350,000 Voices for Puppy Mill Dogs!

In one of the paragraphs on an email I read, you stated that it will require all LARGE SCALE PUPPY MILLS to have a license. THAT IS NOT TRUE! It will require ALL BREEDERS, hobby or large scale, who sell anything AWAR FROM THEIR HOME/BREEDING AREA OPERATION, to get a license, and have their home intruded upon by the Federal Government, which is against the 4th Amendment in the Constitution! This will DESTROY all hobby breeders who have a very small operation, who raise dogs, cats, gerbils, bunnies in a family oriented, home type environment...it will not allow proper socialization of animals before they go to pet, show, therapy, or special needs educational training facilities to help people who need seeing eye dogs and such! This bill goes totally overboard and should be completely recinded! Sorry for the spelling errors. I am mentally challenged and am speaking from experience. Please don't pass this bill. PLEASE DON'T!!

I really thought ASPCA was about protecting animals unlike the HSUS and PETA. This article shows your true colors. You seem to have no concept about the damage the act will have to the world of dogs since it will virtually eliminate all ethical responsible hobby breeders and will have negligible effect on puppy mills. After all, if they really cared about the welfare of animals and the law, they wouldn't be breeding them as they do in the first place. I agree that puppy mills need to be controlled or shut down but the effect of this bill will only harm those who are interested in following the law. A small hobby breeder who produce maybe one litter every year or two but who may well have over four intact bitches cannot afford the requirement set out by this act. Nor would they consider putting their well-bred, home-raised, well-planned puppies in a such a sterile isolated envirnoment. The only answer for them is to not breed at all. Soon all that will be left are the puppy mills puppies from people who care nothing about the proper care of animals. This bill will only stop people from finding well-bred, home-raised, well socialized puppies. It will not stop the irresponsible people who let there unaltered animals roam the street and breeding. It will not stop the irresponsible owner from turning in their dog to the pound and it will not stop the sociopaths out there who take joy in inflicting unimaginable harm to defenseless creatures. I am so disappointed in seeing your position on this that I will not longer be supporting ASPCA.

Minimum requirements like my dogs wont be able to cuddle with me on the couch and I won't be able to have puppies in the kitchen lovingly held and cared for every day! Instead these proposed sanctions require me to build concrete kennels to house my dogs in! And the fees required for a hobby responsible breeder are astronomical! I'm a responsible show breeder of dogs that are health tested titled and loved. This movement will put me out of buisness but it won't put mass producers out of buisness this is hurting the wrong people!!!!!

Im animal lover!!!!!

Please have regulations on the interent sites. Puppy mills mistresat animals and that is a crime

I volunteer witht he Northwest Boxer Rescue and every month we are taking in female boxers who have been used and abused in puppy mills. These poor babies are over bred for the first 4 years of their lives, and then dumped at a shelter when they are no longer physically capable of caring and delivering another litter of pups. Their poor little bodies are worn out. Something has got to be done. Dogs were not created to be our money making machines. SHUT DOWN PUPPY MILLS.

I am a very reputable small hobby breeder. Not only am I reputable, but I go above and beyond most (i.e. I train all my puppies, work with socialization, etc. before sending them to homes. They are raising in a puppy nursery (looks better than most children's rooms), and is probably cleaner than most people's houses as I am a neat freak. First of all, most animals end up in the shelters for only 1-3 reasons (Good dogs that owners can't keep/afford, bad dogs (ill-behaved) that weren't trained by owners, or a breed of dog or mixed breed that has bad behaviors, etc. Mainly, dogs end up in pounds because they are either ill-behaved dogs due to their temperaments either from bad genes, mix breeding, or from owner's lack of responsibility/control. I raise, calm, loving labs. I never had a lab attack a child or attack another dog. In my own family, my brother "rescued" a dog from a pound and it bit my nephew's face-he still has the scar and he was only 2. It was unprovoked. My brother rescued a three-legged dog and he bragged about what a nice dog he had (he paid $200 in adoption fees whereas my nice, calm labs sell for $1000-$1500. Three months later, it tore through the neighbor's chihuhua and cost him a $2700 vet bill. Whether people know it or not, the Humane Society and ASPCA propagate ill-behaved dogs through their own policies of pushing people to adopt only from shelters. Yes, you can get lucky and end up with a good dog, but you can also get screwed. They need to push for responsible pet ownership whether a pet is purchased or adopted through a rescue/shelter. Small scale breeders are not the problem, and their are many, like myself doing it right. None of my dogs are ever in cages... they live in my home, sleep on our couches and beds and when they have their pups, they have a designated puppy nursery. I even pay for "puppy sitting" if I have to step out. They start housebreaking at 4 weeks, which entails me taking out the litter, one or two at a time, at 10PM, 2AM, 5AM, and 7Am for three straight weeks, plus all day. There is no law that states that I have to do this, I do this because I want to raise and breed the best and most well-adjusted and trainable pups as I can. The law would actually make me put my pet breeding dogs in a commercial kennel. There is no one -size-fits all solution as every breeder is different as are the numbers of dogs.

