Denver (KDVR) – Denver is officially the latest city in Colorado to have a ban on pet sales after Mayor Mike Johnston signed the decree on Thursday.
Denver City Council approved the decree earlier this week; However, since Denver’s pet stores do not actively sell pets at the present time, some people wonder why the city needs to make it legally.
“Denver has been voted on the second most friendly city of dogs in the United States,” said Roland Halburn, a member of the Denver Metro Care Alliance.
Colorado residents, including those in Denver, love animals, but some cities in the state already have decrees regarding pet sales.
Halburn said: “Denver has become the number of six cities and towns throughout Colorado that now prohibits the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits, only some other addresses. We felt that this was also important.”
Halburn said that the goal of the ban is like the new in Denver is to deter adult pets from coming to the metro cities.
“If you are a big retail process, you will not want to open up in a small city with a population of only one thousand or a thousand, then this will be profitable for you. So the idea is that we can pass these prohibitions in the largest cities and towns that you will mainly prohibit this industrial, due to the lack of two better factories, and the puppy and ketin manufacturers,” he said.
Sandy Moore opposed with the mesh of the petal animal legislation. Fox31 told that she believed that the ban was like this bad for consumers.
“We can all agree on no one who wants to see an animal that is offended or raised in an inhuman way. I have done a lot of pet industry to improve the criteria of reproduction throughout the country for dogs, cats and every other category of animals,” Moore said. “It creates a decrease in consumer protection, frankly. The lack of excruciating dogs, there is no transparency in the supply chain. So you don’t really know where animals come from.
Under this decree, local educators will continue to sell animals directly to customers and still can hold adoption events.