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HSUS dog breeding act makes MO ballot
The initiative petition to place more restrictions on Missouri dog breeders has been certified by the Missouri Secretary of State’s office.
Missourians for the Protection of Dogs, a coalition of groups which includes the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), says enough signatures out of the 190,000 it submitted in May will put the issue before voters in November.
Karen Strange, the president of the Missouri Federation of Animal Owners (MO-Fed), one of the groups fighting “The Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act”, as it is named, says Missouri’s “legal licensed” dog breeders are already highly regulated and have to pass numerous inspections.
“This will eliminate many dogs from their kennels regardless of the excellent care,” said Strange.
The proposed changes to state law would limit breeders from having more than 50 breeding dogs, and, Strange says, wrongly places restrictions on how often licensed breeders can breed them.
“We don’t feel like a ballot initiative put forth by animal rights people should interfere with the relationship for the animals between the veterinarian and the breeder,” said Strange.
Mo Fed’s pending lawsuit against the proposal charges the ballot title is prejudicial and the summary misleading.
“The summary states that each animal will be provided with clean water and food and an exercise area and those are already required by state law,” said Strange.
The news release from Missourians for the Protection of Dogs says “lawmakers in Iowa and Oklahoma enacted puppy mill legislation in those states earlier this year, and after Missouri, they are the next largest dog breeding states in the nation.” Their release says 10 states approved legislation last year “to address puppy mill problems.”
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Not only do you need a copy of the PMI but get a copy of the Animal Care Facilities Act (ACFA) that regulates dog breeders already here in the state. The ACFA is available on the Mo Ag website. See what we already have before voting to have something that will do nothing but interfere with a person’s right to have a business.
How would you like it if someone came in and told you that you could only have 50 customers and must make your living off of those 50?
How would you like it if you were licensed to have a kennel, knew how to administer pills but had to go to a vet each time the dog needed a pill because the PMI prevented you from administering them? The PMI does this…it makes it illegal for kennel owners to administer medicines but a regular dog owner can without a vet’s supervision.
What is the PMI really about? About getting rid of dog breeders in Missouri as sponsored by the Alliance of which HSUS is part of. HSUS that lobbies to kill farms and animal agriculture.
Don’t thing that dogs are the end…they are only the beginning for radical terrorists to come and tell us how to treat our property.
Investigate…don’t take their word that this is benign. We already have a law on the books that regulates breeders. -
Look out, here comes the animal rights agenda of the HSUS.
The intent of the HSUS is to eventually do away with all animal ownership and only have a symbiotic relationship with animals. An HSUS Director in New York has already said they intend to come back in “subsequent years and lower the numbers”. This is just their foot in the door.
This is a very deceptive and powerful organization. I certainly hope the state gets together with it’s agriculture interests and fights them. It’s very important that a government organization gets the truth out to the public about the animal rights agenda of the HSUS before they can do more damage to our relationship with animals.
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What is wrong with the people in Missouri? Where are your priorities? Did you know that voting for this will give dogs better conditions than that of our very own children or elderly? Get HSUS out of our state. Lets put all this energy into helping our people instead of dogs. There are human beings living in worse conditions than dogs. There are already laws regulating the licensed dog breeders, they just need to be monitored. The state doesn’t even have the money to monitor what they have now, how are they supposed to handle more? If you think the economy is bad in Missouri now, just wait and see what happens if this passes. Missouri voters think about it there are other ways to handle this. Why does someone from DC have to come in change what we do in our state?
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Knowing that people are in trouble does not justify not helping other animals when one can. However, if there are already laws in the State that regulate dog breeders, they are not being enforced. The Inspector General’s report says that USDA breeders (I realize they are FEDERALLY permitted and inspected) are operating with violations in standards of care that never get corrected over years of inspection. If MO also has a state inspection, how is this possible? Enforce the laws we have. No need for new ones when they ones that exist have not been proved effective or helpful and have been proved costly.
As a Missouri resident and a hobby dog breeder I have paid attention to this initiative. As writenn, this proposal would weaken the laws allready on the books!! As written this proposal would except all hunting dogs!( some 70 AKC reconized breeds) That means that a kennel could have 500 Golden Retrievers, or Labs, or Beagles, or Dachshunds and NOT be inspected. Do we really wnat that? Why can’t we enforce the 14 pages of laws on the books that speak to the proper care of campanion animals?
Where is the money to fund this proposed laws coming from? Estimates are that it will cost nearly $750,00 to start and nearly $500, 00 a year to run. Do we have that much just laying around?
Please before anyone votes forthis, GET A COPY OF THE PETITION AND READ IT!! Then deciede if it’s needed.