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Videos that will help with training your new or current pets! Pease take a look!

Attention Military Personnel
Are you being deployed overseas and don't have anybody to care for your pet? Don't take them to a shelter - contact Operation Noble Foster instead. They will find a foster home for your pet until you return.

Animal Cruelty is Family Violence How to Raise Awareness of the Animal Cruelty/Family Violence Connection. 

 

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Minnesota Animal Abuse & Laws 

Buyer BEWARE!!

If you have bought a puppy at any pet store in any area, you can research your dog by clicking on the banner above. Or you can contact USDA APHIS and request an inspection report on the puppymill where your dog came from. Many of these commercial breeders have hundreds and hundreds of dogs.

Video intensifies puppy mill issue  By John Grogan  
Dogs are not people, but they also are not widgets. It's time for serious reform.  

Pet Store Cruelty 

Why you should adopt a pet from you local shelter and/or animal rescue group? Did you know that Animal Shelters are your best source when looking for a pet. Not only do they have a great selection of adult animals for adoption, but they also have kittens and puppies, even purebred animals.

Millions of companion animals go homeless every year, but a trip to the shelter can save many.
What to consider before adopting a pet.
Adopt from a Purebred Rescue Group - Don’t know where to find a rescue group that specializes in the breed of dog or cat that interests you, contact your local animal shelter.
How to find a Good Dog Breeder. - How do you identify and find a reputable breeder?
Choosing the Right dog for you. The key is simply knowing what to look for.
Selecting the right pet for you - Pure or Mixed Breed

Find your State Laws - Select the subject of your interest and then find your state.  

ALDF – Animal Legal Defense Fund To protect the lives and advance the interests of animal through the legal system.

Animal Law provides access to legislation and legal matters pertaining to the rights and welfare of animals.

Animal Protection Institute (API) State Animal Cruelty Laws

Humane USA Humane USA has been formed by leaders of major animal protection organizations, including The Humane Society of the United States, The Fund for Animals, Farm Sanctuary, ASPCA, Doris Day Animal League, Animal Welfare Institute, The Ark Trust, Animal Rights Foundation of Florida, and others.

Institute for Animal Rights Law Providing Legal Information, Analysis, And Guidance For The Animal Rights Movement

Puppy Lemon Law States Listing of states with puppy lemon laws.

Animal Rights Law Project This site is NOT intended to provide legal advice.

State Animal Cruelty Laws Animal Protection Institute – Listing of laws for each state.

World Animal Net – Animal Protection Law Introduction to Animal Protection Law Resources

Crime Stoppers - 

The Humane Society for Companion Animals - In order to better serve the people and animals of the Twin Cities metro area, the Animal Humane Society, the Humane Society for Companion Animals, and the Greater West Metro Humane Society have merged into one organization with five locations in Golden Valley, Coon Rapids, Buffalo, St. Paul and Woodbury. 

Reporting Animal Abuse or Neglect - by HSUS  

Pet Abuse
Dedicated to breaking the cycle of abuse

Humane Kind
an international animal welfare organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of violence through action, education and information.

PeTA
Help puppies and more! Get involved!

Helping Animals
People who are violent to animals rarely stop there.

If you WITNESS Animal Abuse Where to start

Finding a New Home for your companion animal.   

ASPCA - Report Animal Cruelty 

Reporting Animal Abuse or Neglect - by HSUS  

Crime Stoppers - 

The Humane Society for Companion Animals - In order to better serve the people and animals of the Twin Cities metro area, the Animal Humane Society, the Humane Society for Companion Animals, and the Greater West Metro Humane Society have merged into one organization with five locations in Golden Valley, Coon Rapids, Buffalo, St. Paul and Woodbury. 

