Are Shelters Fueling The Backyard Breeder Epidemic?
Frustrated people are looking to other sources (backyard breeders) because shelters won’t fully open, won’t open evenings and weekends and are requiring appointments that are difficult to impossible to make.
What happens when adopters are turned away?
Appointments? Try bring on hold for 45 minutes and transferred twice or disconnected!
Way too many give up, it’s easy to go to Craigslist or one of hundreds of sites to meet a backyard breeder in a parking lot.
There are 15 million annual ads for backyard breeder puppies and access is as easy as a text message.
15 million backyard breeder ads every year.
Think this impacts shelter overcrowding?
Puptax.com: is a proposed law to require tax and registration to receive a permit to advertise any pet for sale.
Advertising registration would require photo ID, physical location, puppy place of birth and other abuse or fraud prevention data.
Proper detailed registration and paid tax results in a checkable permit number through a public database.
Advertisers permit number, expiration date, name address and phone number required in every ad.
Very simply: they won’t comply. That’s OK!
This proposed law prevents the ACCEPTANCE of ads offering animals for sale in any form, prior to tax and verifiable detailed registration by the advertiser.
It is critically important to believe that law abiding publications and websites will comply.
NO TAX & REGISTRATION = NO PERMIT,
NO PERMIT = NO ADS,
NO ADS = NO SALES AND NO PROFITS:
Eliminating an estimated 15 million “pets for sale” ads a year means animal shelters and rescues are that much closer to bringing overpopulation under control.
The Petition:
https://www.change.org/PupTax-Now
The Proposed Law:
The Proposed Registration:
https://puptax.com/registration/
Puptax Q and A:
https://puptax.com/puptax-q-a/
Puptax Website/Contact Us: