When Buying a Pet Becomes Illegal? Hunting, Fishing, Birds and Petting Zoos too...

Yes, it's true...........selling or buying a pet in some cities has become illegal.

Especially if it's from a pet store.  The Humane Society of the USA (HSUS) knows that it would be illegal for states to make laws that interfere with interstate commerce.

So HSUS--which, by the way-- was one of the national groups, including ASPCA-- to pay out millions of $$ to the Feld Entertainment group involving the circus, after civil RICO (racketeering charges) were levied against them in the 14yr long Federal Court litigation that found the activist groups had paid the Plaintiff to go forward with lawsuit against the circus..........

In any event, HSUS knows that commercial kennels are legal and are under federal APHIS control. HSUS wants more investigators for such kennels but let's be serious--with our economy, that's not likely high on list of the government, and likely will never be high on the list with the way things are going.  HSUS then decided to go after the sales of commercial kennel animals, by telling activists how to petition to stop the sales of such animals.

It would have to be done by going city to city, because to do it as a state law would be blatantly illegal.  Apparently the activists don't bother to figure out that a state law would be illegal. Currently there are 4-5 Federal lawsuits on this issue, for example, Chicago?  And in Oceanside CA, the city attorney has published a synopsis of how creating a new city code section to prohibit sales of certain sourced animals may result and likely will result, in a Federal lawsuit against the city.

What people really do not understand, is the basics of the supply/demand, and how it does not really work when one takes shelter animals and tries to make them the source of all pets. A shelter is not a pet store, even though you or others may wish it was one. A shelter is not a viable commercial entity and it was never designed to be one.

The rescuing of animals and pets is not supposed to be a commercial enterprise, they are basically non profit status social welfare based.
Yet by watching the animal rights activists, led by HSUS, ASPCA et al, they are led down the path that rescues/non profits should take over the commercial business of the pet trade.

In case you haven't noticed, non profits are heavily working in tandem with major producers of dog food, chicken food, anything related to pets, animals and selling.  Various lawsuits between Purina and Blue Buffalo, where Blue was claiming they had no chicken meal in their food when they in fact, did [Blue Buffalo is now subject to at least 7 lawsuits in Federal Courts, probably for fraud in labeling the product-- we haven't read the lawsuits/covering it up rather than admitting it]; tainted animal treats coming from overseas, tainted pet food coming from overseas, etc. Pet food is the largest grossing part of the pet trade, and most pet stores make the largest share of income from selling pet food.

Every one of these things is just another opportunity for non profits to make $$ by partnering with another business (a commercial business)  and then helping to "promote" their  own enterprise. This is done with any animal related product. Just watch TV and look online.

With about 76 million dogs and 85 million cats owned, one can see significance of pet food sales. Of the dogs, only perhaps up to 17% are obtained from shelters. (That is an entire story in itself, see petdefense.wordpress.com if you want to know why, since the majority of people killed by canines were rehomed, rescue or shelter dogs. This mathematical red flag is enough proof of circumstantial evidence that could likely be admitted into court. That means odds of being killed by this source of canines is about 500% greater; and that doesn't include bites, just death.)

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BUT---as can be seen, MANY of these activist goals involve taking out economic industries such as fishing, hunting, farming, testing for research  AND the breeding/sales of animals and pets..........see # 10 below in the 12 Step List??  

Yes, HSUS, ASPCA, PETA and friends, want no breeding of pets, they don't want any animals or pets or fish,etc. to be bred--if they are not indigenous to the area.
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So any imported flocks, imported sheep, imported fish, you name it, should be illegal according to HSUS and the activists.  HSUS tries to pretend they don't really do this, but yes, this is exactly what they do, while fleecing everyone to give them $20/month by credit card.  (Note: PETA kills about 90% of all animals they take in and believe the best gift one can give a homeless animal is to KILL it by euth.)  HSUS has tried for years to get Congress to make non indigenous life forms illegal to own, buy, or sell. This includes birds, fish, horses and probably any other species alive.

And this is proven clearly in Supreme Court cases involving HSUS, where HSUS lost on First Amendment grounds, preemption, and more. Those cases involved videos, violent videos and children, sales of videos; which agency can regulate downer animals (such as pigs), and sex fetish videos being sold into stream of commerce [but was used against a historical video on how dog fighting originated nationally.]

HSUS was attempting to carve out the exception to regulate by making violent videos into the same category as pornography. If successful, HSUS would then keep moving forward by applying this to anything with animals in it--movies (outlaw animal actors), rodeos (outlaw rodeos), petting zoos (this has already been done in certain CA cities), outlaw the circus (Barnum/Bailey will stop using elephants in 2018+ several Southern CA cities have outlawed the circus from performing) and now, outlaw sales of animals from commercial kennels (this apparently has been passed in more than 30 cities nationwide.)

This cross marketing and propaganda campaign nationwide has not been lost on us. The activists have made it known decades  ago, and earlier,  that they believe:

published in ANIMAL AGENDA, November 1987
1. Abolish by law all animal research.
2. Outlaw the use of animals for cosmetic and product testing, classroom demonstration and in weapons
development.
3. Vegetarian meals should be made available at all public institutions, including schools
4. Eliminate all animal agriculture.
5. No herbicides, pesticides or other agricultural chemicals. Outlaw predator control.
6. Transfer enforcement of animal welfare legislation away from the Department of Agriculture.
7. Eliminate fur ranching and the use of furs.
8. Prohibit hunting, trapping and fishing.
9. End the international trade in wildlife goods.
10. Stop any further breeding of companion animals, including purebred dogs and cats. Spaying and
neutering should be subsidized by state and municipal governments. Abolish commerce in animals for
the pet trade.
11. End the use of animals in entertainment and sports.
12. Prohibit the genetic manipulation of species.

To read more on this, see http://www.humanewatch.org which has the files on many of the sourced legal issues.  To read more on all activist issues involving animals, see http://www.petdefense.wordpress.com