Sacramento – State lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would ban online pet dealer websites and shady middlemen who can serve as local breeders from selling dogs to California consumers, the latest move to reduce out-of-state puppies.
Conference Raising Mark Berman (D-Menlo Park) says Congress Bill 519 will help ensure buyers don’t mislead their puppies in Last year’s Times Survey Detailed how designer dogs were shipped from out-of-state commercial breeders to California and resold by people claiming to be small local operators.
“AB 519 will close this vulnerability and make this dishonest practice,” Berman said.
California became the first state in the United States, which passed a 2019 law to announce the sale of pet stores for commercial breeding dogs. However, this retail ban does not apply to online pet sales, which grew rapidly during the 19009 pandemic.
Berman’s bill would prohibit online markets where brokers sell dogs, defined as anyone or business that sells or ships others’ breeding dogs for profit. This will include major national pet retailers such as Puppyspot and pet matchmakers with California operations. AB 519 is now heading to Governor Gavin Newsom for considerations, for dogs, cats and rabbits under one year old.
The puppy location opposed the bill and wrote in a letter to lawmakers that it would tear down the system they say worked for families, especially those seeking allergies for a specific breed. Puppyspot CEO Claire Komorowski wrote to Berman in May, whose online marketplace maintains internal breeder standards that exceed regulatory tasks.
PuppySpot CEO Claire Komorowski wrote to Berman in May.
The bill does not apply to police dogs or service animals and provides exemptions for shelters, rescues and 4H clubs.
“This measure is an important step to shut down the deceptive sales strategies of these puppies brokers and mitigate financial and emotional harm to families who unknowingly buy sick or breed pets,” Attorney General Rob Bonta wrote in his letter of support for the bill. “By eliminating brokers’ profit incentives while retaining legal access to animals for Californians, AB 519 can protect consumers, support shelters and rescues that already have the capacity, and promote California’s commitment to humane treatment of animals.”
Two other bills investigated by the Times this week are expected to pass the Legislature this week as lawmakers summarize the meeting and send a series of bills to the governor. The bill packaging has overwhelming bipartisan support.
If a pet seller requires a non-refundable deposit, AB 506 is lapsed by conference raiser Steve Bennett (D-Ventura) involving a pet purchase contract for California buyers. The bill will also hold them responsible if pet sellers fail to disclose the breeder’s name and information and medical information about the animals.
The Times survey found that some puppies advertised on social media, online markets, or through breeder websites are actually imported from out-of-state puppies. To trace the dog back to a large-scale breeding facility, the New York Times requested a veterinary examination certificate, issued by a federally recognized veterinary list that comes from the animal’s source, its destination and verification is healthy.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has long been mistakenly obtaining health certificates from other states – records should go to the county public health department – in recent years, It is a practice to make them destroy them immediately. The dog importer who was supposed to submit records to the county largely did not do so.
Since the 2019 pet retail ban came into effect, the Times has analyzed the movement of more than 71,000 dogs entering California. Travel proof, how the dealer network replaces pet stores as middlemen while concealing where puppies actually breed. In some cases, new owners find that they are sold under pseudonyms and temporary phone numbers after the new pet becomes ill or dies.
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State Senator Tom Umbberg (D-Orange) SB 312 will require pet sellers to share travel certificates with the state Bureau of Agriculture, which will allow them to provide without revisions to the public. An earlier version of the bill required the State Department to publish information online, but was removed among the opposition.
“Given the high tendency to mislead consumers and large numbers of dogs entering the state, health certificate information is in the public interest, allowing individual consumers to review to confirm the seller’s message to them and hope to investigate humane law enforcement officers to investigate fraud and dissatisfaction in order to investigate fraud and bad situations,” Bennet said in an effort to investigate Umberg’s Bill umberg’s Bill.
