Commercial Breeding Enterprises (CBEs) versus registered dog breeders

American Kennel Club Breeder of Merit's home

I think it is useful to look at the difference between Commercial Breeding Enterprises (CBEs) and registered dog and cat breeders. My interest in comparing these commercial enterprises came about because Nathan Winograd tells us that about 400 cities and 4 states have passed laws which ban the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats …

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Federal lawmakers meet the cats they saved from a USDA testing facility

Sen. Jeff Merkley meets Delilah the cat in his office on Capitol Hill on July 25, 2019. Photo: Courtesy Office of Sen. Jeff Merkley

You remember the big news story about a year ago in which it was reported that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) was using cats to do tests on toxoplasmosis at a Maryland facility. Millions were spent over a long period of time and the cats were fed raw meat infected with toxoplasmosis. The …

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Success! USDA will stop using cats as part of any research protocol in any laboratory in ARS

Animal testing center in Maryland, USA

ARS stands for Agricultural Research Service. It is part of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). You may remember the sad and unpleasant story that went viral about the USDA using cats, young cats we were told, to research toxoplasmosis. It had been going on for a long time and the cats were euthanised …

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Asian cat meat marketeers sold infected cat meat to US government for toxoplasmosis testing on cats!

Animal testing center in Maryland, USA

The whole ghastly process is horrible from whatever angle you look at it. A while ago I wrote about the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) using young cats to conduct animal testing experiments in order to study the parasite toxoplasmosis (see 2nd link at base of article). There was uproar because it had …

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USDA euthanised cats used in animal testing with shot of ketamine to the heart

An image of a cat at the Beltsville, Md., facility from documents already obtained by the White Coat Waste Project. (White Coat Waste Project)

You may remember the furore over the USDA’s use of cats in animal testing when researching the Toxoplasma gondii infection. They did this over about 50 years and almost 3000 cats were used in the research program. Need to Euthanize? We were told at the time that the kittens and cats were euthanized which …

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Love Your Cat or Dog? President Trump Doesn’t

Under the Trump administration a massive amount of animal welfare information has been removed from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service removed Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act violation records from its website early in February 2017. Whereas until recently the public had …

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