I hope this new AAS web page will be of some use to the many people who report puppymills and backyard breeders to us.

As long as it's legal to own animals, it has to be legal to breed and sell them. All we can do is try to make the standards really high.
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Have you witnessed a backyard breeder or a puppymill?

1. Get as many details as you can: address; length of time the breeder has been selling dogs; the number and sizes of litters; the selling prices; ads from newspapers and the internet.

2. Get photos if you safely can.

3. Put together your report in both a hard format and an electronic format.

4. Send your report to the BC SPCA requesting that it investigate (ask for a case number):
Marcie Moriarty,
Manager of Cruelty Investigations, BC SPCA
1245 East 7th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC, V5T 1R1

5. Send your report to your Mayor and Council (find names and addresses at the page linked below) requesting bylaws to regulate and limit dog breeding/selling in your municipality.

6. Send your report to your provincial MLA; to Pat Bell, the Minister of Agriculture; to Gordon Campbell, the Premier of BC; and to Carol James, the Leader of the Opposition (find MLAs names and addresses at the page linked below) asking for provincial dog-breeding standards and regulations.

7. Send your report and any answers you receive to Animal Advocates at animaladvocates@telus.net.

8. Contact the media.

Have you bought a sick puppy?

1. Do all of the above.
2. Sue for costs and damages in Provincial Small Claims Court