No pet sales
The council approved on final reading an ordinance pertaining to the sale of pets. Ordinance number 821 makes it illegal to sell or give away animals in public places in the city limits, unless the person in question is a dealer.
The topic arose due to a continuing debate about animal control in the city. Shelbyville's animal control officer Randy McCullough told the council at an earlier date that one of the sources of the dilemma surrounding stray dogs is the fact that the animals are given away in retail parking lots, only to be later abandoned by the new owners.
The ordinance allows local animal control and the Humane Association to hold adoptions and would not prevent people from selling or giving away pets from their own residence.
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Unfortunatly spaying & nuetering animals is not as popular as it should be in my county. When these idiots figure out that female dogs can actually get pregnant they usually take them down to Wal-mart & try to give them away. Now that option is no longer viable. These people will not take the puppies to the "shelter", they will end up driving them "out to the country" where I live.
I try to help when I can but with six dogs already I can't take any more in. I don't know what I am going to do if there is a flood of dumped pups here.