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A very very long and cold winter. We always protest peacefully we always hold our signs are we always have our back up i keep a folder with all the information i have handouts for people that are very exact shawl and we dont tell anyone thats the biggest thing. My few friends and i started going around to the mills and i on experiencing it firsthand so our local store is diabetics that shop and we went in there and we saw the puppies and asked them and our 1st they were like from a breeder and they were very open about it and so we asked if we could contact them and so they gave us their card and we made an appointment and we went and we visited the mill and it was it was awful. Well in iowa in general we have the negative temperature and the very very High Temperature and the dogs are forced to live in that 247 and so our protests are every single week and no matter what the weather today we are very sick folks to be positive temperatures when i left my house this morning with the wind chill it was negative fortys this is cold its not our coldest it is average when 0000 but usually air protests are between 2 people and 10 people every lead just depends on the weather and what we all have going on it is a priority to everybody and we have several people that travel from out of town to get here 2 years is a long time to think that weve been in front of here this is where we hang out young people hang out in front of 5 stars on saturdays and we only had to be out here for 2 hours and the dogs are have to be out here all the time. Dogs in the shelters believe. That its going to dress differently. And i think its going to take an untrained people become more aware of what what a puppy mill means and what these dogs in the store actually do or i like to say that its a Ripple Effect and i advocate one person who knows how many other people they will tout and so if we can all educate our Little Corner of the earth that some day we will not have these problems because once the public really knows whats going on they will support and. No matter how upset i am i know the dogs have at times where its so ive never even considered giving up its never been an option and i will use my voice because we dont mind i will keep doing it and tell there are no money. Until recent chain. Does the only federal regulations governing commercial dog breeding date back to the passing of the Animal Welfare act or a. W. A. In 1966 the a. W. A. Defined a commercial dog breeder as one who maintains 4 or more breeding female dogs and sells the offspring into wholesale channels any breeder or Retail Pet Store in gauged in the direct sale of dogs to the public was exempt from the a. W. A. Let me clarify that a little bit the Animal Welfare act only requires that we do annual inspections on Research Facilities so there is no requirement for the other entities that we regulate. But every facility thats either licensed or registered with us is assigned a minimum inspection frequency we have a risk based Inspection System so based on the risk of finding noncompliance risk of Animal Welfare concerns the facility may be assigned a frequency of once a year twice a year 3 times a year whatever that system a science to it the a. W. A. Does not require yearly vet check ups access to exercise socialization or protections against extreme heat or cold and allows both wire flooring and stackable cages. For the Animal Welfare act is passed and it requires humane standards of care for dogs raised in commercial breeding establishment and they require as of the department of agriculture go out and inspect these facilities and make sure that theyre complying with these regulations i always refer to the regulations that we have today with the u. S. D. A. As survival standards if you comply with the centers of care the dogs will probably. Visit humane no right now and u. S. D. A. Regulations a dog requires 6 inches of living space bigger than the dog itself and youre talking about a dog is living in that space for its entire lives and that are part of agriculture really is there promote american agriculture its not an impartial sort of entity that is neutral you overseeing the laws and for years u. S. D. A. Was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the Agriculture Sector who started raising puppies and started operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio has any breeder been forced out of this. Standing violations of the Animal Welfare act if they choose to no longer pay u. S. D. A. License its because they chose not to renew their license not because inspectors came out to actually revoke that license i never heard of a regulator coming to pennsylvania no one was getting shut down the feeling of the industry was very we dont have to worry about it so frankly their doors were pretty open the so often if a breeder some violation of the Animal Welfare act they get a slap on the hands and when they get a slap on the hands. Off and it is months following the violation and theyre given an opportunity to correct the violation and sometimes it may be days months before that inspector returns to ensure that the violations been corrected on its very rare that they will be given a fine that is truly impactful to their bottom line so they factor it in as a cost of doing business in foresman of the Animal Welfare act has been horrendous in the end for many many years and just 2000 to do their own office of Inspector General issued a very doable report on how terrible their inspections were they documented inspectors walking by dogs and just leaving of there you know that writing up these people and putting them out of business is spent really really bad the Inspector General found several major problems with them foresman of the a. W. A. Including finding a massive loophole that allowed breeders to sell puppies over the