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Originally posted by Jeff Stanley:
<STRONG>Permission to cross post from Peggy Mickelson (AKC Judge)
. The ruling could potentially require every person who sells a
dog or cat for any reason to obtain a federal license and submit to federal
regulations. The AKC pointed out in its brief that this could expand
Federal licensing under the Animal Welfare Act from the current level of about
10,000 entities to several hundred thousands entities. The AKC estimated that
based on AKC registration data alone, nearly 300,000 persons could be required to
be licensed. More importantly, the AKC argued, it was clearly not the intent
of Congress in enacting the Animal Welfare Act to regulate non-commercial
hobby and show breeders, and that to make the sport of purebred dogs into a
federally regulated activity would undermine the very nature of the sport.
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Permission (and I urge you) to cross post</STRONG>
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I say HALLELULUJAH!!!! Anything that might cut down on indiscriminate breeding of dogs, YAHOO!!!!!
AND I believe any *reputable* breeder will have NO PROBLEM exceeding any "federal guidelines", let alone meeting them. JEEZUS!
Also...can anyone explain to me what is the
"sport" of purebred dogs, and how federal regulation will undermine that "sport"?????