How would Fresno's dog and cat breeding licenses work?

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A connection to necessitate licenses for Fresno residents who privation to breed dogs and cats is being enactment guardant astatine the Fresno City Council.

The connection is to amend Fresno's Municipal Code connected canine and feline breeding and adhd requirements intended to code what was described arsenic Fresno's "ongoing favored overpopulation crisis." Councilmembers Annalisa Perea and Garry Bredefeld are some sponsoring the amendment.

The amendments volition beryllium presented at the Fresno City Council meeting connected Thursday, Aug. 15. If approved without immoderate revisions, it would not let immoderate idiosyncratic to origin oregon let immoderate canine oregon feline harbored oregon kept wrong the City of Fresno to breed without archetypal obtaining a breeder's permit.

The connection states that each breeding licence would beryllium valid for a twelvemonth and would request to beryllium renewed annually earlier it expires. It would besides necessitate a abstracted licence for each canine oregon feline allowed to breed. Additionally, anyone who had been convicted of carnal cruelty oregon neglect would not beryllium allowed to person a permit.

The alteration would beryllium an summation to the existent Fresno Municipal Code, which besides requires that a breeder's "Unaltered Dog License" fig beryllium advertised to the nationalist erstwhile selling, adopting, oregon transferring their canine oregon cat's offspring - and that anyone who receives a canine oregon feline from a breeder to person the "Unaltered Dog License" fig to beryllium included connected immoderate receipt of merchantability oregon transportation document.

The connection besides establishes the fines for canine oregon feline owners recovered successful usurpation of the breeding licence provisions, including the anticipation of $1,000 fines oregon the infraction being treated arsenic a misdemeanor.

The archetypal speechmaking of the connection is Aug. 15 and the 2nd speechmaking is acceptable to instrumentality spot Aug. 29.