The following report is from the Daily Mail:
Plans to improve Victoria’s pet rehoming sector will improve the quality of life for thousands of cats and dogs, animal welfare groups say.
A state taskforce led by Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick made 17 recommendations to the government, which could lead to a mandatory rehoming policy for suitable cats and dogs used in research and teaching.
A review of regulations, specifically focused on a retirement age for those animals, was also endorsed.
The taskforce also called for protections to minimize the use of euthanasia for animals with treatable or manageable health conditions.
The recommendations are designed to establish consistent standards of care for rehoming, Melbourne-based animal rights group the Australian Animal Protection Society said.
That group also wants to see regulations go further.
I would love to see people have a license to own a pet.
If you have to go through some sort of education program to understand exactly what’s involved in having a pet, that will then cut out impulse buying.
The society’s general manager Megan Seccull said.
RSPCA Victoria made submissions to the inquiry, leading to a number of recommendations in the report.
As a socially conscious shelter, RSPCA Victoria believes transparency, including animal fate data reporting, collaboration and continuous improvement of standards are vital to ensure all animals are treated humanely.
RSPCA Victoria supports the regulation of rehoming groups to help ensure all animal care organizations are transparent and adhere to the same standards.
Chief executive Liz Walker said
The Lost Dogs Home, which rehomed 4,758 pets last year, also welcomed the support.
There is still much to do with the help of donors, supported and dedicated staff and volunteers, a spokeswoman said.
Last month’s budget included $18.6 million for animal welfare initiatives.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
At starts out with a license today, and then it turns into their outright prohibition tomorrow. I can hear it now: ‘Your pet produces way too much carbon, and in order to lower the temperature of the earth, we will be kindly removing Fido and Fluffy from your ownership.’
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I remember reading some Christian literature a very long time ago where the speculation was that one day it would happen that our pets will be outlawed. Possibly it was a Chick comic book. That this is happening in Australia is not surprising since Baptist missionaries say it is way more apostate and with less of a “God consciousness” than here in the USA. We’re not there yet, but it would not surprise me to see the news media one day in this country start “dissing” pet ownership. I do not know how they will pull that off considering the inordinate (excessive) affection of many pet owners toward their animals, but looks like they will try it here, also.
PS: Having dogs and cats that are allowed to be outside, even if fenced in, is a good way to combat plagues if the animal is prone to go after rodents which carry some these plague agents, especially in a scenario where millions of bodies dead from some injected virus (and a combination of 5G) cannot be disposed of in a quick and efficient manner. Most people remember the Pied Piper legend where the rodents were driven out of an already-plague-ridden town. That would be the last thing people bent on our destruction would want in these days. They would burn that Piper at the stake…..and his little dog, too.
“They” better not cross that line. I AM done with humanity. “They” better not try.
we already have to buy license for our pups, we have for a long time! every 3 years they expire, and you need to buy a new one, so I don’t really know what the big issue is.
My two-cents is that this is two-pronged. One, pharma-veterinary and animal grooming etc, specialty foods, in green-worship-the-beasts-far-beyond-righteous-caring-for-their needs is a HUGE money maker while licensing means oversight & control demanding more and more of it, even mandating it.
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And, two, many people in nations where weapons have already been made illegal for the lawful choose to obtain a good, large watchdog to hinder those lawless who always seems to find a way to have weapons themselves. Good crony gangsters creating chaos. I know that in Nepal, missionaries once robbed, did just that. A great big mountain cur type dog who roams the premises at night, staying indoors with the keeper-at-home in the day…..and they haven’t been robbed by run of the mill self-excusing and -justifying relativistic Buddhist-Hindu types since.
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Takes more than a junk yard dog to deter the sophisticated antichrist thieves and sorcerers of control though…..much wisdom and guidance and protection from the Lord.