Ridge
02-25-2006, 05:19 PM
I just saw a documentary called "Dealing Dogs" that talks about class B kennels and dog bunchers. Just a heads up about your dog and people (Bunchers) that may be looking to make a quick $20 bucks from selling your dog to a class B breeder who will then sell your dog for medical research for approx $200.00 - 250.00.
People have paid off their homes by dog bunching.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11416403/site/newsweek/
Bought to Be Sold
A new documentary investigates a dealer’s maltreatment of dogs intended for medical research.
Feb. 17, 2006 - Every year, close to 65,000 dogs are used for medical research in the United States. How do laboratories get the animals? Some come from licensed "Class A" dealers, who specifically breed dogs for research. But the majority of dogs are acquired from Class B dealers, who are also licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture—but who can obtain their dogs from various sources, including unlicensed sellers known as bunchers, for as little as $20.
The transactions are legal if the bunchers can prove they raised the animals themselves or acquired them from someone who did. But animal-rights groups claim that Class B dealers, who can sell the dogs for hundreds of dollars, often do not check the origins of the dogs they acquire—and that bunchers will pick up strays or simply steal dogs from backyards. Moreover, animal-rights groups claim, some dealers often neglect and abuse these dogs before selling them. Members of one animal-rights organization—Last Chance for Animals—spent six months undercover investigating one of these dealers. The conditions they found were deplorable. Dogs were crammed into narrow feces-covered cages, some malnourished or bleeding from open wounds. Some were already dead, their bodies lying stiff and unnoticed in the back of the cage. One dog, considered a “biter,” was shot in the head (“no sense in him breathing air that a good dog could breathe,” a kennel worker says). Other maggot-infested canine corpses were discovered in a trench, some of them butchered for their organs.
A new HBO documentary, "Dealing Dogs," tracks the investigation and its outcome: the shutting down of the Arkansas kennel and the fining of its owner, Chester C. Baird. Tom Simon, one of the producers of “Dealing Dogs,” —to be shown on Feb. 21— spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Christina Gillham about the film. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: How did you learn about this issue?
Tom Simon: We were originally interested in doing a film about animals used in research. As we began to dig into it we realized that the procurement of animals for use in research, particularly dogs, was a complicated and somewhat shady business. Many of the dogs used in research are not purpose-bred dogs, they are dogs that are acquired through Class B dealers. We found that that trade is not very well regulated, that there have been many, many allegations over the years that pets have been stolen from people’s yards or strays picked up by people who were then selling them to these B dealers. In the film, there are [bunchers] speaking to an investigator who admit driving around rich neighborhoods in St. Louis [looking to] pick up dogs. We became very interested in this supply chain, and we began to reach out to animal-rights groups that were investigating this.
And that’s how you came across Last Chance for Animals?
We heard about Last Chance and we had a meeting with [founder and president] Chris DeRose about five years ago. He mentioned casually they were trying to get someone to go undercover inside C. C. Baird’s kennel … So we begged DeRose to meet [the undercover investigator known as] "Pete," and a couple of weeks later we did, and we began to follow that story.
How rampant is the problem of Class B dealers acquiring animals illegally and treating them inhumanely?
There are about two dozen Class B dealers who are doing what C. C. Baird was doing, but he was by far the largest … By various estimates, Baird was selling several thousands dogs a year and selling to a lot of state university veterinary schools. They have to get their dogs from someplace, so some other B dealer is going to try to take over that business.
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People have paid off their homes by dog bunching.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11416403/site/newsweek/
Bought to Be Sold
A new documentary investigates a dealer’s maltreatment of dogs intended for medical research.
Feb. 17, 2006 - Every year, close to 65,000 dogs are used for medical research in the United States. How do laboratories get the animals? Some come from licensed "Class A" dealers, who specifically breed dogs for research. But the majority of dogs are acquired from Class B dealers, who are also licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture—but who can obtain their dogs from various sources, including unlicensed sellers known as bunchers, for as little as $20.
The transactions are legal if the bunchers can prove they raised the animals themselves or acquired them from someone who did. But animal-rights groups claim that Class B dealers, who can sell the dogs for hundreds of dollars, often do not check the origins of the dogs they acquire—and that bunchers will pick up strays or simply steal dogs from backyards. Moreover, animal-rights groups claim, some dealers often neglect and abuse these dogs before selling them. Members of one animal-rights organization—Last Chance for Animals—spent six months undercover investigating one of these dealers. The conditions they found were deplorable. Dogs were crammed into narrow feces-covered cages, some malnourished or bleeding from open wounds. Some were already dead, their bodies lying stiff and unnoticed in the back of the cage. One dog, considered a “biter,” was shot in the head (“no sense in him breathing air that a good dog could breathe,” a kennel worker says). Other maggot-infested canine corpses were discovered in a trench, some of them butchered for their organs.
A new HBO documentary, "Dealing Dogs," tracks the investigation and its outcome: the shutting down of the Arkansas kennel and the fining of its owner, Chester C. Baird. Tom Simon, one of the producers of “Dealing Dogs,” —to be shown on Feb. 21— spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Christina Gillham about the film. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: How did you learn about this issue?
Tom Simon: We were originally interested in doing a film about animals used in research. As we began to dig into it we realized that the procurement of animals for use in research, particularly dogs, was a complicated and somewhat shady business. Many of the dogs used in research are not purpose-bred dogs, they are dogs that are acquired through Class B dealers. We found that that trade is not very well regulated, that there have been many, many allegations over the years that pets have been stolen from people’s yards or strays picked up by people who were then selling them to these B dealers. In the film, there are [bunchers] speaking to an investigator who admit driving around rich neighborhoods in St. Louis [looking to] pick up dogs. We became very interested in this supply chain, and we began to reach out to animal-rights groups that were investigating this.
And that’s how you came across Last Chance for Animals?
We heard about Last Chance and we had a meeting with [founder and president] Chris DeRose about five years ago. He mentioned casually they were trying to get someone to go undercover inside C. C. Baird’s kennel … So we begged DeRose to meet [the undercover investigator known as] "Pete," and a couple of weeks later we did, and we began to follow that story.
How rampant is the problem of Class B dealers acquiring animals illegally and treating them inhumanely?
There are about two dozen Class B dealers who are doing what C. C. Baird was doing, but he was by far the largest … By various estimates, Baird was selling several thousands dogs a year and selling to a lot of state university veterinary schools. They have to get their dogs from someplace, so some other B dealer is going to try to take over that business.
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