Sentences with phrase «laboratory animal dealers»

Because of the large number of laboratory animal dealers in the state, the league also lead the way in encouraging a stronger Pennsylvania Dog Law.

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As biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.

Research laboratories have also been known to get their dogs from animal shelters, either directly or through «Class B» dealers who obtain the dogs, then resell them to the labs.

Others will be stuck outside and will likely die of starvation, temperature extremes, be hit by cars, infected with lingering, debilitating diseases, stolen by laboratory dealers, used as bait by dogfighters, attacked by other animals, or tortured and / or killed by cruel people.

Often underlying these crimes are dogfighters seeking «bait» animals (as well as fighting and breeding victims), and dealers (aka «bunchers») acquiring animals to sell to research laboratories or breeding operations.

If an impounded Malinois is in such a shelter which does not require neutering of adopted animals, does not screen adopters, is known to sell dogs to dealers or research laboratories, or, for any other reason, does not seem like a reputable organization, the dog needs to be removed at once and evaluated for placement in a foster home.

The AWA is the only federal law that regulates animals bred and sold by dealers, animals in entertainment, zoo animals and laboratory 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.