Protecting lost and abandoned animals

Assemblymember Marie Waldron

AD-75 (R)

After over 70 years of debate, I have introduced legislation that, for the first time under California statute, will prohibit the acquisition of live animals abandoned at public or private shelters for use in laboratory research.

By the 1940s several states passed "pound seizure" legislation, which required shelters to provide dogs and cats to research institutions, either directly or through "Class B" dealers which served as animal brokers.

As a result, in 1966 Congress passed the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, which attempted to stop the theft of animal...