Sentences with phrase «substandard dog»

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

Creating more laws to make up for a lack of enforcement will not improve situations where substandard dog care is occurring, but will only succeed in creating more criminals.

To report substandard dog breeders or pet stores (and / or the sale of sick dogs from dog breeders or pet stores), you can file a complaint and follow up with the Missouri Attorney General's office (thanks to the efforts of the Alliance, the Attorney General created a special Canine Cruelty Prevention Unit) as well as with the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

Oklahoma is known nationwide for its substandard dog breeding operations.

As other states have passed regulations, substandard dog dealers have flocked here from elsewhere.

Not exact matches

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

As other states have passed regulations of all entities that sell, trade or adopt out a large number of dogs, substandard breeders and rescues that are unable to meet the standards in their home states have flocked here.

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.

And that's Ok, but by saying «just» a pet seems to imply that a pet dog is somehow less worthy than a show dog, or less important or that its OK for it to be substandard?

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

Innova contains none of the following dog food ingredients: Meat meal, animal fat, poultry by - products, soybean meal, rice gluten, wheat mids, peanut hulls, wheat flour, wheat bran, rice flour, BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin, artificial colors or flavors, or any other substandard, low quality, by - products from human food processing.

At best it's a guide to help processed food manufacturers make industrial food out of substandard material, and it's of no value to anyone who wants to give their dogs genuinely healthy food.

If not, then even though it's labelled as «dog food» and could possibly have some form of nutritional content (if you're lucky), why feed such substandard rubbish to your dog?

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

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

Dogs raised on commercial diets with substandard ingredients experience more musculoskeletal problems than those raised on a natural diet that includes protein from high quality meat.

Now that you know how bad puppy mills are, here's how you as a responsible breeder can help the dogs suffering in substandard conditions.

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.

But we found no evidence that factors which may influence a pet owner's decision on age at ovary removal — for example, earlier ovariectomy in dogs with substandard conformation or delayed ovariectomy to obtain more offspring in daughters of long - lived mothers — could adequately account for the strong association.

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.

To report substandard conditions at a dog or cat breeder's facility, click here: ACFA Program Inquiry

WEST PALM BEACH - «New pet stores in Palm Beach County will no longer be able to sell dogs or cats as part of an effort to crack down on substandard breeders known as puppy mills.»

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.

Many dogs died and many thousands more suffered significant illness and permanent damage due to dozens of commercial dog food manufacturers using substandard ingredients and contaminants in their pet foods.

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.

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.

Your dog, especially if it is an aggressive type, may be able to break free from his containment, especially if the kennel is made up of substandard materials.

Perhaps by viewing dogs as deformed or substandard wolves created by people, we fundamentally misunderstand and underestimate them as the unique species that they are.

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.

Their reputation made them popular with substandard owners who just wanted a «tough» dog and had no idea how to manage them appropriately.

Often living in their own waste, many of the thousands of dogs we've rescued from substandard puppy mills suffer from eye, ear and respiratory infections, parasites and malnutrition.

People continue to want to buy dogs, particularly puppies, but have been convinced that pet stores sell dogs that receive substandard care from commercial breeders collectively called «puppy mills.»

The source of the rescue dogs may be from the same «puppy mills» owners are trying to avoid, or from other breeders providing substandard care for the dogs;

Pet industry associations and animal welfare organizations have joined forces in an industry - wide effort to improve conditions for dogs and puppies kept by substandard commercial breeders and sold to consumers.

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

These dogs come from large scale cases of dog fighting, hoarding, substandard puppy breeders, and defunct animal «sanctuaries», as well as individual cases of cruelty and neglect.

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.

Tens of thousands of dogs suffering in substandard, filthy, and overcrowded cages for years on end will finally get the protection they deserve as a result of a rule the U.S. Department of Agriculture will formally adopt today.

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.

Unfortunately, many dog foods on the market use substandard ingredients that can harm our pets.

Here are a few of the dogs that lived in the substandard conditions at Debra Pratt's puppy mill.

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Conditions in puppy mills are generally substandard and may be deplorable, and puppies and adult dogs may be malnourished, sickly, and of poor temperament.

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.

They handle large - scale abuse cases involving substandard puppy mills, hoarders, dog fighters and abuse and neglect of horses and farm animals.

Twenty years ago, people knew that a «puppy mill» was a substandard kennel where unhealthy, overbred dogs were kept in horrendous conditions.

In general, officials refer to puppy mills as operations geared more toward generating profits from the sale of dogs rather than animal welfare, and where dogs may live in substandard conditions.

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?