The Problem: The growth in unvetted dog importation threatens the health of American People, Pets and Livestock
Ensure that only healthy dogs are imported into the US
In this unregulated environment, the international dog trade has become an absolute
nightmare threatening animal and public health. The diseases and parasites routinely
found in dogs imported from developing countries include highly infectious
pathogens that can often be transmitted to people as well as dogs and other animals –
rabies, canine brucellosis, leishmaniasis, leptospirosis, canine flu, new strains of
distemper and countless vector-borne diseases.
To learn more about the evolution of this problem, please read the chronology below:
USA Today 2/2/2003 Animal Shelters in the USA send away for more strays - Marianna Massa wanted to help solve the problem of stray dogs in her ''own little way.'' So she adopted Peluso, a three-legged mutt...read more
Daily Sun 3/14/2011
Life-lift for dogs is fatal, 100+ die - More than 100 rescued dogs from Puerto Rico died in Florida after they were sent there for adoption, it
was learned Monday...read more
11/14/2019
State authorities see disease risk in imported dogs - Dr. Beth S. Thompson learned in August that a rescue group was bringing Greyhounds to Minnesota from a meat market in China... read more
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 21/ Thursday, January 31, 2019 Notices. Table 1 - Estimated average annual numbers of dog imports by country and by immunization status... read more
Legislation is introduced to keep pets and people healthy
At long last, the 2018 Farm Bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, has been passed by both houses of Congress and signed by President Trump. Provisions in this Act focusing on animal health ar
The practice known as humane relocation started innocently enough. Animal shelters in areas where shelter populations have plummeted as the national shelter census steadily declines started to take an
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A BILL
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act with respect
to the importation of live dogs, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2
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