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Originally Posted by Maximo  I wholeheartedly agree with you that something needs to be done, but penalizing breeders if a dog ends up in a shelter might have the unintended effect of bolstering mass-producers who will happily pay fines or find a way to get exempted while discouraging small hobby breeders who don't have $$ to risk fines -- no matter how carefully they screen buyers, there is a risk of getting burned, and all it would take is one bad case. |
Actually many of the mass producers sell to the petshops and they would be the ones hit with the fines...and the amount could go up based on how many of their dogs end up in the shelters or they are not allowed to sell dogs...
Don't get to buried into the small breeder...unless they are willing to take the dogs back then they should not be breeding either.