[header] How to help shut down puppy mills [title] Boycott puppy stores. [step] Almost every pet and puppy store that sells puppies receives their dogs from a puppy mill. Buying these dogs, even to rescue them from the store, will encourage mills to keep breeding dogs in abusive conditions. 
[substeps] Some pet stores may advertise their puppies as coming from usda breeders, but this does not mean that the puppies came from humane conditions. Stores that sell puppies from usda breeders are actually more likely to buy from puppy mills.