Comments on: Feds seek $90,000 fine for illegal bunny-selling https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/feds-seek-90000-fine-for-illegal-bunny-selling/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 28 May 2011 09:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: J.T. Wenting https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/feds-seek-90000-fine-for-illegal-bunny-selling/comment-page-1/#comment-122107 Sat, 28 May 2011 09:20:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23156#comment-122107 no Robert. Action should be taken against dealers keeping pets in inhumane conditions (dirty, tiny cages, dogs with choking collars, no food or water, etc.) not just for not having paid a bribe to some government flunky to get “licensed”.
A “licensed” pet dealer won’t have potential customers vetted over their motives for buying that animal either, there’s no difference there.
I can walk into any petstore anywhere and buy a pet, no questions will be asked as to whether I’m “properly trained”, have the “right mindset to own a pet”, or even whether I can afford to feed that pet.

Licensing businesses like this is just another way for governments to extort money from citizens, and control who can do what (iow, don’t do anything we don’t like or we take away your business).

]]> By: robert https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/05/feds-seek-90000-fine-for-illegal-bunny-selling/comment-page-1/#comment-122061 Fri, 27 May 2011 18:33:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=23156#comment-122061 I won’t talk about the merits of this action, but I am involved with a local Bunny Rescue group.

http://www.therabbithaven.org/

The tragedy with bunnies is that people buy them as “gifts” around Easter, and then abandon them when they don’t understand the challenges of a pet rabbit. Some action against dealers selling live animals without a license may be warranted.

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