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> Probably most of the dogs too TFA says that those countries represent 6% of dog imports.
by fra 5y ago
> Probably most of the dogs too
TFA says that those countries represent 6% of dog imports.
- alisonkisk 5y agoSo where do imported dogs come from? Canada? Also, > Hundreds of these dogs had fraudulent rabies certificates, Isn't this most easily fixed by requiring a post-immigration rabies shot?
- jcranmer 5y agoI assume it's mostly people who treat their pets as children, which is largely a Western phenomenon. So, yeah, Canada's probably a large source, as would be most of Western Europe.
- Dylan16807 5y agoWe're talking about people that are moving? You don't have to treat your pet like a child to take it with you when you move...
- jcranmer 5y agoThe counterpoint I'd use is the way my grandparents treated their dogs: they were working animals, not pets. Never to be let in the house; their job is to watch the sheep in the barn or the fields, and being in the house is counterproductive for that. And, presumably, if you were moving transoceanic, you'd just get new guard dogs at your destination just like you'd get new sheep at your destination.
- Dylan16807 5y ago"not even a pet" is a level all on its own. If it is a pet, an extra hundred to couple hundred dollars is not much compared to all the other costs of moving. Just vaccinations and neutering could be as much for a replacement.
- h2odragon 5y agoI know some working livestock dogs; they'd be upset to be taken from their herd, they wouldn't be to worried about switching people.
- makomk 5y agoProbably people moving to the US from places like Europe (which is quite big, even though the individual countries in it are small - I know the US press used the small size of individual countries to play some slimy games with their Covid-19 related comparisons from time to time).
- johncessna 5y agoThere's, apparently, a really interesting world of dog importing. I wonder if this was the paper that prompted this decision. http://www.naiaonline.org/uploads/WhitePapers/USDA_DogImportReport6-25-2019.pdf http://www.naiaonline.org/uploads/WhitePapers/USDA_DogImport...