Crime
Manorville pet dealer charged with animal neglect
A Manorville pet dealer is facing 23 counts of animal neglect by failing to provide proper food and drink to confined animals in his custody.
Business
Pet stores sue to block New York’s ‘Puppy Mill Pipeline’ law, set to take effect Dec. 15
The ban on the sale of dogs and cats by pet stores will not solve the puppy mill problem, but will instead grow the black market puppy mill trade, as a similar 2019 California law has done with disastrous consequences, says the attorney for pet stores who filed suit in Suffolk County Friday.
Business
Pet store owner moves to dissolve his company, even as he sues town over law he claims will put him out...
A pet store owner suing the town over its new pet dealers law, claiming the law will put him out of business, is simultaneously petitioning a court to dissolve the company and appoint a referee to liquidate its assets and wind up its business affairs.
Government
Riverhead’s pet dealers law remains suspended as lawsuits challenging it continue
The law, which would ban the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits by retail pet dealers in Riverhead, would have taken effect Jan. 1, but remains suspended by a temporary restraining order issued by a judge in November.
