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09-02-2011, 02:30 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Reading, PA, USA
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| Proposed Pet Sale Ban I'm not exactly sure where this goes, and it seems to be a couple months old... But I thought it was an interesting article to share. Proposed Pet Sale Ban Sweeps Nation | Petside I am actually all for this. If dogs cannot be sold in pet stores, that leaves the puppy mills for less ways to distribute their product. I expect they will try something like what was done with my boyfriend, and scam people by selling to individuals, who then sell out of their homes, saying they bred the puppies and they were home bred dogs, blah blah blah... But the turn over isn't going to be as high, nor will the priced they will get. So this would certainly slow down puppy mill breeding, because of limited distribution. Also, it would be more difficult to send smaller numbers of puppies all over the place to the puppy seller homes. They can only have a small number of puppies at a time, or the buyers (and neighbors) will get suspicious). However, their profit margin will drop. The puppy mill game is a numbers game. They don't get the money per puppy that pet stores do (unless they supply their own product). Their money is about numbers. The puppy bought from a pet store for 1,200 was probably initially sold for 200. They sell enough puppies, they get their profit. That is why they have so many breeders, they HAVE to have that many dogs to make the numbers of puppies they need to be profitable. Outlawing the sale of animals from pet stores slows the number of puppies that are sold, and thus they lose money, and so the number of dogs they breed goes down... Now from the article was this little tibit... "And pet store owners expressed concern about the future of their business, with the proposed ban outlawing all pets, except fish. How many people would visit pet stores with such a limited selection?" Umm, hello, you have SHELTER ANIMALS there. I am sure that an enterprising pet store own can even devise a way to work with shelters and get a commission off the animals they manage to adopt from their stores. Fill a couple pens with shelter dogs, have a couple hard luck posters telling each animals' story, and watch how fast these dogs get adopted out. This is just my off the cuff thoughts to banning the sale of puppies from pet stores. Puppy mills are the biggest supplies of pet store puppies, and I can only think this would make them less profitable to run. Of course there are always enterprising people that can get around that.. For example, I'm not sure how that would effect direct to consumer puppy mills, aka back yard breeders. Mandatory spay/neuter help to address that, though I am not in favor of those kinds of laws, because it assumes that if you have an intact animal, you plan on breeding them. So what are your thoughts on these kind of laws? The banning of pet sales from pet stores? What kinds of things could be implemented to prevent circumvention of the ban? Mandatory spay/neuter and breeder licenses such as some cities have in place? What about the burden on the show breeder? These things aren't a one solution solves the problem kind of thing, unfortunately, all of it is interconnected. But I believe banning the sale of pets through pet stores is a start. |
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