Sentences with phrase «mill puppies in»

Today, Maryland became the second state in the nation to prohibit the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores.

If you are buying your puppy from a place like Petland (one of the biggest distributors of puppy mill puppies in the U.S.) chances are it won't be the healthiest dog regardless of what breed it is, but the mixes will be less prone to common genetic disorders.

I lived in this town 25 years ago and Petland was run out of Malls, etc... from lawsuits over puppy mill puppies in their stores.

Not exact matches

Responsible for saving and rehabilitating thousands of animals each year, The HSUS and its global arm Humane Society International travel across the country and the globe to help animals in need from puppy mills, dogfighting, neglect and natural disasters.

Truth is, if a good Samaritan hadn't found a Craigslist ad posted in Texas, by a puppy mill breeder then he wouldn't be with us today.

GoDaddy pulled an advertisement that was set to air during Super Bowl 49 amid criticism that the commercial found humor in puppy mills.

Orland Park began considering the issue after the Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board of Commissioners banned the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from large - scale breeders earlier this year in an attempt to keep pet stores from selling animals raised in puppy mills.

While a majority spoke in support of stricter regulations for pet shops, Debbie Boronda, a customer of the only Orland Park business that would be affected by any new rules said the shop, Happiness is Pets, is «a victim of a broken system that allows puppy mills,» arguing a ban on sales wouldn't address the root of the problem, the mills themselves.

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.

A few minutes on this puppy mill page, and impressionable dope - addled American youth will be off in a jiffy to some left - wing animal - rights re-education camp in the middle of Oregon, next to be seen launching lightning commando strikes on science labs and pet stores across the country.

The punishment for leaving a dog out in the freezing cold to potentially die should be beyond a mere slap on the wrist, pay your fine and go back to your puppy mill to extract more blood money.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) and Senator Greg Ball (R,C,I - Patterson) today called for tough new legislation to protect our companion animals from being left outside in the freezing cold all day and night like what was occurring in the puppy mill in the town of Sprakers in Montgomery County.

Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of animal advocates, the Governor has signed into law legislation (A. 740A / S3753A) to enable local governments to stop puppy mills and pet dealers like the one in Sprakers that are operating in immoral and unethical ways.

Legislators who co-sponsor annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day announce strong new legislation to prevent puppy mills like the one in Montgomery County from leaving dogs out in extreme cold where they could face death; Tedisco and Ball also announce that 4th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day will be held in Albany on May 28, 2014

«With thousands of good animals in need of homes, there is no need for notorious puppy mills to supply pet stores,» Gianaris said in a statement.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Pet stores in New York state would be prohibited from buying dogs or cats from puppy mills and other large commercial breeding facilities under a legislative proposal announced Thursday.

Assembly Member Linda B. Rosenthal said, «Today represents a watershed moment for animal protection in New York State now that my bill A.740 - A, also known as the «puppy mill bill,» has become law.

With this new authority in hand, municipalities from Buffalo to New York City, the North Country to Long Island will be able to pass tough new laws to crack down on puppy mills and bad breeders who place profit above the health and safety of animals.

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Much like a law passed by the village of Mamaroneck in 2016, the bill, introduced to state lawmakers by Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Democrat, on Feb. 15, would ban retail pet stores from buying their pets at for - profit breeders with the hope of curtailing the operation of «puppy mills,» mass breeders with a reputation of over-breeding and treating pets inhumanely.

Puppy mills are like dog - making factories, with the mother dogs spending their entire lives in cramped cages or kennels with little or no personal attention or quality of life.

No longer a stray, he is born a purebred Golden Retriever in a puppy mill with a whole new set of problems.

The puppy mill issue remains in the headlines in Oklahoma, and although they are covered under breeder regulations passed in 2010, high - volume kitten producers are rarely mentioned.

In fact, those sales lined the pockets of some of the same breeders that rescue advocates vilify as «puppy mills.»

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.

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.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

Caroline Nolan said, «I wish that everybody could see the conditions that puppy mill dogs are in.»

By working with several city councils in our region, San Diego Humane Society recently helped pass legislation banning local pet stores and other commercial businesses from selling dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, and rabbits that are obtained from puppy mill farms, commercial catteries, and other large breeding establishments.

As a constituent, I'm calling to ask you to pass S.B. 1712 to protect dogs in Oklahoma puppy mills.»

They work to drive transformational change in the U.S. and around the world by combating large - scale cruelties such as puppy mills, animal fighting, factory farming, seal slaughter, horse cruelty, captive hunts and the wildlife trade.

As consumers become more aware of the conditions in puppy mills and the congenital health problems of the puppies, the more people turn elsewhere for a dog.

* The ever increasing calls for help in transporting dogs from puppy mills throughout the area.

My foster dogs are a pair of 4 - yearold Dalmatians that were rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri and have no concept of life as a companion animal.

The paper reviews the findings of multiple studies involving dogs born in high - volume commercial breeding establishments — commonly known as puppy mills — and sold to the consumer directly via the Internet, or indirectly through retail pet stores.

Both came from a puppy mill in Missouri.

Nuala was rescued in December 2009 from a puppy mill auction, where she and her 5 five week old pups were being auctioned off.

Chuck Lowery, a Democrat, won the highly contested seat, and although he didn't make it the central issue of his candidacy, he did put out a 60 - second campaign piece after the candidates» forum back in September contrasting his position on «Missouri puppy mills» with that of Felien.

• Growing awareness of puppy mills has prompted a downturn in puppy sales.

The terrible conditions in the puppy mill from which he was rescued, the care he was given in the shelter and the final happy outcome of being adopted into a loving family and given a new life, became the inspiration for an illustrated booklet, «Winston's Tail».

SB 637's unstated goal is to close the doors of the new agency and to allow puppy mills to remain unregulated in Oklahoma.

This also helps break the supply chain, in the hopes of shutting down puppy and kitten mills entirely and stopping the cruelty cycle.

Behaviorists tell us it takes two years for every year in a puppy mill to rehabilitate a dog.

The dogs had been trucked in from four different puppy mills.

Tara Beres, Director of Safe Haven Center in Midwest City, has assisted in the rescue of puppy mill dogs for the past two years.

Saving puppy mills will not create economic development in southern Oklahoma, and defending animal cruelty is not protecting the constitution.

At the puppy mill auction, on the other hand, I was completely alone in my shock and disgust.

The Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) has actively supported puppy mill regulations since 2007, and early in the 2010 session the OVMA executive committee voiced their support.

That puts us right up there with our puppy mill problem, where we are second in the nation.