10/02/2022
Thank you California for restricting the sale of dog and cats online
A California bill that bans the financing of dogs and cats purchased online was recently signed into law. The law will reduce the number of commercially-bred puppies and kittens entering California via online sales. In 2019, the state banned the retail sale of animals in pet stores. The next step is banning online sales of commercially-bred animals altogether.
In other news:
- Rabbits with gouged eyes, guinea pigs with no food, hamsters in urine and feces-soaked cages: that is how small animals are kept at Los Angeles City Animal Services.
- Dog thefts are up 40% nationwide from last year.
- The number of communities placing over 95% and as high as 99% of the animals is increasing.
- A new survey finds that 8 out of 10 people with dogs allow them to sleep on the bed.
- “Pit bull owners urged a federal appeals court… to resurrect their suit claiming their constitutional rights are violated by an Iowa city’s ordinance banning possession of the dogs within the city.”
- Another class action lawsuit has been filed against Bayer Healthcare and Elanco Animal Health. According to plaintiffs, which include families whose dogs have died after wearing the collars, “Seresto flea and tick collars — some of the top-selling flea and tick preventative collars in the country — have been associated with tens of thousands of pet injuries and approximately 1,700 pet deaths.”
- City officials in Sugar Land, TX, fired five shelter employees after they killed 38 animals without following proper procedures. The shelter’s manager resigned before being terminated.
- According to testimony from staff and volunteers, the leadership of Austin Animal Center is grooming city officials to allow them to start killing healthy and treatable animals again.
- After another carriage horse, Ryder, collapsed in New York, police officers shut down the block and helped Ryder by “placing a pillow under its head while cooling it down with ice and a hose.” An eyewitness videotaped the horse struggling earlier, but the driver screamed at the horse to go faster. Now comes evidence that the horse's owner “falsified Ryder’s age from 26 to 13 on records filed with the City” to illegally exploit him.
- The No Kill Advocacy Center’s website has an all-new look, and one-of-a-kind information to empower shelter directors, government officials, rescuers, volunteers, and shelter reform advocates.
- This year’s “Clear the Shelters” adoptathon resulted in over 161,500 cats and dogs finding homes, the best year in its history. On top of that, shelter intakes are down, reclaims are steady, adoptions are increasing, and in some cases, increasing significantly. And yet the excuses offered legitimizing shelter killing are becoming increasingly absurd, including the false notion that we have reached “peak dog.”
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