Kylesj1

That is one of the saddest things I have ever seen. I really struggle to understand how people can be like that (must be a little niave). Why is it people can treat animals this poorly and basically get away without a criminal conviction, fine and serving time. If these were humans pumping out babies to be sold to other families there would be a major up roar so why is it different for an animal. Forget the new breeders id and start upping the anti on the fines, convictions and jail time for those that abuse animals and ban every single pet store in Australia from selling animals. Sure we need pet stores to buy supplies for our animals but leave the purchasing of the animal to be done through a registered breeder and this should eliminate a good part of the problem. After watching many an RSPC Animal Rescue show I am gob smacked how lightly the perpetrators of the horrendous abuse of animals have gotten off so lightly. I think we have become too lenient a society in alot of areas when it comes to law enforcement. As they say people are what they are allowed to be.

They wont they will pass an inspection on one property and have the dogs on another ,they will look good for the inspection and then do what ever they want.and how will they stop people from buying them in bulk from interstate any way. Puppy farmers dont care about this - they build bigger and better concrete jungles pay the fees and off they go. The government cant tell anyone how many puppies they can or cant breed or how many they can sell or where they can sell them. So what - they may see some who breed lots but how does that stop them? It doesnt - all it does is make more good breeders say its too hard and walk away and leave an even bigger market to the commercial breeders. I couldn't agree more - I am thinking this is just another money making scheme for our broke Queensland government. I think a lot more thought should of been put into this and why were there only basically three bodies talked to about what should be happening. As in most cases the people that are doing the right thing are the ones being penalised and it is not going to stop the puppy mills from selling the pups without being registered.

i am a little confused as to what this new law is actually all about - they have left it very non specific but you can guarantee that they know exactly what the plan is otherwise there would of been nothing leaked to the media. We have bred a couple of litters out of our two purebred labradors over the last several years (they are not registered with papers with QCCC) but all the same are purebred (there grandparent came from registered breeders with papers but we never bothered to register as a breeder or kennel mainly because of the yearly costs and the fact that we weren't going to be having litters every year. We have never gone down the road of showing or trialing our dogs and have them purely as pets and when we use to have an open duck season they went hunting & retrieving with us. What does this new law mean to us - are they trying to completely stamp out people with purebred dogs that just want to breed the occassional litter and sell them and are they trying for force everyone to become a purebred registered breeder with a kennel prefix because this is what it is sounding like to me. Of the couple of litters that we have bred and sold the predominant comment to us has been that the average family that is wanting to purchase a family pet, paying $1000 plus just puts them out of the ball park and in this day and age with money for non essential items becoming tighter why should it then be only the well off that can afford the right to purchase a purebred puppy for their family. I totally understand the price the purebred breeders charge for their puppies and every dollar is well and truly earned with the feeding, worming, microchipping, vaccinations, registration fees, yearly fees to councils etc, the care of the parents of the pups etc etc as we too have thought of becoming registered breeders but because of the red tape and non receptive feelings we have been getting when doing the exercise to try to purchase purebred & registered puppies has left us with the thought is it really worth the trouble. We just want to breed the occassional litter mostly for our pleasure of raising the puppies then being able to give other loving families the joys of raising a family pet. I think a call to the Brisbane Council to find out who in fact we need to speak to, to get all the facts is in order tomorrow. Will keep you posted.