Fresno County cracking down on illegal dog breeders

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors moved guardant with an ordinance aimed astatine cracking down connected amerciable breeding connected Tuesday.

Supervisors Garry Bredefeld and Brian Pacheco introduced the ordinance, saying amerciable backyard breeding has contributed to an abundance of dogs roaming the streets of Fresno County.

"A batch of dumped animals connected the broadside of the road, a batch of them are successful bags and boxes, dumped with trash that radical are dumping from their home," said Priscilla Wolcott, tract supervisor for Fresno Humane Animal Services.

Once the ordinance goes into effect, amerciable breeders tin beryllium fined $1,000 per canine oregon feline being sold.

A 2nd usurpation wrong 1 twelvemonth of the archetypal equals an further $1,000 good and up to 6 months successful jail.

"I tin archer you they're going to stop. We're going to instrumentality this precise seriously. It's a occupation passim Fresno County. Every city, arsenic expressed by different committee members," said Bredfeld.

The ordinance volition travel backmost to the committee for last support astatine their adjacent meeting. It volition spell into effect successful aboriginal August.

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