Stop Puppy Mills is a website run by the Humane Society of the United States to help increase awareness and bring an end to the animal abuse that goes on inside puppy mills. What can you do and find there?
What Are Puppy Mills?
First, Stop Puppy Mills educates visitors about what puppy mills are. Briefly, a puppy mill is a mass dog-breeding operation that keeps many dogs as "breeding stock" in cages without veterinary care or human companionship. Puppy mills often try to pass themselves off as reputable breeders, and supply puppies to pet stores or sell their puppies through newspaper ads.
The website describes, in-depth, what life is like for the dogs who are used to breed puppies continually, until they are either killed or sold to another puppy mill when they can no longer breed.
Laws Concerning Puppy Mills
The Stop Puppy Mills website is very involved in lobbying for legislation to stop the inhumane treatment and animal cruelty that takes place inside puppy mills. It provides a search function so that users can find contact information for their local law makers - including the President of the United States, United States Senators, and U. S. Congressional Representatives - so that users can write to them about how they, as constituents and voters, feel about the need for better legislation concerning puppy mills.
More specifically, the site asks users to use this contact information to ask their legislators to expand the reach of the Animal Welfare Act.
Shop to Help Stop Puppy Mills
Stop Puppy Mills has a variety of items available for purchase. Users who buy any of these items are helping spread awareness of the website and the campaign whenever they display them, and the proceeds benefit the Humane Society's Stop Puppy Mills campaign. Some items that are available for sale include:
- The Dog Savers Kit. This has "everything you’ll need to start spreading the word about puppy mills in your community, including printed materials, letter templates, tips for developing legislation and activity ideas."
- Stop Puppy Mills T-Shirts
- Stop Puppy Mills Stickers
- "Be Kind - Stop Puppy Mills" Dog Collar
- Canine Chronicles Newspaper
- Stop Puppy Mills Flyers
- Stop Puppy Mills Bumper Stickers
- Stop Puppy Mills Bookmarks
Other Tools to Help Stop Puppy Mills
Stop Puppy Mills has many other features that help users educate themselves and others about the mistreatment of dogs and puppies in puppy mills. The FAQ answers many questions about what the Humane Society is doing to stop puppy mills, how to identify local puppy mills, and why current animal cruelty laws aren't working.
There is a section on puppy buying tips, to help people locate and utilize reputable breeders, with the hope of putting puppy mills out of business. There is another section of Survivor Stories, about dogs who found loving families after making it out of the puppy mills.
The website provides ideas for users to talk to their veterinarians, write to their local newspapers, add banners and buttons to Myspace and other websites, and more.
Additional Information
To learn more about puppy mills and animal abuse, visit Stop Puppy Mills, or read about other Animal Rights Activists Resources.
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