[sashajade]

dogs and cats are not sold in pet stores in the uk anymore, i got my scampi from a pet shop and he was healthy all his life but then again the pet shop i got him from got its pups from proper breeders all over the uk and they all came with good pedigrees, kennel club papers and had been wormed vet checked and had all there jabs. i no if i walked past a shop with pups in it that were being treated badly i would buy them as i couldnt live with my self if i walked away, but i also no it would be wrong to buy them, there should be a law to stop dogs and cats being sold in pet shops in the usa, the ones that are already in the stores should then be pasted on to rescue centres to be re homed. however even if this was done the people who had the shops would still carry on breeding and selling the pups by putting them in the paper or on the internet, im not sure about the laws in the usa so i can only say about what i think should happen in the uk, we dont have dogs in pet shops now but we have problems with people who no nothing about breeding and just want to make money so over breed there dogs and weathers its a puppy mill with 50 breeding dogs or a crule woman who breeds her bitch every year over and over again its just as bad and should be stopped, i say every owner of a dog should have to have a licence which is renewed every year and has to be signed by a vet, then when someone breeds there dog all pups have to have one at 2 weeks old signed by a vet and the vet has to see the home of the pups before signing paper work, then the people who go to buy the pups will know that the pups are well bred, if the pups dont have paper work then the buyers of the pups wont buy them or if they do they will not pay as much so the breeders might be put off by not making so much money or the breeders will take more care of the pups and mothers so they can make good money, i also think the amount of money for pedigree breeds is just getting silly and all pedigree breeds should be the same amount and a reasonable amount so these horrible people who breed for money might be put off if they dont make that much money from breeding in the frist place, this shouldnt put off good breeders as for them the money isnt the object of breeding its to make the best of the breed for the good of the breed.