Comments on: Washington State Puppy Mill Legislation

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:09:59 +0000

I have mixed feelings on this bill. I do think limitations need to be in place but I do not think true breeders (who breed to improve the breed) should be punished in the process. I think that there should be heavy fines assessed to those who fail to follow the law but only a minimal fee to register as a kennel if one has over a set number of dogs.

By: Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills!

Don'tBuyFromPuppyMills! — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Stay away from PuppiesEverything.ca – the “Pet Store” in Stratford, ON on Corcoran Street.The owner will proudly take you on tours of their makeshift “pet store” telling the world “Yes, I am a puppy mill!”and their “quarantine” area. They think they’re in the animal business, what they’re NOT is qualfied in any veterinary sense to be keeping the ill ones in their back room instead of sending them to an animal clinic. They lie to their customers and let the dogs die from malnutrition/ being taken from their mothers too soon, and that’s only what happened to me after we put a downpayment on a dog and went back to get it. The owner’s wife is aggressive and violent and says the Perth SPCA “Are her best friends” where complaints being filed are concerned. Don’t buy their animals and for God’s sake, breeders, sell them privately and humanely! They’re famous for taking your *downpayment* and then accepting higher prices from other buyers. Suddenly, your dog is “dead” when you go in to get it!
If you go into these places and the animals look unhealthy, SPCA says to call them, that they aren’t allowed to go in without *cause*. But if SPCA is the “best friend” of the perpetrators, then don’t expect anyone to look after the animals’ health and welfare!
What I have is a heartbroken kid who wanted to work to buy a puppy who has been devastated by this unprofessional dump’s cruelty and desperation for money!

By: pookie

pookie — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:19:04 +0000

I do think it is very hard to adequately care for more than ten dogs, let alone fifty and limitations are a good idea to reduce the risk of mistreatment, but the dog lady is right. 23 hours in a cage is rediculous. I can maybe see it working in a play pen with other dogs, but not in a crate. But in either case they are pottying inside and that’s really unsanitary and unhealthy. The dogs never get potty trained that way. The law is almost allowing mistreatment and defeating its own purpose.

By: Karen Young

Karen Young — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:08:24 +0000

While I agree with the general purpose of the bill #5651, I see no separation of breeders who breed primarily for show. These breeders provide excellent care for their dogs because they are trying to better the breed. They do sell puppies to the public but only because these puppies, although healthy, may not be to up to the standards of the breeder.
To regulate how many sexually active dogs these show breeders may own is to hamper their efforts at breeding excellent, healthy show dogs. There needs to be careful selections for the breeding in bloodlines yet also careful observations to avoid inbreeding. If breeders are only allowed 10 sexually active dogs and no more than 50 dogs total this would be an extreme hardship on the legitiment show breeder.
Any legislation must protect the animals but also provide the show breeder leeway for the breed standard. Puppy mills should be put out of business but good breeders should not be hampered nor harrassed.