The Government of Ontario has introduced legislation to help prevent producers of unhealthy puppies from proliferating in the province. Bill 159, Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act (PUPS Act), 2023, if passed, will amend the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act (PAWS Act), and serve to address substandard puppy producers, impose penalties and to support canine health and wellbeing.

Your comments are needed to stop harmful dog-breeding practices by January 4, 2024!

The changes proposed in the PUPS Act will prohibit the harmful dog-breeding practices most often associated with puppy mills and the reckless sale of dogs, such as:

• Breeding a female dog more than three times in a two-year period, or breeding more than two litters from a female dog’s consecutive heat cycles
• Breeding a female dog that is less than a year old
• Failing to keep a dog with a contagious disease away from other dogs or animals
• Failing to ensure a dog’s environment is sanitary and free from accumulation of waste
• Separating a puppy from its mother before the age of eight weeks

Please provide your feedback in the template document (under Further Information), save the file and submit the file by clicking “Comment on this proposal via email” by January 4, 2024 here.

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See also: "Only two provinces do this for the animals!"