Sentences with phrase «puppy mill sales»

What efforts are happening in your region to educate folks and to ban puppy mill sales?

Vista joins the cities of Oceanside, San Marcos, San Diego, Chula Vista and Encinitas in banning puppy mill sales.

Mundelein's Village Board voted Monday to require pet shops to disclose the origin of their animals, a step back from a plan discussed last month that would have banned so - called puppy mill sales.

To find out how you can take action on puppy mill sales in your community, please visit our puppy mill initiatives page.

His animal law experience includes dangerous dog claims, pet store litigation involving puppy mill sales, Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, Pet Lemon law claims, replevin actions for companion animals, and veterinary malpractice.

If you are an advocate living in Tampa, Florida area, or know of some, there is a meeting on Wednesday to help stamp out puppy mill sales in that city.

«When you water down the legislation to allow for some USDA puppy millers, you're still allowing puppy mill sales and it has to stop,» says Meyers.

A representative from the Humane Society of the United States calls bill S63 «the most comprehensive puppy mill sales bill to ever be introduced».

If you have purchased a puppy who was / is sick or has experienced health problems and you suspect that he / she came from a puppy mill, please call and report this as a possible puppy mill sale.

Not exact matches

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.

While a majority spoke in support of stricter regulations for pet shops, Debbie Boronda, a customer of the only Orland Park business that would be affected by any new rules said the shop, Happiness is Pets, is «a victim of a broken system that allows puppy mills,» arguing a ban on sales wouldn't address the root of the problem, the mills themselves.

At the May 19 meeting, activists and area pet owners again urged the three committee members to support a ban on sales from commercial breeders, citing inhumane conditions in puppy mills that can give pets lasting health problems.

Orland Park trustees are considering banning the sale of pets raised by commercial breeders, which critics call «puppy mills,» in village pet stores.

Previously pet stores and so - called «puppy mills,» where dogs are bred for commercial sale, were regulated by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets.

Lawmakers also heard arguments about a bill that would ban the sale of puppies coming from so - called puppy mills.

In fact, those sales lined the pockets of some of the same breeders that rescue advocates vilify as «puppy mills.»

The 2010 passage of the «puppy mill bill» placed the commercial pet breeder regulations under title 59 of the Oklahoma State Code in a section called Professions and Occupations, and the licensing compels breeders to collect and remit sales taxes to the state in a manner consistent with other retail businesses.

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.

Second, puppy mills are a consumerdriven industry and retail puppy sales are declining.

• Growing awareness of puppy mills has prompted a downturn in puppy sales.

Meanwhile, the bills also addressed other areas of the pet sales industry, including legislation designed to keep «puppy mill» dogs out of New York retail kennels.

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.

As the solution to eliminating «puppy mills,» they have undertaken a national program to ban the sale of pets in pet stores.

«By shrinking the supply of puppy mill dogs flowing into our market, the ordinance is expected to boost adoptions for homeless animals and increase sales for small, responsible dog breeders,» said Humane Society of the United States» Arizona State Director, Kari Nienstedt.

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.

Dr. Allen reports that some puppy mills do not vaccinate the dogs against diseases and many are sold before they are six weeks old, the federal age limit for interstate puppy sales.

The action alleged that Barkworks misrepresented its puppy mill breeders as «reputable,» falsely claimed that all its puppies were healthy at the time of sale and provided inaccurate breeder license numbers.

The ordinance stops the local sale of animals brought in from puppy mills or kitten factories.

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.

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.

The Humane Pet Acquisition Proposal is a collection of templates, including an example ordinance, that cities or counties can use to combat puppy mills and address other problems related to the retail sale of animals.

Lil Olive, a fragile, tiny, Italian greyhound, was rescued in 2011 from a Missouri puppy mill after spending twelve years in a small wire cage, being bred successively and forced to churn out her puppies for sale in the puppy trade.

That's why it's so important to educate consumers about puppy mills and how they're connected to pet stores online sales.

The state's action to ban the sale of pets purchased by pet stores wholesale from commercial breeders and so - called «puppy mills» is a landmark moment.

With the vast majority of pet store puppies coming from puppy mills, over 200 jurisdictions across the U.S. and Canada have enacted ordinances banning the retail sale of commercially bred dogs and cats.

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.»

That means that 67 Chicago businesses — 12 of them pet stores — are participating in the puppy mill trade — and you may not even know it: «Again and again, salespeople denied that their puppies came from puppy mills, and most did not comply with a law passed in 2010 by the State requiring pet shops to post in a conspicuous place in writing on or near the cage of any dog or cat available for sale the information required by subsection (a) of this section.

The sale of puppies is a big market in countries like the US, and that has driven some people to establish intensive puppy breeding operations (puppy mills) to quickly supply the increasing demand in specific dog breeds.

Her organization is an advocacy group that educates the public about puppy mills and their connections to pet stores and Internet pet sales.

Puppy mills are funded by the sale of dogs in pet stores, so once the funds run out, they not longer have a reason to exist.

It is estimated that over 90 percent of pets sold in pet stores and through online sales come from commercial, mass breeding operations known as mills, including puppy, kitten, bird and rabbit mills.

More than 95 % of animals for sale at Petland USA stores are from commercial 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.

In addition, 48 different localities in the U.S. have now banned the sale of puppies in pet stores because of the well - documented link between pet stores and puppy mills.

As the Humane Society of the United States continues to release details from its investigation into Petland's sales of puppy mill dogs, more franchisees of the pet store chain have lined up to bring suit against the company.

On a municipal level, cities such as Phoenix, Ariz., and Tacoma, Wash., have taken measures to ban the sale of puppy mill dogs.

Just last week, the governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, helped introduce a bill to prohibit the sale of puppy mill dogs in pet stores.

The sale of puppy mill dogs has been banned in some cities, including Los Angeles.

The ASPCA wants people to boycott puppy sales in pet stores and on the Internet, the places where most puppy mill animals are sold.

When Illinois voted to ban the sale of puppy mill dogs in retail stores, Lucas fought the ban.