Sentences with phrase «including animal dealers»
During her tenure, Laura has conducted investigations into activities including animal dealers, animal collectors, horse and dog racing, animal fighting and ritual animal sacrifice.
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In this exciting memoir, a former superintendent of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo describes his unruly, reptile - obsessed adolescence and his diverse career, which includes nabbing drug dealers and animal smugglers.
This action essentially eliminates the public's ability to know what is occurring in nearly 9,000 facilities across the U.S. including animal breeders, dealers, exhibitors, transporters, and taxpayer - funded animal research facilities.
However, the agency's education efforts have not always been successful in deterring problematic dealers from violating AWA. During FYs 2006 - 2008, at the re-inspection of 4,250 violators, inspectors found that 2,416 repeatedly violated AWA, including some that ignored minimum care standards. Therefore, relying heavily on education for serious or repeat violators — without an appropriate level of enforcement — weakened the agency's ability to protect animals.»
That includes dealers who sell animals to laboratories, animal exhibitors, carriers, and intermediate handlers, dog and cat breeders, puppy mills, zoos, circuses, roadside menageries, and transporters of animals.
Pet dealer does not include humane societies, nonprofit organizations performing the functions of humane societies, or animal control agencies.
Such definition shall include breeders who sell or offer to sell animals; provided that a breeder who sells or offers to sell directly to the consumer fewer than twenty - five animals per year that are born and raised on the breeder's residential premises shall not be considered a pet dealer as a result of selling or offering to sell such animals.
Under the bill municipalities can pass ordinances or take action to protect the health or safety of animals held by pet dealers, regulate the source of animals offered for sale by pet dealers, including requiring spay / neuter before sale, and protect consumers.