Because Italy prohibits pet stores to expose puppies for sale in the window? Apart from the fact that many shops keep them a little 'back, but always visible from the window, the law wants to prevent the adoption of an animal - a challenging gesture that deserves reflection - depends on the tenderness of a second or even the whim a child, a minor or an adult that is.

There are cities that have gone far beyond - from Boston last - and banned altogether the sale of puppies. Stop order: if you want a pet you can contact a kennel, cattery or a similar shelters for stray, the evident purpose of empowering those who decide to adopt, but also to free these desolate places from overcrowding and its inhabitants from loneliness. In short, a move of civilization which also counteracts the tendency - now considered inhumane - to proceed further with the selection of races, that horrifies us thinking to humans but not to animals, and which involves some damage to the selected specimens. Not to mention the often illegal trafficking that bring puppies not yet fully weaned in our stores, with long journeys that sometimes it irreparably undermine the health and social skills.



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The measure of American cities will be effective from 2017, and goes even further. Shopkeepers will become real through to bring together the family that adopts with shelters, which in turn will be manageable in a much more economical way by the community. That is not a detail.

The choice sounds like science fiction, but instead is already very widespread in the United States, where Boston follows the example of more than 120 cities that have enacted the same ban: such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, Miami and Austin.

Europe is far behind the subject surprise. Spain and Britain have discussed years ago proposed a similar law, but then falls into nothingness. By the time a small step is doing the UK, that will ban the sale of puppies under 8 weeks to prevent health and behavioral problems.

From Wired