[MyFairLacy]

Originally Posted by meglaulanmar

I agree that I don't like the gov't intruding and also I grew up on a diary farm and where do they have to ask for cats. Cats get dropped in the country ... make their way to farms and multiply like mice. IMO farmers should be one of the first to get theirs altered. And in the city... if their are no strays.... I just wonder what the mice and rat population would do and where disease would be. Where I live now their are no strays. I have never seen one. That is quite unusual. But, there was a news story in D.C. the other day about a giant rat jumping out onto the sidewalk and jumping into a baby stroller and attacking a baby. Stray cats keep this in check. So I am kind of torn. People always take to feeding them. But I have never seen a starving cat. They are hunters and very resourceful... feeding them takes away that natural hunting instinct and if you feed them... you should take them to a rescue organization.

All in all, I think the idea is great but I am concerned about gov't having control of everything we do in our homes. I just don't know. I think if you give the gov't an inch... they tend to take a mile. Imagine how if they controlled the breeding w/ who got licenses and who didn't what that would do to the price of pupppies. Your 1500 dollar yorkie would suddenly become your 5000-10000 dollar yorkie. Hmmmm. I think that would limit a lot of people on this board from having thier precious babies. Plus all it would do would be encourage an underground breeding population... which would probably be worse than the pupppy mills of today.

I don't know... just my thoughts on the subject.

I'd be fine with paying 10,000 for a well-bred yorkie from a reputable breeder if that meant I'd be saving millions of dogs and cats from being euthanized each year...

I guess brokers sure would lose a lot of their breeders though...