{"id":124868,"date":"2018-12-31T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=124868"},"modified":"2018-12-27T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:32:42","slug":"britain-bans-puppy-and-kitten-sales-by-pet-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/12\/britain-bans-puppy-and-kitten-sales-by-pet-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Bans Puppy and Kitten Sales by Pet Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shops will only be allowed to deal with animal welfare shelters or the primary breeders of the pet. AFP\/File<\/p><\/div>\n

25 Dec 2018 – <\/em>Britain is forbidding puppies and kittens from being sold by pet shops in a bid to crack down on animal exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n

The government said it will roll out the legislation next year after holding public consultations that showed 95-percent support for the ban.<\/p>\n

“This will mean that anyone looking to buy or adopt a puppy or kitten under six months must either deal directly with the breeder or with an animal re-homing centre,” the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Sunday as part of its Christmas animal welfare push.<\/p>\n

The measure is commonly called Lucy’s Law in honour of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who was rescued from a puppy farm in Wales in 2013.<\/p>\n

She had spent most of her life in a cage and was no longer able to breed because her hips had fused together from lack of movement.<\/p>\n

A woman named Lisa Garner took her home and launched a social media awareness campaign that changed the way Britons get their pets.<\/p>\n

The government said the new law will help “end the terrible welfare conditions found in puppy farming and solve a range of existing animal welfare issues”.<\/p>\n

Lucy died in 2016.<\/p>\n

‘Right start in life’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government believes the ban will keep “high volume low welfare breeders” — both licensed and unlicensed — from flooding pet shops with puppies and kittens raised in unethical conditions.<\/p>\n

Shops will only be allowed to deal with animal welfare shelters or the primary breeders of the pet.<\/p>\n

Defra released no figures estimating how many sales the new legislation will affect.<\/p>\n

But London’s Battersea Dogs Home chief Claire Horton said the rules will “make sure the nation’s much-loved pets get the right start in life”.<\/p>\n

Between 1998 and 2006 Battersea produced a popular TV series about pet rescues and care, which reflected Britons’ general affection for cats and dogs.<\/p>\n

Britain’s People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) veterinary charity said 49 percent of UK adults owned at least one pet in 2018.<\/p>\n

PDSA’s estimated cat population of 11.1 million edged out the 8.9 million dogs and 1.0 million rabbits — whose numbers have nearly halved since 2011.<\/p>\n

The British government has unfurled a number of animal welfare initiatives in the past few months that activists hope other European countries will soon follow.<\/p>\n

One law in October banned licensed shops from dealing in puppies and kittens under the age of eight weeks.<\/p>\n

Defra is now looking at legislation requiring all non-commercial rescue and re-homing centres to have a licence.<\/p>\n

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