Teens pushing Washington Legislature to ban retail puppy sales
Bellevue teens who love dogs take their advocacy work to Olympia to propose a bill and see it through. By Hannah Krieg, Crosscut
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3 Photos Novia Liu walks her dog, Snicker, at Medina Park on Feb. 5, 2020. Liu is working with another local teen to advocate to Washington legislature for the bill to ban retail pet sales, otherwise known as the Cfupuppy mill bill.Cfu (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) Photo Gallery
In the shadow of a Big Lots, a white sandwich board sign points customers to a storefront covered with puppy window clings. Inside Renton’s Fairwood Pet Center, aisles of pet supplies run perpendicular to the back wall, where large windows reveal a narrow room that houses puppies in kennels.
Teens pushing WA Legislature to ban retail puppy sales
Bellevue teens who love dogs take their advocacy work to Olympia to propose a bill and see it through.
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Novia Liu walks her dog, Snicker, at Medina Park on Feb. 5, 2020. Liu is working with another local teen to advocatef for a bill before the Washington Legislature that would ban retail pet sales, otherwise known as the “puppy mill bill.” (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
In the shadow of a Big Lots, a white sandwich board sign points customers to a storefront covered with puppy window clings. Inside Renton’s Fairwood Pet Center, aisles of pet supplies run perpendicular to the back wall, where large windows reveal a narrow room that houses puppies in kennels.