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Tighten the Animal Handling Business Regulation:
Proposal (1)
Need Good System to Enforce Appropriate Animal
Care
400,000 Complaints Regarding Animal Issues are Made Every Year
ALIVE NEWS 2010.12
Complains Against Animal Handling Businesses
According to ALIVE Nationwide Animal Control Questionnaire Survey,
there are about 400,000 complaints regarding animal issues at the
local government offices every year. Compared with the numbers of
complaints in the other areas, this number is not small at all. The
number includes the complaints against both individual pet owners
and handling businesses. Thus it is difficult to identify only the
complaints against animal handling businesses.
National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan reports that there are
about 1,500 complaints about purchased pets or related pet issues
every year. Although the regulations for animal handling businesses
were enforced in 2006, the number of the complaints has not reduced
since then.
Complaints are great source s of information to know and learn about
the problems. However, most local governments do not utilize the
information and data effectively. It is necessary to effectively
make great use of it, in order to come up with good solutions and
improve the situations. This is one of the tasks that Animal Welfare
and Management Protection Plan should include in their research.
ALIVE demanded disclosure of information of some pet shops and
breeders. As a result we were able to identify particular corrupted
pet shops and breeders. Based on the findings, ALIVE has made the
proposal for Animal Handling Regulation revisions as follows;
Install Traceability System
Establish and Reinforce Insurance and Deposit Systems
for Animal Handling Businesses
Regulate Owners Who Keep Higher Than Usual Number of Animal
as Pets
Organize the Regulations in Order to Consist with Other
Animal Laws
Install Evaluation and Checking System and Set Clear Standards
for Animal Handling Businesses
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