Sentences with phrase «sale at your local pet store»

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Recently I was joined by Health Commissioner Burstein, Legislator Peter Savage and public health advocates to announce a proposed local law to ban the sale of these products at grocery stores and pharmacies, a move that has already been implemented successfully locally at national retailers like Wegmans, Target and CVS.

The mayor of St. Petersburg Florida is proposing an ordinance that would ban the retail sales of puppies in pet stores in the hopes that it will boost adoption rates at local shelters.

-- We sent mystery shoppers to local pet stores, seeking information we could use should pet storeowners appear at the next committee meeting, and uncovering numerous code violations, unhealthy puppies, and shifty sales tactics in the process.

Dog and cat owners say the best way to crack down on illegal puppy mill operators is not to ban the sale of dogs and cats at local pet stores, but rather to enact and enforce tougher breeder standards (67 % vs. 33 %).

But our collective desire to shut down puppy mills has been co-opted to support an ill - conceived campaign to prevent the responsible sale of dogs at local pet stores.

Shop at One Stop on Feb. 10 and 11 and the store will donate 3 % of its total sales to help pets in need at local shelters!

One is a campaign of public education through peaceful protests and informational demonstrations, and the other is a campaign to pass local ordinances aimed at ending the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits at pet stores in the given municipality.

These puppy store demonstrations, which are really public information and educational activities, have been very successful in ending the sale of puppy mill dogs at a number of local retail outlets in L.A. and Orange County and even contributed to a national mall chain's decision to phase out pet stores in their malls in favor of hosted adoption events by rescues and shelters.

In California, 36 local jurisdictions are among the more than 230 cities, towns, and counties across the country which have passed ordinances to stop the sale of cruelly bred animals at pet stores in their communities.

The premise of their attack is based on the belief that pet stores are responsible for (1) local pet overpopulation, (2) increased population at shelters, (3) the high shelter euthanasia rates and (4) the sale of sick dogs from «puppy mills» to unsuspected consumers.

The measure, if passed, would have gutted Florida's cities and towns of the home - rule authority to ban the sale of cruelly - bred puppies at retail pet stores, invalidated existing local bans and prevented communities from enacting similar bans in the future.