PROUD DAY! We passed four bills today protecting animals in New York City. Ive been working on these bills all year. Thank you to Council Member Elizabeth Crowley for her leadership on this issue, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for being an unconditional supporter of these four bills and to Linda B. Rosenthal who is the biggest champion for animals in Albany and whose law which passed in Albany allowed us to vote on these bills today. The City Council voted to ban the sale of dogs and cats from abusive “puppy mills,” part of a wide-ranging package of legislation to tighten regulations on pet shops. “You have bad breeders that are breeding cats and dogs in an inhumane, unhealthy, abusive way, and consumers don’t know about it,” said Councilman Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), chair of the health committee. “It is disgusting, it is inhumane, it is immoral how people are treating animals only for the reason of profit and money.” The bill will also ban shops from selling rabbits altogether, because backers say they multiply too fast and often get abandoned. The new pet store rules, which passed 49-2, will require pet shops to get dogs and cats directly from breeders, which must be licensed by the USDA. The legislation would outlaw buying from breeders who have violated the Animal Welfare Act, and bar buying from brokers, who often act as middlemen to sell animals from puppy mills that keep young animals in squalid conditions.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:40:19 +0000
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