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something needs to be done about this severe problem of hurting defensless animals,i am outraged, i cannot digest the inhumanity of these people, what is there malfuntion!!!

dont forget,,,the ASPCA and the SPCA are two different entities..

If you are in posession of 1-5 female breading dogs for profit, I do believe you should be subject to control. I have had quite a few dogs in my life and 4 JRTs presently. What I can say about small breeders is that some treat their dogs fine and some don't. Some see they get medical care and others don't. Some have social interaction with the puppies and some don't. All claim that the dogs live with the family but some don't and don't even have minimal living and health conditions. What can I say? If you are a breeder that claims to be a home & family led breeder and you produce more than two litters per year, you aren't fooling me. You should be checked! But this bill is not even going to effect you so why worry about it. Oh and for those who are going to argue with me, have you ever breed dogs? I have under the guidance of a reliable breeder(who feels she should be checked). With one female you can have 2 litters per year(I would never do this though) One litter is usually 3-5 puppies so if one female is producing 10 puppies, don't you think it merrits some sort of control? Okay, let's say you have 2 female dogs and produced 10 puppies and then by accident(it happens a lot more than breeders want to admit) one of them gets pregnant again while you still have those 10 puppies. So now with 3 litters, lets say you got the majority adopted but you have an overlap of 8 more or less of puppies. If you are a small time so called responsible breeder, then you should know how difficult it is to raise these dogs in a healthy, socialised way. Even if they are only with you for a few months and what about the ones who don't get adopted families, they'll just have to stay, won't they? OVERLAPPING occurs all the time and a small time breeder has to really love dogs and be 100% attentive just like they are with their kids. Let's not fool ourselves. Eventhough you may be a responsible breeder, there are plenty out there who aren't, and you know it! Besides the numbers I used as examples here are not even what comes under the bill's amendment. If you are producing and selling less than the amount stated, you will not be considered a commercial exploiter. Therefore, small family businesses will not be affected. As a matter of fact they are desireable. Please read the act carefully. "Puppy Uniform Protection and Safety Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to define a "high volume retail breeder" as a person who, in commerce, for compensation or profit: (1) has an ownership interest in or custody of one or more breeding female dogs; and (2) sells, via any means of conveyance, more than 50 of the offspring of such dogs for use as pets in any one-year period. Considers such a breeder of dogs to be a dealer." Another thing to take into consideration is that anyone who provides pets through the internet is irresponsible. Having first contact through internet is good but the follow up must always include meeting of the owner to ensure that the puppy falls into the right hands. Also buying through the internet avoids the responsibility of getting to know the breeders and circumstances. Buyers beware! A puppy is not a product that you can return. It is a living creature that has the beauty and uncanny way of interacting with humans. Having said that, know yourself and know the character of the dog you are getting. Know the breeder and look at their life honestly! I must add that I agree with the person who wrote "save the hobby breeders stop the puppy mills" but let's keep in mind the hobby breeders are also selling for profit and some are not always what they present themselves to be. Okay, so now that we all agree and know that internet providers are just a way for puppy mills to move their merchandise, we should penalise internet co's to be fencers for criminals. I believe the 2 bills to be amended are sound and should be passed.

America, the greatest country in the world and they allow people to make money by being cruel to defensless animals, shame on you. Animals? These beings that do this are the true animals. Disgraceful. There is a special place in HELL just for them.

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