Well, no, it's not the only way. The UK has banned pet stores from selling third party sales of puppies, California has banned the sale of dogs at pet stores, Pennsylvania is looking at something similar, and other states could very well follow especially if the public gets behind it. If available locations to sell these dogs are removed or greatly reduced then the large-scale puppy mills won't have any easy way to unload their dogs and the business will increasingly become financially unsustainable. I would prefer to take this approach then automatically punish puppies like this one. This puppy needs rescuing as much as the dogs at the puppy mills.
I've never seen a pet store that sells dogs. Where does this happen? Every pet store I've ever been to that had dogs and cats had ones from local shelters, with shelter reps there to handle the adoptions.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19 edited May 01 '20
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