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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Liam Buckler

City bans all sales of dogs, cats and rabbits from popular walk-in pet shops

New York has banned all sales of dogs, cats and rabbits in retail stores in a bid to stop "abusive breeders".

Shoppers in the US city will no longer be allowed to look for a new pet through a shop window after Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law on Thursday which bans the sale of pets.

She said it was designed to "end the puppy mill-to-pet store pipeline and stop abusive breeders."

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