Birds Available For Sale More details and a larger picture of the Bird Bird SpeciesCOCKATOO - Lesser/Bare-Eye Deerfield stores must quit selling commercially bred cats and dogs Two pet stores here are going to have to stop selling pets as they currently do within the next six months or face fines.Animal rights activists Wednesday hailed a Broward County first. No other cities with existing pet stores have fully prohibited the sale of pets bred commercially in what are commonly called puppy mills. The new Deerfield Beach ordinance means that the city's two stores, Puppy Heaven & Spa and Petland, a national chain, must only offer shelter or rescued cats and dogs or risk citations. "It's great to see that the [City] Commission is taking the proactive approach to protect their consumers from the sale of sick puppies," said Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Michele Lazarow, who has lobbied cities and counties throughout Florida to crack down on puppy mills.Neither store owner commented on the measure passed Tuesday night.

Two dozen other Florida cities have passed bans, but those cities didn't have stores selling commercially bred pet stores. Sunrise passed a ban and a pet store sued over it, that ordinance allows hobby breeders.The City Commission meeting drew 48 speakers to sound off on the ordinance proposed by Vice Mayor Bill Ganz.Nearly all decried puppy mills where animals are bred in inhumane, large-scale conditions. Representatives of Petland said their animals come from U.S. Department of Agriculture-licensed facilities and the ordinance would cost 25 people their jobs at the Hillsboro Boulevard stores. And that will cause an increase in unlicensed animal dealers."The proposal to ban the sale of animals from known regulated and inspected sources and to allow only the sale and adoption of pets from unknown and unregulated and uninspected sources does the exact opposite of its purported intent," said Mike Isaac of Naperville, Ill., president of a company that works with pet stores to register purebred puppies and owner of four dogs.

But some speakers pointed to critical reports about puppy mills filed with the USDA: Dogs needing veterinary care and living in cages with exposed sharp edges in freezing temperatures.Jordan Lenter of Deerfield Beach asked the city to protect the public from impulse buys like the one he made at the Petland store."My dog had over $7,000 in vet bills the first six months," he said, pointing out that his dog was anemic, starving and afflicted with giardia and puppy itch.Where To Buy Bamboo Blinds In Vancouver BcThe meeting grew emotionally charged at times. Yorkie Pups For Sale In Austin TxThe Broward Sheriff's deputy on duty removed one woman. Michelin Tires For Volvo Xc90Another woman who spoke about her sick dog had Petland employees yelling at her in the parking lot after the vote.

, 561-243-6624, or Twitter @AnneBoca © 2016, Sun Sentinel U.S. Department of AgricultureCOLUMBUS — State lawmakers could vote as early as next week on a bill that would override Toledo’s 2-year-old ordinance prohibiting stores from selling dogs not obtained through approved sources. The ordinance, designed to crack down on the sale of pets obtained through so-called “puppy mills,” affects any commercial sales of “companion animals” in the city by stores opening after Jan. 1, 2014. An amendment, sought by Chillicothe-based Petland, was added by the Senate Ways and Means Committee to an unrelated House bill dealing with various tax issues. It would establish new pet-store regulations and pre-empt stricter local ordinances such as Toledo’s. The issue could renew the feud between the city and state over constitutional home-rule authority. Toledo is currently in court fighting state laws seen as a practical ban on its traffic camera program. “It is the intent of the general assembly to pre-empt any local ordinance, resolution, or other law adopted to regulate the sale, delivery, barter, auction, broker, or transfer of a dog to a person from a pet store,” the amendment reads.

Petland does not have a store in Toledo, but it does have one in the only other Ohio city with a similar ordinance, the Columbus suburb of Grove City. The chain is suing to prevent the ordinance from taking effect on Jan. 1. “We want to grow in all four corners of the state,” said Mike Gonidakis, Petland attorney and lobbyist. “Our world headquarters is in Chillicothe. We’re a family-owned business that employs 500 people statewide in over 20 stores, and we want to grow. But radicals have been picking off city councils one at a time to ban us from operating.” The amendment was added to House Bill 166 by the committee’s chairman, Sen. Bob Peterson (R., Sabina), who represents Chillicothe. A hearing and potential committee vote is set for Wednesday. The bill could reach the full Senate as soon as that day but would have to return to the House for approval of the Senate changes. Toledo’s ordinance prohibits the sale of dogs by retailers unless they were obtained through an animal shelter, humane society, or animal rescue organization.

The state bill goes a step further by also allowing sales from a “qualified breeder.” “There are very few regulations on breeding facilities,” said Jean Keating, executive director of the Ohio Coalition of Dog Advocates, at the time Toledo passed its ordinance. “I read that the bill allows it if [breeders] haven’t had violations for three years,” she said. Animals have been literally lying dead before you get a violation. Most of the places that you see where they come in and have a large seizure of animals, there are dead animals in cages. Then you go back and see that they had a clean report.” The bill defines a “qualified breeder” as one that produces fewer than nine litters of puppies or sells fewer than 60 dogs per year or, when it comes to higher volume breeders, is federally and state licensed, has not had an animal welfare violation in the last three years, and has not been found in violation of federal veterinary-care regulations. The bill would also prohibit a store from knowingly selling dogs that are younger than 8 weeks, lack certain inoculations, lack signed veterinary certificates, do not have implanted microchips, or lack proper documentation.