Sentences with phrase «commercial breeders in»

Animal Folks has CVIs linking Har Mar Pet Store to large - scale commercial breeders in Minnesota and Iowa.

It keeps the funding for Operation Bark Alert — which has shut down nearly 500 commercial breeders in the past 2 years.

Earlier this week, Governor Jay Nixion held a press conference at the Humane Society of Missouri that announced that the state has officially dedicated $ 1.1 million for more state field inspectors, veterinarians and enforcement agents in order to crack down on poorly run commercial breeders in the state.

Citing puppy mills as «inhumane and unsanitary,» Florida's tourist mecca shut down the sale of dogs and cats from commercial breeders in May of this year.

The proposed law would otherwise require animal control to keep track of commercial breeders in their jurisdiction.

Ed Sayres, the president and chief executive of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said a majority of the commercial breeders in the raids that his group participated in had ties to A.K.C. - registered litters.

He gets 80 percent of his dogs from commercial breeders in Nebraska, 10 percent from breeders in Kansas and Oklahoma and 10 percent from two Colorado breeders, he said.

A bill to help crack down on puppy mills and the sale of puppies from commercial breeders in pet stores unanimously passed both the State Senate and House of Representatives.

The key is to inspect and close down the deplorable puppy mills, and educate commercial breeders in all facets of animal welfare and dog breeding.

Commercial breeders in all states who sell wholesale to pet stores are required to be regulated by the USDA.

Aloha Pet Shop issued a statement addressed to customers and neighbors, saying it had purchased dogs raised by commercial breeders in the past, but no longer does so, calling it «an unfortunate mistake we have learned from.

Since the launch of this program, more than 4,300 dogs have been rescued in across Missouri in 2009, resulting in an ever - decreasing number of commercial breeders in our state.

So far, over 59 cities and counties across the country have banned the sale of dogs and cats from large commercial breeders in pet shops.

My husband and I used her resiliency and forgiving nature as inspiration to find it within ourselves to build relationships with 200 commercial breeders in five states.

A pet store which bought its dogs from commercial breeders in other states sued and lost.

There are currently 825 state - licensed commercial breeders in Missouri.

Prop B will raise the bar on commercial breeders in the state that is home to an estimated 30 % of the nation's puppy mills.

During the investigation, the HSUS analyzed documents that at least 28 commercial breeders in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma have supplied Pets of Bel Air with puppies.

For comparison - Elkhart County in northern Indiana has 16 commercial breeders in just one county.

(Commercial breeders in Europe and elsewhere already supply many salamander species.)

Nearly 90 animals from a large commercial breeder in the Estrie region of Quebec are now safe thanks to the Quebec Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Humane Society International, and the Estrie SPA.

Rexwinkle is a USDA - licensed commercial breeder in Welch, Okla..

Harley, a 13 year old Chihuahua and an iconic figure in the social media world, spent 10 years as a commercial breeder in a puppy mill.

Not exact matches

At the May 19 meeting, activists and area pet owners again urged the three committee members to support a ban on sales from commercial breeders, citing inhumane conditions in puppy mills that can give pets lasting health problems.

Orland Park trustees are considering banning the sale of pets raised by commercial breeders, which critics call «puppy mills,» in village pet stores.

Strauss - Kahn was talking in Paris at a public hearing on Superphenix, the world's first commercial scale, fast - breeder reactor.

Purists like Smith and Moore see the quest for size as industry's deal with the devil: In return for bigger pop and bigger profits, commercial breeders now cultivate hybrids that are just bland sponges for other flavors.

Many problems boil down to unrealistic expectations within university technology transfer offices about the potential commercial value of new varieties, says Pat Hayes, a barley breeder at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

Meanwhile, the organisms themselves had begun to be packaged as commercial products: In 1941, the breeders at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine received a patent on their line of «JAX Mice» research animals; a year later, the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.&raquIn 1941, the breeders at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine received a patent on their line of «JAX Mice» research animals; a year later, the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.&raquin Maine received a patent on their line of «JAX Mice» research animals; a year later, the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.&raquin Philadelphia trademarked its own line of «WISTARATs.»

