Sentences with phrase «stacked wire cages»

Some mills were massive operations with hundreds of animals living in stacked wire cages; they reminded him of factory farms.

Under current AWA regulations, breeding dogs can spend their entire lives in cramped, stacked wire cages.

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Battery farms consist of huge, windowless sheds housing thousands of hens who are crammed four or five at a time into small wire cages stacked on top of each other in rows.

Dogs are stacked in wire cages.

U.S. federal law under the Animal Welfare Act allows breeders to keep animals in cages with wire flooring that are stacked on top of each other.

The animals kept by these businesses generally live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions — sometimes in wire - floored cages stacked in tall columns — without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization.

2) Dogs are confined to small wire - floored cages stacked three cages high and are often overcrowded.

It's legal to confine adult breeding dogs to small, wire - bottomed cages, only 6 inches longer than the dog on all sides, often stacked on top of other cages, for life.

In a puppy mill, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked in columns.

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.

The legislation was a response to appalling conditions in many large commercial breeding kennels, where dogs spent most of their working lives inside cramped wire cages, stacked one atop the other, and got little grooming, veterinary care or exercise.

The dogs housed in the state's commercial breeding operations typically spend their lives in tiny, cramped, wire - floored cages that are stacked on top of each other, often outdoors, with no protection from the elements.

It's unfortunate but true that large - scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs bred continuously to exhaustion.»

It is common to see wire cages stacked on top of each other.

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.

To minimize waste cleanup, dogs are often kept in cages with wire flooring that injures their paws and legs — and it is not unusual for cages to be stacked up in columns.

All dogs deserve better than a life a life in a small, stacked, wire cage,» said Greg Willey, executive director of the Elyria - based Friendship Animal Protective League.

A Puppy Mill is stacked cages barely taller than each dog with wire floors that often cause injury to the animals.

«Missourians are tremendous dog lovers and they want to see dogs protected from the abuses on puppy mills, such as lifetime confinement in small, wire cages, stacked one on top of another that do not even allow animals to stretch their legs or even touch solid ground.»

Breeding dogs are treated like production machines, and can spend their entire lives in small, stacked, wire cages, often without veterinary care, exercise, socialization, or meaningful human interaction.

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.»

Six volunteers helped rescue the animals, which were in wire cages lined up in rows and stacked inside the unventilated truck, said Kay Jordan, executive director of the county Humane Society.

The primary provisions of the law require commercial breeders (defined as those selling 60 or more dogs a year or anyone selling a single dog to a pet store) to double the cage size and eliminate wire flooring and cage stacking.

Most of these breeding dogs receive absolutely no vet care, live in wire cages stacked high and never ever get to touch the ground.

In Louisiana, the A.K.C. opposed a bill that would have prevented the stacking of wire - floored cages.

At the Missouri auction site, they found more than 600 dogs, most of them in wire cages the size of rabbit hutches, stacked three cages high.

That means dogs will suffer for 3 more years with no relief from the small stacked cages, overcrowding, wire flooring, lack of veterinary care and sanitary conditions, poor ventilation, lighting, and extreme temperatures.

Jessie L. Smith, special deputy secretary, Dog Law Enforcement, said, «Under current law, a kennel owner can choose to confine dogs in small, stacked, wire - floored cages with no heat, no opportunity for exercise, and no routine medical care.

The outdated law governing commercial dog breeding facilities in Kansas does not require regular veterinary exams for dogs and allows unlimited numbers of dogs to be warehoused in stacked, wire - floored cages, which lead to unsanitary conditions, overcrowding and disease.

It is a very different law from the original bill, however. In the end the dogs will have bigger cages that can't be stacked, twice a year veterinary exams, if enforced; maybe some form of exercise, and flooring that is not all wire though not solid either.

They are crammed into filthy wire cages stacked on top of each other so feces and urine drop onto the dogs below.

The dogs can be confined for years at a time, reduced to lives of constant breeding in dirty, stacked, wire - bottomed cages that are required to be only six inches larger than the dog on all sides, and with few, if any, opportunities to play, be walked, or receive basic grooming or veterinary care.