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Originally Posted by carmengamble  IMO people owning more than 20 dogs for breeding purposes are disgusting. Honestly, you can't tell me that you are doing it to "better the breed" that is absolute BS. I can understand having a few dogs to breed, but 20 is a little over the top. I completely agree with this bill.
I agree with the home inspections, I would be suspicious if a breeder wasn't comfortable with inspections ... 
Anyway, that's just my opinion ...
I'm pretty sure you will still be able to find a healthy Yorkie in a few years, since you can have less than 20 dogs to breed. Yikes..this is ridiculous. I am completely for this bill and hope it passes in your state and others -- as well as in Canada!  |
And this is how these bills pass because people think it sounds good but don't read it in it's entirety.
But the bill says 20 intact dogs
regardless of whether you're breeding them or not. Someone who breeds and raises show prospects, say they have 3 champion studs and 10 breeding females and 2 retired girls (not breeding) who are unaltered. They also have 3 young dogs who you are currently showing and wish to retain a few pups from current litters as show hopefuls. Then they have 2 outside girls in for breeding. If there was an unannounced inspection during this time, there's only 13 intact dogs owned by the breeder that is used for breeding but there are and additional 11 intact that are either not being used for breeding or are owned by someone else. This puts them 4 dogs over the limit and illegal.
How about a trainer/handler? He has his own intact dogs he's breeding but he also takes in outside dogs for training? Now he's limited by law to either end his breeding program or to only allow spayed/neutered dogs in for training.
As for unannounced inspections, in Pennsylvania, I've heard of numerous people having these unannounce inspections every 2 weeks ... in my opinion, that's harassment and breeders are scared and many are getting out of breeding because of fear. You could have the most pristine set up but if they come and inspect before your afternoon cleaning or before your weekly bathing and grooming, Lord help you. I've heard of every animal on the property being conficated because it was found that some "dogs nails were long" and some had earmites (doesn't matter if you treating them currently or not - you have to go to court to prove you were treating). They hold the dogs for 10 dollars a day for each dog, until you go to court and are found
not guilty. So if you have 15 dogs at 10 dollars a day and your court hearing is 90 days later, it will cost you 13,500.00 to get your dogs back ... and you weren't guilty in the first place!
It's shameful and disgusting that people are being persecuted without doing anything wrong because they have a "certain Number" of animals. If conditions are bad and dogs are in poor shape, that's one thing, but if someone can have 20 or more dogs and they are loved and well kept and live in an area that is zoned for kennels, I feel they shouldn't be limited to a specific "number."
Hopefully we won't one day be restricted to a certain of children because it's thought that people who have more than 2 or 3 children, won't care for them properly ...