a dog confined in a pen tahj or other shelter for more than 14 hours a proposed ordinance in shelby county tennessee that would make it a violation to leave a companion animal unattended in a vehicle for more than one hour when the temperature is above 70 degrees or below 35 degrees why is the american kennel club the dogs best friend opposing this legislation that says that once a year you ve got to have a vet examine these dogs or you can t breathe them every single cycle or you can t have more than 50 breeding females at an operation why would a group pose that well they were there because they re making money from those large scale operations. while the public does not have access to a k c inspection report many pet stores across the united states emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are casey approved and inspected one such . company is pet land the largest chain of pet stores selling puppies in the united states while most are independently owned
prides itself on being the only purebred registry in the united states with an ongoing routine kennel inspection program with a dedicated team of field inspectors casey says that it inspects channels but they don t make any of those inspection records available. they say that they ve got rigorous standards but they really don t what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out we don t really have a comprehensive record of when they re doing that or what the consequences are even if they can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so what s the value of their inspections program there in foresman efforts for all we know are completely meaningless we don t know what they even inspect when they go into these facilities because they don t make their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspect. and is there would be no reason not to make them public. while the a k c boasts of a rigorous inspection program in 2011 onl
don t make any of those inspection records available. they say that they ve got rigorous standards but they really don t know what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out we don t really have a comprehensive record of when they re doing that or what the consequences are even if they can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so what s the value of their inspections program there in foresman efforts for all we know are completely meaningless we don t know what they even inspect for when they go into these facilities because they don t make their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspections there would be no reason not to make them public. while the a k c boasts of a rigorous inspection program in 20. and only $1500000.00 of their $59000000.00 in revenue was spent to employ just 9 inspectors across the entire united states. big you see is a group that says it s the dogs chap in but in practical terms is co
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