Sarasota News Leader
December 20, 2013
OPINION
Page 70
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NEWS LEADER LAUDED FOR PUPPY MILL ORDINANCE COVERAGE
To the Editor:
As a journalist and a 20-year member of
Sarasota County's Animal Welfare Advisory
Council, I thank you for County Editor Roger
Drouin's excellent coverage of the recent
County Commission meeting discussing the
consideration of enacting an ordinance banning the local sale of puppy mill dogs (Dec.
13 issue).
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If you (or the county attorney) would
like to review the full verbiage of such
bans currently working in 39 other areas
— including nine in Florida — here is
a link to those documents: http://bestfriends.org/Resources/No-Kill-Resources/
Puppy-mill-initiatives/Fighting-Puppy-Mills/
Jurisdictions-with-retail-pet-sale-bans/.
Charmaine Engelsman-Robins
Sarasota
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