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Are you looking for places to adopt a puppy? There are several very good sources online that are great places to adopt a puppy and I will discuss these sources in this article. It is important that you know there are some bad places to adopt a puppy and I will discuss the reasons behind this warning.

Buying a puppy from a pet store or a back yard breeder is one of the bad places to adopt a puppy. Often these pets are products of puppy mills. A puppy mill is a place where dogs are confined to small rabbit-like wire fences with wire flooring and are forced to breed every cycle. Often the female will produce hundreds of puppies during her fertile years and when no longer fertile will be killed because she no longer produces any income for the breeder. The living conditions are grossly inhumane and if you knew purchasing a puppy from a pet store or a back yard breeder supported this continued practice, I believe you would look elsewhere for places to adopt a puppy.

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Petfinder at petfinder.com is one of the best places to adopt a puppy online. Petfinder is an organization that allows non-profit pet rescue and adoption agencies to list their adoptable pets for free on their site. They have over 250,000 animals from over 11,000 organizations all across the USA, Canada and Mexico listed in their huge database. They have a simple yet powerful search feature, which you can access for free to find places to adopt a puppy within miles of where you live. You simply type in your zip code as your location and a list of puppies will appear in your area with the name of the rescue organization that currently houses each particular puppy. All the necessary contact information about the organization holding the puppy is right on your screen so you can make the call and visit the puppy you want to adopt.

1-800-Save-A-Pet at www.1-800-Save-A-Pet.com is another one of the fine places to adopt a puppy online. They are very similar to Petfinder except that they only deal with dogs/puppies and cats/kittens. 1-800-Save-A-Pet is a not for profit pet adoption charity organization that works with local pet shelters, local humane societies, local SPCA’s, local pet rescue groups, and local pet adoption agencies all across the country to advertise their homeless pets to adopters for free. They also use the power of Television (using famous spokes models), the Internet and their toll-free phone number to connect adopters with shelter pets. Like Petfinder, 1-800-Save-A-Pet has a powerful search feature that allows you to find places to adopt a puppy within miles of where you live.

Finally, I hope you can now appreciate the need to look for places to adopt a puppy that involve rescue and shelter puppies as opposed to pet store or a back yard breeder puppies. Even if you are set on a specific breed of puppy, you can adopt a pet from a breed rescue organization. Breed rescue groups that specialize in a particular breed of puppy can be found at Petfinder and 1-800-Save-A-Pet and are just as special as those found at pet stores and private breeders. Also, adopting a rescue puppy is a much more humane choice since adoption saves the life of a puppy that may otherwise be put to death.