Sentences with phrase «roadside zoos»
"Roadside zoos" refers to small, often poorly regulated animal exhibits located along the side of the road or in rural areas where animals are kept for public viewing. Full definition
At the time of passage, the bill was celebrated by activists as a means to crack down on «wild animals kept as backyard pets or in roadside zoo exhibits.»
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Former The Price is Right host Bob Barker has already spoken out about the importance of rescuing bears from roadside zoos and, of course, getting your pets spayed or neutered, but this week he took on a much bigger — and wetter — animal cause.
Animal advocates and organizations relied on the online databases to monitor conditions at thousands of roadside zoos, puppy mills, and research labs across the country.
One place where roadside zoos acquire animals are exotic animal auctions, where «exotic animals of every imaginable species - including big cats, bears, wolves, non-human primates, birds - are offered for sale to the highest bidder,» says Wathne.
Gavin Parsons donated his expert legal assistance on ALDF's landmark lawsuit that freed Ben the Bear from a shameful North Carolina roadside zoo.
Recalled the PETA web site, Simon «worked with PETA to close bear pits, rescue an abused elephant in India, send lone roadside zoo chimpanzees to a sanctuary, and find homes for hundreds of chinchillas, a camel,» and many other animals involved in prominent cruelty cases.
Our recent groundbreaking victory removing tigers, lions and lemurs from a deplorable roadside zoo was based on the ESA, as are several of our ongoing cases.
«The public is no longer going to be able to quickly learn which commercial dog breeders, horse trainers, which roadside zoos, which research labs have horrible animal welfare track records.»
«Essentially, this is now going to give a bit of a get - out - of - jail card to horse soring, puppy mills, delinquent roadside zoos and animals research labs that are flouting the law.»
Meanwhile, exotic animals like bears, tigers, and lions are trapped in pathetically inhumane conditions at roadside zoos.
This bill called the Big Cat Public Safety Act is the most important piece of legislation to ever be introduced to protect lions, tigers, and other exotic wild cats from being kept as pets and in miserable roadside zoos.
At the federal level, breeders are regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a law that outlines basic care requirements for the millions of animals living in roadside zoos, puppy mills, and research labs across the country.
These animals are either «surplus» from roadside zoos; captured from their native habitats; sold at auctions, pet stores, or over the Internet; or come from backyard breeders or the black market.
«The number of roadside zoos that have tacked on the word «sanctuary» or «rescue» to their names has skyrocketed in recent years.
Without it we would have no way to respond quickly and effectively to reports of animal abuse such as those that came to light in recent years at Oklahoma research labs and roadside zoos.
North Carolina is known by the rest of the country for cruel and inhumane practices regarding animals (whether it is roadside zoos, puppy mills or factory farm animals).
These public records, funded by taxpayers, help consumers find out more about the animal welfare records of commercial dog breeders, horse trainers and owners, roadside zoos, research laboratories and other facilities.
It's the federal government that enforces the Animal Welfare Act, the Horse Protection Act, the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act — the laws protecting animals in puppy mills, Tennessee walking horse shows, roadside zoos and slaughterhouses.
Smith led a letter to Agriculture Secretary Perdue last month protesting the agency's plan to outsource AWA oversight to third - party inspectors in the regulated industries, including puppy mills, labs and roadside zoos.
This expanding program needs adequate funding to fulfill its responsibility to ensure basic care for millions of animals at puppy mills, laboratories, roadside zoos, and other facilities as Congress and the public expect.
My assignment was to talk about a roadside zoos bill.
They took jobs at puppy mills and pet stores, slaughterhouses and factory farms, research labs, fur farms and roadside zoos.
They may sort through hundreds of shipping manifests to figure out which puppy mills are supplying particular pet stores or which exotic animal breeders are selling to roadside zoos and captive hunt operations.
We are the most hated, feared and lied about by circuses, backyard breeders, roadside zoos, cub petting pimps apseudo - sanctuariesies because we are the most effective at ending the abuse of big cats.
In 2014, the ALDF led a campaign against Cricket Hollow Animal Park, a roadside zoo in Des Moines, Iowa, over its mistreatment of their animals.