this bill does not make sense. what are we trying to protect? Certainly not the welfare of the properly bred dog! Let's look at the bill already in force and enforce it!!!
I am a breeder of quality large breed show dogs whose life expectancy isn't nearly as long as some of the smaller breeds. I'm always looking ahead to produce my next show baby and what I may want to keep from the next litter or two. I will not have a government agency telling me how I breed my show dogs and what is best for them when they don't have any idea of what is best for my dogs. I follow my National Breed Club's code of ethics when it comes to breeding, and selling puppies which does everything to protect breeder, purchaser and the dog through solid breeding practices and rules. No puppy is ever wholesaled, homes are always approved, and contracts are always signed. Should that not be good enough? I follow testing of parents before breeding, raise them in my home, and sleep in the whelping box with my puppies in my home for the 1st weeks of their life. My dogs, my babies will NEVER BE KENNELED AS USDA WOULD purport though this legislation.
I have written our National Club and asked their position without response as I have requested the response from our AKC delegate without response. I can't believe that AKC would encourage us to support legislation that is a.) not definitive, b.)requires licensing by USDA, and strips the freedom from the responsible breeders. Do you believe for a minute this will control the puppy mills out there? No, they will simply go underground, continue to breed what they breed and not register their litters, hence avoiding all of this to begin with.I regret that if AKC dosen't back the breeders on the breeders and oppose this legislation, there will be a divided AKC where registrations of litters will drop and the sport of dog shows will be severely curtailed until another recognized US registry club is established and backs responsible breeders.
AKC NEEDS TO STEP UP AND OPPOSE THIS LEGISLATION AND PRESERVE OUR RIGHTS AS RESPONSIBLE BREEDERS OF
As a breeder who raises wonderful dachshunds and is more than responsible, I oppose this law. I believe it will punish those of us who are hobby breeders raising wonderful animals for show and pet purposes. We oppose this legislation. You should go after the puppy mills... people who have 60 dogs and 40 litters a year.
Sen Santorum, you are a Republican who is suppose to stand for keeping the Gov out of private lives. These USDA facilities you speak of are nothing more than Gov approved puppy mills mass producing inferiour animals. Leave the hobby breeders alone or you will not get my vote again.
I am a breeder of AKC Pomeranians. I am breeding for AKC Standards in the solid and Parti color poms. My goal in breeding them are for the show ring. When I sell a puppy I am extremely picky on who my babies go to...I require their vets # as the reference. And I do not have a problem in telling someone no you can't have one of my babies!
I am breeding to better the bred and feel I am very responsible when it comes to placing my kids.
You may be supporting the positives in this bill but what about the negatives that will impact breeders such as my self. My dogs are not kenneled dogs they are part of my family and live in my home with me. They are kept clean groomed loved and attended to daily by me.
Part of this bill says that they will have to be in kennels outside and no furniture allowed in the kennels. Now tell me which way if you were a dog would you like to live? I was just inspected by AKC for the first time in June and the AKC rep was very impressed with the way I keep my dogs...the way they looked...He was also very impressed when I can anyone of my dogs by name and it came to me. They all greeted him at the door with love and they were not fearful. He also told me I was doing an extremely good job and to keep it up. It is breeders like me that will be affected badly by this bill and I feel my rights are going to be violated and not to mention my dogs rights will be violated because they will have to live like a dog in kennels instead of getting the one on one attention they get in my home!
Now YES I feel something should be done about Puppy Mills (people with many different kinds of dogs and just breeding to breed for a buck) & Brokers (people that are buying dogs from breeders at a low price not caring about the quality and selling them for a higher dollar just so they can make a buck) This is just not right. And if importing and exporting of dogs is a problem than I believe tighter laws and more restrictions should be enforced t
PAWS will only hurt the good caring responsible breeders. Its a infringement on our rights and will make it impossible to raise well socialized pets. We have local laws and don't need any new federal laws.
Please be aware of all the negative ramifications of this bill. In reality it hurts the very thing you probably think you are protecting. Puppies need to be reared and socialized in the home of the breeder. Would you promote the institutionalizing of newborn babies by passing legislation that would prevent raising a young child in it's home?
Only a politician could get this so wrong.
Deal with the real issue; puppy mills that destroy animals futures through poor breeding and socialization practices.
I completely oppose this bill!I don't want my right to raise a litter of pups inside my home taken away. Pups need socialization and constant care. This bill would stop this practice and all pups would then become unsocialized creating so many more problems we do not need.
Breeders also love animals and puppies and all adults need to be socialized and love, the house rotating gives each this opportunity, living in kennels 365 days a year is not acceptable. I love all animals and I'm a hobby breeder. This would seriously effect my interpersonal believes of how animals are treated.
AKC needs to stick with what they started many years ago a purebred dog registry. Quit butting into business that is not their business in the 1st place.
USDA already has a full enough plate.
Leave well enough alone!
As US citizens and voters, we urge US Senators and Representatives to oppose Sen. Santorum's PAWS 2005, SB1139/HB2669.
PLEASE DON'T PASS THIS BILL - DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE PUPPY MILLS NOT THE RESPONSIBLE HOBBY BREEDERS WHO TRULY CARE FOR THEIR DOGS AND PLACE THEM WITH RESPONSIBLE FAMILIES.
