On Advocates hope for breeding rules
Posted on July 10 at 6:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
It isn't the license fee. It's the legislation. If licensed,inspectors could enter your home anytime durning regular business hours. Those who sell less than 50 pup/yr.have a job to pay our bills with. Those jobs are durning daytime hours. The puppy police could come, brake our doors down, fine us & steal all our dogs, just because we were at work, & not there to let them in.
The legislation does not include the "rules" that will go with the law if passed. Those rules will be made later. In a past version of this bill, that was passed but later pushed out; a year was spent making the "rules" to go with the pet facilities bill. It required impervious to moisture facilities, attached to a state approved sewer. I don't know one household in the State of Wisconsin that is impervious to moisture & could be hosed down with 180 degree water every 2 weeks. A breeder with a handfull of dogs, say 5 to 10 adult dogs total, would have to build a state approved building. Lets start with the cement slab, about $10,000 to $15,000, sewer, $4000 to $15000, insulated poleshed $20,000 to $40,000, heating, airconditioning, ventilation system. Are you getting the picture?? About $50,000 to $100,000 might build your state approved facility to keep your 5 to 10 dogs in. Now which residential zoned area in Wisconsin is going to let you put up this state approved dog facility??
All of you who want this bill, know that it is a breeder eliminator bill. It has nothing to do with the care of dogs.
Numerous sub-standard breeders, & rescue's have had their dogs confiscated in Wisconsin in the last few years. This was done with the current laws. Many of us do pay our taxes, including sales tax, even if we only sell 20 puppies in a year. I've had a sales tax number since 1985. I've known several smaller breeders who pay their taxes. Wisconsin has tax laws. No new law is needed to require breeders to pay sales tax. Enforce the ones that are there. Sales tax shouldn't be that difficult to enforce. A one sentence law requireing a sellers ID number to appear in any Wisconsin advertising would improve enforcement. Large dogs such as labs can have 10 to 13 puppies. Someone with as few as 3 adult dogs could be required to build a $50,000 facility to keep them in. A reasonable breeders law, would require a license, that is obtained after your premise is inspected by a veterinarian. If you pass the vet inspection, you get the license. No inspectors showing up anytime. No invasion of privacy. No cost to the state. All the state has to do is collect the license fees. A complaint driven warrent, should be the only way law enforcement is allowed to inspect your animals.
The wholesale breeders in this state are already UDSA inspected. The rule book is about 60 pages. You can look it up on the USDA Aphis pages. It's a huge bunch of rules. There is nothing the state can add to those rules to improve dog care. Go read them.
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On Wisconsin would regulate dog breeders under bill
Posted on September 27 at 1:14 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Did any of you go to the open public hearing? I did. It was a packed room, of about 250+ hate group. They viciously attacked breeders for 4 1/2 hrs. Numerous individuals representing their shelter, rescue's, plus the state vet called breeders horrible names. Small breeders are the worst actors with horrible facilities, who keep their dogs in the basement in small cages full of filth & feeces. You could feel the hate oozing out of this group of breeder attackers. A tiny number of us were breeders. I listened to one multi-breed breeder who had caved into the hate group before her testimony. She had signed up to speak against the bill, but was now for it. Too bad I didn't talk before her, it might have given her some confidence. Rescue after rescue talked of horribly sick, terrible tempermented dogs they saved. Nothing in the bill will protect the consumer from being stuck with these sick, vicious animals that the rescue's will sell them. Not ONE rescue mentioned a nice dog, that had lost it's home through no fault of it's own, which they had taken in & found a new home for. Not ONE good dog in the whole group.
The state vet emphatically expressed her contempt for small dog breeders. She works for DATCP. Do you think she would hire inspectors who will be fair to a small breeder?
24 puppies sold, you are exempt. 25 sold, without a license & you can face up to $10,000 in fines & 9 months in jail. Inspectors can enter your property anytime during regular business hours. I know NO ONE who can support themselves on selling 25 to 50 puppies in a year. Who can quit their job to sit home & wait for a inspector who hates you?
Small breeders have disappeared in my immediate area over the last 25 years. They have gone the way of the family dairy farm. Small farms are gone, replaced by a few big operations. Small breeders have been replaced by rescue's selling sick, damaged, vicious animals. The foster homes in suburban areas will not be inspected if the head of their group is licensed. They can bring large, vicious dogs into their homes to rehabilitate. Nothing protects the neighbor hoods from these dogs, who can snap a lead at the jerk of their head. Unbelievable, the amount of awful dogs these rescuer's talked about at the open public hearing.
Whatever happened to buying a nice, socialized, happy, healthy puppy from a small breeder with a health guarentee?
Unfortunately many good dog organizations have caved into the pressure. The average, single breed, purebred dog breeder has less than 25 puppies/yr. Many decided to compromise with those who hate them. They did not go to the hearing.