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Title: USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales Post by: SusanW on May 11, 2012, 05:35:43 am A SAOVA message to sportsmen, pet owners and farmers concerned about protecting their traditions, avocations and livelihoods from anti-hunting, anti-breeding, animal guardianship advocates. Forwarding and cross posting, with attribution, encouraged.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales Dear SAOVA Friends, This afternoon USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) held a stakeholders conference call to announce a forthcoming proposal to revise its definition of “retail pet store”. APHIS states this proposal restores the definition to its original intent so that it limits the retail pet store exemption to only those places where buyers physically enter to observe the animals available for sale prior to purchasing them and where certain animals are sold or offered for sale at retail for use as pets. The definition of pet includes dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, gophers, chinchilla, domestic ferrets, domestic farm animals, birds, and coldblooded species. To meet the exemption requirements for the newly defined retail pet store, buyers must be allowed to physically enter the retail seller’s place of business or residence in order to personally observe the animals available for sale prior to purchase and/or to take custody of the animals after purchase. In addition, breeders must have four or less breeding females and can only sell the offspring of the breeding females that were born and raised on their premises, and sold for pets or exhibition. USDA/APHIS issued a press release this afternoon: USDA Proposes to Close Loophole on Retail Pet Sales to Ensure Health and Humane Treatment which can be found at this link: http://tinyurl.com/7b9kbpj The notice is scheduled for publication within a week in the Federal Register. The proposed rule and an FAQ are currently available at www.aphis.usda.gov. Proposed Rule is Docket No. APHIS-2011-0003, Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD, 20737-1238. Once the rule is published there will be a 60 day comment period. The APHIS Factsheet states: under the proposed rule, no dog or other pet animal will be sold at retail without either public or APHIS oversight. Obviously this rulemaking proposal will have far reaching impacts on sportsmen, dog, cat, and small animal breeders. SAOVA will distribute further analysis and updates as the rule making process continues. Susan Wolf Sportsmen’s & Animal Owners’ Voting Alliance Working to Identify and Elect Supportive Legislators -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The message above was posted to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas residents by the Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance (SAOVA). SAOVA is a nonpartisan volunteer group working to protect Americans from the legislative and political threats of radical animal rightists. Visit our website at http://saova.org for this program's goals, methodology and list signup details. To unsubscribe from this list, exercise that option at http://mailman.montana.com/mailman/listinfo/saova_south Title: Re: USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales Post by: halfbreed on May 11, 2012, 11:42:52 am susan do ya'll have a facebook page and what would it take to get one and have facebook updates to post and spread ? kinda like the humanewatch site does . us old farts ain't to computor litterate and crossposting savy facebook feeds makes it simple and far reaching .
Title: Re: USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales Post by: SusanW on May 11, 2012, 02:24:14 pm We'll work on something over the weekend. Right now, we are still analyzing the full extent of the bill. The comment period for this will only last 60 days unless there is a tremendous effort to push for an extension. I'm also trying to get the audio of yesterday's USDA conference transcribed so it can be read online.
Susan Title: Re: USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales Post by: SusanW on May 11, 2012, 02:54:23 pm I did post the message on the SAOVA blogspot http://saovanews.blogspot.com/ and it has a FB button for sharing. That should work for you. I'll post updates there too.
Susan Title: Re: USDA seeks change to regulate Internet and retail pet sales - message Post by: SusanW on May 11, 2012, 04:40:36 pm The message is posted at the SAOVA blog http://saovanews.blogspot.com/ It has a Facebook button. That should work for you to share and I will keep that site updated.
Susan susan do ya'll have a facebook page and what would it take to get one and have facebook updates to post and spread ? kinda like the humanewatch site does . us old farts ain't to computor litterate and crossposting savy facebook feeds makes it simple and far reaching . |