{"id":20098,"date":"2017-09-17T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/?p=20098"},"modified":"2017-09-17T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T23:36:26","slug":"california-puppy-mill-crackdown-state-moves-ban-non-rescue-animal-sales-pet-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2017\/09\/california-puppy-mill-crackdown-state-moves-ban-non-rescue-animal-sales-pet-stores.html","title":{"rendered":"California Puppy Mill Crackdown: State Moves to Ban Non-Rescue Animal Sales in Pet Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adopting a pet in California may soon assist in curbing an astronomical explosion in stray and feral animals, if Governor Jerry Brown signs unprecedented legislation banning the state\u2019s pet stores from sales of cats, dogs, and rabbits not originating from a shelter or rescue organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Animal rights activists and advocates believe the proposed Pet Rescue and Adoption Act (AB 485<\/a>) would effectively end the use of breeding operations \u2014 termed \u201cpuppy mills\u201d<\/em> (or other species), these massive operations churn out a constant stream of puppies, kittens, and other companion animals, often in abominable, abusive, or neglected conditions \u2014 and aspire to choke out retailers who insist on sourcing animals that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Legitimate <\/span>criticism<\/span><\/a> certainly exists in the law\u2019s inherent elimination of choice from the marketplace, as far as the retail pursuit of specific pet breeds is concerned, with detractors pegging a dearth of reliable genetic and medical information available for individual shelter animals, as well as the fact many popular breeds never wind up housed in such facilities. <\/span><\/p>\n

Proponents rightly point to abandoned and unwanted animals, as the United States continues grappling with an astronomical explosion in feral and stray populations \u2014 which the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports \u2018forced\u2019 the euthanization of at least <\/span>1.5 million<\/span><\/a> unadopted shelter companion animals \u2014 in just 2016, alone. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia taxpayers spend over a quarter of a billion dollars every year to house homeless animals,\u201d<\/span><\/i> San Diego Humane Society CEO and President Dr. Gary Weitzman <\/span>told<\/span><\/a> Huffington Post<\/span><\/i> in an emailed ASPCA statement pertaining to the new bill, adding the strongest potential lies in the elimination of <\/span>\u201ca main source of sales for inhumane commercial breeders.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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