Doggy in Window Not For Sale at Night

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Late-night sales to be banned at pet shops
The Environment Ministry will prohibit pet shops from displaying and selling puppies and kittens after 8 p.m. as early as June, because lack of sleep is harmful to young animals' health, sources said. Some pet shops in the busy commercial districts of large cities remain open even after midnight to attract women who drop by on their way home after working at eating and drinking establishments...Manager Yuichi Kawashima, 33, said there was need to stay open late. "At night, we have female customers who work at eating and drinking establishments and also foreign customers," Kawashima said. A 25-year-old female company employee who visited the shop at 10:30 p.m. said as she watched a puppy, "I can only come at night as my job often finishes late"..."A pet is an important member of a family," said Katsunori Ota, 69, chairman of the Zenkoku Pet Kyokai (national pet association). "I hope people will buy a pet carefully, with all family members present on holidays, not on impulse at night"...more...

I like the way the pet shop manager tries to play the tourism card. As the Yomiuri hints, these late night shops mainly service the hostess industry.

[Coligny]

Seriously... difficult to argue against the logic here (for closing them shops)...

[GomiGirl]

It is really cruel IMO - well pet shops in general are pretty vile but the late night impulse market doesn't really fill you with hope for a happy life for the animals sold this way.

I remember once seeing a monkey in that one in Roppongi late one night.

So this is a good plan.

[Coligny]

A good cat is a free cat... (free as in beer, not as in speech)

[Greji]

I remember once seeing a monkey in that one in Roppongi late one night.

There's a helluva lot of monkeys in Roppongi late on any night....

[GomiGirl]

There's a helluva lot of monkeys in Roppongi late on any night....

Mostly on your back?

[Greji]

Mostly on your back?

Usually the other way around (for the right amount).....

[Russell]

[SIZE="5"]Japan's unwanted dogs face almost certain death[/SIZE]

[SIZE="3"]It's a dog's life for a stray mutt in any country, but in Japan a canine that ends up in the municipal pound is far more likely to be put down than to find a new home.
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In Britain, approximately 6 to 9 percent of dogs in pounds are put to death every year, 2007-2009 figures show, according to the website of Dogs Trust, the nation's largest dog welfare charity.

In Japan that figure is more than 70 percent, the Japanese animal welfare organization ALIVE says.

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Most strays have been abandoned by their owners, while others are the offspring of abandoned dogs that have gone wild. Some hunting dogs are dumped in the off-season rather than kept for the following year's season, activists say.

But whatever their former lives, once at the center the dogs are kept for a maximum of only seven days.

Full story.

[matsuki]

"At night, we have female customers who work at eating and drinking establishments and also foreign customers," Kawashima said.

I like the way the pet shop manager tries to play the tourism card. As the Yomiuri hints, these late night shops mainly service the hostess industry.

LOL, foreign customers what? How many FG are buying pets at the butt crack of dawn? Pet supplies maybe...but pets?

[SIZE="5"]Japan's unwanted dogs face almost certain death[/SIZE]

While feral cats roam free, breed like crazy, and are untouchable

[Coligny]

While feral cats roam free, breed like crazy, and are untouchable

INFIDUL !!!

when judgement day comez yer sufferazing will be... AAAA PLENTYYYY!!!

[matsuki]

Don't get me wrong Coligny, I love pussy as much as the next guy. Just sad when I travel in the inaka and see the prides of feral kitties growing out of control.