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Originally Posted by yorkieusa |
I love Prisoners of Greed / HUA. Their website is very informative.
The USDA licenses commerical breeding facilities and the APHIS department is responsible for overseeing them. They have been given the task of making sure they meet the minimum standards of the Animal Welfare Act. They do very little, IMO, and it's rare that a kennel would be shut down. Prisonersofgreed.org has pictures of horrible looking, dirty kennels that have been inspected by APHIS and were given a
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Here are the lists of USDA licensed breeders and brokers. The brokers are the people who buy dogs, clean them up and sell them to pet stores or other dog sellers. (Example: The Hunte Corp:
http://www.superpets.org/hunte.html)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/lists/lista.pdf (breeders)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ac/lists/listb.pdf (brokers)