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Yeah, I had seen this... My blood boils every time I see this...

This Deborah Howard is a blithering idiot. She obviously doesn’t know anything about purebred dogs and how they are bred, cared for, etc. by most hobby breeders. She cannot distiguish between puppy mills and reputable breeders.

This whole thing just needs to be totally repudiated.

If they implement this, it will kill our breed, as it will eliminate getting in new bloodlines from out of the country, and will eliminate placing and getting dogs outside of your local area. She must think that dogs should only be local and should have no interaction outside of your house. It is unbelievably stupid. These people have not clue on how to do anything but destroy other people’s livelihoods...

I had not known about the fines and restrictions on imports until that article, that's even more disgusting. Actually, if you look at the link, you will see the author of the article who believes this is a GOOD thing on there arguing with some breeders who have posted. The person does not believe it will harm anyone but commercial kennels :-O The amazing thing is she isn't reading the legislation and comprehending it!!!

The fact is that how it is written puts anyone from the SMALLEST hobby breeder that "sells over the internet" to the largest puppy mills that are most likely ALREADY inspected. I am not feeling up to logging onto my kennel Facebook account and debating though, but if this goes through I do not know what I am going to do even though I have not shipped pups, I wanted to keep that option open should the economy turn worse. I am assuming that you would not even be able to take a deposit to hold a pup "sight unseen".

It seems to me that in a way, this would actually PROMOTE a local puppy mill. Rather than the internet, they would have to resort to selling their dogs locally in the classifieds, possibly for a cheaper price, and then producing more of them.