Jay Nixon brokers compromise to Prop B that’s still shitty for dogs

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced yesterday that he’d reached a compromise on the contentious puppy-mill law, which he called a “Missouri solution.”

Nixon said in a statement that he worked with animal-welfare activists and commercial dog breeders as well as lawmakers to broker a deal to keep a few of Proposition B’s provisions, namely bigger cages for dogs, while also throwing dog breeders a bone — allowing said cages to remain stacked on top of each other and allowing the dogs on the bottom to get shit on, as our friends at the Riverfront Times pointed out. Of course, the real losers are still the dogs in the bottom cage, but Gov. Jay is OK with that.