Under the proposal, Pet shops would be barred from putting Animal welfare in their windows and selling to children. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says the Government is already reviewing the laws and plans to put forward its own changes next year. He says the Greens' proposal goes too far and may well lead to more people buying pets on the black market.
"There's very high degrees of rule and transparency in relation to sales through pet shops," he said. "The pet sales those are of greater concerns are those that are done irregularly, those that are done over the garden fence, those that are done at markets, those that are done over the Internet."It's those dogs that we believe are at greater risk of being ill-treated, of not being kept in circumstances they should be."
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