As per George Eigenhauser: PAWS requires government inspection of the residences of hobby breeders, who are already regulated by local authorities. By expanding USDA inspections into hobby breeders' homes, it will stretch USDA resources and diminish their ability to concentrate on large-scale commercial and interstate animal raising and transportation.
Educate, don't legislate. Another bad bill that will hurt the good guys while the mills keep on going. Money talks with this one. Stop taking away our rights, if bills like this continue the AR people get their way and we won't be able to own any kind of pet anymore.If importation is the problem, concentrate their first.
This bill targets hobby breeders not where the issue lies -- with places
like puppy farms.
My family and I raise our animals because we love to do it and not for profit or at the animals expense. This is something my family does together in an attempt to promote
family values and learn life lessons.
The proposed bill will cause more problems to those who are rightous, rather than target those in the wrong! Drop this bill rather than destroy those that breed properly and for the right reasons.
PAWS will show legislative intent to regulate ALL hobby breeders it needs to be opposed lest the ARAs sue the USDA again Leave the AWA alone, just better enforce it. Most states already have laws that regulate commercial breeders that sell direct to pet owners, no need to stretch federal dollars. Hobby breeders cannot not afford the expense of regulation we aren't breeding as a business.
To many laws for a suppose to be "FREE COUNTRY" push all the important ones, that saves lives to make a better place to live, go after the gangs and the bad, not innocent pet owners
"You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." LBJ
