Those commercials of dirty dogs in cages are sad. Nobody wants that. But now politicians pretend they can stop it by banning dog and cat sales in pet stores.
All they really did was make it harder to buy a pet.
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When the president of Stossel TV, Mike Ricci, went to get his daughter a puppy, he learned that no pet stores may sell puppies in his state!
Frustrated, he decided to investigate. Turns out, in eight states, that’s now the case.
Why? Because animal activists have convinced politicians these pet store bans will stop abusive puppy mills.
Alyssa Miller-Hurley, VP of Government Relations at Pet Advocacy Network, says they don’t.
Meanwhile, ASPCA makes $300 million a year telling people they save animals, while only spending 2% of its funds on local animal shelters.
Our video above looks at the unintended consequences of these pet store bans.
The animal activists tell people: instead of buying from pet stores, adopt from a shelter or “buy from a responsible breeder!”
But shelters don’t always have a dog you want.
And how is any consumer to know which breeders are good?
Bans make activists and politicians feel good, but they usually cause more problems than they solve
