Sentences with phrase «floor in wire cages»

My father Bill Bright, who owns The Fish Nook Pet Center in Acton, Mass., has always kept birds out on the floor in wire cages where customers can have direct access to them.

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Many of the smaller dogs were in wire «rabbit cages,» raised off the ground and floored with wire mesh to allow waste to fall through.

Puppies born in puppy mills are usually removed from their mothers at just six weeks of age, denying them critical socialization, and housed in overcrowded and unsanitary wire - floored cages, without adequate veterinary care, food or water.

U.S. federal law under the Animal Welfare Act allows breeders to keep animals in cages with wire flooring that are stacked on top of each other.

Sore Hocks (Hutch Sores): Sore Hocks are infected and ulcerated wounds on the underside of the feet that result most often from over exposure to wire flooring on cages or lack of movement from living in a small enclosure.

The animals kept by these businesses generally live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions — sometimes in wire - floored cages stacked in tall columns — without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization.

USDA, zoning and undercover photos from The Family Puppy's dog breeding kennels show surgical rooms and instruments, electric fencing, matted fur, puppies in small cages, accumulation of grim and feces, wire floors, no shade, rusted cages, chewed surfaces, and limited space.

«Under the old Missouri law, dogs can be kept in wire - floored cages just six inches longer than their bodies.

A commercial dog breeder would be prohibited from housing a dog in a cage containing a wire floor unless there is some way the dog can be off the wire floor. A cage must be «large enough to allow for reasonable movement by the dog».

In a puppy mill, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked in columnIn a puppy mill, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked in columnin cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked in columnin columns.

For example, a dog can be kept for his entire life in a tiny, wire - floored cage that's stacked upon other cages and only six inches longer than he is in each direction.

Key provisions that went into effect in October required large - scale breeders to double cage sizes, eliminate wire flooring, and provide unfettered access to the outdoors.

The dogs housed in the state's commercial breeding operations typically spend their lives in tiny, cramped, wire - floored cages that are stacked on top of each other, often outdoors, with no protection from the elements.

To obtain a urine sample, put the rabbit in a small cage with a wire floor and no litterbox, resting board, or hay.

Dogs may end up sleeping on cold, hard cement floors; cats may end up confined in wire cages.

the «Missouri Solution» (compromise law signed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, April 2011, after repealing Proposition B) No wire flooring for new enclosures in 2016, existing wire flooring permitted to remain indefinitely; No limit on number of breeding females; No restriction on cage height; No restrictions on how often females are impregnated; Larger enclosures in 2016.

It's unfortunate but true that large - scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs bred continuously to exhaustion.»

If you have a wire cage and want to avoid your floor getting too messy from the flying substrate, cut down a cardboard box, which the cage can comfortably sit in (with a few centimetres of clearance around the sides), so that it's sides are not higher than 10 cm, and place it in that.

While having multiple levels in a wire or modular plastic cage is beneficial, your hamster will still need a sufficient amount of floor space, and there should be at least one large compartment for exercise in addition to a separate compartment for nesting.

Dogs at puppy mills typically receive little to no medical care; live in squalid conditions with no exercise, socialization or human interaction; and are confined inside cramped wire - floored cages for life.

Under the federal Animal Welfare Act, it is completely legal to keep a dog in a cage only six inches longer than the dog in each direction, with a wire floor, stacked on top of another cage, for the dog's entire life.

To minimize waste cleanup, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns.

All puppies are kept in cages with wire flooring and many of the small dogs feet slip through.

This proposal will include amendments to regulations that will triple minimum cage sizes, clarify that the sizes must be increased if more than one dogs is put in a cage, ban the use of wire flooring of any kind, restructure the enforcement of Pennsylvania kennels laws to require dog wardens to be law enforcement professionals, and to use a $ 15 million Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement budget surplus to make sure the job gets done right.

Some of the USDA breeders» documented violations included: puppies caged outside in freezing weather; sick or injured dogs who hadn't been seen by a vet; puppies caged on wire flooring with spaces wide enough for their legs to pass through the wire and become entrapped; inadequate sanitation, rusty cages in disrepair; severely matted or underweight dogs; improper medications on hand to treat or prevent disease; and outdoor runs without shelters large enough for the dogs to escape the sun, wind, or rain.

The breeding «stock» suffers a constant misery living in small hutch - style cages with wire floors.

Non-stop video images showed dogs in cramped and crowded quarters, turning exercise wheels like caged gerbils, wallowing in mud, suffering from untreated illnesses and injuries, being unable to walk on solid ground after a lifetime on wire floors, showing fear of people, and victimized by having pipes rammed down their throats to destroy their vocal chords to stop barking.

As the ASPCA notes, it's still entirely legal «to keep a dog in a cage only 6 inches longer than the dog in each direction, with a wire floor, stacked on top of another cage, for the dog's entire life.»

Havens kept his puppies in wire - floored cages, an inspector noted, where their paws slipped through the openings and became injured and infected.

Lantz said he spent more than $ 10,000 to modernize his kennel and now the state is ordering him to remove cages put in new flooring (the wire is illegal) and expand his kennel again to accommodate outdoor exercise.

«Puppy mills house breeding dogs in small, wire - floored cages, separate puppies from their mothers at a very young age, and ship them hundreds of miles to pet stores around the country,» says Matt Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA.

331 adult breeding dogs with a history of violations including: cages with holes in wire flooring that are too wide and paws / bodies fall through, top of enclosures covered in hair and wood shaving dust (breeder reported that area is cleaned twice a year), and an «abundance of litters» caused puppies to be housed in feed / bedding storage areas.

In Louisiana, the A.K.C. opposed a bill that would have prevented the stacking of wire - floored cages.

Jessie L. Smith, special deputy secretary, Dog Law Enforcement, said, «Under current law, a kennel owner can choose to confine dogs in small, stacked, wire - floored cages with no heat, no opportunity for exercise, and no routine medical care.

The outdated law governing commercial dog breeding facilities in Kansas does not require regular veterinary exams for dogs and allows unlimited numbers of dogs to be warehoused in stacked, wire - floored cages, which lead to unsanitary conditions, overcrowding and disease.

They are lucky if the wire floors of their cages where they lay all day are not covered in feces, rotten food and garbage.

In two of the trailers, the heaters ran temporarily out of fuel.The cages had wire floors with no resting boards.

It is a very different law from the original bill, however. In the end the dogs will have bigger cages that can't be stacked, twice a year veterinary exams, if enforced; maybe some form of exercise, and flooring that is not all wire though not solid either.

These cages in which the breeding female spends her entire life, and the puppies» first several weeks of life, are floored with wire mesh to facilitate waste removal and cleanup without regard for the health and wellbeing of either the puppies or their mother. Â

If rabbits are housed in a cage with a wire floor, they need to be provided with a solid area to sit on.