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And the chicken tax is about chickens. Cute velociraptors that cluck and lay eggs. Even though it is actually about installing fake seats in trucks. https://
by nzmsv 5y ago
And the chicken tax is about chickens. Cute velociraptors that cluck and lay eggs. Even though it is actually about installing fake seats in trucks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
And condescension is about pretending the other person is dumb and explaining to them that the sky is blue and water is wet.
And American superiority is about somehow assuming that people in other countries don't know how to vaccinate against rabies.
- carapace 5y agoPeople are importing dogs with forged rabies certificates. This isn't some conspiracy to gouge dog lovers.
- nzmsv 5y agoWell, not a conspiracy exactly, but I seriously doubt that someone paying $2000 for a puppy would refuse to pay $100 for all the necessary shots and an international veterinarian pet passport. Why are they going abroad in the first place? Because the same puppy goes for $20000 in the US. $3000 (with vaccines and round trip flight) is still less than $20000. This is not in any way theoretical by the way. People do this. Most will still go to the vet and comply with all the regulations once in the US. They are just looking to save a few bucks.
- carapace 5y agoSorry for being condescending. I really don't know anything about the international dog trade so I can't comment on what people would or wouldn't do. (Twenty thousand dollars for a dog? Does it talk or grant wishes or something!?) My response was more based on the hope I have that the CDC hasn't been compromised by the profit motive over their mission to prevent disease.
- nzmsv 5y agoThat kind of money (and I'm approximating here) is for a dog with all the documents and one that can be used for breeding (not neutered/spayed). So in a way it's an investment. I'm very skeptical of the motivations in this case. Many countries use disease control as an excuse to implement economic policies. I doubt that the US is immune.
- carapace 5y ago> That kind of money (and I'm approximating here) is for a dog with all the documents and one that can be used for breeding (not neutered/spayed). So in a way it's an investment. I see. > I doubt that the US is immune. Ugh, that pun! I'm slain. :)
- nzmsv 5y agoGlad you enjoyed it :) I'm not into purebred dogs myself, just heard about this. One other thing that breeders must do is periodically "refresh" the gene pool. In order to do this they track down other breeders with dogs/cats of the same breed but with distant lineage (so usually in another country) and buy an animal. I've heard stories of an inexperienced breeder buying a puppy whose parents actually came from a kennel in the same town (and of course paying a ton to import said dog). You can imagine how much this new regulation is going to hurt the gene pool of the purebreds.