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December 1, 2022
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Las Vegas – Because the Clark County Board of Commissioners considers an ordinance that will prohibit the sale of canine, cats, rabbits, and pot-bellied pigs in pet shops, PETA despatched a letter this morning to the council’s members urging them to vote in favor of the ban, which might assist not solely animals but in addition officers’ constituents and the town’s backside line. The ordinance is scheduled for a public listening to and potential vote on Tuesday.
PETA notes that the ordinance would assist scale back the variety of animals flooding the county animal shelter, which just lately made headlines for turning them away, extreme crowding, and infectious illness outbreaks. It could additionally stop the county from selling canine obtained from pet mills, which confine mom canine to cramped, metal-floored cages and use them as breeding machines till their our bodies give out. Many “purebred” and “designer” puppies from such amenities undergo from illnesses and inbreeding that imply excessive veterinary payments for unsuspecting customers. For instance, French bulldogs, pugs, and different flat-faced canine—referred to as “breathing-impaired breeds” attributable to a debilitating and typically deadly situation referred to as brachycephalic syndrome—have restricted airways that trigger them to battle to breathe, which is a number one reason behind demise in these breeds.
“Puppies within the pet store window generally start life in huge breeding mills, the place they’re taken from their moms prematurely, uncovered to illnesses, and shipped off to make a fast buck,” says PETA Senior Vice President of Cruelty Investigations Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA and our members and supporters statewide are encouraging Clark County management to supply the county’s severely crowded shelter with much-needed reduction by voting ‘sure’ on this pet store ban.”
Round 70 million canine and cats are homeless within the U.S. at any given time. Many animal shelters—beneath strain to keep away from euthanasia in any respect prices—are turning canine away after they inevitably attain capability and refusing to simply accept cats altogether, leaving probably the most susceptible animals with nowhere to go. Many find yourself deserted on the streets, the place they could be hit by automobiles, contaminated with illnesses, or harm by merciless folks—and people who reproduce make the companion animal overpopulation disaster worse. That’s why PETA urges shelters to simply accept all animals in want, asks everybody to undertake as an alternative of shopping for from breeders or pet shops, and advises guardians to have their animal companions spayed or neutered.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals usually are not ours to abuse in any manner”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.