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Originally Posted by lynzy420  All I will say is that you are absolutely right. These laws are NOT going to shut down illegal puppy mills and byb breeders...they are already breaking the laws....GIANT DUH....enforce the freaking laws that are already on the books, what the hell are they thinking???? They are thinking this will shut the PETA type people up for awhile, chances are these politicians don't even understand this law or anything about mills and byb's. Honestly, I've kept my mouth shut on this cuz its not "my arena" but it does pee me off to know end....soon all we will have are Mutts and sickly inbreded dogs...we need to support our ethical breeders people....do your part, I have... |
If you are a pet owner, and want to have well bred pups in the future it sure as heck is in your arena!
Somewhere in that densely written article, was the phrase "incremental wins"; the bit by bit process of acheiving your (the organizations aims) by chewing/chopping off bits of the problem.
The problem has been - and as I foresee it will always be the "regular dog owners" just don't get it at all!. And of course while we are an economic force to be reckoned with; we have NO VOICE. No voice united, aware, and adamant about what we want the future to be. Not to mention no funding.
APHIS extended the comment period; yet closed the first venue for submitting comments. AphIS has subsequently published a FAQ sheet to respond in part obviously to comments that were submitted. So IMO, they were unprepared not only for the resistance to this regulation but for the intelligent and reasoned arguments they were getting. They had hoped this would get by underneath the awareness of the general public.
AS a small Canadian hobby breeder, this regulation won't directly in the short term affect me initially. Except that there will be many small breeders in the US, that I might like to have a breeding dog from, and if they stop breeding what then? I do own a RARE BREED, and a Working Breed. We are a small community World wide. We share, we learn from each other, and yes we buy from each other. We meet each other at National Specialties, we meet each other over the Internet. We network together in Rescue and in so many other things.
I sincerely hope this new Regulation is ditched and does not go into effect!