Posted on 10/14/2017 7:34:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Oct. 14 (UPI) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation into law this week that requires pet stores in the state to exclusively sell rescue dogs, cats and rabbits.
Assembly Bill 485, the Pet Rescue and Adoption Act, requires all dogs, cats, and rabbits offered for retail sale in California to be obtained from animal shelters or non-profit rescue organizations.
"This is a big win for our four-legged friends, of course," the bill's author, Assemblymember Patrick O'Donnell, D-Long Beach, said in a statement Friday. "But also for California taxpayers who spend more than $250 million annually to house and euthanize animals in our shelters. I am very grateful for the strong support we received from animal-lovers across the state and from Social Compassion in Legislation, the bill's sponsor."
The bill's goal is to reduce the number of animals sold from shelters and businesses with mass breeding operations known as "puppy mills" or "kitten factories."
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Next law on the docket? You WILL adopt this Pit Bull or any other dangerous dog that no one else wants.
Oh, you have a Toddler? Perfect!
*SPIT*
CA is 100% Certifiable!
Feral and/or abused animals don’t necessarily make the best pets, particularly for children.
They are outlawing the business of raising animals because they want to do some virtue signaling or moral preening. Are cows, hogs, and chickens next?
I think the premise is that the new owner is ‘rescuing’ the dog from being euthanized. There should be a different term.
I used to think it meant the dog has been trained to rescue or help people in trouble. But that is what “Companion Dogs”
are supposed to be doing.
Aww, man! You just broke the socialist code.
...for everything.
“This is a big win for our four-legged friends, of course,”
Useless Press Idiots (UPI) gives us their cherry picked quote right there.
There is no need for a law to get people to adopt shelter animals. Just have ads for them on TV and the newspapers... people will adopt them.
When I lived in CA, I did not need to adopt animals ever. Cats just showed up in my yard.
After three of my yard cats died over Easter week, I did go to an animal shelter to get a new cat. Apparently, in my new neighborhood, there are no stray cats looking for a home.
To make a law to require pet stores to sell shelter pets is ludicrous. Most pet stores do that voluntarily. I checked all of the local pet stores and the shelter to find the perfect cat.
Heck, people are crossing breeds and morons are paying huge bucks for what is essentially a mutt.
Stock up!
My son got two dogs from internet advertisements. Pure breds without papers.
I have one pedigreed Siamese living with us. Along with a half-breed Siamese/Rag Doll mix. Both born and nurtured in a human environment.
Along with three kittens that were born feral. They were a bit more work socializing than kittens born into a human environment, but worth every moment of it.
I suspect foul play.
Yard cats are the only cats worth having. They are eternally grateful.
Thank you.
They were each sick with something different. It was just pure bad luck that their chronic illnesses became terminal within days of each other.
Our old lady was 19 years old. I still remember when she came strutting into our yard, insisting that she belonged there despite all of my attempts to tell her otherwise. I put a collar on her, which she would sometimes lose and then bring back days later after she found it. She was the only cat I ever had who liked her collar.
I have this cat now that started following my son and his girl around when they would go for walks. One day he followed him all the way home and he's here to stay. I thought that was weird behavior for a cat.
Hope everyone likes pit bulls.
Well, when a cat decides that you belong to it, there is not much you can do other than accept your fate.
You have spoken an undeniable truth, dear lady.
Are humane society/fostered animals considered “rescued” animals”? Most start out as kittens. If they are limiting this to purely rescued adult animals from dire/abusive situations, many unfortunately are not safe to be adopted by families with young children.
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