internet without a license and delaying confiscation of suffering animals to give violators a final opportunity to take corrective action before confiscation can occur even in extreme cases where animals are dying is called the Animal Welfare or you know its not the kennel really well for if its the animals and yet even some of the good inspectors were there inspectors it made sure that the building was clean and they had good shelter from the extreme. Temperatures but the dogs of. The photo a lot of the focus of that was on inconsistency in some of the things our inspectors were citing and the length of time it took to get to enforcement so we put. Some an intensified training in place for our inspectors some a different oversight of our inspection process and work with our branch to find different ways to expedite the enforcement process since and weve also worked on some nontraditional or non Regulatory Solutions if we can help somebody come into compliance without having to resort to enforcement action and get those animals in a better welfare situation quicker thats what were going to do. Since being elected in 1907 senator dick durbin has introduced legislation in every session that would dramatically improve the lives of dogs in commercial kennels and would close the internet loophole. The way people sold dogs changed and has it changed it was no longer going to the individual breeder oh longer just going to the store now was online sales and they were exempt from the kind of regular inspection that would protect the puppies and their mothers so we had to make sure that our bill really filled the scale up and provided the protection for those online sales and the pups that were part of it even in the midst of the hyper partisanship of the u. S. Senate on the issue of puppy mills senator durbin found willing partners on the republican side of the aisle my 1st cosponsor was Rick Santorum one of the most conservative republicans from pennsylvania he was on this boat with me and then after he left the senate i had senator vitter from louisiana another very conservative senator so it turns out that when it comes to humane treatment of animals and dogs in particular this is very bipartisan if a bill like pops went to the floor of the house or the senate it would be an overwhelming. A vote for the measure it would be 9095 yes votes in the senate you know be 400 or so yes votes in the house out of 435 the problem is on Animal Welfare legislation the congress is that many of the bills you get tracked to the house and Senate Committees on agriculture and those committees are populated by the most rural lawmakers aligned with the biggest agribusiness interests in the United States. 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Hes a push on the machine he will ship by to expose me in the ocean touch a little to the pollution and then theres nothing. To globalization be dollars a share you know thats happening as the world is kind of drifting apart in a lot of different ways we look into it because theres an Economic Force behind it as always. Throughout the years members of the Senate Agriculture committee have received enormous Campaign Contributions from as. Agriculture giant including months sento tyson smithfield and cargill the sides these direct contributions each of these corporations spent millions of dollars each year lobbying congress. Seemingly afraid of how a theoretical slippery slope protecting dogs in puppy mills could hurt their operations corporate agriculture sided with commercial breeders they get loads of Campaign Cash from these agribusiness groups because thats the funnel for the legislation that these agribusiness groups want who doesnt want to protect docs and yet somehow interest to find a way to twist it around and make you scared into voting against those commonsense positive Public Policy is they typically oppose any Animal Welfare legislation because they think theyre going to be next and they think that if you have a society that is incrementally building Animal Welfare standards its eventually going to lead the society to examine their thought even with strong public support for common sense changes to the Animal Welfare act none of these bills were allowed out of committee recognizing the original intentions of the a. W. A. And the advent of commercial breeders selling exclusively over the internet the u. S. D. A. Moved on their own to update the regulations so the administration seeing the enormous number of senators and u. S. Representatives backing the legislation and getting hundreds of thousands of comments from h. S. U. S. Members and other Animal Welfare advocates they finally passed a rule to bring these internet sellers under the Regulatory Authority of u. S. D. A. Before the change in regulations nearly 7500 facilities across the United States were subject to inspection. Besides commercial breeding facilities this includes Research Facilities zoos circuses marine parks transport vehicle television and Film Productions involving animals state fairs camel rides petting zoos elephant right and traveling and or roadside zooms. In 2013115 u. S. D. A. Inspectors conducted between 1011000 inspections on these various facilities approximately 3000 of those inspections were conducted on commercial dog breeding facilities since this change in policy will now also require commercial breeders selling on the internet to obtain a license the u. S. D. A. Estimates that there will be up to 4600. 