temperatures when i left my house this morning with the wind chill it was negative 14 this is cold because on our coldest it is average with a low but usually air protests are between 2 people in every latest depends on the weather and what we all have going on it is a priority of everybody we have several people who travel from out of town to get here 2 years is a long time to think that we've been in front of here this week our young people hang out in front of 5 stars on saturday it's. real hard to be out here for 2 hours the dogs there have to be out here the top. dogs in the shelter and. there are a. lot of us were different. and i think it's going to be interesting to become more aware of what what a puppy no means and what the dogs in the store actually do or i like to say that it's a ripple effect and i advocate one person who knows how many other people they will

tower and so if we can all educate our little corner of the earth that someday we will not have these problems because once the public really knows what's going on they will not support any. matter how upset i am i know the dogs have it. so i'd never even consider giving up it's never been an option and i will use my voice because we don't have i will keep doing it and tell there are no more money. until recent changes the only federal regulations governing commercial dog breeding date back to the passing of the animal welfare act or a w. a in 1966 the a.w.a. defined a commercial dog breeder as one who maintains 4 or more breeding female dogs and

sells the offspring into wholesale channels any breeder or retail pet store in gauged in the direct sale of dogs to the public was exempt from the a.w.a. . let me clarify that a little bit the animal welfare act only requires that we do annual inspections on research facilities so there is no requirement for the other entities that we regulate. but every facility that's either licensed or registered with us is assigned a minimum inspection frequency we have a respect inspection system so based on the risk of finding noncompliance risk of animal welfare concerns the facility may be assigned a frequency of once a year twice a year 3 times a year whatever that system a science to it the a.w.a. does not require yearly vet check ups access to exercise socialization or protections against extreme heat or cold and allows both wire flooring and stackable cages. for the animal welfare act is passed and requires humane standards

of care for dogs raised in commercial breeding establishment and they require as of the department of agriculture go out and inspect these facilities and make sure that they're complying with these regulations i always refer to the regulations that we have today with the u.s.d.a. is survival standards if you comply with the centers of care the dogs will probably but is it humane no right now and u.s.d.a. regulations a dog requires 6 inches a living space bigger than the dog itself and you're talking about a dog is living in that space for its entire lives and that are part of agriculture really is there promote american agriculture it's not an impartial sort of entity that is neutral the overseeing the laws and for years u.s.d.a. was allied with the very interests that it was supposed to regulate including these folks within the agriculture sector who started raising puppies and started

operating puppy mills never in the state of ohio has any breeder been forced out of this. long. standing violations of the animal welfare act if they choose to no longer pay us to a license it's because they chose not to renew their license not because inspectors came out to actually revoke that license i never heard of a regulator coming to pennsylvania no one was getting shut down the feeling of the industry was very we don't have to worry about it so frankly their doors were pretty open the so often if a breeder said violation of the animal welfare act they get a slap on the hands and when they get a slap on the hands. off and it is months following the violation and they're given an opportunity to correct the violation and sometimes it may be days. before that inspector returns to ensure that the violations been corrected on it's very rare

that they will be given a fine that is truly impactful to their bottom line so they factor it in as a cost of doing business in force with the animal welfare act has been horrendous in the end for many many years in fact just 2000 to your own office of inspector general issued a very doable report on how terrible their inspections were they documented inspectors walking by dogs and just leaving of their you know that right enough these people and putting them out of business is spent really really bad the inspector general found several major problems with them foresman of the a.w.a. including finding a massive loophole that allowed breeders to sell puppies over the internet without a license and delaying confiscation of suffering animals to give violators a final opportunity to take corrective action before confiscation can occur even in extreme cases where animals are dying it is called the animal welfare you know it's not the the kennel really well for it it's the animals and yes even some of the

good inspectors were there inspectors in made sure that the building was clean and they had good shelter from the extreme. temperatures but the dogs of. the photo a lot of the focus of that. was on inconsistency in some of the things our inspectors were citing and the length of time it took to get to enforcement so we put. some an intensified training in place for our inspectors some a different oversight or inspection process and work with our branch to find different ways to expedite the enforcement process since and we've also worked on some nontraditional or non regulatory solutions if we can help somebody come into compliance without having to resort to enforcement action and get those animals in a better welfare situation quicker that's what we're going to do. since being elected in 1907 senator dick durbin has introduced legislation in every

