I am happy to report that North Carolina passed this:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions...PDF/S254v2.pdf
But when it came to actually enforcing it they only found Rush kennels who in my opinion broke that law 90 times guilty of this:
Grand Jury Indicts Rush Kennel Owner On Cruelty Charges - Winston-Salem News Story - WXII The Triad
I am sad for those dogs, and this state's noodle spine.