Turkish parliament approves long-awaited animal rights bill

[douglas9]

The Turkish parliament approved a long-awaited animal rights bill on Friday.

According to the bill, the sale of cats and dogs by pet shops will be banned, as such shops are "not suitable for animal health and ethology."

Animal circuses, water circuses and dolphin parks will also be prohibited.

Cat and dog owners will be required to have digital IDs or registration and will face fines if they abandon their pets.


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[secondwind]

1. Wow, that's amazing news....

[bahboo]

2. pleasantly surprised by this....

maybe we could take a hint...

[Karadeniz]

3. I won't repeat an experience in Istanbul under martial law with an armed soldier feeding a kitten.

Also, Ataturk said that if reincarnation is real, he'd come back as a cat. So, that one remark insured that cats would be taken care of! From there, it was easy to see sensitivity to other animals spread. Social media has helped a lot, as animal rescuers and orgs show their message to everyone.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. Wish we had laws like that here

And animal abuse be a felony and a minimum 1 year in jail,and monitoring ( animal abusers are often psychopaths and are abusing people too.) in every state.