session that would dramatically improve the lives of dogs in commercial kennels and would close the internet loophole. the way people sold dogs changed and has it changed it was no longer going to the individual breeder oh longer just going to the store now was online sales and they were exempt from the kind of regular inspection that would protect the puppies and their mothers so we had to make sure that our bill really filled the gap and provided the protection for those online sales and the pups that were part of it even in the midst of the hyper partisanship of the u.s. senate on the issue of puppy mills senator durbin found willing partners on the republican side of the aisle my 1st co-sponsor was rick santorum one of the most conservative republicans from pennsylvania he was on this boat with me and then after he left the senate i had senator vitter from louisiana another very

conservative senator so it turns out that when it comes to humane treatment of animals and dogs in particular this is very bipartisan if a bill like pups went to the floor of the house of the senate it would be an overwhelming yea vote for the measure there would be $9095.00 yes votes in the senate you know be 400 or so yes votes in the house out of 435 the problem is on animal welfare legislation the congress is that many of the bills get track to the house and senate committees on agriculture and those committees are populated by the most rural lawmakers aligned with the biggest agribusiness interests in the united states. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.

but. politicians do something to them. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to. have to go to the press this is what the full story in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the. west sydney. my feeling with this world is what now is we're so confused and fearful and this is certain generation that's controlling all the politics around the world when that generation dies off and children that are brought out in this new movie are less materialistic don't really care about these things don't even more automobiles want to live by the side job want to ride

a bicycle this movement is global and it's going the world is going to house to go this direction and it's going to change. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be seen if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more rope we give them the sooner we are all pain.

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to expose me in the shuttle to the polish. throughout the years members of the senate agriculture committee have received enormous campaign contributions from agriculture giant including months sent to tyson smithfield and cargill the site's these direct contributions each of these corporations spent millions of dollars each year lobbying congress. seemingly afraid of how a theoretical slippery slope protecting dogs in puppy mills could hurt their operations corporate agriculture sided with commercial breeders get loads of campaign cash from business groups because that's the goal for the legislation that these agribusiness groups want who doesn't want to protect ducks

and yet somehow interest to find a way to twisted around and make you scared into voting against those commonsense positive public policy is to be. we oppose any animal welfare legislation because they think they're going to be next and they think that if you have a society that is incrementally building animal welfare standards it's eventually going to lead society to examine their conduct even with strong public support for commonsense changes to the animal welfare act none of these bills were allowed out of committee recognizing the original intentions of the a.w.a. and the advent of commercial breeders selling exclusively over the internet the u.s.d.a. moved on their own to update the regulations so the administration seeing the enormous number of senators and u.s. representatives backing a legislation and getting hundreds of thousands of comments from h.s. u.s. members and other animal welfare advocates they finally passed

a rule to bring these internet sellers under the regulatory authority of us to before the change in regulations nearly $7500.00 facilities across the united states were subject to inspection. besides commercial breeding facilities this includes research facilities zoos circuses marine parks transport vehicles television and film productions involving animals state fairs camel right petting zoos elephant right and traveling and or roadside zoos. in 201-3115 u.s.d.a. inspectors conducted between 101-1000 inspections on these various facilities approximately 3000 of those inspections were conducted on commercial dog breeding facilities since this change in policy will now also require commercial breeders selling on the internet to obtain a license the u.s.d.a.

estimates that there will be up to $4600.00 additional new facilities under their inspection umbrella based on their own projections a total of between 101-2000 facilities will now fall under the inspection provisions of the animal welfare act this change will increase the workload of their $115.00 inspectors by newley a 3rd the u.s.d.a. has no plans to add additional inspectors i think since the real big came into effect the number one way that we've gotten contacts are people's names as people suffer porting we do we have looked at breeder registries to get i did get numbers we watch the internet a look at. marketing promotional things from folks that sell over the internet so this is a good move for dogs that it's now part of the animal welfare act but again our