The 2011 Oklahoma legislative session started with a bang as animal advocates closely watched four pieces of senate legislation intended to repeal or seriously amend the Commercial Pet Breeders Act, or SB 1712, a law which passed last year in order to regulate Oklahoma's vast unlicensed puppy mill industry.

«Thousands of Americans have been misled into thinking their dogs were» rescued,» when in fact they were raised in high - quality, well - socialized circumstances like those illustrated in the Post's story and the Post's profile of one licensed commercial breeder,» said Bober.

The 2010 passage of the «puppy mill bill» placed the commercial pet breeder regulations under title 59 of the Oklahoma State Code in a section called Professions and Occupations, and the licensing compels breeders to collect and remit sales taxes to the state in a manner consistent with other retail businesses.

Please explain where in the act is a commercial pet breeder representative required.

An increasing number of local pet sale bans and a steady decline in the number of commercial breeders have undoubtedly decreased the supply of healthy, well - bred puppies available in the marketplace, and without some intervention, the trend shows no sign of slowing.

SB 637, a bill to disapprove the proposed rules of the Oklahoma Commercial Pet Breeders Board, passed in the Oklahoma senate on Wednesday by a margin of 29 to 13.

The term «hobbyist» refers to an individual or an organization who is not a commercial breeder but is (1) actively involved in any nationally recognized, organized animal sport or hobby for a period of at least one year prior to making application; or (2) participates in field trials, owns nationally - recognized breeds used specifically as hunting dogs, participates in hunting activities, has held (and continues to hold) a current valid Oklahoma hunting license and has held such license for at least one year prior to making application; or (3) qualifies as a «rescuer.»

In fact, if you remember last January, another ad created quite a stir when a puppy from a breeder was portrayed as a rescue dog in a Budweiser commerciaIn fact, if you remember last January, another ad created quite a stir when a puppy from a breeder was portrayed as a rescue dog in a Budweiser commerciain a Budweiser commercial.

Passed in 1966, the Animal Welfare Act states the following requirement, «Any breeder who has more than 3 breeding dogs, and sells puppies for commercial purposes, must have a license issued by the Department of Agriculture.»

This almost 70 page report contains information that those heavily involved in advocacy won't find surprising — it's what we've been trying to raise awareness about for years BUT... for those who have denied that dogs in large scale commercial breeding kennels ARE N'T neglected, aren't denied vet care and aren't suffering, we'll let's just say that we now have official confirmation that the facts, as we've presented them, are indeed true. This report reaffirms the dismal conditions the breeder dogs have now had to endure for DECADES.

Since 2009, over 1,400 pups a year have been shipped from commercial breeders and brokers located in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri.

In 2014, he supported legislation to prohibit pet stores from selling dogs who come from commercial breeders known as «puppy mills» — large facilities that mass - produce animals for sale.

In 2014, he supported legislation to prohibit pet stores from selling dogs who come from commercial breeders «puppy mills.»

The organization also raises money in order to attend commercial breeder auctions and purchase dogs to free them from the commercial breeding system.

Sheila Goffe, Vice President of Public Relations for the American Kennel Club, said in a statement released to the media that «Bill 485 blocks all of California's pet lovers from having access to professional, licensed, and ethical commercial breeders».

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After that, the Government warned that it was considering forcing commercial breeders to begin «programmes aimed at the eventual eradication of traits that cause unnecessary suffering in dogs.»

That means that even legal, USDA approved commercial breeders can (and usually are) forcing dogs to live in tiny, cramped cages, often stacked one on top of the other.

The federal law on what is a commercial breeder is set out in the Animal Welfare Act.

Some states require pet stores to post the names of the breeders in a visible location, such as on the dogs» cages, so consumers have additional information about where the puppies came from, and other large - scale commercial dog breeders sell directly to consumers over the Internet.

Commercial breeders frequently send litter lots of pups on consignment to middlemen who, in turn, sell them from their homes.