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14 Drake J. Agric. L. 501 (2009)
Don't Buy the Doggy in the Window: Ending the Cycle that Perpetuates Commercial Breeding with Regulation of the Retail Pet Industry

handle is hein.journals/dragl14 and id is 507 raw text is: DON'T BUY THE DOGGY IN THE WINDOW: ENDING THE CYCLE THAT PERPETUATES COMMERCIAL BREEDING WITH REGULATION OF THE RETAIL PET INDUSTRY Katherine C. Tushaus He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant I. Introduction ................................................................................................... 50 1 II. Puppy M ills: W hy Are They a Problem? .................................................... 503 A. How Puppy M ills Came Into Existence .................................................. 504 B. The Consequences of Commercial Breeding on Dogs ............................ 504 III. United States Puppy M ill Regulations ........................................................ 506 A. The USDA and the Animal Welfare Act ................................................ 506 1. Plagued Enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act ............................... 507 2. A Proposed Amendment to the Animal Welfare Act: The Puppy U niform Protection Statute ................................................................ 509 B. State Laws Against Puppy M ills ............................................................. 510 V. Regulation of Puppy Mills Starting at the Root of the Problem: The Comm ercial Breeding of Dogs ................................................................... 514 A. The NSW Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill .......................................... 515 B. The Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill as a Model for Effective Regulation of Commercial Breeding in the United States ...................... 515 V . C onclusion ................................................................................................... 5 18 I. INTRODUCTION There are approximately seventy-five million dogs owned in the United States alone.' Thirty-nine percent of American households count at least one dog * J.D. Candidate, Drake University Law School, 2010. 1. U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics, The Humane Soc'y of the U.S. (Mar. 17, 2008), http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues affecting-our-pets/pet overpopulation and ownershipstatistics/ uspet ownershipstatistics.html.

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