Animal News from the United States

Oregon Bans Pet Stores from Selling Puppies & Kittens & Also Bans Cosmetics Testing On Animals 

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In a massive victory for animals, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, signed several bills in to law aimed at improving the state's animal welfare laws. First of all, Oregon has officially joined over 30 other countries, & 10 other U.S. states in banning the sale of new cosmetics tested on animals. As we know, cosmetics testing is wholly unnecessary and subjects innocent animals to numerous skin, eye, and ingestion tests in search of irritants. These animals often suffer painful lesions / sores on their skin / eyes, and throat, and are left untreated until they are discarded like trash when their usefulness runs dry. These animals are nothing more than products of a laboratory as opposed to being seen as living breathing, and feeling beings.

Animal testing for cosmetics is outdated, unnecessary, and blatantly cruel to animals. This is not life-saving medicine, this is beauty products that we're torturing animals for and there are so many alternative testing methods available to us that there is simply no excuse for animal testing.

The second bill passed was a ban on the sale of puppies and kittens from pet stores. This bill is aimed at supporting the work of the Humane Society by supporting adoptions of shelter animals and also ceasing any cooperation with puppy mills. Puppy mills are breeding facilities that impregnate female dogs repeatedly in order to profit off of the sale of their pure-bred puppies. These pure-bred animals are alluring and draw pet-owners away from shelter animals who are desperate for adoption. Puppies from mills are known to have health issues that follow their new owners for life on top of living in less than acceptable conditions prior to making it to pet stores. 

Every time a pet is purchased from a breeder, a shelter animal loses its chance at adoption. Pet stores should only be "selling" animals in cooperation with shelters aide in shelter adoptions.

Massachusetts On Track to End Animals in Circus'

The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development, heard testimony this past week on bills that would prohibit the use of elephants, bears, giraffes, primates, and big cats in travelling circus' & shows. The training methods used for animals in circus' are far from humane, with bull hooks, whips, and electric prods all utilized to subdue and force wild animals to perform / learn tricks. Outside of the cruelty involved in training, these animals are kept in small, tightly confined spaces between shows and are subjected to perilous travel between locations for their next shows. Everything about animals in this form of entertainment is nothing short of animal cruelty.

Big cats, elephants, bears, whatever, performing tricks, jumping through hoops of fire, or riding mini bicycles, is unnatural and cruel. The things we see them doing in these shows came at a cost and it's one that is not acceptable. Wild animals deserve to live their lives able to participate in wild traits that are natural to them. Being forcibly trained to perform for humans is unethical and bans are long overdue. Massachusetts MUST take the next step and end wild animals in circus' and other traveling exhibits!

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