[C C Kent]

No law has any value past the point where it can be enforced. Otherwise only the law abiding citizen is following it....the criminal will continue as though it was never written.

We must at some point admit that much of the public does not care about puppy mills, BYB's, mistreatment of animals they don't have to see. It is as far removed from them as an asian sweatshop with children working for pennies making $200 shoes. Does it stop them from buying the shoes? The problem is not a lack of laws...it is a lack of ethics and responsibility. No way to legislate that.

I would like to see a requirement for pet shops to disclose the name of the breeder where each puppy comes from and how many hands it passed through before it landed in the store. Kind of like the requirement in restaurants to show the calorie content in the food. The USDA paperwork requires all of this information, it would be very easy and cost effective to just post the info. Then let the buyer beware. At least this way if someone is considering a puppy and the listed breeder is exposed as a puppy mill, they have the ability to put the two together and not buy the puppy.