We can shut down the puppy-mill pipeline plaguing Colorado consumers.
According to Florida’s Attorney General, deceptive pet sales tied to commercial breeding operations cost Florida consumers more than $25 million annually in avoidable veterinary bills, medications and heartbreak. Colorado has no reason to believe we are immune from the same costly system — and House Bill 26-1011 offers an opportunity to fix it.
After families across Florida complained of purchasing sick puppies and kittens, the Attorney General commissioned an investigative report titled “The Cost of Deception: How Sick Pets Drain Florida’s Economy.” The 47-page study uncovered a familiar pattern: animals were shipped long distances from high-volume, out-of-state breeders, sold quickly in pet stores, and were accompanied by paperwork that often masked underlying illness or congenital defects…