Keep our Pets Safe & Put Class B Dealer Out of Business!
Support the Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011
Contact your representative and urge them to co-sponsor the Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011!
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I urge you to co-sponor The Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011, H.R. 2256, a bill that would amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit Class B dealers from supplying random source animals to research facilities. The current system is fundamentally flawed and the only way to ensure that stolen companion animals don't end up in medical research is by passing the Pet Safety and Protection Act.
The Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2011, H.R. 2256, introduced by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), prohibits random-source Class B dealers from selling dogs and cats for use in research. An abuse-ridden system allows a small number of unscrupulous dealers to supply non-purpose-bred dogs and cats for use in research. So-called random source Class B dealers and their middleman cohorts, called "bunchers," acquire the dogs and cats they sell from a variety of sources. They routinely violate the Animal Welfare Act, obtain animals through fraud, deception, and outright theft (many are stolen companion animals), and falsify their records. They keep the animals in horrendous conditions.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
#2.) Purchase "Dealing Dogs" and show it to your friends to spread the word about Class B dealers and the Pet Safety and Protection Act.
#3.) Donate to LCA to keep our investigations and campaigns going to put an end to Class B dealers.
"Dealing Dogs", the HBO documentary on LCA's undercover investigation into Class B dealer, C.C. Baird, has become an important tool in the lobbying efforts for the PSPA!
LCA Busts Largest "B" Dealer
In early 2002, a Last Chance for Animals undercover investigator infiltrated Class "B" dealer C.C. Baird's Martin Creek Kennels in Williford, Arkansas and acquired over 70 hours of video surveillance detailing an overwhelming amount of animal cruelty, abuse, neglect and unsanitary conditions.