Sentences with phrase «from animal breeders»

2) Pet stores who buy puppies and kittens from animal breeders or brokers and sell directly to unsuspecting consumers.

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From the beginnings of civilization, farmers have been intervening in the course of evolution by producing hybrid grains, and stock breeders have been domesticating animals that live longer or work harder or run faster.

The Cook County ordinance requires suburban pet stores sell animals from government shelters, rescue agencies and human societies or federally licensed breeders with fewer than five reproducing female animals.

Orland Park began considering the issue after the Chicago City Council and the Cook County Board of Commissioners banned the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from large - scale breeders earlier this year in an attempt to keep pet stores from selling animals raised in puppy mills.

Cook County has since passed its own version of the ordinance, which requires stores to sell pets from government shelters, rescue agencies and humane societies, or federally licensed breeders with no more than five reproducing female animals.

The first was a petition from animal rights activists seeking changes to the way breeders who sell puppies online are treated.

Animal rescuers routinely save adorable puppeis from unscrupulous breeders.

With this new authority in hand, municipalities from Buffalo to New York City, the North Country to Long Island will be able to pass tough new laws to crack down on puppy mills and bad breeders who place profit above the health and safety of animals.

Once signed by county executive Steven Bellone, pet stores will not be able to purchase animals from breeders who have received certain types of violations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates breeders.

The cattle breeders also need to invest in their cattle rearing business; they should buy land and accommodate their animals instead of moving them from one place to the other.

Suffolk County is poised to become the first county in New York State to regulate the sale of animals, as the county legislature unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday that sets a framework for discouraging pet retailers from buying from unsafe breeders.

These include animals procured from pounds and breeders, a pool that — at least in the past — has been suspected of including stolen and abused pets.

Animal breeders have sometimes seen such large sperm from livestock, but those turned out to have twice the number of chromosomes they were supposed to and were likely unable to fertilize eggs.

As an organization whose mission is to end the killing of pets in shelters, of course Best Friends Animal Society encourages people looking for a pet to adopt from a shelter or rescue group, rather than buying from a pet store, breeder or online retailer.

Individuals can still buy a pet from a breeder, but when the law takes effect this year, all dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores will come from shelters, rescue groups or animal control agencies.

Nancy says that adopting a pet as opposed to purchasing one from a breeder is an obvious choice, as «one walk through the Tulsa Animal Welfare Shelter answers that question.»

And get your goats from a reputable breeder to get the healthiest animals possible.

When pit bull breeder Jerry Southern was convicted of animal cruelty in Kansas he was banned from owning pit bulls in that state.

As State Outreach Coordinator for Oklahoma Alliance for Animals, in the last month I have gotten e-mails or calls from people trying to find out how to report substandard breeders, a fraudulent rescue, two hoarder cases and more.

Camille Hulen, owner of Camille's Cat House and an animal welfare advocate, says, «If you buy a purebred animal from a breeder, an animal in a shelter will die because you did not choose it.

«It allows us to find homes for animals that are already alive rather than going to a breeder and saying, «I'd like one from your next litter.»

Myth: Getting animals from breeders is safer because the breeders know the animal's bloodline and family history.

Save More Animals: Many rescue groups feel «a life is a life» and not rescuing an animal from a breeder is punishing an innocent animal.

Pets purchased from breeders are often given a particular window to get the animal examined.

Ask your breeder for health clearances from the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals and the Canine Eye Registry Foundation.

Pet identification to establish ownership such as: Any veterinary records, such as, rabies certificate, spay / neuter certificate, vaccine records, microchip certificate and veterinary hospital invoices, photo (s) of the animal preferably with you or a family member in the picture, adoption papers from the shelter or breeder of origin, AKC / UKC registration certificates, etc..

The protesters in downtown Orlando were from local groups, including some that would typically be on opposite sides, such as pet rescue groups and animal breeders.

If we, who so deeply care for them, do not use the appropriate words to speak and act on their behalf, to educate others, to free them from the outdated and cruel paradigm of animal ownership, animal exploitation there can be no doubt that our nation's puppy mills, backyard breeders, laboratories, factory farms and slaughter houses will not do so for us.

We can not promise any benefits to your horse or other animals from your taking part in this clinical trial; however, possible benefits include lowering the incidence of this common eye cancer in Haflinger, Belgian, Percheron, Appaloosa, and Arabian Horses, helping breeders to make informed mating decisions, and better prediction of the risk of developing disease for earlier diagnosis and treatment.

Even while a number of U.S. residents already opt to adopt rather than shop for their feline and canine companions, a large majority still choose to go for animals from breeders, whether full bred or a designer mix.

«The pet store had given me his birth certificate and paper with his family tree, assuring me that he was... from a breeder who treated his animals kindly.»

A New Hampshire breeder, who was arrested for cruelty to animals when dozens of dogs and cats were found living in filth, was selling puppies from Russia for as much as $ 1,900 each on the Internet.

The first one I got from them, Luna, looked like a black and tan wolf and the second, her younger brother by a different mother Baldr, looks like a big old artic wolf in fact I had to prove they weren't wolves to the local animal control officer by calling the breeder and having them show them the records.

Every animal purchased from a breeder or a pet shop fills a home that could have taken in a dog or a cat dying for a home at a local shelter.

Meanwhile, groups standing up for breeders say animal rights activists are attacking anyone who makes a profit from raising animals.

There is currently much attention in the media on whether to adopt an animal from a refuge or go through a breeder.

Purebred animals make up 25 % of shelter animals, so why adopt from an unlicensed breeder or puppy mill?

Thousands of animal shelters across the globe share the goal of inspiring people to adopt instead of purchasing a puppy from a breeder or puppy mill.

Nearly 90 animals from a large commercial breeder in the Estrie region of Quebec are now safe thanks to the Quebec Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Humane Society International, and the Estrie SPA.

So, a «USDA licensed breeder» in the window doesn't indicate much about where the animals actually come from or how they're being treated.

If you tell the breeder, pound or wherever you are getting the animal from that the purchase is contingent upon a vet check, most will not have a problem with it.

Backyard breeders and puppy farms are making millions from the breeding of animals - with your help we are already making a big difference.

PATTI DONEGAN»S letter focused on the problem of puppy mills, backyard breeders and dog brokers.Florida Statute 585.195 states each dog offered for sale shall be inoculated against canine disease prior to sale.Florida Statute 823.15 requires sterilization of dogs and cats released from an animal shelter or humane society.The problem in Orange County is the lack of enforcement of these laws, and the need to extend sterilization requirements to back - yard breeders.The public can become involved by encouraging the county commission and city councils to enforce the rules and regulations presently on the books, until a countywide ordinance can be made law that protects the needs of the consumer and the lives of the animals.

But Ducey said he agreed to sign the legislation because it imposes new penalties on pet store owners who do not take steps to ensure that their animals are from breeders that the USDA considers acceptable.

According to a press release, the Puppy Mill Awareness Group said it conducted its own investigation, revealing that The Family Puppy has worked with breeders from Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio in 2009 and 2010, and that an inspector from the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) found unacceptable conditions for breeding dogs at one of the store's breeders.

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In 2014, he supported legislation to prohibit pet stores from selling dogs who come from commercial breeders known as «puppy mills» — large facilities that mass - produce animals for sale.

Camden County in New Jersey adopted a resolution on Thursday September 17 to ban sales of dogs and cats at pet stores, unless those animals are from hobby breeders or...

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ALL animals up for adoption deserve a happy, loving family and for those people who choose to buy from breeders or puppy mills it should be outlawed.