KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A ballot initiative in Missouri that would create stricter laws for commercial dog breeders has pitted animal rights activists who call Missouri the "puppy mill capital of the nation" against those who claim the measure could put breeders out of business.
Proposition B, on the Nov. 2 ballot, would strengthen Missouri's current laws in part by restricting commercial breeders to no more than 50 breeding dogs, increasing the size of dogs' living spaces and by requiring that commercial breeders have their dogs examined each year by a veterinarian.
The measure, which would not apply to breeders with fewer than 10 female breeding dogs, would also create the misdemeanor crime of puppy mill cruelty for violations.
Read the proposed statute here
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