From the Dog Diary on the Rescued With Love Website
RWL nominated for award but says “no thanks”
Rescued With Love has been nominated for an award which is always an honor. This time it is for The Dogs Life Pet People’s Award for Best Local Pet Rescue Service/Animal Shelter.
While Rescued With Love is happy with the recognition we are receiving, the Award is with Dogs Life Magazine in conjunction with the Pet Industry Association of Australia (PIAA).
The PIAA represents Petshops throughout Australia and they have been extremely vocal in their stance of protecting the practice of selling puppies in petshops (they were the main opposition to Clover Moore’s Bill to cease the sale of animals in Petshops last year).
These puppies are of course provided by puppy millers who keeps scores of dogs in cages to breed for their babies. Rescued With Love is against all forms of puppy milling, backyard or indiscriminate breeding while hundreds of thousands of dogs die every year in our pounds and shelters.
It would be hypocritical to accept this nomination on ethical grounds from the PIAA, and so we will not be taking up the offer.
While we are not the biggest nor the most financial animal welfare group we certainly will stand up for what we believe Rescue should be about and that is the plight of companion animals at every level in society.
Thankyou.

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