Montreal animal shelters are applauding a Toronto bylaw banning pet stores from selling dogs and cats that come from breeders and asking for the move to be copied here.
The Companion Animal Adoption Centres of Quebec regularly delivers dog to Toronto for adoption, since May of this year approximately 700 have been sent.
"Our pounds and shelters are overflowing, because nobody's adopting - they're buying them from pet stores that buy them from producers who are creating a product that is not needed," Says Johanne Tassé head of CAACQ. "There is a glut in the market. As long as shelter animals are being killed in shelters and pounds, only shelter animals should be sold."
Read the full article in the Montreal GazetteAlso of interest
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