{"id":679,"date":"2014-07-25T19:26:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:59:30","slug":"bolstering-the-black-market-in-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animal-policy\/bolstering-the-black-market-in-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolstering the Black Market in Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A raid of a very disturbing breeding operation<\/a> recently took place in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n

Not only were the breeders selling people sick pets, they were deceptively operating under five different business names, operating without a license, illegally importing dogs from South America, and forging documents. A\u00a0quick online search reveals numerous complaints from people who had bought sick puppies from them, as well. Dishonest, inhumane, the type of operation that sickens and enrages decent people everywhere.<\/p>\n

Every time a breeding operation like this is raided, there\u00a0are calls\u00a0for new regulations to “put these awful people out of business.” The fact is, virtually\u00a0all of the recent raids we have tracked at NAIA are of breeders who are operating like this: illegally without a license (when required) or inspections, or with lapsed license and serious prior violations (where were the follow up inspections?). If current laws aren’t being followed or enforced, what makes anyone\u00a0think newer, stricter regulations will affect anybody other those who are already complying: licensed,\u00a0transparent, inspected breeders?<\/p>\n

We have taken our share of flack at NAIA for\u00a0taking a “Why not enforce\u00a0existing laws<\/em>\u00a0first, before passing new laws?” position. Some people confuse this with an opposition to all\u00a0<\/em>regulations. Without enforcement, you’ll never get rid of the bad guys (who couldn’t care less about animal care regulations), while knee-jerk legislative responses simply place additional burdens on those who are\u00a0already\u00a0complying with the law. Taken to its logical conclusion: in the end all you’ll have left is the black market.<\/p>\n

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Without enforcement, you’ll never get rid of the bad guys (who couldn’t care less about animal care regulations), while knee-jerk legislative responses simply place additional burdens on those who are already complying with the law. Taken to its logical conclusion: in the end all you’ll have left is the black market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}