Bailing Out Benji

At Bailing Out Benji, we believe you cant help animals without first helping the people who love those animals. Our Benji Cares program has been able to make an immeasurable impact on thousands of families who were experiencing financial hardship and needed a partner to help them get through. Our pet food pantry and veterinary care assistance programs provide essential support to pet owners in times of need, removing barriers that often lead families to surrender their pets to shelters. This allows pets to stay in homes and reduces strain on local shelters. In 2024, we served around 350 families in our pet food pantry monthly and assisted 20 families with veterinary care expenses.

Bailing Out Benjis unique research program collects, catalogs, and forensically audits extensive data from government inspection reports, health records, lawsuits, and more, to spark change within the puppy mill, commercial dog breeding, and pet acquisition industries. Our research connects the pet stores and online sellers to the breeders they source from. We host the largest database in the world regarding puppy mills and the outlets in which they sell. Our research has led to countless laws passed, policies changed, and animal cruelty charges pressed. In 2024 we kicked off our Field Research team as well as our Online Puppy Mill Research project. We are using the most cutting-edge tech to answer the question How many puppy mills exist in the US?.