Sentences with phrase «at breeding operations»

Their joint annual letters to the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee have been remarkably effective — for example, more than tripling funding for the Animal Welfare Act (which requires basic standards of care for millions of animals at breeding operations, laboratories, zoos, and other facilities) from $ 9 million per year in the 1990s to $ 30.8 million in FY18, despite challenging budget constraints.

On a related note, as we reported earlier this year, in February, the USDA suddenly yanked from its website all information about the treatment of animals at breeding operations, zoos, research laboratories and other places where animal abuse commonly occurs.

A new campaign launched by media agency Rokkan and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is hoping to educate society that most puppies found at pet stores, or purchased online, are produced in so - called puppy mills and that the reality of the conditions found at these breeding operations is far from dog treats, sunshine and rainbows.

Not exact matches

In addition to its agriculture operations, Harris Farms is home to about 600 thoroughbred horses at any given time, making it one of the largest breeding and training operations in California.

Major pork producers like Smithfield Foods and Hormel have committed to stop using gestation crates at their company - owned breeding operations by 2017.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

Back at the Cabeza Prieta refuge with Atkinson, it's May; not the best time to visit the pronghorn breeding operation, though not as viciously hot as it will get in June.

Some small and very specialized breeding operations bred saddle horses for hunter and jumper competitions — these tended to be small - scale operations owned by wealthy private breeders who kept one or two horses at stud.

Puppy mills are dog breeding operations which provide substandard care at best.

The AVMA has drafted model legislation that, if enacted, would actually improve the welfare of dogs at breeding facilities, animal shelters, retail pet stores and other types of operations,» said Dr. Ron Dehaven, the AVMA's chief executive officer.

However, when you take a good look at what the animals in a breeding operation are put through, especially the females, there's no justification for this what - so - ever, in my opinion.

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First, voters passed Proposition B — aimed at more closely regulating the sort of big dog breeding operations that had earned Missouri the nickname of the puppy mill state.

While consumers may hope that the puppies who were purchased at a retail store, or online, came from safe, loving and humane environments, the sad reality is that many came from breeding operations where puppies are nothing more than a product to sell — a source of income, not a life worthy of love and care.

MONTREAL — Humane Society International / Canada is pleased to announce that more than 600 dogs and puppies, rescued from inhumane conditions at Canada's largest commercial dog breeding operation, have been adopted or are in the process of being adopted.

MONTREAL — Humane Society International / Canada welcomes the settlement reached today at Campbell's Bay courthouse in western Quebec, which granted legal custody of more than 600 severely neglected dogs and puppies to ANIMA - Québec following their rescue from the largest commercial breeding operation in Canada.

The Delegate to the American Kennel Club shall represent the Club at meetings of the American Kennel Club and shall report to the Board of Directors and to the membership on all matters before the American Kennel Club which affect the breeding and showing of Old English Sheepdogs and the operation of local or national specialty clubs.

Large commercial - breeding operations and pet stores can achieve efficient sanitation this way, but it's at the expense of the puppy's preparation to become a dog in a human household.

If your puppies are of the breed that needs to have their claws cut or tail docked, must undergo these operation while at age of 2 - 5 days.

The ASPCA said the facility is a puppy mill — a large - scale breeding operation designed to generate profits at the cost of the animals» health and well - being.

Although Maryland state law already prohibits the sale of dogs and cats bred by illegal «puppy mills,» it does not ban the retail sale of animals bred at large - scale commercial breeding facilities which, many will argue, are merely federally inspected, legal puppy mill operations.

We soon realized, however, that despite the deplorable conditions in puppy mills and periodic exposés (even Oprah did one), legislators at the state and federal level were reluctant to pass meaningful legislation to improve the conditions of commercial breeding operations because puppy mills fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and their state equivalents, and dogs in puppy mills are considered to be livestock, and animal welfare of any stripe is a much harder sell in those circles than it should be, sadly.

Per USDA: This increase «will allow APHIS to better concentrate its resources on ensuring the welfare of animals at larger breeding operations.

Springboarding off the public awareness and outrage generated by these and other Virginia puppy mill exposés, the following year we worked closely with Teresa Dockery, who at the time was the chief operating officer of the Margaret B. Mitchell Spay / Neuter Clinic in Bristol, Virginia, to help pass a state law that tightened up commercial breeding operations and empowered local animal control officers to enforce the new codes.

«The federal law regarding the care of dogs at commercial dog - breeding operations is grossly overdue for reform, and this legislation will correct some of the worst gaps and deficiencies in current law.»

On April 25, Sternberg presented her shelter dog program at the Humane Society of Indianapolis, Indiana, for about 50 people involved in shelter operations and breed rescue.

He had at least two accomplices, Ms.. A and Ms. B, who knowingly conspired to supply him with dogs through their bogus breed rescue operation.

 Report all cruel, inhumane treatment you observe at a commercial dog or other pet breeding operation (aka puppy mills and other pet mills) and potential violations of regulations governing commercial dog or other pet breeders.

During the 2012 Michigan Humane Lobby Day, more than 75 citizens from across Michigan met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to pass legislation to ban the euthanasia of shelter animals by gas chamber, increase protections for dogs at large scale breeding operations, and to increase protections for consumers who purchase sick animals from pet stores and puppy mills.

Before the federal Animal Welfare Act and the AKC Care and Conditions Program were initiated, there were significantly more substandard breeding operations than there are today, so the activism aimed at cleaning them up was reasonable and even helpful at the time.

The state has a stringent Ag Gag bill that prohibits anyone who is not law enforcement from taking photos at farms and breeding operations without permission.

In recent years, the HSI Animal Rescue Team has assisted the Quebec government in rescuing more than 1,000 dogs from inhumane conditions at commercial breeding operations and from neglect situations throughout the province.

 Report all cruel, inhumane treatment you observe at a commercial dog breeding operation and potential violations of regulations governing commercial dog breeders.

We are horrified by the inhumane treatment of dogs at illegal, unregulated breeding operations.

At Joette Peterson's South Dakota breeding operation, puppies were found with no protection from the cold.

Getting hired at puppy mills is notoriously hard (if owners are willing to pay anyone to help care for the dogs, they tend to choose family members), so Carlson did a series of what Sweetland calls «hit - and - runs» — where investigators show up at commercial breeding operations in rural areas and talk their way into a tour of the facility.

HSI Canada announced that more than 600 dogs and puppies, rescued from inhumane conditions at Canada's largest commercial dog breeding operation, had been adopted or were in the process of being adopted.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday abruptly removed inspection reports and other information from its website that keeps tabs on the treatment of animals at research laboratories, zoos, dog breeding operations and other facilities.

The searchable database allowed anyone to check government regulation of how animals are treated at about 9,000 zoos, circuses, research laboratories, dog breeding operations and other facilities.

De Cango is a working vegetable seed farm and game breeding operation situated 23 km outside Oudtshoorn at the base of the Swartberg Mountains.

When 59 puppies and adult dogs were rescued by the BCSPCA from a disreputable breeding operation, Sharon Lanser and the team at Sutton Group Seafair Realty stepped up with funding and opened their homes.