It won’t curb the big mills in the midwest, but over the past ten years, many of the millers on the west coast became importers instead. They found it was cheaper to import litters of bulldogs and frenchies than to breed them themselves, especially in those areas where vet costs are prohibitive.

a c-section in MO or OK may run 200-300.00 if one knows the right vet, in California or WA, it’s literally ten times as much.

And many of these creeps fund that they could circumvent local animal limit and or breeding statues (where actually enforced) by only having baby puppies, no adults.

I have personally been involved with at least three cases where sick under nourished import pups were diagnosed with spina bifada after they had been sold. they are often sold “cheap” for quick sale and the charmers peddling them are hard to track down or prosecute. They can sell them for a lower price because they cost the brokers less than the midwest puppymills pups would wholesale for.

For a few of these horror stories, check out http://www.thewrongpuppy.org

So hears hoping it puts a dent in the market and in the brokers pocketbooks. Of course that also means that the new rules will actually have to be enforced