Sentences with phrase «substandard breeding»

By adopting voluntary standards throughout the industry, we will protect the animals entrusted in our care, challenge the small minority of substandard breeding facilities to raise their standards of care, and ensure consumers have reliable choices.

HSI / Canada welcomed the announcement from the Town of Mount Royal, a borough of Montreal, that it will restrict the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in an effort to combat pet overpopulation and substandard breeding operations.

This doesn't mean, however, that substandard breeding is necessarily in decline.

The puppy mills team educates and engages the public around the pervasiveness of puppy mills and advocates for legislation and other policies to eliminate substandard breeding operations.

Before the federal Animal Welfare Act and the AKC Care and Conditions Program were initiated, there were significantly more substandard breeding operations than there are today, so the activism aimed at cleaning them up was reasonable and even helpful at the time.

NAIA opposes substandard breeding kennels commonly called «puppy mills» and strongly supports their closure.

Puppy mills, high - volume breeding facilities with substandard breeding practices and conditions, can have a huge effect on a dog's health and personality.

In papers filed yesterday, the consumers argue that the Andersons have continued to violate a court order and the terms of a settlement agreement the parties entered into more than three years ago, by selling puppies from substandard breeding facilities and violating disclosure requirements as to where the puppies they sell come from.

Too many rescues tell sad tales - but are really perpetuating commercial and sometimes substandard breeding - note than many auction dogs are other than AKC registered.

In addition, if you buy a puppy from an internet website, more than likely it too has come from a substandard breeding facility where the parents are living in horrible conditions.

The term «puppy mill» has been widely used by animal rights groups in protests against breeders who have substandard breeding conditions.

Unfortunately, these consumer complaints (indicating unsanitary or substandard breeding conditions) tend to go no where.

Banning the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits will not only close off a channel of distribution for substandard breeding operations, but it will also raise awareness about animal welfare and promote adoption.

It would be unfair to criminalize backyard breeding for dogs only; and because we have properly defined backyard breeding as the breeding of an animal using substandard breeding techniques, we should also enforce it for every single animal bred in our country.

The ASPCA is on the ground assisting in the removal, transport, sheltering and medical treatment of more than 130 dogs from a large, substandard breeding facility — frequently referred to as a puppy mill — in Needham, Alabama.

Not exact matches

Many breeding dogs in substandard facilities languish in tiny cages, and in filth.

Oklahoma is known nationwide for its substandard dog breeding operations.

Puppy mills are dog breeding operations which provide substandard care at best.

Puppy mills are commercial dog breeding facilities notorious for substandard care.

As such, we can not and will not endorse the mass breeding of pets in substandard conditions.

This rift has been exploited by puppy mills and all those who profit from the substandard, commercial dog breeding community.

Puppy mills are substandard commercial breeding facilities that operate with an emphasis on profit above animal welfare.

It is not true that pet store puppies are unhealthy, improperly bred or will have all sorts of hereditary defects as the puppy gets older due to coming from «substandard breeders.»

We support legislation that prevents substandard breeders from breeding and selling unfit animals, such as the PPPA.

Here's our stance: If you find a «substandard breeder» (a breeder who is not regulated and does not care for his breeding dogs) shut him down.

The fact that a commercial dog breeder may have tens or hundreds of adult dogs for the purpose of breeding each and making money (i.e., economic gain) does not allow that business owner or operator to «view» these animals differently and, therefore, justify substandard, neglectful or cruel treatment.

Commercial breeders, by definition, can also be substandard or negligent with a low or high volume of dogs, several breeds, and inadequate or horrendous conditions — known as puppy or kitten mills.

Substandard conditions include lack of veterinarian care or breeding plan, unlimited puppy production, no screening for genetic diseases, unsanitary facilities, unsafe and cramped cages, no environmental stimulation or human contact with animals, inadequate ventilation and temperature, poor quality food and water, poor quality shelters and no bedding.

The tens of thousands of dogs suffering in substandard, overcrowded breeding operations both large and small lacking vet care, exercise and forced to breed with painful conditions will finally get the protection they deserve.

These ordinances are intended to limit the market for dogs (and cats) being bred in inhumane, substandard pet mills throughout the country and imported into communities where they often end up being surrendered to shelters.

MONTRÉAL — Humane Society International / Canada applauds the decision by Rosemont - La Petite Patrie, a Montreal borough, to promote shelter adoptions and stop substandard commercial breeding operations by prohibiting the sale of animals in all new pet stores.

We also do not carry products that use marketing gimmicks to promote substandard foods at higher price points (i.e. breed specific diets, prescription diets, etc.) and we do not carry foods that have protein levels that are way too low to be regularly fed to a carnivore.

Help put an end to substandard commercial breeding facilities that operate with an emphasis on profit above animal welfare.

You could be supporting cruel and substandard dog breeding operations like these.

According to the Montreal SPCA Emergency shelter, a puppy mill is defined as: a dog breeding facility that is solely motivated by profit and does not care about the resulting substandard conditions in which the dogs are forced to live.

It is also the small «breeders» that over breed, don't monitor genetics, and allow substandard examples of a breed to reproduce and allow flawed genetics to continue pass to litters that should never be born.

Problem - Commercial breeding of BC's is also placing a lot of dogs into pet homes that are not temperamentally suited to domestic life and are often genetically substandard.

A puppy mill is a breeding operation in which puppies are mass - produced in substandard conditions.

The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department searched the home of Paulette Tidwell after receiving a tip about unlicensed commercial breeding and substandard conditions; as well as a large sale of animals that happened last Saturday.

Seeing how years of substandard care left these poor dogs in terrible condition, Strader took up the cause of ending the cruelty of commercial dog breeding and making the public aware of the truth about where that puppy in the window comes from.

Is it possible that dogs bred in substandard conditions and who are frequently taken from their mothers before 8 weeks are also part of the vaccine reaction puzzle?

«Designer» breeds are also substandard.

MISSISSAUGA — Humane Society International / Canada welcomes the decision by the Mississauga City Council in Ontario to promote shelter adoptions and to help stop substandard commercial breeding operations by restricting the sale of commercially bred dogs and cats in pet stores.

The dogs on the property ranged from large - breed German Shepherds to poodle - mix puppies, all living in substandard conditions.

But the substandard facilities, sometimes referred to as «puppy mills,» not only harm puppies and the people who buy them, they also threaten the reputation of the broader dog breeding industry.

HSI / Canada welcomes the decision by the Mississauga City Council in Ontario to promote shelter adoptions and to help stop substandard commercial breeding operations by restricting the sale of commercially bred dogs and cats in pet stores.

June 5 • Twenty - eight large - breed dogs were rescued from a substandard puppy mill in Morgan County while the remains of thirty other dogs were discovered in shallow graves on the property.

One month later, sixty small - breed dogs were rescued from a substandard puppy mill in Bollinger County.

This pejorative term was originally coined to describe substandard commercial breeding facilities.

High volume breeding operations will now be regulated in Oklahoma, and for those legitimate hobby breeders the bill does not mean that much — it will target those operating in substandard conditions.