Barkworks Pet Store features shelter dogs instead of commercially bred dogs
Starting March 1, Southern California-based pet store Barkworks will no longer sell commercially bred dogs. Instead, the store will display shelter dogs for adoption.
An organization called Pet Connections, Inc. helped the company to set up a pilot program for selling shelter dogs, and it went so well the company decided to implement it fulltime and eventually expand the program to its 5 other stores.
This is a groundbreaking idea.
I’m sure lots of pet stores have been hurt by the fact that fewer and fewer people buy commercially-bred pets that come from puppy mills, so selling shelter pets should bring more people in their stores and increase their business. After all, few business introduce changes that will lose money.
Regardless of why Barkworks made this change, the new program will get more shelter pets into forever homes, reduce the burden on nonprofit and municipal shelters, and reduce the number of shelter pets killed every year.
Everybody wins.
I hope other pet stores will adopt this new idea quickly.
Can anyone come up with a reason why they wouldn’t?
I think this is a wonderful idea. I wish every pet store would adopt the same policy, thank you for helping the shelter pets.
Way to go Barkworks. I don't know where you are or who you are, but I do know that you "get it!" Thank you from all the furbabies and rescuers alike.
They are in Southern CA.
I'll be shopping at my local Barkworks in support of this wonderful idea.
Thank you Barkworks!
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