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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Again, there are no laws that cover breeders who sell directly over the internet. With this law a breeder who has over 4 breeding females, and sells over the internet without meeting the puppy buyers will have to have a license, the same as those breeders who sell to pet stores and brokers. Why shouldn't the need a license if those breeders who sell to pet stores need a license? The worse puppyery mills of all are run by unlicensed breeders who sell directly to the public, no law covers them! The breeders will have to pay for their licenses. |
I think the regulation is for breeders with
4 OR MORE breeding females, but the legislation fails to define what constitutes a breeding female. Do they mean breeding age females? Females of any age that have been previously bred? Newborns that may be bred in the future? It's impossible to have a breeding program with only 3 females anyway, regardless of definition of breeding female, at least not if you're trying to establish a new line. I didn't read anything about the sellers and buyers have to meet. The legislation addresses situations where the buyer doesn't go to the seller's premises. The bad guys will soon arrange to have agents at every buyer's disposal to circumvent that requirement.
Why do we need this law? Every breeder is supposed to have a kennel license and inspection at the local level--city, town, county, state. AKC inspects us too. Why not have their reports forwarded to the powers that be. Why is the fed not just providing financial support so the locals can enforce the laws that are already in place?
This new law is going to cause a lot of confusion when inspectors find that some little breeder's living room isn't engineered to whatever the sanitation standards are for USDA---don't they require certain flooring materials and drains to facilitate cleaning, things that would apply well to a big big puppy farm?
People who buy puppies over the internet sight unseen from people they know nothing about are just plain careless, IMHO, and trying to protect them from themselves is futile.
I'm glad to see this discussion taking place, and very politely at that!