Can not copy and paste from my e mail. I was sent a message about the Animal Welfare Act that will require people selling puppies over the internet to be licensed and inspected by the USDA. This is an effort to make it harder for puppy millers to sell puppies sight unseen but I wonder how this would affect hobby breeders.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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Is it the same message that you referenced earlier?
In that first article, it stated that any new regs would not apply to breeders with less than four females, and specifically referred to them as "hobby breeders".
Yet more regulations to control puppy mills when there isn't enough manpower to enforce the existing ones.
Missouri is the puppy mill capitol of the USA. Most of the bad ones aren't even registered kennels. How will this new wonder bill stop them? The inspectors are so streached out I'm sure scanning the net added to their work load will be welcomed with open arms. NOT!
IMHO, bad idea. Usually, 4 breeding females is defined by having 4 intact females over 6 months old. Regardless of whether or not the intention is to breed them. If you have 1 litter a year or 5 litters a year, it's all lumped together as being a "commercial breeder" IF you have 5 females. Unfortunately, most laws that try to "crack down" on poor breeders, only end up making it more difficult for the good ones while Millers and Unethical Back Yard Breeders continue to skirt the system.
For instance, if you have 5 intact females, raise a litter every 3-4 years and ship just one of those pups, this law applies to you. But if you have 5 intact females and breed each of them every heat yet sell all the pups locally, then you're exempt.
There are 10,000 sows in crates for every cockapoo bitch, and the suffering is no different, no less profound. Factory veal in corporate America is UNBELIEVABLE and in my opinion should be against the law.
A sow is no less social and no less smart than a dog.
What is needed in my opinion are people who KNOW making policy vs. people who think they know. Nothing wrong with farming, with raising animals to eat, and nothing wrong in my opinion with raising pups to bring warmth and joy to families, and making a profit off of that too.
What is wrong is profiting off of suffering. It's the suffering that needs to stop, not the raising and selling.
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Quote: Betty Landercasp
... What is needed in my opinion are people who KNOW making policy vs. people who think they know. .... What is wrong is profiting off of suffering. It's the suffering that needs to stop ....
We don't have an emoticon big enough to express my agreement.
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