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Residents urge Westminster to ban retail sale of puppies, council's post-meeting ordinance discussion postponed
Summary
Dozens of speakers urged Westminster to pass an ordinance banning retail sales of dogs, cats and rabbits sourced from commercial breeding operations. The council had scheduled a post-meeting discussion to direct staff to draft such an ordinance but postponed the presentation to a future meeting.
More than a dozen speakers urged the Westminster City Council Monday to draft an ordinance to prohibit the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits that originate from large-scale commercial breeding operations, commonly described in testimony as 'puppy mills.' The proposal has been discussed at the end of the council agenda as a possible draft ordinance.
Speakers described personal experiences with sick animals purchased from retail pet stores and asked the city to adopt what several called "Sammy's Law" to cut the pipeline between out-of-state commercial breeders and local retail stores. Testimony cited other…
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