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October 05, 2011 12:27 AM UTC
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Dear Ms. Cronk,
You must sign every damn liberal petition on the internet….
And Pols has already promoted the puppy diary.
I need a quicker trigger finger if I’m going to keep my rep as Nancy’s puppy protection second in command around here!
On topic–KUDOS to Udall. He is taking a bigger risk than some may think here as there are quite a few organizations determined to paint this legislation as the HSUS “taking away your dogs” to incense property rights advocates and get the Tea Party contingent fired up. Many dog breeders (even some of the ones who don’t abuse their dogs, oddly enough) are right wing and very outspokenly opposed to regulation of dog breeding. I was once blocked from a dog-related Yahoo! group because I started responding to the moderator’s forwarding of tea party emails to the group by sending back the relevant Snopes.com link.
Ok. First of all, the bill’s acronym is too cute by half. PUPS, really? Something like POOPS or CHEWS MY COUCH would’ve been more appropriate.
Secondly, puppy uniform protection? Not even needed nor necessary. I don’t know any puppies in uniform except maybe those wanting to be K9 dogs some day.
Senator Udall, don’t waste your time on this. Puppies will not appreciate this overreach of government into regulating their uniform safety. The puppies will take the bill, chew it up, swallow it, barf up half of it and poop out the other half (not on the newspaper, mind you).
Vote no.
I think I see Nancy with a tomato!
That every state doesn’t already have laws to this effect and it requires federal action. Major kudos to Udall on this but major downvotes to the states that have left this open.
I SPY A REDDITOR
Thanks for posting this. I called Udall’s office and also sent him an email. In my line of work, I see far too many puppy mill dogs and the devastation and long term behavioral effects those places have on these dogs.
Thanks for your efforts to stop animal cruelty, as well!
adopted puppy mill regs this year. Several lawsuits attacking the legislation have been filed. I have never seen a puppy mill though I know of folks who breed pups for money. I’ve seen some deplorable conditions around these places where people have dogs for other than being their ‘best friend’. I think the threshold of 50 is way too high. It should probably be low enough, like 5, to remove much of the profit incentive. I have a lot more respect for folks who make booze or grow pot.
If you have 3 or 4 females that you breed, litter size varies but is usually 6 to 8 puppies. If you just breed each of the females once a year, you hit 50 pretty quick and I know some very reputable breeders that focus on both temperament and making sure they are breeding to reduce hip problems, cancer, et al. They easily hit that number in less than a year. These folks are working overtime to improve the breed’s physical health or temperament for the love of the breed, not for profit.
The problem is puppy mills are not breeders–they are literally animal factories designed to produce as many puppies to sell in as short of time as possible. They breed their females more than once a year–they breed them every time they come in heat. They don’t keep records so they cross breed which leads to genetic deficiencies and health issues due to inbreeding.
Worse, you see aggression issues that are also genetic. It’s why so many puppies purchased from pet stores end up with severe physical or behavior issues and end up being euthanized down the road.
Puppy mill owners keep the breeding dogs as well as the puppies caged to the point that some dogs are permanently hunched over due to living in a crate that is smaller than they are. They literally cannot turn around inside the crate. They urinate and defecate through the bottom of the cage and often stand in their own feces. There are no exercise pens. There are no vaccinations given.
If there is one thing I can stress here, it is this–never, EVER, buy a pet from a pet store. You may feel you are saving the pet’s life but what you are doing is opening up a space for another puppy mill dog to fill the gap left by your purchase.
I’m actually going to bookmark this for when I have this argument with breeders who don’t understand that there’s a difference between wanting to put breeders out of business and wanting to put puppy mills out of business.
My pooch is the product of a hoarding situation–he is, knock wood, physically and behaviorally healthy except for that he thinks he’s a human and occasionally aggresses toward rambunctious dogs when he’s on leash, which is fairly normal for his breed and also relates to my decision to wait until 3 to neuter him, and has improved a great deal with training. But other dogs rescued from the same hoarder had issues including one complete hermaphroditic dog that had to be both spayed AND neutered!
Anytime. I just appreciate you caring about the problem.
I’ve never been in the biz so my knowledge is much less than yours. so, clarification is helpful. I have 3 hounds, they have me. Mine were all resuced from our local shelter and I’ve always gotten my companions that way or from a friend that had a ltter. Keeping up with 3 is pretty tough. But, they seem pretty happy with me and our cat.
All rescued in one way or another. I love that you got all of yours from the shelter. I foster care for our local humane society and there are some absolutely fabulous dogs and cats out there that for a variety of reasons end up for adoption and desperately need a good home.
And yeah, all of my clan totally have me. 🙂