Legislation in NY being considered to prohibit shipping live animals

[John W Blehm]

The ABA has sent out an alert on this to members.
BILL NO A04611, SPONSOR Rosenthal L, February 4, 2021

...Prohibition of the shipping of live animals by postal mail.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to mail or offer for mailing a live animal by postal mail into or within the state of New York or from the state of New York to points outside the state of New York.  As used in this section, "live  animal"  shall mean any mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian. "Postal mail" shall mean mail that is processed and delivered by the United States postal service or other mail carrier...

[Michael Muenks]

The American Bantam Association sent out an alert regarding pending legislation in New York and the shipping of animals. Learn more at the following links because this impacts us all!

https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld&leg_video&bn=A04611&term&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&fbclid=IwAR3iwMDQ-y6vfOMuYEDHzhVePCbQVYcmU0gaQOmBzhpBqUcx8BHxMf5qPno

https://usark.org/alert-2021-ny/?fbclid=IwAR3OMMAHXY4wrCS5vZzpYEbc9UGYJ8PKFMqhsNPrsXeL7IBkuk-xoGZ560k

A group I just learned about!
https://birdshippers.org/about/members/?fbclid=IwAR1QOcrwZ8-b7oT6TW4vyNkedCKzJQBS5YzXxjj0EH2GY_iP2Cpko