So what can we do to help clear the smoke and mirrors
used by commercial breeders who like to pretend their dogs and puppies are much loved family pets rather than commodities?
Not exact matches
The organization
uses the inspection reports, funded
by taxpayer dollars, to monitor
commercial dog
breeders and USDA enforcement of AWA requirements.
While pet stores and
commercial breeders often
use the newspaper to advertise, most of the ads for puppies and kittens found in the classifieds are placed
by private people.
«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.
The proposed rule was prompted
by an audit finding that some large - scale
commercial breeders were
using the retail pet store definition to sell puppies through the Internet and thus circumventing the purpose of the Animal Welfare Act.
HB 4844 would also extend euthanasia restrictions to
commercial breeders, and stop the
use of homemade gas chambers
by private enterprises according to Ledy VanKavage of the ASPCA as quoted in the Pantagraph.