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I can't believe this isn't law already! PLEASE if you care about animals write your congressman and senator!
Clicking the headline will take you to the form letter and there is a space for your own thoughts on this.
USA: Support the Pet Safety and Protection Act! <--clicky
S. 1834/H.R. 3907—Pet Safety and Protection Act: Sale of Dogs and Cats to Research Institutions
Sponsor(s): Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI); Rep. Michael Doyle (D-PA)
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Send a letter to your representative and senators urging them to support and cosponsor the Pet Safety and Protection Act, a bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally.
The U.S. Pet Safety and Protection Act (S. 1834/H.R. 3907) would provide a much-needed safety net to ensure that beloved family pets are not stolen or acquired under false pretenses for sale to research laboratories.
Recently reintroduced in Congress, the Pet Safety and Protection Act would prohibit Class B Dealers and unlicensed individuals from selling dogs and cats to research laboratories. Class B Dealers are people who make their livings by selling animals to the research industry. This is currently permitted under the Animal Welfare Act (passed in 1966), but these dealers are not held accountable for where they obtained their animals.
This is a problem, because dealers sometimes acquire animals through illegal or unethical means—such as by responding to “free to a good home” ads in newspapers, falsifying records to keep the true origins of the animals unknown, working with “bunchers” (people who collect animals from random sources to sell to Class B Dealers) and stealing pets kept outside in yards.
If the Pet Safety and Protection Act is passed, the Animal Welfare Act would be amended so that the only people who would be allowed to sell dogs and cats to research facilities would be:
1. Dealers who have bred and raised the animals.
2. Publicly owned pounds or shelters that obtained the animals from their legal owners.
3. A person donating a dog or cat whom they have bred and raised, or owned for at least one year.
(These categories of people are already allowed to sell to research. The Pet Safety and Protection Act would not change that or give them more rights than they currently have.)
People who obtained dogs and cats by any other means would not be permitted to sell those dogs and cats to research laboratories, thus ensuring that stolen pets do not end up in research facilities.
In addition to eliminating Class B Dealers, this bill would eliminate the incentive for bunchers to obtain dogs and cats through illegal or unethical means, as there would be no profit in doing so.
What You Can Do
Senator Akaka has been working on this measure for over 10 years—please show your support for his tireless efforts on behalf of our nation’s pets.
Use the email below to contact your U.S. representative and senators now and urge them to support and cosponsor S. 1834 and H.R. 3907. Because your legislators receive a lot of email, we request that you personalize your email message for greater impact. Thank you for your help!
Clicking the headline will take you to the form letter and there is a space for your own thoughts on this.
USA: Support the Pet Safety and Protection Act! <--clicky
S. 1834/H.R. 3907—Pet Safety and Protection Act: Sale of Dogs and Cats to Research Institutions
Sponsor(s): Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI); Rep. Michael Doyle (D-PA)
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Send a letter to your representative and senators urging them to support and cosponsor the Pet Safety and Protection Act, a bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally.
The U.S. Pet Safety and Protection Act (S. 1834/H.R. 3907) would provide a much-needed safety net to ensure that beloved family pets are not stolen or acquired under false pretenses for sale to research laboratories.
Recently reintroduced in Congress, the Pet Safety and Protection Act would prohibit Class B Dealers and unlicensed individuals from selling dogs and cats to research laboratories. Class B Dealers are people who make their livings by selling animals to the research industry. This is currently permitted under the Animal Welfare Act (passed in 1966), but these dealers are not held accountable for where they obtained their animals.
This is a problem, because dealers sometimes acquire animals through illegal or unethical means—such as by responding to “free to a good home” ads in newspapers, falsifying records to keep the true origins of the animals unknown, working with “bunchers” (people who collect animals from random sources to sell to Class B Dealers) and stealing pets kept outside in yards.
If the Pet Safety and Protection Act is passed, the Animal Welfare Act would be amended so that the only people who would be allowed to sell dogs and cats to research facilities would be:
1. Dealers who have bred and raised the animals.
2. Publicly owned pounds or shelters that obtained the animals from their legal owners.
3. A person donating a dog or cat whom they have bred and raised, or owned for at least one year.
(These categories of people are already allowed to sell to research. The Pet Safety and Protection Act would not change that or give them more rights than they currently have.)
People who obtained dogs and cats by any other means would not be permitted to sell those dogs and cats to research laboratories, thus ensuring that stolen pets do not end up in research facilities.
In addition to eliminating Class B Dealers, this bill would eliminate the incentive for bunchers to obtain dogs and cats through illegal or unethical means, as there would be no profit in doing so.
What You Can Do
Senator Akaka has been working on this measure for over 10 years—please show your support for his tireless efforts on behalf of our nation’s pets.
Use the email below to contact your U.S. representative and senators now and urge them to support and cosponsor S. 1834 and H.R. 3907. Because your legislators receive a lot of email, we request that you personalize your email message for greater impact. Thank you for your help!
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