The ACCT Philadelphia shelter is not a \u201cno kill\u201d shelter, meaning sometimes animals are euthanized because of capacity issues. ACCT reported it achieved an 87% live release rate, meaning that 87% of all dogs and cats were reunited with their owner, adopted or transferred to rescue partners.\n<\/p>\n
The legislation, sponsored by Councilmember Cindy Bass, specifically calls for a moratorium on \u201cBreeding, causing, or allowing a dog to give birth within the City of Philadelphia; or to sell, offer for sale, advertise for sale, exchange, or transfer for consideration any dog under seven months of age.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The only exception to the regulation, which would remain in effect for three years, is for any person or entity holding a valid Pennsylvania Dog Law kennel license or nonprofit animal shelters or animal rescue organizations acting in the ordinary course of adoptions.\n<\/p>\n
Charlie Hall, of the Kennel Club of Philadelphia, said the moratorium is unfair. He said homes cannot be zoned for kennels.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be noted that cities such as Los Angeles have passed similar bans and have not seen significant benefits in their shelters. And media reports have highlighted many ill-responsible breeders still operating in that city,\u201d Hall said.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cPhiladelphia deserves solutions that work in practice, not on paper,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
A first offense for breeding or selling would bring a $1,000 fine, second goes up to $2,000. The ACCT would be in charge of enforcing the new law.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ACCT Philadelphia shelter is not a \u201cno kill\u201d shelter, meaning sometimes animals are euthanized because of capacity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9356,69,71,70,56181],"class_list":{"0":"post-118422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-dogs","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-puppy-mills"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}