The Most Amazing Massive Animal Rescues

Support your local animal rescue agency and adopt a pet, and not from a pet store. It is cheaper, and in most cases the animal will have received most of their shots.

The best approach to stopping puppy mills would probably be to boycott any pet supply store that sells animals, period. If people boycott the stores completely, it won't take them long to stop selling animals. But it needs to be enough people boycotting, that the stores get the message loud and clear.

One of the VERY BEST articles I've seen......God Bless them all!!

Pet stores should only sell pet accessories and not pets. If people would think to adopt the millions of animals that need a kind home then stores would stop selling and the puppy mills would be out of business.

Pet stores should sell pet accessories-food, shampoos, toys etc. not pets. There are millions of poor animals that need shelter and kind, loving homes. If people adopted instead of buying the stores would not be selling and therefore not be keeping these puppy mills in business.

I Adopted a beautiful Chihuahua that was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri. Roxy is now a Happy an Healthy Cali Girl....She brings me happiness and makes me laugh all day.

Thanks for featuring Animal Place and other sanctuaries involved in the rescue of 4,460 hens from a battery cage egg farm! Animal Place took in 4,100 of the hens and we still have 1,000 left waiting for permanent placement (the others were placed). www.animalplace.org.

I adopted a Beautiful Chihuahua that was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri....D
She brings me so much joy and laughter.

It is wonderful that these groups rescue these animals. But dealing with shelters in the area that I live in, but they make it really hard for people to adopt. Loving wonderful family who can love and support the animals, but the shelter folks can really be nasty and and act superior to those candidates. In my case. They made me feel like I wasn't good enough to adopt this one particular animal. One of the others that worked their hurriedly said, we are taking her off the list. I am going to adopt her. A friend went back to see if indeed the dog was adopted out. The dog was still there. So she adopted it. So I at least go to to see the little fur ball. I then in turn bought my dog from a reputable breeder and she is a happy, healthy, well cared for, spoiled princess. By the way, so is the other furbaby. We have playdates. So maybe some of the workers and volunteers need to back off and get off their high horses. Not everyone abuses dogs.

to answer gitel13, dogs should NOT be sold in pet stores!! That's the market that fuels the continuation of those horrid puppy mills in Lancaster, PA and throughout the south and midwest. The puppy mills treat their breeding females and puppies very poorly, but it's difficult to get them shut down. What we non-legislators can do is to NEVER buy a puppy from a pet store, only from a reputable family breeder or from the pound. And be a voice for the sweet dogs in those conditions by telling everyone you know to never buy from a pet store.