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I under stand the feel-good driving force behind this. But isn’t this essentially just a protection racket baring pet stores from competing against dog breeders?

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Most pet stores get dogs from puppy mills, and not what many would think of as a breeder.

I see them as one and the same. Breeders/Mills are a blight, but I don't see this doing anything but rewarding the worst of them with a bigger illegal market.

I disagree. This move will put shelter pets in front of more people who otherwise might not even known about the horrible conditions that led to an animal being at the pet store.

Those people who wanted something very specific will likely have gone to some breeder anyway.

Do shelter pets look different than non sheltered pets?

I can only assume that any shop that wants to make any money is going to put the best looking animal out front regardless of its source.

I mean, they can. Breeders often focus on a specific breed (or breeds) of dog, and puppy mills will usually claim to do the same, even though many will crossbreed and not tell you. Shelter pups are likely to be more mutt-y than what you'd find at a mill or breeder, often with 5 or 6 different breeds of dog in it.

After reading a few of your comments on HN, I genuinely think you're insane.

I'm not sure where you're coming from. Where do pet stores got their animals from before this law? If anything it's the opposite, providing a solution for pet shelters that have too many animals they can't rehome.

I think he's saying that now people would go to the breeders directly instead of the pet stores to buy pets, which I assume isn't disallowed by the law.

I mean dog breeders are no better or worse than drug dealers. There's bad ones, good ones, there's some with better product and some with worse product. Dogs and cats are property and don't have some natural rights or some such nonsense.

I guess you could replace "drug dealers" with "grocers" if your emphasis is not on the thing being sold as being bad for you?

http://www.chicagonow.com/raining-cats-dogs/2016/09/where-do...

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