Sentences with phrase «longest dog in the cage»

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Recognizing that under USDA regulations an average Chihuahua could spend its life in a two - foot wide by two - foot long cage, and that exercise time would be virtually impossible to enforce, the new law empowers the governing board to establish rules which increase cage size to make dogs more comfortable in their primary enclosure.

Do your best to determine if the dog was kept for long periods of time in a cage where it was forced to urinate and defecate where it sleeps.

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

In many cases, the dogs used for breeding in puppy mills are kept in cramped cages and forced to produce litter after litter for as long as they livIn many cases, the dogs used for breeding in puppy mills are kept in cramped cages and forced to produce litter after litter for as long as they livin puppy mills are kept in cramped cages and forced to produce litter after litter for as long as they livin cramped cages and forced to produce litter after litter for as long as they live.

Shocking as it is, this practice is not illegal — the Humane Society mentions that «in most states, a breeding kennel can legally keep dozens, even hundreds, of dogs in cages for their entire lives, as long as the dogs are given the basics of food, water, and shelter.»

For example, the USDA requires that the cage only has to be six inches longer than the dog itself, so you're talking about that dog living in that cage for its entire life.»

Such dog crate training problems can also be avoided by ensuring that the dog is not confined in the cage for far too long.

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.

After spending 12 long years in a cage, a dog named Lizzy walked on grass for the first time last month.

Dogs raised in puppy mills or kept confined in small cages for long periods of time also can be difficult to housebreak.

But, as long as pet shops are permitted to sell dogs, «puppy mill» dogs will suffer horrible pain & miserable lives in a cage without ever placing their wire sore paws on the ground, without vet care, without socialization, with no love, human companionship, and no way out.

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.

The mother of these puppies, will spend her entire life in a tiny cage, never being pet, walked or even treated like a dog and then killed when she can no longer produce.

If we lock a dog in a cage for the day while we go off to work or keep him chained in the yard for long periods of time, we are not respecting his needs.

The authorities take too long to act and often don't act at all because the dogs have food, water and shelter — even if that shelter is a shed or cage they live in for years.

These dogs have lived their life in a cage producing litter after litter of puppies and are «disposable» to the miller if they are no longer producing puppies.

A test is now available to identify carriers of the disease.Although it is commonly referred to as «dwarf» dogs in the USA, it involves much more than short stature - in addition to stunted growth, affected dogs often exhibit misshapen limbs, shortened and bent long bones, enlarged joints, extended hind limbs flattening of the rib cage.

Puppy Mills, if you do not know the term yet, define a commercial group of breeders who confine hundreds of dogs in cages for the sole purpose of breeding them for profit until they are no longer useful.

The lives of dogs used for breeding in puppy mills are rough; they're bred again and again, often living their entire lives in cages until they're killed when they're no longer useful.

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.»

July 29 — 1 rooster, misidentified as a hen after being attacked by a dog July 27 — 1 rooster, dumped in neighborhood and rescued July 15 — 1 duck, 1 rooster abandoned at shelter July 3 — 2,000 hens from a battery cage farm June 28 — 1 rooster, dropped off at shelter after being saved from a ritual slaughter June 27 — 1 goat saved from slaughter June 14 — 1 rooster, found abandoned at a park May 13 — 1 goat from a local shelter April 19 — 4 king pigeons from a shelter April 12 — 1,000 hens from a pasture - based egg farm March 31 — 8 hens from a private home March 18: 2 hens from a private home March 9 — 14 hens from a private home March 7 — 1 naked neck hen, eventually transferred to Grass Valley permanent sancuary March 7 — 1 potbellied pig from a shelter, dropped off because guardian could no longer care for

USDA standards require only that dogs» cages be 6 inches longer than the dog, and allow puppy mills to keep dogs in those tiny cages, stacked on top of each other, their entire lives.

Some rescue dogs may have been heavily crated in the first home; some may have spent a long time in a rescue caged for long periods.

Similarly, long - term housing of individual dogs and cats in cages without access to exercise or social activities is not an acceptable alternative.

In most states, large - scale breeding operations can legally keep hundreds of dogs in cages for their entire lives for the sake of selling puppies, as long as the animals have basic food, water and shelteIn most states, large - scale breeding operations can legally keep hundreds of dogs in cages for their entire lives for the sake of selling puppies, as long as the animals have basic food, water and sheltein cages for their entire lives for the sake of selling puppies, as long as the animals have basic food, water and shelter.

This is a very long time for any dog to live in a cage.

Written over three decades ago, USDA regulations mandate that a breeding female dog have a cage at least six inches longer than the dog herself and that she be able to stand up and lie down in it.

In 2008, as meetings between animal welfare advocates and breeders convened, Mason and others argued against instituting regulations based on these minimal USDA standards, arguing against a cage size at least six inches longer than the dog.

A dog spinning in circles in a tiny cage 24 - 7 would not trigger a USDA violation as long as that dog appears outwardly healthy and the cage is at least 6 inches taller that the dogs» head and 6 inches wider and longer than the dog measures from nosetip to tail BASE.