In order
to ensure that pets, including birds, at the pet shops across the city are not
cramped, the UT Administration’s Department of Animal Husbandry has adopted the
ruling by the Gujarat High Court against cruelty to birds, and the practice of
keeping them inhumanly in cages.
According
to the orders, the rules have been implemented by the Chandigarh Administration
while adopting a judgement of the Gujarat High Court titled Abdulkadar Mohamad
Azam Sheikh versus state of Gujarat. In this case, the Gujarat High Court had
held that pet birds cannot be kept in the cages in inhuman conditions.
Residents
will now be empowered to take the assistance of the Police Department, if any
bird is found in captivity in inhuman conditions.
The
Administration has directed the pet shop owners to follow “pet shop guidelines
and animal enclosure standards”
The
Administration has also prohibited shop owners from exhibiting the pets and
birds and trading them like commodities. Pet shop owners should not cram the
pet animals and birds in cages outside their shops along with hoardings or in
front of their shops in open sunlight.
According
to the guidelines issued by the UT Administration, all reasonable precautions
should be taken to prevent unnatural deaths and spread of infectious diseases
in the pet shops.
Also,
the pets or animals should not be sold at too early an age i.e. before at least
eight weeks of age. Pregnant animals should not be put on sale.
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