Dog Breeding News

Dog breeders get amnesty period for licensing kennels
Tulsa World
OKLAHOMA CITY — The state board charged with enforcing the state's puppy-mill law voted Tuesday to give commercial pet breeders through Oct. 3 to get their kennels licensed before they will face the full brunt of the ...

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Weta and puppies arrive
Marlborough Express
My brother and I shouted to our mother as we were driving to the dog breeders we had met before our trip down South. Today we were picking up the new pups that we had chosen about three weeks earlier. They were about eight-and-a-half weeks now. ...

Missouri Dog Breeder Rules Published
OzarksFirst.com
(Jefferson City, MO) -- The Missouri Department of Agriculture is taking the final steps to implementing to dog breeder rules in the state. The department has filed its final version of the rules with the Secretary of State's office. ...
Hagler files new animal care rulesSt. James Leader

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Too many parents are choosing the wrong breed as a pet for young children
allvoices
Also some backyard breeders are breeding too many tiny chihuahuas and dumping excess litters in the pound. The tiny dogs are stressed out from the noise inside the shelter of other barking dogs. Half the kennels at the Sacramento shelter are filled ...

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Callers ignore puppy plea
Central Western Daily
AN RSPCA plea to reduce the number of animals bred by amateur dog breeders appears to have fallen on deaf ears. An article in the Central Western Daily on Friday, July 22, revealed the RSPCA Orange shelter had been inundated with ...

Seven goats mauled in dog attack
Mudgeee Guardian
“She's been breeding goats for 15 years but what people don't realise is when seven become dead it has a major effect,” she said. “You need time to develop the goats and improve their [breeding] lines.” One of the goats mauled was a great grand ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Reading Too Much into the Breed
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Some people are interested in a certain type of dog—showing, training, breeding, or selling it. It's amusing how far partisans will go to defend their breed standard and bar the door to upstarts like "goldendoodles," "Maltipoms," and "snorkis. ...

Merced Sun-Star
Amphibian invasion? Nope, just mating season
Merced Sun-Star
Toads also need water, but in the heat they end up in strange places, such as dog water dishes and kids' swimming pools, trying to find a place to cool off. Merced Sun-Star - Frogs and toads, like this one, are having a field day in Merced and Mariposa ...

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Outdoors: Finding the ideal Brittany a matter of Pride for hunters
Worcester Telegram
She believes some breeders have even mixed pointers with them. “Now pointers can be great hunters, but they tend to range too far and aren't so family oriented,” Donna said. Let's hope local Brittany and other gun dog breeders change their current ...

Mountain Home News (blog)
A Good Cow Dog Is Hard To Find
Mountain Home News (blog)
Ranchers select their dogs by word of mouth; breeding or by sheer chance. They may pay a few hundred dollars for a choice breed or simply select a pup from a neighbor dog's litter. The time has come in our own lives to take a page from ranching wisdom. ...

Warrants questioned in raid on puppy mill
Online Athens
JEFFERSON -- A Jackson County Superior Court judge on Monday called into question the validity of the search warrants that led authorities to raid a Nicholson-area dog breeding facility in ...

Letter: Bay County's vicious dog ordinance is long overdue
MLive.com
These individuals who refuse to believe that breeding characteristics play any role in good behavior are either ignorant of dog genetics or enablers in denial. Young people, and some older, have said that dogs have forced them to walk in the roads ...

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Cruelty fine for Port dog farm owner
Newcastle Herald
Glen Oak's Caroline Hudson faced Raymond Terrace Local Court on charges arising from RSPCA inspections of her Kindee Kennels operation breeding shih tzus and King Charles spaniels. She accepted charges including aggravated cruelty, failing to provide ...

NeighborNewspapers.com
'I Didn't Know My Dog Was Pregnant' Coming to TV
NeighborNewspapers.com
There is no reason, unless you're a breeder, to not have your dog fixed. While I prefer to adopt rescue dogs I know there will always be breeders and I just hope those out there are responsible and really do care for the dogs they are breeding. ...

Pet Product Marketing magazine
Action needed on dog control issues
Pet Product Marketing magazine
The Blue Cross Director of External Affairs Steve Goody added: “Animal charities are struggling with huge numbers of unwanted dogs and cats, partly fuelled by irresponsible and indiscriminate breeding. The Blue Cross is calling on the Government to ...

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9-year-old boy bitten by stray
Deccan Herald
Dr Parvez Ahmad Piran, joint director, animal husbandry, BBMP, said: “It is the breeding season for dogs and they show a lot of aggression that can lead to attacks on unsuspecting residents. “In Chethan's case, the boy ran, as soon as he saw the dog. ...

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Volunteers urged to step forward for guide dog puppies that need a home
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
Food and vet bills are paid for by the Guide Dog Association and there is always support available.” She is also looking for people to care for the Guide Dog Association's breeding stock. For more information call her on 07765 222596 If you are ...

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Pooches enjoy dog days of summer
The Tennessean
Sammy, a Springer Spaniel, took an immediate liking to Miss Polly, my Cavapoo — that's the breeding of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a poodle, you know, one of those designer dogs that's hypoallergenic. But I digress. Sammy was hot on her heels ...

The Guardian
In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw – review
The Guardian
That way, he believes we might have a chance to compensate for the tens of thousands of dogs put down every year, and, equally urgently, for the incestuous cruelties of pedigree breeding. Again, it's all about what we do to the dog – how we rear them, ...

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I Killed the Bufo
New York Times
The pond then was a stagnant breeding ground for mosquitoes and algae. Today, it is home to two thriving plants — a lobelia native to the Everglades and a colocasia, an exotic from Southeast Asia. The pond is algae-free and stocked with gambusia, ...

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