Sentences with phrase «at commercial breeding operations»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.»

 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.

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

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.