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Arizona City Mandates All Dogs Sold in Pet Stores Will Come From Shelters
For the longest time, rescue groups, shelter volunteers, and animal lovers everywhere have hoped the day would come when pet stores would sell shelter pups exclusively, as a way to cut the profit from “puppy mills”. Last week a federal judge in Phoenix, Arizona upheld a city law requiring that all dogs sold in pet stores come from shelters.
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It bothers me that cities are making laws that control where private corporations are getting their goods. They should be going after the puppy mill owners directly if animals are being mistreated, not choke breeders of their selling options. Although it says that the goal is to drive people to reputable breeders as well, if I was a breeder, it would seem like a good deal to sell some of my animals through a pet shop if they weren't otherwise selling and it doesn't seem right that even if all my practices were legal, I would be getting denied what should be a private contract with a private company because of some law that wants to destroy otherwise legal business deals.
brilliant.