First of all, we are not discussing the Illinois law; I haven't read that, so I can't discuss its points. We are talking about the Indiana law. Many of us want to do something about the puppy mill situation, and we would like input from people who are good breeders, but all I see is a lot of misinformation and redirection.
I brought up the Illinois law in support of what was referred to as a "slipperly slope" argument. The point was that I am not just making this stuff up-- there are certain people who support legislation that gradually, over the course of several years, will make it much harder for the hobby breeder and fancier to continue breeding dogs. Illinois is an example of this.
However, your example is exactly what I've been worried about. Perhaps in Illinois good breeders stayed out of the initial drafts of the bill, and just voted, "No" so they left it up to commercial breeder to mull it over and then came up with what they thought was a suitable bill, and it passed, hurting the home breeder, I'm well aware this has happened in other places. It's so easy to mislead the home breeder, and they have no real lobby that protects them, and many are influenced by whatever propaganda the commercial breeder spouts. So my point in the beginning of this thread is to address which part of the bill would hurt the home breeder, and all I got was a lot of BS.
[COLOR="Red"]If you read my earlier posts you will see that I asked from the minute I heard about the amendments to (a) be included in a second hearing in front of the House committee that fostered the bill (and was told they had already heard from anyone they wanted to hear from) and (b) that the matter be tabled and sent to summer study to allow interested individuals to be a part of formulating something that would be a heck of a lot more effective than this current proposal.
If I am remembering correctly, the purpose of this thread was to discuss the bill -- which includes whether or not it would be effective or better than current law-- I did not realize we were only allowed to post in response to a question you had posed. My comments are not BS. |