Purpose: To amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally. The bill would require that research facilities acquire dogs and cats only from certain sources — a licensed dealer who bred the animal, an animal shelter or animal control facility [but it does not require pound seizure], a person who bred and raised the animal, a person who has owned the animal for at least a year, or another licensed research facility.
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Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Action: SUPPORT. Thousands of companion animals are stolen and sold into research annually, but this legislation would help to address this serious problem.