🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4fsoa2$275@mordred.gatech.edu>,
James McIninch <james@amber.biology.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Kate Wrightson (kate@rigel.econ.uga.edu) wrote:
>: In article <4fre4j$iac@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>,
>: Maureen Eagle <maureen@mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
>
>: >I will be boycotting Pets Anonymous ("Your Hobby Is Our
>: >Obsession").  
>
>: Did you alert any authorities or the store management?  As far as I know, 
>: animal mistreatment is a crime in Georgia.  Boycotts without action 
>: aren't very effective.
>
>I was reading about this in my local vet's office and, unless things have
>changed, there is no state law regarding mistreatment of animals. It's up
>to individual counties and municipalities to enact such ordinances.

It's not the mistreatment that I think they can get in trouble for,
but rather the display and sale of unhealthy livestock.
>
>In either event, contact the SPCA and they'll take it from there. If you can't
>find the number in the phone book, call your vet and ask them.

No, the Humane Society etc has no jurisdiction.

Just please tell your friends about this incident and make sure they
know what store it happened at.









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