question is going to be how are you going to enforce it because you're having a very difficult time in forcing a law that was already in place and now we've just added a new dimension to it we've got a 115 people. stationed across the country to do. our inspections. their workload is prioritized by a risk based system so we get them to those places where they're most needed and at this point in time we do feel like we have resources to be successful in doing this you know worry about that sort of time are coming back on spending appropriations in every direction and they say they have enough to get started and i want to keep an eye on it i even documented us yea inspectors who had their old puppy mill themselves documented supervisors of inspectors who were out working as roofers during the day they're supposed to be out check you know their inspectors i mean inforced was absolutely atrocious and has been since the inception of the act and it was just recently in the last couple years that u.s.d.a.

has really turned around and started to enforce the law it's been on the books since 1970 we're seeing a closing of this loophole that a lot of internet sellers and we just have to continue now with our efforts to educate the public of the best place to get an old as a shelter over a rescue group or a responsible breeder who is really treating the mother dog like a pet and not a breathing machine. usually of a number so he actually has a tattoo on his ear as he's auction in that neighborhood it's not that my business . once we got him he was shaking a lot because he didn't know what to do he was trapped in this tiny little wired cage. we don't need a crate with him he will just start freaking out and he won't let us bring him anywhere near.

me. abi no. ask me a little no i don't i'm rains i'll be known. yes that's. what i meant a little bit out there. and i said well so are these really really cute. these are all you know your body your skull and these 2 in here came from a hoarding situation in philadelphia and we took in 39 little blue show off docks it makes this. right. dog was probably about 9 months old even months old and the dog was so full of joy and just wanted to get out run around and the dog was down on its elbows playing in and it was in a rabbit hutch standing on wire but it desperately wanted to get out and i can we take this dog no i just got the dog are breeding the dog i'm just starting to breed

or so this was years ago and then every time we went back i would see this dog and the dog was getting older and older and he did wonder anymore because she was in a good breeder and i was looking at her and her eyes were dead and within i would say about a month beast she started to come around and i could see the dog that i remember her from before and it's a shame that she had to go through all that you know her entire life just consisted of this misery. and we need people to start realizing that these poppy mills exist these puppies in pet stores come from puppy mill us whether you believe it or not that's where your dog came from a puppy. thing that he's really trust because they're not rescuing or saving a puppy by by buying their dog what they're doing is they're sentencing the mother

of that dog to a lifetime of misery you know you know the general public doesn't stop buying poppies and stock on a change as it is it's not going to stop i'll be down this till the day i die and i owe a lot and i hope i hope i don't have to spend my days gonna save dogs we americans are treating dogs like members of the family we all love them in their beds to sleep at night we spend money on them we give them life saving better a care a society that values dogs is not a suicide it's going to tolerate this abuse of dogs on puppy mills. until the public is willing to forgo the purchase of a puppy on the internet or in pet stores no regulation will end the suffering of thousands of breeding dogs trapped in commercial mills across the united states and humane societies rescues impounds millions of dogs are awaiting the chance to join a family if the general public decides to adopt and not shop the factory farming of

puppies would and. the power really does lie in the people what we have as a movement is a 1000000 households who care about animals and who are willing to pick up the phone and being able to tap that power that is what should make any puppy miller terrified the other side has a much more difficult as they've got to convince people that keeping dogs in confinement for their entire law is. denying the vet or exposing them to a true t.v. gold is an acceptable way to treat go these are elected officials and they work for us and we're going to make sure they work for us we know we're up against a lot of corruption and consumer fraud and animal cruelty but i think it's every time you educate that one person that could be the next person who makes a difference at the state house or at the local level or even at the federal level

that sickens me gone. home i do think it's really important people if they see something going on especially i mean i mean just as it should bring it to people's attention you know people to know what's going on out there and. they just feel otherwise change is not possible. 20 years from now we'd all like to look back and we know what's going to happen we're going to what back and we're going to say thank god we don't have anymore i can't believe the way we allow people to treat these dogs.

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a. comment to snowman that looks a little bit like me. because i'm about. homicide want to. cry. work through this. that's. you're going. to go. in on a friday to try to try to give. snow goose something to do to. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also

a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more we give them the sooner we all. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business.

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