Monday, December 12, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO BANS GOLDFISH

This has been in my bookmarks for a while. The cat is not pleased and will not move to San Francisco.   Posted on Friday, June 17th, 2011
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The original law puts the squeeze on puppy and kitten mills that supply pet stores, and to discourage “impulse buys” of hamsters and other small pets that often wind up being dumped at shelters.
But now it covers goldfish, guppies and tropical fish.
“Most fish in aquariums are either mass bred” under inhumane conditions “or taken from the wild,” commission member Philip Gerrie said. That leads to “devastation of tropical fish from places like Southeast Asia,” he said...Read here

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