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Effect of
PAWS on Home Businesses
The current USDA regulations
that apply to dealers include the following:
9 CFR § 3.1 Housing
facilities, general.
(b) . . .Housing facilities
[for dogs and cats, ed.] . . . must
be physically separated from any other
business. If a housing facility is
located on the same premises as another
business, it must be physically separated
from the other business so that animals
the size of dogs, skunks, and raccoons
are prevented from entering it.
Since we do not know
what new regulations, if any, USDA might
promulgate upon the adoption of PAWS,
we must analyze the current regulations
in order to deduce the potential effect
of the bill on hobby breeders and rescuers.
Therefore, should any hobby breeder
subject to federal regulation have a
home-occupancy business, he must physically
separate the "other business"
from the housing facilities for his
dogs. If the dogs and the "other
business occupy the same house, it remains
to be seen whether the "physical
separation" can include a baby
gate, or whether a more permanent barrier
- or complete structure - will need
to be built.
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