Got an unbiased, objective source for this (that PETA is behind Dog Law Legislation) assertion? Links?
http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=683
This is the way American Politics works. Like-minded people form a group like PETA and agitate for legislation. Isn't this self-evident? Breeders have the AKC (and a few other breed registries), of course.
This is the way American Politics works. Like-minded people form a group like PETA and agitate for legislation. Isn't this self-evident? Breeders have the AKC (and a few other breed registries), of course.
The only thing self-evident is the level of dishonesty breeders will sink to keep breeding and selling animals which are already over-crowding rescues, animal shelters and pounds.
The link you provided was for Pennsylvannia anti-animal cruelty law, not the Florida pet dealer licensing law. I quote:
Current Pennsylvania law allows convicted animal abusers to get away with little more than a slap on the wrist, as cruelty to animals is only considered a misdemeanor of the second degree. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee is currently considering House Bill (HB) 709, an Act Concerning Cruelty to Animals. This bill, if passed, would increase the penalty of willful and malicious killing, maiming, or poisoning of a dog or cat to a felony of the third degree and increase the maximum imprisonment from two to five years. Courts would also be given the authority to prohibit convicted offenders from owning or possessing any animals for a certain period of time and to order a presentence mental evaluation.Perhaps next time you'd like to provide a link to an unbiased objective source that says that PETA is behind the pet dealer law being proposed in Florida as was asserted.