Is your community aware?
Get Involved with Puppy Mill Awareness Day!
September 20, 2008
ONE DAY, ONE VOICE.
Who: You, and everyone else who wants to see an end to puppy mills
What: Puppy Mill Awareness Day
Where: Your town, your state
When: September 20th, 2008
Why: AWARENESS. The truth about our country’s pet trade and puppy mills is slowly getting out to the masses. This year, Oprah Winfrey joined in. Several mills with hundreds of dogs were seized and shut down. People around the country are organizing their own pet store protests.
Help us reach the tipping point to stop this cruel industry! Here are just a few things you can do to help.
1.) Join a meetup group in your area (or start one). Meet and join others who want to educate the community about puppy mills by handing out flyers, tabling at PetSmart, PetCo and other animal-friendly businesses that don’t sell puppies. Scroll down to the list of currently participating cities.
2.) Send a Letter to the Editor to your local newspaper about Puppy Mill Awareness Day. Click here to download a guide and sample letter.
3.) Hang a flyer at work, the grocery store, the dog park, veterinarian’s office, groomer etc. Click here to download the flyer.

4.) Get a Puppies Aren’t Products shirt from Café Press click here to order.
5.) Get a Puppy Mill Awareness Day lawn sign Click here to purchase.
6.) Feeling ambitious? Organize a pet store protest in your area - click here to learn how.
7.) Are you part of a group that already protests a pet store? Send out a press release to let the media know that your September 20th protest is also on Puppy Mill Awareness Day. ![]()
Join others on Puppy Mill Awareness Day!
Click here for area events forming around the country.






