Lavy

Outdoor pens are cleaned daily and connected to a building with heaters at Lavy's Tenderheart Kennels in Silex about 70 miles northwest of St. Louis.

Missouri lawmakers overhaul law curbing puppy mills 2011

Lavy, 68, whose family raises Labrador retrievers, Maltese, Yorkshire terriers and French bulldogs, said dogs like employees are most productive when treated well.

Missouri lawmakers overhaul law curbing puppy mills 2011

There are people who want what I do, and I just don't think they should be able to take it away, Lavy said.

Missouri lawmakers overhaul law curbing puppy mills 2011

One of those breeders, Hubert Lavy, said people who wrote the law don't fully understand the business and shouldn't develop rules to regulate it.

Missouri lawmakers overhaul law curbing puppy mills 2011

The kennel donates some dogs and sells roughly 200 puppies per year to earn about $20,000, Lavy said.

Missouri lawmakers overhaul law curbing puppy mills 2011

They also speculate that parents may adjust to additional children by cutting down on luxuries and leisure activities rather than on time with their children — or, alternately, that large families may be more likely to have stay-at-home moms, who make up for some of the otherwise scarcer parental attention. — "New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children," J. Angrist, V. Lavy, and A. Schlosser, NBER

Primary Sources 2006

They also speculate that parents may adjust to additional children by cutting down on luxuries and leisure activities rather than on time with their children — or, alternately, that large families may be more likely to have stay-at-home moms, who make up for some of the otherwise scarcer parental attention. — "New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children," J. Angrist, V. Lavy, and A. Schlosser, NBER

Primary Sources 2006

Lavy, and scattered the whole of the works in all directions in a moment, was triumphant.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

When Lavy explained that he was carrying 130 grams of the poison from Alaska into Canada only because he wanted to bring it to Arkansas to kill coyotes that were preying on his chickens, prosecutors looked doubtful.

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He had traced Lavy, who had earlier been indicted in Alaska on a federal charge of possession of a toxic substance with intent to use it as a weapon, to his Onia farm.

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