After their two year fight against the mistreatment of dogs in Washington’s puppy mills, Theresa Edwards and Audrey Long, seventh-graders at Whitman Middle School, attended the signing of Senate Bill 5651 by Gov. Chris Gregoire in Olympia this morning, April 30.

Senate Bill 5651, was sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and seeks to eliminate “puppy mills” by prohibiting a person from owning, possessing, controlling, or otherwise having charge or custody of more than 25 dogs with intact sexual organs over the age of four months at a time, as reported by WashingtonVotes.org.

Long and Edwards had testified for the bill earlier in February and had been waiting for the House and Senate decisions ever since.

Today, their work and fight for the safety of dogs was commended with the bill signing ceremony.