Saturday Sep 17 Tustin Petco Adoption Event details Saturday Sep 24 Tustin Petco Adoption Event details Saturday Oct 01 Tustin Petco Adoption Event details By joining our Foster Family program, you can offer the safety and healing environment of your home to a dog either waiting in a shelter for euthanasia or for rescue. The more volunteer foster families we have, the more dogs we can save from death in noisy, cold and uncaring shelters. As a Southern California-based rescue, we make every effort to find LOCAL foster homes for the dogs we rescue. Unfortunately, though we appreciate the offers, we cannot send dogs out of state to foster. Please fill out our online foster application if you would like to join our team of Foster Families and save a life by giving a dog in need a place to go! Often, the decision to save a dog's life is determined by our ability to pay their medical bills! We have not been able to assist as many medical cases as our hearts have wanted to over the past couple of months due to a depleted medical fund.

All too often, shelters in Southern California label a dog to be rescue only due to illness. This means the dog is not available for adoption by the public and their only hope for getting out of the shelter is a rescue. Even more often, the dogs are released with a waiver of spay or neuter. This means that our rescue is taking on a dog that may likely be ill, is not altered and may not have its vaccines, all of which we are committed to taking care of. As an all-volunteer group that depends solely on donations, we now work even harder to raise the dollars to help these homeless pets!Husky Puppies For Sale In Utah County While we have several high cost surgeries recently, just $25 can fully vaccinate one dog! Homes For Sale Villas Of Jumping Brook Neptune Nj$10 will cover one night of boarding. Homes For Sale 12304

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The Act provides for pet retailer penalties and remedies for consumers that purchase pets with medical problems. These penalties require retailers to pay up to 2.5 times the purchase price of a pet should it become ill or require veterinary care.Source: Southern California Veterinary Medical Association Puppy Mill LegislationSeven states, including California, enacted laws to better regulate puppy mills in 2011. The new laws would among other things limit the number of breeding females and require licensing and inspection of facilities. Sunny Tayani and her daughter, Emily, stopped to look at cuddly puppies romping in the windows of a pet shop at a local shopping mall. They saw a fluffy, vanilla-colored cockapoo and fell in love. Tayani, who worked with rescue dogs, was hesitant to buy a pet store pup, but Emily's pleading finally won her over and she plunked down $800 for the dog. They named him Charlie. At home, Charlie wasn't the bouncy puppy they expected. Within hours, Tayani was at a pet emergency hospital.

The eight-week-old puppy was hooked to an IV and tested positive for numerous parasites. His skin was crawling with lice and he had a severe intestinal infection. "Charlie certainly would have died without treatment," Dr. Matthew Wheaton said, following up his care after the hospitalization. "All of this was brought on by the poor conditions of housing, stress and inadequate veterinary care prior to him being sold to Sunny." Charlie is an example of what animal activists say is becoming a nationwide crisis: Pet stores selling puppies and kittens that harbor birth defects due to bad breeding, behavioral problems due to early life in a cage and diseases from the stress of commercial breeders transporting them throughout the country. In Orange County, a ban to stop stores from selling pets from commercial breeders is underway. This month, Aliso Viejo and Laguna Beach passed bans. Dana Point adopted it in February and Irvine was the first city in Orange County to pass the ban in September.

Huntington Beach this week voted to phase in the ordinance over two years. The city's two pet stores will be given that time period to stop selling milled puppies and kittens. After that, pet stores will be allowed to sell pets as long as they come from reputable shelters or rescue organizations. In each city, the ordinances are tailored to their communities. Some impact only dogs; others some dogs, cats and bunnies, and still others include a ban on circuses and rodeos. Pet store owners supported by the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association say the ban is unfair for businesses operating legally. They point to 20 years of improvement in the industry and to newly established protections such as "puppy mill laws" already in place mandating commercial standards and guidelines. They also say the California Pet Protection Act already requires healthy conditions at pet shelters and pet stores. In a recent letter to the Laguna Beach City Council before its May 1 vote, Dr. Peter Weinstein, the association's director, and Dr. Peter Vogel, the association's president, said that there is a reported consumer demand for 8 million puppies and kittens in America each year.

"Consumers do not look to rescue or shelter adoption for puppy and kitten acquisition," they wrote. "We are very concerned that by eliminating consumer choice through banning puppy and kitten sales in reputable pet stores that consumers and pets would suffer from a lack of regulation in seeking alternative unregulated sources outside city limits and possibly outside the state and even the country." Danny DiGiacomo, who owns Russo's Pets at the Irvine Spectrum and at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, disputes commercial breeding descriptions used by activists and said they don't reflect breeders he has worked with for decades. He has operated the Newport Beach store since 1978. "We have pictures of kennels where our puppies come from throughout the store that show the facilities," he said. "There are no rusty wire cages; dogs are socialized and inspected regularly." Each pet he sells is examined by a California veterinarian and certified as sellable. Customers receive copies of California law and a history of the animal's shots.

If a dog doesn't sell within two weeks, it is re-checked by a veterinarian. If within 15 days of sale a veterinarian says a puppy was unfit for purchase, DiGiacomo said customers are entitled to a full refund and any expenses. If they want to treat the dog for something other than parasites, the store is responsible for veterinary treatment up to 150 percent of what was paid for the dog. "We've done nothing wrong and we're being shut down," he said, adding he will have to close the Irvine shop in September. "The ban won't stop people from buying puppies. It will force people to go onto the Internet looking for puppies where there is no inspection and no guarantee of vet care." Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization headquartered in Utah, started pushing the Puppy Mill Initiative in 2008 in California. Cities like West Hills, Hermosa Beach and Glendale passed the ban in 2010. Chula Vista in San Diego County passed it in 2010. The city of Los Angeles passed a motion in April to draft an ordinance.

Elizabeth Oreck, the group's national manager for the initiative, has recently taken the initiative to Orange County and met with various city council members. Nearly four million animals are bred in commercial facilities each year, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Dr. Michael Ontiveros, who owns Estrella Veterinary Hospital in San Clemente, said he sees a host of problems from pets purchased at the puppy mill furnished stores. "To me it's about the pets," he said. "Why don't we educate the pet stores about the problem with the puppy mills? They need to make good choices. I don't like puppy mills. I don't like what I see coming from there." The grass-roots movement – made up of activists, shelter volunteers and veterinarians – are pushing those stores that sell dogs and cats to offer shelter pets. In Orange County, Oreck points to stores like Animal Crackers in Laguna Beach, a nonprofit pet food and supply retailer that uses its sales proceeds to rescue dogs, cats and rabbits.

Possible owners are found through a screening process. Pet Country, a pet health food store in Lake Forest, takes in cats and kittens rescued by The Pet Rescue Center in Mission Viejo. Those are then adopted into new homes. These types of pet stores are the shops of the future, Oreck said. Wheaton said he was saddened by the stance the Southern California Veterinary Medical Association took regarding the ban. The veterinarian, who runs the Alicia Pet Care Center in Mission Viejo, said he has sent hundreds of letters to pet stores on behalf of his clients who've purchased sick pets, citing the California Pet Protection Act or "puppy lemon law." "When I make owners aware of the puppy lemon law after they present their recent puppy mill purchase, they are all unaware of this act," Wheaton said. "I have never had a client present for care due to their knowledge of this 'protection.'" "Why can't we make the 'puppy in the window' be a cute rescued animal that is grateful to be saved from certain death?" he said.