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SBCHA Requests Your Attendance at Tonight's City Council MeetingPosted Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at 8:54 AM
The Shelbyville-Bedford County Humane Association requests your attendance at the City Council meeting tonight. On the agenda: We need city folks who do not want a flea market that can sell animals to attend the meeting July 1, 6:00 p.m. at the City Courtroom inside the Police Dept. We need numbers to show our support for this legislation.
If you don't want to allow flea markets to sell animals, PLEASE ATTEND! 90 percent of those who set up at flea markets, according to the Humane Society of the United States, are puppymillers. WE DON'T WANT TO HELP THEM IN ANY WAY. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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This may sound facetious but,if you wouldn't get a baby human from a flea market or purchase your prescription meds from the back of a truck,then don't get your pets that way.
Not all of the people would be evil.
Some would just be clueless.
If there is no accountability,then irresponsible people can bring more surplus pets into the world without thinking about the consequences.
The backyard breeder or person with an unneutered pet may never know if that innocent creature is going to a suitable home or if it will wind up abused or neglected.
The pet mill crowd will warehouse pets in inhumane conditions,stress quantity over quality,disregard genetic defects and keep an animal alive only so long as it can help them turn a profit.
Adoption fairs at the site of a flea market or other event might be fine and responsible members of the pet industry could have booths but there'd be no handing out of Fluffy's indiscretions,no sales of this month's fad critter and no vegetable peddlers unloading Satan-posessed puppies on unsuspecting families.
This might inconvenience those looking for animals for dog fights and the like but it would be in the best interest of people who care about the well-being of the creatures in need of competent,loving homes.
I guess the Humane Association here wants a monopoly on selling animals . . . it's best to get an animal listed in the paper for FREE.
No, we don't "sell" animals. Our adoption fees are the total of the vet bill, usually. We are a 501(c)(3), so we don't sell anything.
jaxspike,
I been to both of the facilities and they take care of the animals, do a TON of work getting them adopted so it takes money and alot of man-hours to get the animals a new home. But to curb alot of the problem is the need to get them neutered and spayed so the costs to that is given back to the owner of the new animal when they bring in a receipt.