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I under stand the feel-good driving force behind this. But isn’t this essentially just a protection racket baring pet stores from competing against dog breeders
by talltimtom 8y ago
I under stand the feel-good driving force behind this. But isn’t this essentially just a protection racket baring pet stores from competing against dog breeders?
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI'm not sure where you're coming from. Where do pet stores got their animals from before this law? If anything it's the opposite, providing a solution for pet shelters that have too many animals they can't rehome.
- Illniyar 8y agoI think he's saying that now people would go to the breeders directly instead of the pet stores to buy pets, which I assume isn't disallowed by the law.
- casefields 8y agoI mean dog breeders are no better or worse than drug dealers. There's bad ones, good ones, there's some with better product and some with worse product. Dogs and cats are property and don't have some natural rights or some such nonsense.
- tertius 8y agoI guess you could replace "drug dealers" with "grocers" if your emphasis is not on the thing being sold as being bad for you?
- mcguire 8y agohttp://www.chicagonow.com/raining-cats-dogs/2016/09/where-do-pet-store-puppies-come-from/ http://www.chicagonow.com/raining-cats-dogs/2016/09/where-do...
- matwood 8y agoMost pet stores get dogs from puppy mills, and not what many would think of as a breeder.
- justtopost 8y agoI see them as one and the same. Breeders/Mills are a blight, but I don't see this doing anything but rewarding the worst of them with a bigger illegal market.
- matwood 8y agoI disagree. This move will put shelter pets in front of more people who otherwise might not even known about the horrible conditions that led to an animal being at the pet store. Those people who wanted something very specific will likely have gone to some breeder anyway.
- mbrumlow 8y agoDo shelter pets look different than non sheltered pets? I can only assume that any shop that wants to make any money is going to put the best looking animal out front regardless of its source.
- jjulius 8y agoI mean, they can. Breeders often focus on a specific breed (or breeds) of dog, and puppy mills will usually claim to do the same, even though many will crossbreed and not tell you. Shelter pups are likely to be more mutt-y than what you'd find at a mill or breeder, often with 5 or 6 different breeds of dog in it.
- eaenki 8y agoAfter reading a few of your comments on HN, I genuinely think you're insane.