The Puppy and Kitten Mill Cruelty Prevention Act is a bill designed to address growing concerns about large-scale breeding facilities in the state of Minnesota while protecting smaller hobby breeders from unnecessary and unintended consequences that could result from regulating the breeding industry.
Primarily, the Minnesota Puppy and Kitten Mill Cruelty Prevention Act seeks simply to provide resources to the Board of Animal Health and local units of government so they may inspect large-scale, commercial pet breeding facilities and better enforce animal welfare and cruelty laws that are already in place.
Prepared by a broad and diverse group of stake holders, representing responsible breeders, animal welfare organizations and veterinarians, this bill proposes:
• That commercial breeders who keep 40 or more adult animals capable of breeding on their property be permitted by the State of Minnesota.
• To provide funding for the State of Minnesota to oversee and inspect commercial breeders to verify compliance with existing animal welfare and cruelty laws.
• To ensure that small hobby breeders are not negatively affected by unintended consequences resulting from the passage of the bill.
• To provide an objective framework with which the State may, for the first time, begin to enforce existing animal welfare and cruelty laws at large-scale, commercial pet breeding operations.
• To provide resources to local units of government seeking to take legal action against large-scale violators of animal welfare and animal cruelty laws.
Fundamentally, the Minnesota Puppy and Kitten Mill Cruelty Prevention Act seeks to reduce the systemic, large-scale animal abuse at Minnesota’s commercial pet breeding facilities which has been well documented in local and national press. The bill does so by making effective use of existing animal welfare and cruelty statutes.
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