NY Pet Stores Will Be Required To Teach Owners About Care

Small animals can rest easy now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that requires pet dealers to provide consumers with instructions on how to care for them.

A new law requires retailer to provide instructions on how to care for small animals such as hamsters and rabbits when they are sold.
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K Reakes

12/15/2015 5:00 p.m.

The bill, which takes effect in 90 days, requires instructions for such animals as hamsters, chinchillas, guinea pigs, gerbils, rabbits, mice and rats, according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

Instructions will also be required when people buy amphibians and reptiles. In addition, the bill requires the retailer to send a copy of its instruction manual each year with the state Department of Agriculture and Markets, added the Democrat & Chronicle.

Click here to read the Democrat & Chronicle story.

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