How to kill an industry. Pet ownership will switch to cats.
This is complete and total nonsense.
Retarded SJW nonsense
Are there rescue goldfish and turtles?
It’s another useless law that the twits in Sacramento have foisted upon dimwit Californians.
It doesn’t cover private transactions or out of state purchases.
It will literally kill the Pet Stores unless they can survive selling pet food, dog and cat houses, collars and silly costumes...................
Pet store loopholes:
1. Pet stores take current inventory to shelter, come back in a day or so to buy them back (wink, wink).
2. Breeders take litter to shelter, store buys from shelter. Money laundered to get back to breeders supplying the store.
3. Non-regulated sales.
4. No background checks.
5. No waiting period.
Unconstitutional.
Once again they prove there is no problem too small to be “solved” by turning the coercion of the state against someone just trying to make a living.
We rescue and foster dogs and I can say without a doubt that a rescued dog is likely to be the most loyal companion a person could ask for.
They instinctively know they have been rescued.
Which encourages people to give up their pets.
A friend volunteers at an animal rescue shelter. 95% of dogs are pit-bulls from the hood, picked-up wandering the streets of our city, taken in drug raids, or abused and chained up in ghetto yards.
Its simply another welfare program. Americans being forced to bear the problems of the irresponsible.
I have a rescue dog - she’s wonderful. But it is not the place of government to mandate such things. Disgusting overreach - business as usual.
The ‘goal’ is to shut down puppy mills; the result is that puppy mills moved onto Facebook and other platforms a while ago. End result, puppy mills continue, there's no stores to keep an eye on the breeders, and all the puppy mill has to do is block the few whiners to see them go away.
As for the pet stores; many have already shifted to working with rescues and shelters - private rescues will have considerably more paperwork to go through to use the pet store outlets. There's also question if pet stores can actually legally keep animals in the store overnight or if they have to daily be returned to the shelter.
So, to summarize, well intentioned law that does nothing to actually stop what the proponents are actually concerned about and makes it harder for those who were already doing so to continue doing so. More useful in urban areas vs rural, but overall, just a PITA for everyone involved.
This makes shopping for supplies easier for Korean restaurant cooks.
Doggy holocaust?
Well, while rescuing animals is wonderful, it is not holier than other forms of good pet ownership. It’s a huge risk, for one. An animal’s past can determine his behavior. Many households have children or have visiting children. No one needs or wants an animal previously traumatized to react with violence one day when he has a trigger from his trauma.
Choosing a purebred or known hybrid puppy allows you to raise your own dog and have him behave the way you wish, with love and affection and good training. You can choose genetic traits that work for your family and lifestyle. Choosing a hybrid reduces the poor overbreeding of straight breeds. (Hybrids are like labradoodles etc where the dog is never a result of inbreeding but is a crossbreed and still has known genetic look or personality but misses illnesses and genetic weaknesses). Obviously the best bet for buying any kind of breed is their breeder.
However, pet stores have been infamous for buying poor quality dogs from disgusting puppy mills. So getting a cute mutt from a store is probably better than encouraging puppy mills (which will still operate illegally for lab animals etc).
There’s big business in rescue pets right now and has been for years. When I volunteered at an animal shelter we often had a shortage of adoptable pets. Other shelters IMPORTED them and so were never short.
I had a business associate recently who got a rescue German Shepherd in SoCal. The organization “rescued” them from China. I put rescue in quotes because they charged him $1k+ for the opportunity to virtue signal to everyone he knew. My guess is that this was a dog from a puppy mill in China.
You all are missing the point on this.
It is crony “crapitalism”
The SPCA now has another way to make money, as a nonprofit I’m sure, and anyone who wants a pet will bear the burden of their 5 minute commercials...