Governor Holcomb has signed a bill that eliminates local ordinances banning dog sales at pet stores.
Last Monday, the Governor signed the controversial measure, which eliminates nearly two dozen local ordinances. WFYI reports that it establishes standards of care and requires that pet stores register with the State of Indiana in order to sell dogs. Smaller breeding operations do not have to follow the guidelines, which are laid out in a canine care certification program developed at Purdue University.
Stores also have to be inspected by the State Board of Animal Health, but the inspections are unlikely to start before July 2025.
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Leaving this to open for puppy mills to continue their torturing of innocent dogs who are left in cages and uncared for while demanding mom dogs to produce innocent puppy’s to also suffer and left in filthy dirty areas and all dogs involved do not receive any medical care or proper vettting for the mom dogs or dad dogs or even the puppies that are being dumped into store without proper care .
What needed to happen was pets stores should focus the sale of shelter dogs with mandated medical care with consistent monitoring. And demand Laws that protect all of these innocent pups that have been dumped into the shelter system and begin mandated responsibility to pet owners to be responsible for the pets they adopt in all cases. And for the Law to see innocent pets as a live living beings so when their is abuse the person responsible is held accountable instead of our pets being viewed as a piece of furniture 😡
So now we have gone back wards with all the hard work to change Laws to protect our pets. 😢😢♥️🐾🙏🐾💙