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USDA strengthening federal authority over online pet sales This is going to make it more difficult for back yard breeder and puppy mills to avoid the regulations in place.
Forum Discussion
This is from the new rules.
This means people who breed and sell from their home where the buyers come to their home to see the pups will be exempt from the new rules, unless they ship pups at the point of sale then they cannot exceed the 4 females that can be bred. The rules are geared to control breeders who sell over the Internet and ship the pup such that the buyer never has the opportunity to see the pups, the other dogs, and the kennel in person.
This was a lawyer's take on these rules after reading the rules and listening to the USDA conference call.
http://www.bordercollie.org/boards/index.php?showtopic=35539&p=448210
These new rules may push more working Border Collies breeders (and other working dog breeders) to not sell to pet homes.
Retail pet store means a place of business or residence at which the seller, buyer, and the
animal available for sale are physically present so that every buyer may personally observe the
animal prior to purchasing and/or taking custody of that animal after purchase, and where only
the following animals are sold or offered for sale, at retail, for use as pets: Dogs, cats, rabbits,
guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, gophers, chinchillas, domestic ferrets, domestic farm
animals, birds, and coldblooded species. In addition to persons that meet these criteria, retail pet
store also includes any person who meets the criteria in § 2.1(a)(3)(vii) of this subchapter. Such
definition excludes—
(1) Establishments or persons who deal in dogs used for hunting, security, or breeding
purposes;
(2) Establishments or persons, except those that meet the criteria in § 2.1(a)(3)(vii),
exhibiting, selling, or offering to exhibit or sell any wild or exotic or other nonpet species of
warmblooded animals (except birds), such as skunks, raccoons, nonhuman primates, squirrels,
ocelots, foxes, coyotes, etc.;
(3) Any establishment or person selling warmblooded animals (except birds, and
laboratory rats and mice) for research or exhibition purposes;
(4) Any establishment wholesaling any animals (except birds, rats, and mice); and
(5) Any establishment exhibiting pet animals in a room that is separate from or adjacent
to the retail pet store, or in an outside area, or anywhere off the retail pet store premises.
This means people who breed and sell from their home where the buyers come to their home to see the pups will be exempt from the new rules, unless they ship pups at the point of sale then they cannot exceed the 4 females that can be bred. The rules are geared to control breeders who sell over the Internet and ship the pup such that the buyer never has the opportunity to see the pups, the other dogs, and the kennel in person.
This was a lawyer's take on these rules after reading the rules and listening to the USDA conference call.
http://www.bordercollie.org/boards/index.php?showtopic=35539&p=448210
These new rules may push more working Border Collies breeders (and other working dog breeders) to not sell to pet homes.