00 additional new facilities under their inspection umbrella based on their own projections a total of between 1012000 facilities will now fall under the inspection provisions of the Animal Welfare act this change will increase the workload of their 115 inspectors by merely a 3rd. The u. S. D. A. Has no plans to add additional inspectors i think since there will be came into effect the number one way that weve gotten contacts are peoples names as people suffer porting we do we have looked at breeder registries to get i did get numbers we watch the internet a look at. Marketing promotional things from folks that sell over the internet so this is a good move for dogs that its now part of the Animal Welfare act but again our questions going to be how are you going to enforce that because youre having a very difficult time in forcing a law that was already in place and now weve just added a new dimension to it and weve got 115 people. Stationed across the country to do our inspections. Their workload is prioritized by risk based system so we get them to those places where theyre most needed and at this point in time we do feel like we have resources to be successful in doing this you know i worry about that were the time were coming back and spending appropriations in every direction and they say they have enough to get started but i want to keep an eye on it even documented u. S. T. A. Inspectors who had their old puppy mill themselves documented supervisors of inspectors who were out working as roofers during the day and theyre supposed to be out check you know their inspectors and the enforcement was absolutely atrocious and has bad since the inception of the act and it was just recently in the last couple years that u. S. D. A. Has really turned around and started to enforce the laws but on the books since 1007 were seeing a closing of this loophole that allowed internet sellers and we just have to continue now with our effort to educate the public that the best place to get holes is a shelter or rescue group or a responsible breeder who is really treating the mother dog like a pet and not a breed. Machine. Usually have a number so he actually has a tattoo on his ear as hes optioned and thats my bird its not that my business name once we got him he was shaking a lot because he didnt know what to do he was trapped in this tiny little wired cage. We dont need a crate with him he will stir freaking out and she wont let us read even anywhere near a. Lot of the meaning. Of email be mailed. Me ask me i am going on well now camarines ill be known as i guess thats me and i see why no one out there let me know. And i said well so are these really really cute nice. To me about years ago and these 2 in here came from a hoarding situation in philadelphia we took in 39 a little blue show while our docs and makes this. Guy. Our our. Dog was probably about 9 months old even months old and the dog was so full of joy and just wanted to get out run around and the dog was down on the salvos playing in and it was in a rabbit hutch standing on wire but it desperately wanted to get out and. Can we take this dog no i just got the dog are breeding the dog im just starting to breed or so this was years ago and then every time we went back i would see this dog and the dog was getting older and older and he didnt want to anymore because she was in a good breeder and i was looking at her and her eyes were dead and within i would say about a month beast she started to come around and i could see the dog that i remembered from before and its a shame that had to go through all that you know her entire life just consisted of this misery. And we need people to start realizing that these poppy mills exist these puppies and pet stores come from puppy mills whether you believe it or not thats where your dog came from a puppy. Thing that needs to be crossed because theyre not rescuing or saving a puppy by by buying their dog what theyre doing is theyre sentencing the mother that dog to a lifetime of misery you know you know the general public doesnt stop by poppys i stop going to change its just its not going to stop ill be down as the day i die and i owe a lot i hope i hope i dont have to spend my days gonna save dogs we americans are treating dogs like members of the family we all love them in their beds to sleep at night we spend money on them we give them life saving better a care a society that values dogs is not a suicide its going to tolerate this abuse of dogs on puppy mills. Until the public is willing to forgo the purchase of a puppy on the internet or in pet stores no regulation will and the suffering of thousands of breeding dogs trapped in commercial mills across the United States and humane societies rescues them pounds millions of dogs are awaiting the chance to join a family if the general public decides to adopt and not shop the factory farming of puppies would and. The power really does lie in the people what we have as a movement is a 1000000 households who care about animals and who are willing to pick up the phone and being able to tap that power that is what should make any puppy miller terrified the other side has a much more difficult test theyve got to convince people that keeping dogs in confinement for their entire law is. Denying the vector exposing them to obtrude of even gold is an acceptable way to treat go these are elected officials and they work for us and were going to make sure they work for us we know were up against a lot of corruption and Consumer Fraud and animal cruelty but i think its every time you educate that one person that could be the next person who makes a difference at the state house or at the local level or even at the federal level such a case may gone. Home i do think its really important people if they see something going on especially i mean i mean just as they should bring it to peoples attention you know people to know whats going on out there and. They just do otherwise change is not possible. 20 years from now wed all like to look back and we know whats going to happen were going to what back and were going to say thank god we dont have anymore i cant believe the way we allow people to treat these dogs. God. God. Or god. My. I have. My. My. Little own little more or. 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