What is a puppy mill? Get the facts on puppy mills and find out what you can do.
Do you know where that puppy in the window came from ? How about that kitten in the window or the ad you just read “Kittens for sale”? How about that parrot in the window? Never buy a mass-marketed bird from a pet store! You can submit a request for us to research where your puppy came from. Because you deserve to know the truth!
Are you thinking about buying a puppy? - Buyer Beware!
Puppy mill dogs are sold even in the swankiest of pet stores and through the most picturesque of web sites. The truth is, unless you personally visit the place where your dog is born and raised, you have no real way of knowing whether you’re supporting a puppy mill. Puppy millers have devised slick new methods for hiding their cruel businesses. They regularly place newspaper ads that hawk one specific breed (instead of the old approach of exclaiming, “We have over 20 different breeds!”) to fool consumers into thinking the mill is actually a small operation. Rule No.1 is always: Never buy a puppy without personally visiting the breeder’s premises. Read the Five easy steps to avoid a puppy mill for more information.

Have you purchased a puppy and shortly after you brought him/her home, found out he/she was sick. You tell the pet store and the pet store says, "We can trade it for another one." Most people have fallen in love with that puppy and will not trade it in. The puppy has become part of the family. Did you know that you can file a Breeder Complaint Form if your new puppy appears to be suffering from a medical condition.   

One Sick puppy - A Cautionary Tale. The advertisement in the New Jersey newspaper caught Rosa D'Ascoli's attention: dogs for sale from "professional breeders," $99 and up, all shots included, training provided.

Here are some more links on information about puppy mills:

MSNBC - Report on Bad Breeders and How to Avoid a Puppy Mill. To report a problem with a breeder, call the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at (800) 281-4418 Local Shelter

Stop Puppy Mills - Find out ways how you can take ACTION! You can also, HELP The HSUS spread the word about puppy mills by ordering and distributing copies of our two fliers, “How to Find a Good Dog Breeder” and “How Not to Buy a Puppy.” View the puppy mill regulations in your state!

Pet Pals, Inc. Doggie In The Window - Warning: very graphic. This is were some local Alabama pet stores get their dogs. Unless the breeding STOPS, here is what is taking place. MILLIONS of nice pets are being killed annually.

Prisoners of Greed - Hundreds of thousands of dogs suffer in puppymills in this country. They are prisoners of greed. A Puppy mill is a business, the facility is designed purely for profit, not comfort. The dogs are locked in small cages. They freeze in the winter and swelter in the summer. They never get out of their prisons. They are bred over and over again until they die.

Not Fit for a Dog - This is a reproduction of an article which appeared in Life Magazine in September, 1992

Critter Haven - UPFRONT VIEW OF A PUPPY MILL AUCTION A TRUE EXPERIENCE FROM ONE A RESCUER’S EYES

No Puppy Mills - Dedication to Education

Puppy Mill Fighters - Our mission is to educate the public about how dogs get into pet stores, to change animal cruelty laws, and to save lives.

Puppy Mill Fighters in the UK - Say NO to Welsh Assembly assisted Puppy Farms! Have you purchased a sickly puppy from a retail outlet Puppy Alert in the UK! Listing of Commercial outlets and dealers that ‘Buy In’ puppies to sell. Puppy Mill Puppy Watch Fighting to stop puppy farming. Say NO to Welsh Assembly assisted Puppy Farms! Sign this petition to help Stop puppy farms in the UK



SnikSnak - Pet Mills: An American Disgrace!

Humane Services of Metro Atlanta - Don’t buy that Doggie in the Window!

Kerry Blue Terrier Foundation - Why you should NEVER, EVER buy a puppy from a pet store.

Companion Animal Protection Society - WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BUY THAT PUPPY IN THE WINDOW

A look into the Amish Dog industry. WARNING – Do not view unless you have a strong stomach. Feburary 2005, another Amish puppy mill approved in Lancaster county, PA

Here is a Puppy Mill Rescue Site Created to locate foster, vet, and place in forever homes, purebred dogs previously used as breeders in Puppy Mills and Commercial Kennels. Dogs rescued from a life of pain. These are the parents of the puppies you see at the pet stores.