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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  This is one point that I don't think has been covered thoroughly. I think many people believe that the Puppy mill busts, are brought on by the USDA, and they seem to be doing their job bringing down the millers. This is not true though, all the busts I've read about either came about by some freak accident and authorities investigated, or there was an actual group of people doing an undercover investigation. As YT member WalnutHill stated in the USDA breeders thread http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...er-list-2.html concerning USDA inspectors:
This doesn't sound like they are very effective. You also have to remember not all mills have to be registered with the USDA. These state laws would help address this problem. Some of you have noted that millers won't register anyway, however, with the requirement that Pet Dealers will have to provide the name and address of where they purchased the dogs, at least investigators will have some type of "probable cause" in which to do an investigation.
The organizations doing the inspections should not have a conflict of interest when it comes down to closing a mill. If the inspectors are making their money through the businesses that they are inspecting, they are more likely to overlook certain things. It would be like the health department earning its money through restaurant contributions. They might be more likely to overlook some things if closing down a restaurant meant their organization would lose money. |
They are saying that a lot of your puppy mills, are USDA certified, so why not start there, since there is an enforcement issue.
Then in your second comment, Pet Dealers are required to keep the name and address of where they got the puppy,, Even you are already classifying Puppy Dealers as brokers.. Remember they are people offering more than five puppies per year.. And who is going to enforce the name and address issue..
Who and where is this money going to come from? When the new Indiana law uses the fines they collect? How would it be different..than the USDA? If laws are passes with poor thinking and no foresight, and not even a way to finance, then what is the sense in doing it, if you are not going to do it right..
We have went over and over, how this will affect all breeders in Indiana, those selling or offering for sale more than five puppies a year, and those have 10 litters of puppies a year, that are sold for show and pet purposes, being labeled COMMERCIAL BREEDER, and classed in the same class as the low lifes mistreating and selling over 1000 puppies a year, to anyone with 225 dollars...
This bill is ill thought and needs to be rewritten..