Canadian laws concern health and welfare of animals, and is basically a food, water, shelter, safety law and thats it. Nothing for breeding, except to advertise as "pure bred" it has to be regestered with AKC or CKC. Ontario has a soceity that looks into puppy mills, and so do most provinces, but Quebec doesnt have ANY laws for animals at all. Dogs are bred like pigs. It's really very sad and embarrasing. They ship dogs in trucks to all other provinces to sell in pet stores and its all legal. They have 30 different breeds and hundreds and hundreds or puppies a year on a single farm. I would welcome a law like VA is proposing to stop them.
(aside, Nancy, how many puppies do you sell in a year and how many get parvo after they leave you? do you have any stats on that at all. I suspect not many do, since you educate your new puppy parents well).
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