Pet Safety and Protection Act Introduced (Senate)

[flvegan]

Link to GD thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x330200

Federal lawmakers have introduced legislation to prevent family pets from being collected by middlemen and sold for use in laboratory research.

The Pet Safety and Protection Act would amend the Animal Welfare Act to make it illegal for research facilities to purchase dogs and cats from anyone who has not personally bred and raised the animals. Research facilities would be allowed to purchase animals from breeders and from the few animal shelters that participate in 'pound seizure.'

The legislation was introduced in the Senate Feb. 28 by Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and in the House March 1 by Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. It targets long-standing problems with "Class B" dealers who collect dogs and cats from random sources and then sell them to research facilities. There are 15 Class B dealers of random source dogs and cats remaining in the United States.

And yes, I DO realize that I'm pimping my own GD thread.

[Robeson]

1. You know, if there was any issue which all progressives should....

...easily agree on, it would be this legislation. But, alas, that thread didn't disappoint my sense of disappointment.