Hence the need for me to advocate for shelter pets in the USA. They would rather kill adoptable pets daily than reform their \u2018shelters\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In a press statement, the South Australian government stated \u2018On the 1 August 2017 new standards for the breeding and trading of companion animals will come into effect. The South Australian Standards and Guidelines for Breeding and Trading Companion Animals (the Standards and Guidelines) are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act 1985 (the Act). <\/em><\/p>\n The standards are mandatory. They set the minimum level of care that must be met under the Act to meet the health, safety and wellbeing needs of companion animals. The standards will not apply to companion animals that are given away. The guidelines represent a higher level of care and are designed to complement the standards.<\/em> \u2018<\/p>\n The main aim from these new regulations coming into act was in fact to tackle puppy farms and backyard breeders \u2013 unethical breeders in general. Environment Minister in South Australia, Ian Hunter in a statement said \u201cCruel and dodgy puppy farms that operate \u2018under the radar\u2019 have no future in South Australia,\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe vast majority of our breeders and traders love their animals and care for them, so they will have few, if any, changes to make to their management practices,\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n These regulations are massive step in the right direction in comparison to the UK\u2019s new regulations, and the lack of regulations in the US. It is apparent that although many animal welfare organisations and advocates in the UK have strived for changes much like South Australia\u2019s we are a far way off being at this pivotal point, and it may be a while before backyard breeding can be demolished completely \u2013 backed up by stats that state that 88% of puppies born in the UK every year and bred and sold by unlicensed breeders \u2013 a stat in which South Australia are far off by this point.<\/p>\n To help raise more awareness and in the future encourage the government to enforce tighter breeding regulations in the UK, please sign the Petition<\/a>, and follow the Twitter<\/a> and Facebook <\/a>pages for constant updates on how the campaign is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although a small part of the world, South Australia\u2019s breeding regulations are up there with some of the best in the world. According to Animal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":3012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4977,1],"tags":[419,1239],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-uncategorised","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animal-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/88.png\")