Sentences with phrase «small commercial breeders»

They can be large or small commercial breeders or home breeders producing an occasional litter for pocket money.

Not exact matches

Even this very small promise, which he could have easily kept, he did not, and instead opted to get a dog from a commercial breeder, proving once again that his word is worthless.

By the 1970s, the breeding of dogs had grown from its small scale local roots and commercial breeders began appearing as businesses supplying puppies for profit.

The bill will not affect small breeders and hobby breeders who sell fewer than 50 dogs per year directly to the public, but is crafted to cover only large commercial breeding facilities.

One is set in a commercial breeding environment with hundreds or even thousands of other dogs, while the other is set in a hobby breeder's home environment with only a mother dog or a small group of household pets.

If you take the time to go into the real world and talk to actual breeders, hobby and commercial scale alike, then you will find, as I have, that they are just like small - and large - scale rescuers and shelters.

Some commercial breeders use inbred, genetically - weak parents to obtain smaller or specially - marked puppies, and the darling puppies that result can exhibit debilitating signs of congenital disease later in life.

«It is a market term used by backyard breeders and commercial breeders so they can breed the smallest dogs that shouldn't be bred and sell them for a whole lot of money.

Applying commercial standards to small, in - home hobby operations as this proposal does will have a crippling effect on these breeders, and cause many of the finest breeders in the country to quit.

Further, we strongly oppose subjecting small, in - home breeders with as few as 5 breeding females to federal regulations, forcing them to give up their privacy and requiring them to replace living and care standards that are appropriate for household pets with ones designed for large commercial settings, especially when oversight from state and local authorities and the AKC is available in many cases at no additional cost to the taxpayer.

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It is unreasonable to expect small breeders, who may keep a handful of intact females in their homes, to be able to meet exacting USDA commercial kennel engineering standards that were never intended for home environments.

Animal - rights activists routinely distinguish between large commercial breeders and smaller operations.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed changes to federal regulations that would treat many small / hobby breeders and pet rescue groups as commercial breeders.

The new rule will also apply to large commercial breeders of other warm - blooded pets such as kittens and small mammals and will improve the welfare of thousands of animals across the country, including those in your own backyard.»

I do not own a commercial breeding kennel, however I am a small breeder and find these new regulations to be assanine!

This means pet stores are only able to legally source from licensed and commercial breeders, as well as hobby breeders too small to be licensed.