Shut Down the Puppy Mill Pipeline into Las Vegas!

Las Vegas, NV. 2025-35 — Ends the Retail Sale of Dogs and Cats

ASPCA Position: Support

Update — October 20, 2025: Last week, the Las Vegas City Council drafted an ordinance that phases out the retail sale of cruelly bred dogs and cats by 2028. They plan to hold a public hearing on Wednesday, November 5, to discuss the bill. Thank you for each action you’ve taken to keep puppy mill cruelty out of Las Vegas.

Pet stores in Las Vegas import cruelly bred puppies from out-of-state commercial breeders and often sell sick dogs to unsuspecting families. This is possible because the retail sale of puppies is legal in this city.

Clark County, Reno and Mesquite have passed similar ordinances, and a growing number of Nevada localities are considering their own. Help Las Vegas catch up!

The Pipeline

Las Vegas pet stores often advertise that their puppies are “top quality” and come from “responsible breeders.” The sad reality is that those animals are trucked in from out-of-state commercial breeding facilities, also known as puppy mills. The goal of these commercial facilities is to produce the highest number of animals at the lowest possible cost. As a result, dogs are often sick, injured or malnourished and are confined to filthy, crowded cages.

Many of these animals pass through middlemen, called brokers, who buy high volumes of puppies from poorly regulated licensed breeders. These animals are then resold to pet stores in Las Vegas. Through this pipeline, pet stores have misrepresented and disguised the reality of where their animals come from, exploiting animals and deceiving consumers.

This harmful system is driven by profit; it continues to exist because there is no local law to prevent the sale of cruelly bred dogs in pet stores.

What You Can Do

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Advocacy Alert

Your Message

Subject Shut Down Las Vegas's Puppy Mill Pipeline!

Dear Councilmember,

Message

As a voter and resident of Las Vegas, I am reaching out to ask you to please introduce an ordinance that prohibits the retail sale of dogs and cats in Las Vegas’s pet stores. This measure is needed to stop cruel breeders from selling their dogs and cats in our communities.

Puppies sold in pet stores come from commercial breeding operations known as puppy mills that are designed to prioritize profit over the well-being of animals. In these operations, dogs often spend their entire lives in wire crates without adequate shelter, veterinary care, food or socialization.

Year after year, the puppy mill industry demonstrates that it is not interested in ensuring the welfare of the dogs it churns out, nor is it interested in transparency or public accountability. These poorly regulated commercial dog breeders have only one goal: to breed the highest volume of puppies possible at the lowest cost for maximum profit. Enough is enough.

Prohibiting the retail sale of dogs and cats is the only effective way of shutting down the puppy mill pipeline that transports cruelly bred animals from puppy mills across the country to Las Vegas’s pet stores.
If the city council fails to act, pet stores will continue operating with impunity, profiting from cruelly bred animals. It is time for the city to outlaw this practice for good by enacting a retail pet sale ban.

Thank you for your time and consideration of my views.

Sincerely,

[First Name] [Last Name]
[Your Address]

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