Adopt a Friend ... Save a Life

If you are planning to add a pet to your family, please adopt! Don't buy a pet from a pet store. Puppy mills are the site where many beagle puppies are breed for pet stores across the country. The cute puppy you see at the pet store could have been bred at a place like this. These breeders don't care about the health or well-being of the parent dogs; they are only looking to make money off the puppies.

Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue often has the opportunity to help adult dogs that have been saved from puppy mills. They are almost always terribly underweight and have no record of shots or other basic care. Many of the dogs have contracted heartworms because they are kept outside without receiving any preventative medication. Sometimes they have sores on their paws, and often they have not even had nail trims.

I really want a beagle puppy, but I don't want to buy from a pet store. What should I do?

Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue does have a limited number of beagle puppies available for adoption from time to time. You are welcome to submit an application and, if approved, we will place you on our waiting list for puppies. However, the wait for a puppy can be several months, so please be patient.

Also, you may want to reconsider adopting a young adult dog. Most of our dogs are between 1 and 3 years old, which is still a very young, playful age for a beagle. We can help you find a young adult beagle much sooner than a beagle puppy.

If you want to add a beagle to your family, please do not support puppy mills by purchasing a puppy from a pet store.

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