Recently I was exposed to the work that Best Friends has been doing to help re-home dog’s they are rescuing from puppy mills and I would like to use this blog as a forum to spread the news to as many people as possible and provide information on how you can learn more about this wonderful cause.
Best Friends has launched an amazing campaign to help stop puppy mills called “Puppies Aren’t Products” www.puppiesarentproducts.com.
Please read the below from their website that describes the campaign goals:
“Right now, millions of adult dogs are suffering on the “production line” in America’s puppy mills. Their sole purpose is to breed and make money for their owners. They live in tiny, wire-bottomed cages, in squalid conditions, with little human contact and often no veterinary care. It is no life for man’s best friend.
Meanwhile, roughly 11,000 animals are euthanized in America’s shelters every day. There’s something wrong with this picture.
The goal of Best Friends’ Puppies Aren’t Products campaign is to create a world of No More Homeless Pets by fighting against puppy mills and irresponsible breeding. Our campaign team saves lives by holding peaceful demonstrations at pet stores that sell puppies from mills, educating consumers about the inhumane conditions in puppy mills, encouraging people to adopt rather than buy pets, and advocating for better laws to combat puppy mills.
Please join us in working toward a day when all of America’s pets have what they deserve: good care, safety and love from a family of their own.”
http://network.bestfriends.org/campaigns/puppymills/pages/about-the-campaign.aspx
To inspire you even more to donate or get involved in this effort, please watch the videos they call “Pup My Ride” that show you in a three part series how one of these rescue trips worked and how they work with shelters across the country to find a safe place to send the puppy mill pups to find their forever home.
Pup My Ride: Mills to Manhattan Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFd98timvs&feature=channel_page
Pup My Ride: Mills to Manhattan Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIU9zOa_zmM&feature=channel
Pup My Ride: Mills to Manhattan-Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6OpNtDUoaQ&feature=channel_page
The website also offers you ideas and ways you can help at the local level in your own community to help stop the owner’s of puppy mills from continuing their current business practices.
http://network.bestfriends.org/GoLocal/Default.aspx
http://network.bestfriends.org/campaigns/puppymills/pages/Resources.aspx
For more information on Best Friends Animal Society please check out their website: http://www.bestfriends.org/aboutus/
Together we can make a difference.