NEW ANIMALS (REGULATION OF SALE) BILL 2008.

 

  

The Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill will protect the lives and wellbeing of dogs and cats...

Support the Animals (Regulation Of Sale) Bill 2008

Lord Mayor of Sydney and Independent MP Ms Clover Moore has spent the last couple of months revising the Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill 2007 following all the positive feedback from the public and additional advice received from a range of pet loving experts. A NEW Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill 2008 will be submitted to the NSW Parliament in September/October this year.

We will make sure we keep you informed about the new Bill once it is published and let you know how you can support it. So watch this space!

Please note that whilst this Bill relates to NSW, it's success will have enormous and exciting implications for all other States. We are asking everyone, no matter where you live, to support this so that we all work towards reducing the reasons why around 250,000 cats and dogs a year across Australia are killed.

This NSW Bill has already raised significant awareness of the sad plight of our companion animals and helped to advertise the better choices the public have in how they acquire their pets.

Lead The Way

The Animals (Regulation of Sale) Bill will protect the lives and wellbeing of dogs and cats.

All sources of profitable sales of cats and dogs eg pet shops, Internet advertising and newspaper advertising are a big reason that there are so many animals in pounds and shelters. These sources for quick and easy purchase of cats and dogs typically encourage people to buy animals on impulse, without making sure they have the money or time to look after them properly for the length of their natural life. When the novelty wears off and the pet becomes a burden, many dump the animals at pounds, shelters and other rescue groups. There are not enough people adopting pets from these places, so 60,000 animals in good health are killed every year in NSW pounds.

Many of these cute puppies and kittens are supplied by puppy and kitten 'farms or mills' and other unscrupulous breeders who churn out huge numbers of animals with no thought as to their long term wellbeing. Their only interest is in the profit to be made.

Only registered and responsible breeders who limit their litters carefully and make sure that the animals they breed are healthy, along with animal shelters and rescue groups will be able to advertise the sale of pets under Clover Moore's Bill, so backyard breeders and farms or mills will not be able to use pet shops, newspapers and the Internet to sell their animals. And if there is no easy profit to be made, they will stop the senseless overbreeding.

Something needs to be done to stop animals being senselessly killed, and to make sure that people who want to get a pet will understand what it takes to care for it over it's natural lifespan. We want to see more done about the source of the problem – the chronic over-supply into a market that does not have the capacity to provide homes for all.