Topic
Puppy Mills
10 published works
Animal Law Update
Pet Store Sourcing Bans Do Nothing to Help Dogs or People Searching for Life-long Pets
The plethora of laws banning or limiting sales of dogs from pet stores to families seeking a dog for long term companionship, purportedly passed to shutter puppy mills, have done…
Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law
The Retail Pet Ban: A Blow to Illegal Breeders or to Small Businesses?
By Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law at WFU
By: Ashley Willard Purchasing your next furry family member from a pet store may soon become a relic of the past. In October 2017, California became the first state to…
Worms & Germs Blog
Puppy mills “rescuing” their own dogs: Creative loophole use
By Scott Weese
Chicago has a city bylaw banning pet stores from sourcing dogs from puppy mills (i.e. selling commercially-bred pets). So, what’s an enterprise puppy mill owner to do? Apparently they start…
Campylobacter Blog
Petland Poopy Puppies Sicken People with Campylobacter
By Bill Marler
CDC, several states, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) investigated a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter infections. Epidemiologic and laboratory evidence indicated that…
Animal Law Update
Requiring professional law enforcement oversight of animal cruelty investigations will actually help animals-banning humanely raised, healthy puppies will not.
Today, lawmakers in Trenton, New Jersey did not have the opportunity to reject an attempted override to Governor Christie’s condition veto of Senator Lesniak’s so-called “puppy mill bill,” one of…
The Right Coast
Harley’s Dream END Puppy Mills
On the brink of death, after spending 10 years living in a cramped, filthy cage in a puppy mill where he d lost an eye when his cage was power-washed,…
The Right Coast
Harley’s Dream END Puppy Mills
On the brink of death, after spending 10 years living in a cramped, filthy cage in a puppy mill where he d lost an eye when his cage was power-washed,…
Animal Law Update
My Turn: Why we should stop cities’ ‘puppy mill’ laws Guest Blog by Patti Strand
First published on April 3, 2016, 10:27 p.m. MST, at http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2016/04/04/puppy-mill-sb1248/82532418/ Republished with permission. My Turn: No one wants inhumane breeders to flourish. But puppy mill ordinances have unintended consequences…
Equine Law Blog
Cat Breeder Jim Smith Explains Evils of Texas Puppy Mill Bill In Response to Texas Tribune Article
By Alison Rowe
Audrey White of the Texas Tribune authored this news story concerning the federal lawsuit over the Texas Puppy Mill Bill. The article reports that the Humane Society of the United States and…
Worms & Germs Blog
Do you know where ‘that doggy in the window’ came from?
By Scott Weese
Nearly 700 dogs were seized in the largest puppy mill raid ever in Tennessee. Puppy mills are large scale breeding operations that produce large numbers of puppies under questionable to…