What is a large-scale breeder? A vast difference exists between large-scale commercial facilities where breeding and selling animals is a full time occupation and a kennel in which a small number of intact animals is owned and maintained. When current Texas cruelty laws are enforced and dogs from a “large” facility are seized by authorities, details are widely aired by the media. Several large kennel seizures made the news in the past few years. In 2009 over 600 dogs were seized from a substandard kennel in Kaufman County. Yesterday the Dallas News reported a recent raid where 140 dogs were seized. It is logical to assume that the majority of the dogs in either kennel would be female, as the females produce puppies for sale. Even at an unlikely ratio of one female to one male the first kennel would have a minimum of 300 females (28 times the threshold of intact animals cited in HB 1451). The second kennel would have a minimum of 70 females (6.5 times the threshold of intact animals cited in HB 1451).
HB 1451 is part of an organized nationwide campaign by HSUS and has basically nothing to do with actual need in Texas. It is a relentless effort to place government restrictions on hunters and dog breeders until our sport, dogs, and hobbies are regulated out of existence.
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