County to enforce animal advertising rule


Published on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:15 PM PDT

Residents of unincorporated Kern County who advertise dogs for sale are required by a new law enacted in February to include license numbers in their advertisements, but most people don’t.

The rule requires anyone who sells a dog to include the license number of the litter's parent in the advertisement. If the person placing the ad offers more than one litter of dogs for sale in any 12 months, they must get a commercial animal facility permit and include that permit number, too.

The goal of all these rules is to get people who sell animals to take more responsibility for what they are doing since irresponsible breeding contributes to the county's animal overpopulation problem, said Animal Control Director Guy Shaw.


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    Dog Owner wrote on Jul 14, 2010 8:43 AM:

    " THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I am so tired of seeing ads for yet another litter of chihuahua's or pit bull puppies in this valley! It is not a good way to 'make money' although most people say that is why they keep breeding puppies. WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE LITTERS! Go to the shelters, we have plenty. ATTN LOCAL VETS: Give more low cost spay/neuter clinics to help eliviate the problem even further. Making people accountable for thier animals is the best answer as far as I can see. "

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