercial breeding («puppy mills») is to end the sale of puppies sold in our local pet stores, because it is estimated that 99 % of pet store puppies come from puppy mills.

These puppy store demonstrations, which are really public information and educational activities, have been very successful in ending the sale of puppy mill dogs at a number of local retail outlets in L.A. and Orange County and even contributed to a national mall chain's decision to phase out pet stores in their malls in favor of hosted adoption events by rescues and shelters.

We also need more education on: • The importance and necessity of spaying and neutering, so we can end pet overpopulation • Ending puppy mills once and for all, so we can end the senseless suffering of mama dogs whose feet often times never touch the ground • The importance of micro-chipping, so beloved pets can return home • The importance of vaccinations, so we can eradicate diseases like parvo that leave innocent puppies suffering • Updating our licensing laws so that pet «owners» are held responsible for their animal's actions, not the animal.

Also, steer clear of pet stores as their puppies often come from puppy mills with little regard for bloodlines, health concerns or where the animal ends up.

Write or call your legislator and urge them to support an end to puppy mills and other pet mills.

At puppy mills, the dogs are kept in small wire cages for years on end solely to produce puppies for commercial sale in pet stores and over the Internet.

For more information about the pet trade, particularly in puppy mills, click here or go to http://www.oprah.com/ and also watch the video at the end of this article.

Support legislation to end puppy mills and other pet mills including laws requiring registration of mills, background checks and criteria for mill operators, limits on breeding and the numbers of animals kept and sold, humane sheltering and care of the animals, record keeping, unannounced inspections, registration and spay / neuter of animals sold as pets, bans on pet auctions and roadside sales, fire safety, proper disposal of waste and dead animals, and fees and fines that will help fund adequate enforcement.

The only way to bring puppy mills to an end is by NOT buying from pet stores, spreading awareness about the realities of puppy mills, and encouraging others to only adopt a rescue.

Unless our lawmakers put an end to the mass production in puppy and kitten mills, this pet overpopulation crisis is doomed to increase.

Rescue / AW people need to quit worrying about the «irresponsible public» and «puppy mills» and just address their own part of ending the homeless pet problem.

This practice supports puppy mills and contributes to the overpopulation of pets which results in many of them ending up euthanized in the shelters.

Show your support for the campaign to end puppy mills by joining our friends at Hearts United For Animals and the Lincoln Animal Ambassadors this Mother's Day, for a picket to honor the mothers of the pet store puppies.

They know that puppy mills continue to thrive because of demand and that each puppy purchased from a pet store helps contribute to a never - ending cycle of suffering, with the adult breeding dogs paying the ultimate price.

It's a move intended to help bring an end to the «puppy mill» industry, into which an estimated 10,000 large - scale commercial pet breeders produce some 2,000,000 puppies per year, often in unthinkably cruel conditions.

In addition to reducing euthanizations, the law seeks to put an end to puppy and kitten mills that keep animals in poor conditions and then ship them to pet stores.

«We hope the grant aids the rescue's work by showing pet lovers the reality of puppy mills and encouraging them to get involved, not only by rescuing their next family members but also in ending puppy mills overall.»

We can all help put an end to puppy mills by always adopting and not shopping for a pet.

A chief sponsor of the bill, H.B. 2470, state Sen. Vicki Walker, said puppy mills are a «significant contributor» to the overpopulation of unwanted pets particularly in view of how many dogs from the mills end up in public shelters.

By cutting off the supply of milled puppies being imported into the community, they are addressing the puppy mill problem from the retail end, while increasing adoption opportunities for pets in local shelters.

Puppy mills will stay in business as long as the public keeps buying puppies, so the only way to end the cycle of cruelty is to stop buying from pet stores.

It's horrendous what they do to these puppy mill dogs that end up in pet shops or at farmer markets or in ads.

We can all help to bring an end to puppy mills by choosing to adopt and never shop for a pet.

After you adopt a few and spend thousands of dollars to have them die or end of with a chronically sick pet, we'll see just how sympathetic you are to the PA puppy mills.

Pets like that are often from puppy mills who do not care who the pet will end up with and do not care if the pets they are breeding are not from a sturdy or good line.

In the video below, Best Friends Animal Society gives a crash course on puppy mills and how the puppies they produce end up in pet stores around the country.