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_Home > Programs > Pup My Ride - L.A.

Pup My Ride is a program started by Best Friends Animal Society. The mission is simple, get dogs out of local shelters to rescues and communities where there are waiting lists for dogs that would otherwise die in Los Angeles shelters.

Pup My Ride demonstrates that when caring people work together, we get closer and closer to creating a time when there are No More Homeless Pets.


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It is said that each journey begins with a single step. Since its inception in 2008, thousands of lucky pups have started their journey with a ride.

In some areas of the country, dogs are killed by the thousands either because they're no longer productive breeders for puppy mill operators or because they were unlucky enough to land in an overpopulated shelter. In other parts of the country, shelters and rescue groups can't provide enough of those types of dogs to keep up with demand. The answer? Pup My Ride: a Best Friends program to get dogs out of shelters and puppy mills and into areas where they are most likely to find their forever homes. We deliver the pups to local partners with highly successful adoption programs capable of finding homes for many dogs at a time.

Some transports focus on the forgotten animals, produced for the pet shop trade, who don't make it to retail outlets. These include older breeder dogs and puppies with "defects" in the eyes of the mill owners. Other transports focus on rescuing dogs from overcrowded shelters in locations where their breeds simply aren't popular.

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The Pup My Ride regulars, Gayle Alexander, Actress/Model Denise Richards, and Robin Harmon.

Pup My Ride Route


PMR Transporter, Gayle Alexander is a bit of a highway legend in her own right. She has driven Pup My Ride approximately 120,000 miles to date and averages 6,000 miles per month across 7 states in the western United States.

The map to the right illustrates Pup My Ride destination points and Pup My Ride partners and receiving shelters.

View Pup My Ride in a larger map

OUR PARTNERS - RECEIVING SHELTERS


Best Friends Animal Society - New York 
600 West End Avenue #9C, New York, NY 10024

Help for Homeless Pets 
2910 Hannon Road Billings, MT 59101

Humane Society of Utah
4242 S 300 W  Murray, UT 84107

Ivins Animal Shelter
474 N 200 W, Ivins, UT 84738

Kitsap Humane Society
9167 NW Dickey Rd, Silverdale, WA 98383

Montana German Shepherd/Belgian Malinois Rescue
PO Box 1895, Hamilton, MT 59840

Mutt Scouts
5 Summit Trail, Monroe, NY 10950

Norfolk SPCA         
916 Ballentine Blvd  Norfolk, VA 23504

Oregon Humane Society
1067 NE Columbia Blvd. Portland, OR

Pope Memorial Humane Society of Knox County
17 Buttermilk Lane, Thomason, ME

Richmond SPCA         
2519 Hermitage Rd  Richmond, VA 23220

Roice-Hurst Humane Society
362 28 Rd., Grand Junction, CO 81501

Seattle Humane Society 
13212 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue. WA

Tompkins County SPCA
1640 Hanshaw Rd  Ithaca, NY 14850  




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