05/12/2026
🚨 PUPPIES THAT BITE. DOGS THAT SUFFER. RESCUES LEFT TO PICK UP THE PIECES. 🚨
Please Help Rescue groups, speak up for a change!
📢 THIS IS WHY THE FTC PETITION MATTERS.
The Federal Trade Commission is currently reviewing a Rulemaking Petition regarding online animal sales.
🗓 FTC COMMENT DEADLINE: MAY 26
📩 PLEASE COMMENT:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2026-0529-0001
You can choose not to publicly display your name.
Behind so many “cute puppies for sale” online… there’s a story nobody sees.
🐾 Dozer was used for breeding puppies for profit.
When he was no longer useful, he was discarded at a shelter,
Placed on the euthanasia list.
He’s loving with most people, but struggles with strangers.
The rescue will likely care for him for the rest of his life.
🐾 Lobo was another breeding dog.
Terrified of strangers. Severe anxiety and panic behaviors.
He also ended up discarded by back yard breeders, and on a euthanazia list.
💔 BOTH of his leg joints were severely damaged.
His rescue spent nearly $9,000 on surgeries just to give him a chance to live without pain.
🐾 Kio, a Labradoodle bought online as a “cute puppy,” no transparency, no information about genetics or breeding background.
His family struggled with sudden aggression, was pleading to rescues.
He bit rescue fosters too.
⚠️ THESE ARE NOT ISOLATED STORIES.
These are just a few dogs from ONE SMALL RESCUE GROUP.
There is one thing all these dogs had in common:
❌ No microchips
❌ No accountability
❌ No traceability
Meanwhile, shelters, rescues, and legitimate ethical breeders microchip animals because responsible systems require accountability and identification.
Now multiply this by:
thousands of online animal sales every single day
anonymous sellers
backyard breeders
puppy mills
👉 Who pays the price?
The animals. The families. The shelters. The rescues. The taxpayers.
📊 California taxpayers alone spend approximately $460 MILLION funding shelter systems per year!
Many shelters are closing intake, they cannot sustain the volume of animals.
❗We must STOP THE FLOW at the source.
That means:
✔️ Seller identity verification
✔️ Breeder accountability
✔️ Transparency in online animal sales
✔️ Platform accountability
Because right now animals can be bred and sold online with little more than the click of a button.
