This last summer season of music festivals has been notable for large scale drug dog operations.
The PUPS Act would require all large-scale dog breeders who sell more than 50 dogs per year to be federally licensed and inspected.
Yet, in the two Bali regencies (districts) where a large-scale dog vaccination program was instituted, there have been no human rabies cases.
Prop B, known as the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, has set in place common-sense, enforceable standards for large-scale dog breeding facilities throughout the state of Missouri.
The owner of a large-scale dog breeding operation near the city of Greenville agreed Tuesday to relinquish 117 animals — 93 adult dogs, 22 puppies and two cats — to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas, a local animal welfare agency that operates shelters and spay-and-neuter clinics.
He needs to roll up his sleeves and look carefully at the report we issued this week on Missouri puppy mills -- short-haired dogs shivering in the cold, dead dogs among the living, feces-caked enclosures, animals matted beyond belief, and all of it documented by government inspectors at state and federally licensed large-scale dog breeding facilities.
Joe the Plumber, who found his name repeated again and again by Barack Obama and John McCain during one of the 2008 presidential debates, has somehow bubbled up, like some kind of backflow, into the debate over Proposition B, the ballot measure to bring commonsense standards to large-scale dog breeding operations in the largest of the puppy mill states.
The USDA's Office of Inspector General issued a report in May 2010 that condemned USDA's inspections programs for large-scale dog breeders and recommended that all large-scale commercial dog breeders, including those that sell over the Internet, should fall under USDA's regulatory authority.
A puppy mill is a large scale commercial dog breeding operation where dogs live in cages and are bred repeatedly, producing puppies to be sold in pet stores across the country – and online throughout the world.
The disease is highly endemic in western China, especially in Tibetan areas, because of poor economic development and hygiene conditions, limited community knowledge of CE, a large scale of dogs, and home slaughtering of livestock.