Please do not let this bill pass. If you truly love owning pets and loving them in your home as companions to your family, you do not want to support this bill. It is the way the Animal Rights Activists are attempting to get their foot in the door, so that in the future they can fight to limit the numbers produced per year, down to zero. They want to END pet ownership in the end. Not just breeding pets, but owning them. Please delve more into the true agenda of the ARA's to see that in the end, this bill will do the opposite of what it "appears" to be for. We the "hobby breeders" of the United States of America, do the BEST we can to produce well socialized, healthy and happy puppies for the buying public. This will end in the near future if this bill passes. Fight FOR hobby breeders, not against them. Go after the commercial dog breeders which is where the health and socialization problems come from. Do you want your "next" pet to come from them? Or from the caring and loving homes of hobby breeders?
you are opening the doors for more puppy mills, we thought the laws are trying to stop the mills* this bill is ging to hurt the caring snd honest breeders. please stop this bill.
This law will take away another of our freedoms, don't we have enough with all the terror going on? most of us stay at home now because of the threats. and need our dog for protection. If small breeders can not sell ther puppies to other people where will they get there love and protection and cimpanion ship especiall the older peope in the country, you are going for the rich again like they did in england with the yorky's they took away from the weavers,by putting such high tax on them the only one that could own them was the Queen..
This law MUST be stopped! I LOVE my bullies, they are fat, and happy, well kept and I breed to improve the breed and to show for the love of it and the breed. I feel the USDA is not looking at the REAL puppymills, THEY are USDA and in terrible shape, pups kept in ti=ny boxes barely enough room to turn around! Bred like chickens!
this bill will hurt small breeders who take the time to give proper care and socialization of puppies as opposed to the millers who just produce and produce.. with little care for the animals
I THINK INSTEAD OF WORRING ABOUT NEW LAWS WE NEED TO FIRST WORRY ABOUT THE LAWS THAT WE HAVE NOW AND HOW TO IMPROVE THEM TO BETTER UNITED STATES INSTEAD OF MAKING NEW ONES WE HOBBY BREEDERS DO THIS FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS WHY DOES EVERYONE WORRY ABOUT TAKING OUR LOVE OF SOMETHING AWAY ALL THE TIME DO THEY GET A KICK OUT OF IT? (DON'T PASS IT)
This is a giant onslaught in the continued erroding of our freedoms. This bill is not what it seems. It is under the guise of shutting down puppy mills, or checking into imports, but when you read the bill it has nothing to do with those issues, but instead it is about the AKC and the USDA controlling rights to our animals.
All the breeders affected by this bill will wind up paying a hidden tax in the form of paying to support the USDA coming into our homes to inspect our breeding.
I oppose this bill, as the focus should be on large puppy mills as the one a couple miles from me. They mass produce puppies in isolated situations and then shoot the ones that aren't sold as this is common practice for puppy mills as a biproduct and is legal. Dogs that are raised in the home have proper socialization and we do all the health and hip testing before we breed which I bet isn't the case in puppy mills. Better focus your efforts for the sake of the suffering animals that need better regulating.
This Bill has NOT been thought out. This will cause many problems down the road. As for myself and those I KNOW. WE OPPOSE !ledgislationSB1139/HB266 9 We feel it infringes on our rights as private citizens !!!!!
To pass a law and expect to change it to suit home hobby breeders is insane. This bill is being pushed hopeint it will be changed at some date in the future.
please reject this bill. It will hurt the good breeders out there, the small time hobbiest, that is trying to improve the quality of pets. Many breeders breed for the enjoyment and betterment of the breeds they raise. Not everyone is in it for the money. PLease put your time and efforts where they are needed, and think of the world without pets at all, because if things keep going that is what it will be. A petless world.
I purchased my dog from a hobby breeder and wouldn't have had it any other way. When I picked him up he had been held and loved everyday by people that loved and cared about him. They even taught him how to recognize his name before we took him home. This would have never happenend in a large breeding organazition. Please don't pass this bill.
We should encourage "home" breeders over puppy mills. A dog whose parents were carefully selected and whose earliest weeks were in a loving environment with a lot of human contact tend to have fewer problems with aggression and therefore are less likely to end up abandoned or placed in shelters.
Puppy mills however, are horrific places that tend to create neurotic dogs with special training needs and often have health problems created by improper crating and/or inbreeding.
We understand the concern that this bill addresses, but it tends to punish the very people who are responsible breeders and reward those whose sole interest is often FINANCIAL. Many small breeders are trying through well defined breeding programs to address issues of health, temperment and overall breed improvement. We need to support this effort, not punish it. And at this time the Government does not need to add another facet of inforcement to its over burdened system.
As a Raw Feeding Breeder of competition Aussies, I do NOT support the PAWS 2005, SB1139/HB2669. I raise my puppies in my home and spend hours socializing them for the obed. ring. Government agencies need to ENFORCE the current animal laws. We HEALTH TEST our breeding animals...unlike Puppy Millers!
This legislation has not been thought through. It would make conditions for many cats and dogs raised in homes worse, and inadequate for the healthy upbringing of happy, healthy, well socialized family pets. It is critical that this not be passed.
PAWS and other legislation like it actually hurt the resposible breeders and help puppy mills. There is enough legislation already. We just need someone to enforce what is already in place.
This bill will hurt the hobby breeders. Although it is aimed at those that breeder many dogs in a year there is nothing to prevent that this number will not be reduced in the future to include those who breed only one or two litters a year.
This bill, if enacted into law, will not do anything to control puppy mills. There are already laws in effect to monitor them. The USDA recently gave a loan to the largest puppy mill of them all, Hunte Corp! Hobby breeders & cat fanciers, which this bill attacks, raise pups in a home environment to ensure proper socialization, temperment, health, and other facets. Applying USDA restrictions to hobby breeders will force us to raise them in kennels, rather than the home. Please stop this bill from becoming law!
This ammendment will push more greedy people to breed unregistered dogs, cut corners for vet care, and try to hide their kennels. It is bad legislation for both the dogs and the good breeders who are already strapped doing things the right way.
