Sentences with phrase «mill states due»

is now the leading puppy mill states due to the high number of backyard breeders and puppy farmers who have found it more profitable to raise puppies than chickens.

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The Pet Quality Assurance Act, or the «puppy mill bill,» House Bill 1332, and House Bill 1045, a bill which would have allowed low - population counties to operate a shelter and pass animal control ordinances, would have combined to help the most voiceless of all companion animals in our state; dogs in unlicensed dog dealing facilities and unwanted animals facing abandonment due to the absence of shelters.

Lewis & Clark Humane Society, The Humane Society of the United States and Jefferson County attorney Matthew Johnson issued the following statements in response to the sentence of Mike Chilinski, who was convicted of animal cruelty due to inhumane conditions at his puppy mill.

So... the reason that over four million companion animals are euthanized in the United States every year is due to a lack of «marketing» rather than inadequate and insufficient regulations of puppy mills and breeders?

The Commonwealth of Virginia had just created a position, advertised as an animal welfare position, for a veterinarian to specifically address puppy mills and animal fighting in the state due to recent undercover puppy mill investigations and a highly publicized dog fighting case.

With a new report from Europe's leading background screening company revealing a 48 percent increase worldwide in the number of known diploma mills in the past year, some U.S. states have stepped up the fight against diploma mills defined in the report as «largely online entities whose degrees are worthless due to the lack of valid accreditation and recognition.»

As reported earlier on the ESR News blog, so - called diploma mills — defined as «largely online entities whose degrees are worthless due to the lack of valid accreditation and recognition» — are a growing problem in both the United States and worldwide.