PET RESCUE & ADOPTION ACT

AB 485: ANTI-BREEDER LEGISLATIVE ALERT

Chuck Bridges, President - California Federation of Dog Clubs (CFoDC)

The 2017 Pet Rescue & Adoption Act would require all pets offered for retail sale in CA to be obtained solely from CA animal shelters and non-profit rescue groups - NOT from breeders!

Judi Mancuso, President of Social Compassion in Legislation (SCIL, one of the sponsors of AB 1634, the statewide mandatory spay/bill introduced in 2007), announced SCIL’s sponsorship of ii AB 485, the Pet Rescue & Adoption Act.

While the press release suggests that the new bill would require all dogs, cats, and rabbits offered for retail sale in California to be obtained solely from public or private animal shelters located in California and non-profit rescue groups, the actual language of the bill is vague. Here’s the entire text of the current bill (without the preamble):

“The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

AB 485 looks like it’s going to be a “gut and amend” bill, and we can expect, given SCIL’s history, that the bill will become anti-breeder and anti-owner as it progresses through the state legislature.

Finally, please be aware that the situation for un-owned pets has improved continuously since at the least 1970s across the U.S. and particularly in California. A Washington Post article discusses a possible shortage of available dogs in the future and points out the vastly inflated statistics on shelter killing used by Animal Rights extremists.

Maddie’s Fund reached a similar conclusion, that the shift of a few percentage points in demand for shelter dogs would empty shelters, a few years ago. Interestingly, Nathan Winograd, the founder of the No Kill movement commented on the possibility of a shortage of dogs, “If we still haven’t met market demand — which would surprise me — then let’s look to our neighbors to our south before we say, ‘Let’s start producing more.’” Of course, we’re already seeing un-owned dogs being imported from Asia and Mexico to meet the demand for rescued dogs.

Please be aware of the potential backlash of ii AB 485 and standby for further updates.

Reference and Related Information (Offsite Links Open In A Window [1-3]):

[1] SCIL'S Press Release  ~  [2] Text of AB 485  ~  [3] Inflated stats on shelter killings  ~  [4] Web Assault Against Purebred Dogs  ~  War On Pet Shops

1702 https://www.thedogplace.org/Legislation/CA-1634-485-Pet-Rescue-Adoption-Act-CFODC.asp