Sentences with phrase «pet mill animal»

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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.

A few minutes on this puppy mill page, and impressionable dope - addled American youth will be off in a jiffy to some left - wing animal - rights re-education camp in the middle of Oregon, next to be seen launching lightning commando strikes on science labs and pet stores across the country.

At 10 a.m., Deputy Senate Minority Leader Mike Gianaris holds an event highlighting his bill that would ban pet stores from selling animals from for - profit «mills,» 31 - 19 Newtown Ave., Astoria, Queens.

Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of animal advocates, the Governor has signed into law legislation (A. 740A / S3753A) to enable local governments to stop puppy mills and pet dealers like the one in Sprakers that are operating in immoral and unethical ways.

«With thousands of good animals in need of homes, there is no need for notorious puppy mills to supply pet stores,» Gianaris said in a statement.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday plans to sign legislation cracking down on puppy mills and unscrupulous pet dealers who masquerade as not - for - profit animal shelters, the Daily News has learned.

ALBANY — Legislation intended to crack down on puppy mills and unscrupulous pet dealers masquerading as not - for - profit animal shelters is headed to Gov. Cuomo's desk.

She is aiming to crackdown on commercial dog breeding facilities known as puppy mills and ensure that pet dealers are selling healthy animals from safe sources.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo today plans to sign legislation cracking down on puppy mills and unscrupulous pet dealers who masquerade as not - for - profit animal shelters.

Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone signed into law Tuesday the «puppy mill bill,» safeguarding the animals themselves, as well as consumers who have been burdened by unexpected medical costs of caring for their newly purchased pets.

Articulating clear animal - breeding standards that protect breeded pets and help society to crack down on «puppy mills» and the bad actors that have given that term rise.

Animal rights activist groups keep selling the idea that the way to get rid of sub-standard breeders — I refuse to use the pejorative term puppy mills — is to simply ban the sale of puppies, which in many cases, for simplicity, just morphs into banning the sale of all pets.

Yet an increasing number of jurisdictions (more than 80 at last count) have banned the sale of puppies by pet stores, ostensibly to quell the market for «puppy mill» animals and to encourage adoption.

The session started out with two strong measures to address the worst animal welfare issues facing companion animals in Oklahoma, puppy mills and routine abandonment of unwanted pets.

Oklahoma is one of the highest in the number of Class B dealers licensees in the nation (34 out of 969 active Class B licensees are located in OK) and this trade in dogs and other animals, which go to research, product testing, resale for pets and animals used in exhibits, may be even more hidden than in the puppy mill world.

While you may think buying a puppy mill pet is saving an animal, it is only encouraging these mills to stay in business by keeping up the demand for their product.

This misconception is particularly harmful because it not only prevents shelter animals from going into loving homes, but may drive potential adopters toward pet stores that almost always get their inventory from puppy mills.

PUPPY AND KITTEN MILLS ARE GLUTTING THE SYSTEM We will euthanize thousands of pets today at our animal shelters and city Animal Care & Control facilanimal shelters and city Animal Care & Control facilAnimal Care & Control facilities.

Without easy access to these USDA reports, pet stores in Connecticut may return to their old habits and source dogs and cats from puppy mills with violations (although the standards of care for animals in puppy mills are virtually non-existent, leading to abhorrent, horrific living conditions for animals in these facilities, even when no USDA violations are noted).

«The retail pet industry has a system - wide problem that begins with cruel puppy mills, continues with the way they ship baby animals across the country in cramped quarters, and ends with consumers often being sold sick animals at an inflated price,» John Goodwin said.

Adopting a pet from a shelter or rescue group reduces the demand for puppy mills which breed animals under cruel and deplorable conditions.

Don't support puppy mills and pet stores this Holiday Season — Beware of on line buying of animals, often these puppies are from puppy mills or «factory style» breeding facilities.

In addition to disreputable dealers and puppy mills, Internet scammers have crept into the realm of online pet sales, stealing money from unsuspecting people who think their new dog or cat is on the way to his or her new home, when in fact there was never really an animal at all.

The pet store Umka came from was shown by a 2011 undercover investigation to be buying animals from shady Midwestern puppy mills known for their cruel conditions.

Smaller pet stores are starting to jump on board, too, selling pet products and hosting adoptable shelter animals, instead of selling animals from mills or other dubious sources.

We have lobbied against everything from puppy mills to exotic animals as backyard pets.

But many pet stores get their pups and other animals from mills where they're often abused and treated like baby producing machines rather than as loving creatures.

Also, never purchase a puppy from a pet store, they are often ill and your money would be going to support the puppy mills they get their animals from.

«There is not much being done about the source of all these unwanted animals, such as the reproduction of feral animals, or the pet abandonment issue, or illegal puppy mills.

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.

Thorse Dog Rescue also educates visitors about crucial animal welfare issues such as pet overpopulation and puppy mills and are currently setting up programs to speak at schools and businesses about these issues.

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

She spent countless hours working on the ASPCA's important puppy mill database, which helps people learn more about the origins of animals sold in pet stores and from breeders.

Previous HSUS investigations inChicago, New York, Texas, and Virginia have revealed similar shortcomings: pet stores all too often buy and sell puppies who are sourced from inhumane puppy mills that treat them like products, not living, breathing animals.

Our latest HSUS special investigation reveals that Georgia pet stores are peddling hundreds of puppies each year sourced from puppy brokers and puppy mills, some with serious Animal Welfare Act violations.

According to USDA inspection reports, at some of the mills supplying to Georgia pet stores, animals have been found suffering with conditions such as bleeding sores and encrusted eyes.

Dr. Laura Loaiza, program coordinator of Animal Welfare Small Species of SENASA urges people not to buy pets in puppy mills.

However, as Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States writes in a new book, our love of pets coexists alongside prevalent animal abuse, everywhere from factory farms to puppy mills.

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Speaking in support of the original ban on sales from breeders, Quinn said: «This proposal will help end inhumane puppy mills, protect pet owners and help shelter animals find loving homes.»

Puppy mills contribute to pet overpopulation, particularly in urban areas, and are known for their poor living conditions that lead to diseased animals often being sold to unsuspecting pet owners across the country.

Not all pet stores sell animals from «puppy mills».

The connection is made to the irrefutable, massive, negative impact puppy mills have on this country's pet population crisis and how our society deals with it — Millions of dogs are born in puppy mills every year, while, in the same period, millions are put to death in animal shelters across the country.

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In a petition on Care2, The Humane Society of the United States is requesting everyone to make the pledge to never buy an animal from a backyard breeder or pet shop that sells animals from puppy mills.

Rescuing from shelters also reduces the success rate of backyard breeders, puppy mills, and pet stores that don't properly care for their animals and gives an otherwise deserving pet a chance at a wonderful life.

Most people don't realize that when you purchase a dog from a pet store that these animals likely came from puppy mills.

Because of the growth in online sales of animals, particularly dogs, many operators of inhumane commercial breeding facilities, or puppy mills, transport dogs to pet stores and to new parents via airplanes.

Tennessee state Sen. Doug Jackson says the conditions at the Hickman County, Tennessee puppy mill of Patricia Adkisson were abhorrent enough to prompt him to introduce S.B. 258 (H.B. 386 in the House), a bill that would require licensing of commercial dog and cat breeders, establish regulatory control over these breeders, Â and also offer protections for consumers purchasing these animals as pets.