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Tougher laws are coming to New Jersey and Pennsylvania to help stop puppy mills. This article comes from, The Lansdale Reporter Online.
Elaine Brim says her dog Buddy is a "genetic mess."
She also says he's friendly, and makes for a good watchdog.
Buddy was "Mr. December" in a 2006 calendar featuring pets with disabilities, Brim said.
Buddy is paraplegic and uses his front legs to push himself around on a cart. He's a mixed breed or, as Brim described him, a "designer dog." He visits a veterinarian almost once a month, she said. In the two years she's owned Buddy, Brim estimates she's spent about $4,000 on vet bills - a large sum for a dog that is only about 5 years old.
When Buddy's previous owner grew too ill to care for him, Brim adopted him through an animal rescue group in Maryland. During the adoption process, Brim learned Buddy had been purchased originally from a pet store. She's not sure which one. "But I'm 90 percent certain he came from a puppy mill," said Brim, a retired psychiatric nurse clinician living in Upper Salford.
Pennsylvania has been called the "puppy mill capital of the East Coast." However, that unfortunate designation could soon change. Proposed legislation circulating in Harrisburg would toughen the state's dog laws and apply other regulations designed to improve conditions under which dogs are bred and sold.
According to the Humane Society, more than 400,000 people buy puppies online every year, most without ever having actually seen the pet. But while the internet can be a convenient and economical way to buy a puppy, as an INSIDE EDITION investigation found, it can also lead to heartbreak
Eleven-year-old Casey Poore learned the hard way how risky it can be to buy puppies over the internet. Her parents ordered a King Charles Cavalier puppy from brushycreekkennel.com. The dog cost $1000 dollars less than what local breeders were charging.
Casey's dad, Dan Poore, told INSIDE EDITION that they worked out all the arrangements, sent the company a check for the dog and went to pick him up at the San Francisco airport.
"I just wanted to like hug him forever," Casey told INSIDE EDITION.
But within days the puppy started coughing. They say they took him to the vet and found out that he had chronic lung disease, so they sent the puppy back.
It took nine months, but Brushy Creek finally sent a new puppy.
This survivor story reprtinted from www.ittybittydachshunds.com, regarding Keystone Kennels USA, aka Miniature Dachshunds of Georgia, Dixieland Kennels, in Canton, Georgia.
This is the story of our Miniature Dachshund, Scrabble, and our terrible experience with Keystone Kennel, now also known as Miniature Dachshunds of Georgia! Their domain name has also changed!
I can only wonder why there are so many changes in a business name...and you should wonder, too.
New Pennsylvania laws attempted to crack down on puppy mills but many of the provisions are getting push back from all sides.
Published: Jan 28, 2007
LANCASTER -
Nina Schaefer’s favorite is the one about “lateral recumbence.”
Buried deep in 67 pages worth of new dog laws proposed by state officials to crack down on Pennsylvania’s “puppy mill” problem is a provision governing the size of “primary enclosures” for kennels. They are, according to the proposed rule, to be big enough so that a dog may lie in a “lateral recumbence” — on its side or back with legs fully extended — without any part of its body, tail, feet or head touching any side of the enclosure.
“Haven’t they ever seen a dog lie down?” asks Schaefer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Dog Clubs. “Any time I’ve ever seen a dog lying with its legs sticking straight out, it’s dead.”
It is, she said, all too typical of the proposed new rules, which she and other critics say appear to have been written by those with little background in animal husbandry, in the intent of putting breeders out of business.
“Honestly,” said Schaefer, “you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”
Instead of doing either, breeders, dog clubs and others have gotten angry, deluging the state Department of Agriculture with comments and complaints about the new rules, which could go into effect this year.
This story comes from a brave woman who summoned her courage and stood up for dogs being sold in freezing temperatures in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Read her story about how a single person can take a few minutes out of their day to help stop puppy mills! Another point of light.
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