©Bailing Out Benji 2020 All research and information was done by the volunteer team at Bailing Out Benji and must be cited as such when shared or quoted! To view the rest of our CVI data, click here. When it comes to the puppy mill industry, there is no shortage of “key players” in the game. You have breeders, brokers, transport… Read more »
Each year on July 21st, Bailing Out Benji celebrates “No Pet Store Puppies Day” and this year we are asking all of you to celebrate with us! As you already know, Bailing Out Benji committed to ending the sale of commercially bred puppies, kittens and rabbits in pet stores! Through research, education and local ordinances we are ending the puppy… Read more »
Fireworks can be incredibly stressful on our pets, as well as wildlife. The days leading up to and following the Fourth of July are very busy for shelters and rescues, as many pets become startled and lost due to the loud noises and flashing lights. With your help, we can keep the pets in your community safe and with their… Read more »
Copyright Bailing Out Benji 2020 All research was done by Bailing Out Benji and must be cited as such. Written by Mindi Callison, Founder and Executive Director of Bailing Out Benji. While the pandemic has shut most of the world down, it came as no surprise to us that the pet store and puppy mill industry was still booming…. Read more »
2019 has been an amazing year! Thanks in large part to your support, we have been able to celebrate many successes for the dogs trapped in puppy mills across the country. We wanted to highlight as many of those successes with you as we look ahead at 2020! If you are able, please consider making a year-end donation to support our… Read more »
Every Holiday Season (and all year long) Bailing Out Benji works tirelessly to raise awareness about the pet store/puppy mill connection. This is the busiest time of year for pet stores and puppy mills, because the public makes decisions with their hearts and they don’t do the proper research. This is why we turn our focus to creating big public… Read more »
©2019 All research was done by Bailing Out Benji and must be cited. We don’t buy from puppy mills.” “All of our puppies come from small, local breeders.” “We visit every breeder we buy from.” We have all heard these sentences come from the mouths of pet store owners and their employees. They paint this beautiful picture of puppies running… Read more »
Written by Mindi Callison, Executive Director, Bailing Out Benji ©2019 If you are not aware of what puppy mills are, please click here before starting this article. Is the “Amazon Culture” keeping puppy mills alive? Let me start by saying that Amazon does not run puppy mills, they don’t sell puppies or other animals, and they actually have a WONDERFUL… Read more »
©Bailing Out Benji 2020 Imagine walking into a pet store just to look at the animals with your family and an employee immediately offers for you to hold a puppy. You start snuggling this sweet pup and look around at the dozens of other puppies for sale in cages on the wall. Something doesn’t feel right, but your kids are… Read more »
We all know that puppy mills are shady; really shady. Besides making a living off of the suffering of living, breathing dogs; their #1 job is to deceive the public. Thanks to organizations like ours, we have made their lives a little harder in both aspects. Especially when it comes to exposing their shady business practices to the public. In… Read more »
