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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Aren't there several Amish Puppy Mills, often the most cruel of Millers, in Indiana? You keep asking for examples of the failure of the law, yet, if not much is being investigated -or- if regular people cannot get on the property to even be aware of a cruelty situation (enabling them to report it) - how on earth could I tell you about a failure of an investigation that doesn't even exist? Do you see what I mean? To answer this question for you, I'd have to come to Indiana, visit the Mills and then tell you if I think the current law is working.
I think if the current law was working, we'd hear of many more of the Amish mills and/or other mills being shut down not just in Indiana, but all over the place - on an almost daily basis until only the cruelty free facilities remained. That isn't happening right now.
Both the lack of quantity of mill-busts and the ongoing quantity of cruel-Millers is enough evidence for me that the current laws are NOT working. So, to me, the current laws are not effective. |
HB 1468 does not provide for inspections of commercial breeders. Any investigation under the bill would have to be complaint driven. So yet again, back to an enforcement issue. Gee I am repetitive.
Where are you getting the information that Indiana is rampant with puppy mills? At least two of the Indiana law enforcement officers I spoke with have large Amish communities in their jurisdictions and they are not aware of the existence of puppy mills there. I am NOT claiming that bad breeders don't exist in Indiana, but I guess I am not sure how you can claim we have all these horrible mills if you are also saying no one can get on the property to see the conditions in which dogs are kept?