Should the sale of pets be banned?

[Mike Johnson]

MGS_forgot_password wrote:
Wouldn't this force pet stores to move out to the suburbs?

And there's the slippery slope - when is an animal considered a pet species? (as opposed to livestock)

There are plenty of pet stores that have dogs and cats available for adoption, which is not the same as selling them. They make plenty of money selling pet supplies. Any pet store where the sale of live animals is an important profit center is partly responsible for the problematic overbreeding and culling. Petsmart, for example, doesn't sell cats or dogs, which is nice. But they sell reptiles, and frankly, shouldn't. The next time you're at Petsmart, look at how they have twenty baby bearded dragons. They don't all live long happy lives.

As for pets vs livestock, find me a city that doesn't already have those defined in their codes. I'm allowed to keep pets, but not allowed to keep livestock. A parrot is a pet, a duck is livestock.