[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: New Pennsylvania Dog Legislation Wil...
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:35:59 -0400
> As far as the Cavalier breeder she mentions goes...he'd been there for
> years and years, breeding Pekingese and even, for a short time, Bouviers.
> The state (AND the AKC) knew all about him...he'd even lost a few court
> battles, including one where he'd stolen a dog (Boston Terrier),
> re-registered it under another name, and showed and finished it...the
> original owners, who were the breeders, took him to court for that and
> won, and the AKC refused to do a thing.
> The story there was that money talks...he had money behind him and was
> able to get away with doing horrible things for YEARS...e.g., keeping dogs
> in crates stacked 6 across and 5 or 6 high.......some of whom never got to
> go outside at all except to be bred and to whelp......
> the state inspectors (one of whom is now an AKC judge) did
> NOTHING........the only reason he was finally caught and put out of
> business is because a member of the public complained.
> If the State had enforced the laws it had he never would have been
> allowed to continue.. Same with the puppy farms. Payola works...more and
> more laws
> aren't going to change that.
> Governor Rendell is in the clutches of the ARistas--the Federation
> yaks and yaks and does nothing...the Federation member who is on the Dog
> Advisory Board has no clue about Animal Rights. One of the leading lights
> in the Federation was a PAWS advocate and isn't about to risk her
> "position" at the AKC by
> speaking out against things the AKC could care less about. So much for
> the Federation's "being on top of things." It's as much a mess in
> Pennsylvania as it is anywhere else...the hotshot Federation
> notwithstanding. As with most things, it's great to talk, but these
> people are protecting their own positions...especially within that
> Federation...
> PA has been a puppymill state as long as I can remember...and nobody
> is going to do anything to the bad breeders until they can smack the good
> ones, too.
> That's how it works. Puff indeed! The Advisory Board is a load of puff
> (for want of a better word) and so is the Federation.
> Rendell is going to sneak this latest bit of claptrap thru...without
> the comment period usually afforded proposed legislation, and then what?
> It's all fine
> to say none of it can be enforced...but that's a lot of baloney. They
> only have to enforce it once, and make it a big deal...and then ignore the
> rest, just as they
> ignored the Cavalier person for years. He sat there breeding Pekingese
> for 20 years and the State did nothing...the conditions were as bad or
> worse than they were with the Cavaliers.....even people in Canada
> knew....but the State ignored him until it was FORCED to do something.
>
> Peggy
>
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