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So, what can you do to help stop commercial breeding and the sale of dogs through pet stores?
EDUCATE - Get out and let the public know the issues behind that sweet face in the window. Teach people how to tell responsible breeders and why we should consider dogs from carefully chosen rescue groups.
REFUSE TO BUY - Even if you MUST have a puppy and have been turned down by breeders or are impatient, refuse to go to
a pet store. Good breeders will turn down homes they do not feel are suited for their breed or even a dog at all.
Take this seriously and either fix the situation and become a better home for a dog. Or, if you are a good home, be patient and wait, the right pup or dog from a breeder or a rescue will show up.
DO NOT RESCUE FROM PET STORES - I know this goes against what you think. But look at it from the stores point of view - THEY DO NOT CARE WHERE THE PUP GOES TO! For every puppy taken from a pet store for whatever motive that just opens up a space for another puppy to be brought in. If puppies stop selling, the pet stores will be forced to stop ordering. Brokers will not be able to move puppies as stop buying from millers. Millers will be forced out of business. Hard as this is, with the bottom line being profit, all you will do is make room for another puppy to be bought and moved by a broker.
BE AWARE
- Know what your state laws are. Commercial fall under certain local and national laws. Without passing other laws, most cruelty laws in most communities and the requirements by the USDA already cover any issues that could crop up in a commercial breeding facility. Most laws passed will actually benefit the commercial breeder and hurt the serious breeders.
The more people who refuse to purchase through stores, the more stores will stop selling puppies.
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