Our unique research connects puppy mills and commercial dog breeders across the country to the pet stores and online websites they sell through. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, our team forensically audits government health records and inspection records and makes that information public in order to provide transparency for the consumer. Below you will find a list of all of the research that we have done into some of the nation’s most notorious businesses. Everything that we do can be independently verified through obtaining FOIA requests from governmental agencies across the country. To make it easy, our research is organized by business designation type, state and business name.
The research we do can be very costly but it has proven to be the most effective tool advocates have in order to create change in their communities. To date we have connected more than 65% of the nation’s puppy-selling stores to the puppy mills and commercial dog breeders they buy from.
Please note: We are adding states and stores as we obtain the data, this is not the full list of stores or businesses that sell puppies in the United States! This is a very time consuming and expensive research project that our small team is taking on!
If you are interested in donating towards our research costs, click on the button below.
Pet Store Research: Click on the states below to view pet stores that sell puppies and which breeding facilities they are sourcing from.
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Nationwide Puppy-Laundering Scheme and Sham Rescues: In response to the nationwide movement to pass laws against selling puppies in pet stores, commercial breeders are becoming licensed rescues in order to continue selling puppies where it is illegal to do so. Our nonprofit is leading the way on these investigations and enforcement. Learn more about puppy laundering here.
The Nation’s Largest Puppy Brokers: Dog dealers are companies that act as middle men in the puppy selling process. They buy puppies from breeders and resell them to pet stores and erasing any semblance of transparency for the consumer in the process.
Online Puppy Brokering Websites: As the world has moved online, so have puppy sales. Websites claim to have a “no puppy mill pledge”, but they refuse to be transparent about the breeders they source from.
You can also read our research exposing puppy mill transports during Covid-19 here.
The research we do can be very costly but it has proven to be the most effective tool advocates have in order to create change in their communities.
If you are interested in donating towards our research costs, click on the button below.