The AKC makes money via dog registrations, regardless of whether the dog comes from commercial breeders or a byb or a how breeder. And of course it is "propaganda" but not any more so than the information put out there by supporters of the bill who think it will somehow lower shelter #s even though pure overpopulation really is not our problem.
The point is that the bill sponsor had come up with a draft that AKC could stomach (myself I still see it as step one towards the more stringent legislation the bill originally contained but AKC felt it was a decent compromise) and then decided to modify it at the last minute. This supports the fear that once this bill's foot was in the door so to speak it would be exanded later once the opposition had died down. |