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Originally posted by getreadyalready
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I am also pretty certain that the rule they cite must have other caveats, because there are commercial breeders that sell a lot more than $500 worth of rabbits, so the line quoted can't be the entire rule.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Did they have a licence to sell the rabbits?
A quick search returned this:
Source
(3) The following persons are exempt from the licensing requirements under section 2 or section 3 of the Act: (i) Retail pet stores which sell nondangerous, pet-type animals, such as dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, gophers, domestic ferrets, chinchilla, rats, and mice, for pets, at retail only: Provided, That, Anyone wholesaling any animals, selling any animals for research or exhibition, or selling any wild, exotic, or nonpet animals retail, must have a license; (ii) Any person who sells or negotiates the sale or purchase of any animal except wild or exotic animals, dogs, or cats, and who derives no more than $500 gross income from the sale of such animals to a research facility, an exhibitor, a dealer, or a pet store during any calendar year and is not otherwise required to obtain a license;
It looks like the problem is that they were selling more than 500$ worth of rabbits per year without a licence that would have costed them 10$.
The fact that they don't say a thing about licences on the article makes me think that this was the case.
Originally posted by billxam
This same sort of thing happened to me last year. Even if you comply with the law, have all your proper paperwork, there is some clown that feels free to stop on by and tell you that the smallest detail has been overlooked - something as inane as the position of screws from the edge of a board - or some nitwit neighbor that just feels like ruining your life.
Monsanto doesn't have any neighbors that sic the inspectors on them. They are the neighbors.
Originally posted by Wolf321
reply to post by incrediblelousminds
Two aspects worth considering here.
First, does the Federal government need to be as involved and in so many areas as they are, such as this one? The state obviously didn't see the need to have such regulations, and all sales were done inside the state.
Quite simply, this shows how fat and diseased our federal government has become.
Originally posted by Wolf321
reply to post by incrediblelousminds
I disagree with the premise that they ignored the law. They were unaware of it.
This was hardly a business, anymore than a kid cashing in cans is.
“We started becoming the go-to people” for rabbits in the Springfield area, John said. “If you wanted a rabbit, you’d go to Dollarvalue Rabbitry.” He added that the family even made the local television news just before Easter in 2008 for a report about the care and feeding of “Easter bunnies.” Initially, the Dollarhites sold the large, white, pink-eyed variety of rabbits. Eventually, however, they switched to selling a couple of different varieties of miniature rabbits, the mating pairs of which were purchased from breeders across the state. Not only did their “show-quality” miniatures reproduce well, but they ate less and seemed to be more popular with theme park visitors and retail buyers.
During the summer of 2009, the Dollarhites bought the rabbitry from their son who had grown tired of managing it. They paid him what he asked for it, $200.
Things kept growing, however, and the Dollarhite’s landed a pair of big accounts in 2009. A well-known Branson theme park, Silver Dollar City, asked the Dollarhites to have them provide four-week-old bunnies per week to their petting zoo May through September. When the bunnies turned six weeks old, they were sold to park visitors.
The Springfield location of a national pet store chain, Petland, purchased rabbits from the Dollarhites as well. In the fall of 2009, the theme park deliveries ended for the year and the Dollarhites scaled back their operation. At about the same time, the folks at Petland asked the Dollarhites to raise guinea pigs that the store would purchase from them. No big deal.
My family has rabbits, and has sold them. Caught them wild, bred the tame ones and sold the bunnies. We know many who do the same. No one does it as a business. I guarantee no one here has heard of this law.