A Michael Broad Blog
Well, I have cut this report very short by encapsulating it into an infographic 😊💕. It is meant to get to the point quickly and cut out some waffle. The moral of the infographic is good and clear: bunnies live for ten years. Adopting one is a big commitment for a long time. All …
Joyce Cohen who sits on the advisory board of the Pet Animal Care Facilities Act of, I believe, the Aurora City Council, said that pet stores are simply unviable i.e. they can’t make enough money if they don’t buy puppies and kittens from “puppy mills” which is a reference to irresponsible breeders with a …
NEWS AND COMMENT: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, USA: It is sad to learn that people in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) sometimes buy cats and dogs with a high interest loan. I can understand why. They want to adopt a cat or dog and they want that animal to be purebred and good-looking. But the …
COLORADO, USA – DENVER POST REPORTS: A law designed to stop puppy and kitten mills supplying pet stores has been dropped because ‘we cannot be anti-business’ in the words of Republican Richard Holtorf, who sits on the Colorado House Rural Affairs and Agriculture Committee of the legislature. No doubt the bill was intended to …
The new Californian law which makes it obligatory for pet shops to obtain supplies of animals from shelters and rescues (as opposed to puppy and kitten mills) has had an unforeseen consequence, namely that shelters which are unregulated have been thrust into the supply chain to provide regulated pet shops with pets. Animal shelters …
Pet shops in Encinitas, California must now comply with a new ordinance (law) which makes it obligatory for them to only display and display cats and dogs from shelters or non-profit humane societies. Selling cats and dogs produced at commercial breeders is illegal. There is a growing trend for this sort legislation and very …
A TERRIFIED cat was delivered to a pet shop with its legs tied up and wrapped in a plastic bag by an owner who was upset the kitten had grown. The most common question a pet shop assistant is asked is. “Will it grow?” Shocking isn’t it? The ‘problem’ of pets growing (it’s a …
Pet shops should sell pet related products and any animals in their stop should be rescue animals so that one (the products) complements the other (the rescue animals). This is the ideal that animal advocates seek. Although this high goal has not been achieved in Connecticut, Gov Malloy commemorated the signing-off of an animal …
