Sentences with phrase «puppy mill businesses»

Roscoe Village Animal Hospital supports the well being of animal welfare and organizations who work diligently to stop puppy mill businesses.

This Tuesday, Missouri voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not to put a major crimp in the puppy mill business.

We wanted to put an end to the whole sordid puppy mill business, and we soon realized that our most receptive audience and effective point of pressure would be at the point of sale — those well - meaning consumers who drive the demand for mill - bred pets by purchasing them in pet stores.

«It better protects pets and it discourages the puppy mill business, which, I think, is self - evident cruelty,» council member Karl Nurse said.

She added education alone won't change the puppy mill business model.

The calculated abuse of innocence that is embodied in the puppy mill business is an offense that needs to end.

Not exact matches

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.

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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.

Deborah Howard, President of CAPS, a Massachusetts based organization dedicated to halting puppy mills, said, «Puppy mills operate like a business, except instead of car parts or shampoo, the «goods» are puppies to be sold to consupuppy mills, said, «Puppy mills operate like a business, except instead of car parts or shampoo, the «goods» are puppies to be sold to consuPuppy mills operate like a business, except instead of car parts or shampoo, the «goods» are puppies to be sold to consumers.

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.

While you may think buying a puppy mill pet is saving an animal, it is only encouraging these mills to stay in business by keeping up the demand for their product.

The public is learning about puppy mills and eventually they will go out of business.

I respectfully request that you do not allow this «fast - tracked» bill initiated by special interest groups to circumvent the will of voters who overwhelmingly support pet stores like Mutts & Co. and Pet Valu who make an enduring commitment to end the «puppy mill to pet store» supply chain in their business operations.»

Okay, if a pet store gets caught buying from a puppy mill THREE times, shouldn't they be forced out of business?

Rescue is not a for profit business and should not be treated as such, if people rescue dogs thinking they can make money on them what makes them any different than puppy mill stores, they just source their pets from shelters.

Like most businesses looking to make a profit, puppy mills treat their charges like products.

Inside are descriptions of 100 breeders that HSUS describes as «puppy mills,» including some breeders who also have been listed in previous years» reports for similar ways of doing business, and who it appears have not changed their ways.

We have now become ground zero in the battle between puppy mills and the advocates who want to shut down their business.

Thorse Dog Rescue also educates visitors about crucial animal welfare issues such as pet overpopulation and puppy mills and are currently setting up programs to speak at schools and businesses about these issues.

There are few regulations, failures usually go unnnoticed and undocumented, punishments are few and weak, and USDA workers have long been public about allowing the worst animal cruelty and helping puppy mill owners stay in business and keep abusing animals and defrauding customers with sick and genetically defective dogs.

A puppy mills is a commercial business, the kennels are usually overcrowded and there is little or no attention for the puppies needs.

If the puppies being sold are from puppy mills, which often turn out sick animals, and the sellers are losing money because of this, the puppy mill faces losing the business, which means less profit, which makes selling puppies less attractive, which makes everyone much happier!

This «Shelter» does not open on Saturdays or Sundays (a death sentence) and the town is run and more or less owned by «Mr. Hunt» who owns «PETLAND» (they keep the puppy mills in business, folks).

That means that 67 Chicago businesses — 12 of them pet stores — are participating in the puppy mill trade — and you may not even know it: «Again and again, salespeople denied that their puppies came from puppy mills, and most did not comply with a law passed in 2010 by the State requiring pet shops to post in a conspicuous place in writing on or near the cage of any dog or cat available for sale the information required by subsection (a) of this section.

I hope the issue that gets addressed is the puppy mill one, and the store doesn't just magically go back to business - as - usual once the permit fee is paid.

Puppy mills will stay in business as long as the public keeps buying puppies, so the only way to send the cycle of cruelty is to stop buying from pet stores.

Over the last months and years, we have published numerous articles on how much we hate unethical dog breeding (let alone puppy mills) and that the word business in breeding business simply means exchange of money for a dog which as far as I know, everybody does.

Puppy mills are a huge business and like every other large business, they are represented by trade associations such as PIJAC, large pet store chains and other monied groups.

«This bill will simultaneously decrease the demand for animals bred in puppy mills and kitten mills, and increase the demand for animals from shelters and rescue organizations,» Assemblymember O'Donnell told the Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

Make the cause accessible to more people and help them better understand its connection to them, so informed consumers no longer buy puppy mill puppies nor support businesses that do.

Some online kennels are actually puppy mills too, so do your research before doing business with an online kennel.

These are the people who keep cruel puppy mills in business.

Jeffrey Fausett, who purchased the Petland in July, said he does not buy from puppy mills, and met breeders in Missouri, Indiana and Oklahoma to ensure the businesses operate humanely.

«I'm hoping to drive out of business those puppy mills that don't provide exercise areas, that don't provide access to outdoors, that don't provide large enough enclosures.»

But it won't put those puppy mills, or unethical breeders, out of business.

The Problem With Puppy Mills Hundreds of «breeders» have gone out of business thanks to changes in the laws governing commercial breeders - some 1,200 puppy mills, in Puppy Mills Hundreds of «breeders» have gone out of business thanks to changes in the laws governing commercial breeders - some 1,200 puppy mills, in puppy mills, in fact.

The goal of the ordinance is not to target responsible breeders, just commercial breeding operations, i.e. puppy mills, who distribute through pet stores and commercial businesses, said Weitzman.

«Because at the end of the day, we believe we can have a great ordinance that can ensure that puppy mills are put out of business but allow reputable companies like Petland to operate.»

Never allow my stud dog to be bred to any bitch whose owner is known at the time to be directly or indirectly involved with any puppy broker, puppy mill, pet shop selling dogs, litter lot sales, or any other wholesale distributor whose business is involved in like activities.

AVENEL — A state senator has filed a bill that would crack down on the sale of pets from large - scale breeders in an effort to put so - called puppy and kitten mills out of business.

«AVENEL, NJ — A state senator has filed a bill that would crack down on the sale of pets from large - scale breeders in an effort to put so - called puppy and kitten mills out of business.»

D. Breeder must be prepared to ensure to the best of their ability that no stud dog or brood bitch owned by them is bred to any dog or bitch whose owner is directly or indirectly involved with any dog broker, puppy mill, pet shop that retails dogs, auctions, litter lot sales, or any other commercial enterprise whose business is involved in these activities.

Last week, the HSUS came this close ««to selling out the hard work of those fighting against puppy mills by working a backroom deal that would have allowed pet stores in the state to continue to do business as usual.

Because many puppy mills observe such poor management conditions, even the modest and common sense standards set by SB 437 will push some of the worst operators out of business — or out of state — and will raise the cost of puppies to distributors, retailers and buyers.

Puppy mills are a bad idea that can only survive as a business model because they operate behind the scenes and far from the public eye.

Bailing Out Benji is an advocacy and educational organization that deals specifically with educating the public about the pet store connection to puppy mills and why it is so critically important to not support the pet store puppy business model.

«A change in consumer behaviors is what will put puppy stores out of business, but we also have to educate about the surge of online websites that are selling mill dogs with pretty homepages and similar claims of «we sell puppies from reputable breeders,»» she says.

Let's put these puppy mills out of business by shutting down the illegal operators.

By teaching consumers NOT TO SUPPORT PET SHOPS THAT SELL PUPPIES, it sends a message to the cruel & heartless puppy mills they are going to be forced out of business when the day comes that EVERY CONSUMER WISES UP and tells puppy mills to go to hell.