11.   The department is responsible for enforcing the Animal Welfare Act, which establishes regulations on commercial dog breeders.

12.   The USDA requires licenses only if dog breeders sell to retail outlets.

13.   A dog breeder was charged with killing six Akitas by hanging them from a bicycle rack in his garage, then burying them on his property.

14.   Animal-welfare groups lamented the rejection by congressional negotiators of several Senate-passed provisions, including one that would have set tougher standards for dog breeders.

15.   He was also a dog breeder and once hosted a network radio show called Canine Comments.

16.   Mrs. Martinez, a dog breeder who specializes in cocker spaniels and Pomeranians, wept as she learned of her past.

17.   A dog breeder who killed six people and used the bodies of five of them for his animals has been sentenced to death, a newspaper report said Tuesday.