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Originally Posted by YorkieRose  It would have a huge effect...Huntt Corp would go bust..! It would cut volume breeding way back. The easy part for the miller is to produce puppies the way the farmer produces apples...grow them, truck comes, pays the farmer and takes them to the market where they are sold..same for breeder who sell to a broker liek Huntt, they have an ready and demanding market for their product...
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If they had to sell 100, 200, 300 puppies by way of the Internet each year...and that is conservative for many...it would be a difficult job. The public is getting wiser each say to the internet rip offs. Every complaint would fall right back on them, not the pet shop. Complaints should be reported to county and states and investated...huge fines for violators...
It is not so easy to move large volumes of dogs without a middle man like Huntt corp..no one comes back at these breeders if the puppy is unhealthy, unsocialized etc...the pet shop gets the grief..the pet shop may stop dealing with a problem breeder, but doesn't look like most do.,or there wouldn't be so many sick puppies coming out of pet shops, right. |
I'm all in favor of closing Pet Stores, but if they are closed, people will look even more to the Internet for buying a dog. We need legislation that will cover these breeders. Many breeders have multiple websites, those that appeal to one type of person, and those that will appeal to another type. I'm not sure what you mean by complaints would fall back on them, what's happening now, when people buy from a website and get a sickly dog? Not too much, but even if Hunt goes out of business, the millers still can sell directly to the public, and as the laws stand now, they won't even have to be regulated. I think young people are very comfortable buying ANYTHING over the internet, and I disagree with you that it will be hard to sell 300 dogs a year over the Internet.