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Taylor pushing for prompt action on puppy mills bill
HARRISBURG, Sept. 15 – As the legislature began its fall session today, state Rep. Rick Taylor, D-Montgomery, urged his House and Senate colleagues join him in pushing legislation to control conditions at "puppy mills" to the governor's desk this month.
"Through the overwhelming input I have received and that many of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, have likewise gotten from their constituents, clearly the majority of Pennsylvanians want commercial dog-breeding operations to eliminate their inhumane conditions and treatment of dogs," Taylor said.
"But it is an issue not just of humane treatment, but of protecting consumers from buying animals that later prove to be ill or that have skeletal or organ defects due to the conditions or lack of veterinary examinations where they were bred."
Blocking the way for action on the reform measure (H.B. 2525), of which Taylor is a co-sponsor, is a mountain of more than 100 amendments, many of them introduced by a few representatives to try to sidetrack the bill. But Taylor believes the amendments are a challenge that must be met and overcome.
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