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Originally Posted by bjh  Here is a website that gives more information on the new law: The Retail Pet Store Final Rule and You! | National Animal Interest Alliance
This new law sounds crazy and not well thought out. I can see how it can really effect the breeder/exhibitors. Many breeder/exhibitors sell and ship puppies sight unseen. Personally I have not and never will ship a puppy.
This part really bothers me:
To me that will just encourage breeders to sell their dogs as breeders and not as pets. It is insane.
If the rule is no more than 4 breeding females then what happens when your females are close to retiring and you want to keep another female for your breeding program? Females ares are not usually bred until they are 18 months to 2 years old so there will be an overlap if someone has only 4 females they are actually breeding and a couple more that are not quite old enough to breed. |
I know they do, but they shouldn't. You can still buy a dog at a dog show. I think if they are not of breeding age, they aren't considered breeders. But this still isn't clear and needs to be addressed.
Personally I don't believe a thing National Animal Interest Alliance says, it's run by commercial breeders and they are the ones that put out a lot of the false information. If what you say about breeding dog is true, I agree, it's not right and it sounds like the commercial breeder win again. I wonder how many small breeders tried to help make a good law, it's seems all they did was reject everything, I tried to have a conversation on what was a reasonable number of breeding dogs, no one wanted to talk about it, everyone just thought they had the power to veto the law, I knew it would pass, with or without the help of good breeders. Unfortunately commercial breeders probably have their asses covered more than anyone.