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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I've got to say, I just love your enthusiasm, and I really know you will be the type that spreads the word, education is the key here, and more and more people know that they shouldn't buy from pet stores. However, people are still buying from the Internet, remember that commercial breeders who sell directly to the public and through websites do not even have to be inspected by the USDA, so they are often much worse than the USDA breeders who sell to pet stores.
By the way, makes me so angry that vets would own a pet store that sells designer dogs, Missouri is doing many things now in trying to pass better legislation, you are in a state where people are taking action to bring about better conditions for dogs. I hadn't heard of Land of Paws, I like to learn more about it, maybe we can help put it out of business. |
i'll tell you one thing it's been a bit of a strange battle here in good ol' MO. i've got a long time member of my hometown and someone I truly care for and support in congress right now only he's fighting for the "other side" you see we live in rural MO and a lot of the bills that should/could help put a stop to mills and commercial breeders also add a nasty little tag onto them about cattle and livestock. so naturally where we come from this congressman doesn't want to support those bills. if they were written well to only stop commercial breeders it might get voted for, but there's always those darn riders on them...
and the hardest part is...i'm mostly republican, but in order to support shutting down commercial breeding i almost need to vote democrat in MO, so we'd get more done in the battle with dogs, but less done in other things that we small town farmers and business people need.
it's always a catch 22 in everything in life. you can't have it both ways. it's so hard to know where to stand when everyone i know up here would prob. vote against anything that stops their incomes via breeding. no one wants to support a bill for better treatment of dogs in breeding facilities because it costs them more money on their kennels...so they shoot it down and sometimes though i'd never understand why they breed at all, i kinda understand how hard all the changes would be on them...if commercial breeding was 100% iradicated around here there would be a lot of people without any income and things could get really really downtroddin for them. no one should breed dogs to make a living or to support their families, but unfortunatley around here that's exactly what they are doing. vets are breeding around here no different and no better than a BYB. it's horrible and it's hard to stomach, but it's here and it's everywhere.
all we can do is work hard to not support it, no money or time goes to those types of people and we'll fight to stop it all somehow.