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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Yes, my son’s pure bred golden retriever has hip problems requiring surgery. The other is a pure black retriever/lab mix. Healthy as a clam. I guess if you breed purebreds long enough they tend to end up like Prince Charles.
Go suck a lemon.
There isn’t a problem on earth that can’t be made worse by liberal do-gooder meddling.
They’re already doing that on the sly. Surrender a purebred at a shelter - the shelter will not make it available to the public.
All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. H.L. Mencken
Imagine if fertility clinics were outlawed to encourage adoption of human babies and abortion was prohibited to put an end to child killing?
As with the trannies in bathrooms bills, the Left will tell you now is not the time to challenge their agenda.
They push these measures when other more important things are happening and bitch back when you try to repeal their encroachment.
So will there be prohibitions on bringing pets in from other states?
Calling it a pet is promoting animal subjugation. It’s almost like slavery.
>>I’ve never quite got what exactly makes a dog a “rescue” dog
Found by the side of the road or stolen from a home where the do-gooder felt justified by saying that the owner wasn’t a good enough friend of their pet.
Sometimes it can be chains, sometimes it can be leaving the dog outside on a hot day.
>>Heck, people are crossing breeds and morons are paying huge bucks for what is essentially a mutt.
A shihtzapoodle isn’t a mutt!
Good God, there's even a Rescue Turtle League in California.
Well turtles may outlive their owners. It’s a slow but sure rescue...
And doesn’t this make all puppy-mill dogs...rescue dogs? Why does Jerry Brown bother with the small stuff when his state is overwhelmed with trouble??? Oh, I forget, he’s progressive.
There go the business of pet stores. Gone.
Kali is just plain stupid.
We are our own country california demands Pet Stores only to sell rescue dogs.
Same goes for the sanctuary cities they have...only cure is to cut off all Federal Funding. Wall Cali, Washington and Oregon off when the wall off Mexico.
Is this a proper function of government?
I think not.
Stupid California, again.
How many Petco & Petsmart stores will go under?
California proves again that it doesn’t want any businesses there.
How long will it take for these stores to be holding dogs that cannot be adopted due to their behavior & the many breeds which insurance companies won’t cover under your homeowner’s policies?
Rottweilers—Pit Bulls—Dobermans—etc. No coverage for anything those dogs do.
More SOCIAL ENGINEERING at every level from the California Legislature.
Wait until they tell us what kinds of Christmas Cookies we can bake at home,.......Inspections to follow.
The only way to stop the cruelty of puppy mills is to put them out of business, and this is a good start.
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