Animal-Friendly Legislation Stories

With Best Friends Animal Society's help, one man convinces Camden County, New Jersey, to ban retail pet sales since these animals come from mills.

Beverly Hills pet stores will no longer be allowed to sell dogs, cats or rabbits from mills. Pets must come from shelters or rescue groups.

Best Friends saves pitbull dogs in a Florida county (St. Johns County) by changing an outdated dog adoption policy.

Enacting mandatory spay/neuter laws without providing easy access to low-cost or free services puts low-income pet owners and their animals at risk.

Please ask your Senator to support amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which would give adoption priority to military dogs' handlers.

Retail pet sale bans in L.A., Oceanside, Long Beach and Garden Grove make it Illegal for pet stores to sell dogs, cats or rabbits from puppy mills.

Law changes in South Bend, Indiana, do away with canine breed discrimination. Pitbulls are now welcome.

As 2014 and Best Friends' 30 year anniversary draws to a close, Bela's arrival is just the latest among many year-end highlights in our effort to Save Them All.

Good news for pit bulls: legislative wins against breed discrimination in Utah and South Dakota, and protection for dog fighting victims in Delaware.

Vicktory dogs serve as models for lifesaving Delaware law that now ensures dogs seized from dogfighting ring busts be individually evaluated.

Best Friends helps Commissioner Michele Lazarow get pet sale ban ordinances passed in Florida communities, including Hallandale Beach.

County ordinance prohibiting adoption of pitbulls from Loudoun County Animal Services in Waterford, Virginia, is overturned.

It’s time to celebrate South Dakota Pit Bull Independence Day, as Senate Bill 75 bans breed discrimination.

Dog breed restriction in Fulton County, Ohio, puts family at risk of losing their pit bull, but the family fights in court, with Best Friends' help.

One Yorkie, a puppy mill survivor dog, inspires the volunteer who adopted her to help other dogs from pet mills.