WINCHESTER, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) —The Center of Disease Control (CDC) issued a ban on puppies under six months old to enter into The United States starting August 1. Then, an attorney from Winchester sued them.
Aaron Katz and his family adopted their dog, Doby, while vacation in St. Lucia last year through the Bruno Project, Maryland-based dog rescue organization, after Doby’s original adoption fell through.
“He immediately bonded with our other dog Mable, and it’s been a great year and a half,” Katz told WBZ NewsRadio.
In May, the CDC announced an extensive new rule that banned foreign puppies under six months old to come into the country as an effort to prevent the spread of rabies.
If instated, this ban would make it harder for animal rescue groups, like the Bruno Project, to continue saving stray dogs from other countries and bringing them into the U.S. It doesn’t just apply to strays but could also impact exotic breads from other countries, Katz said.
Katz called the CDC's regulation an irrational solution since the spread of rabies from dogs rarely happens in the U.S., added that “… the CDC admits there’s never been a single instances of rabies infected dog coming into the United States from any of these rabies free countries.”
St. Lucia and other Caribbean islands were all declared canine-rabies-free by the CDC.
He and the Bruno Project, along with around seven other organizations, are working together to overturn this regulation. Katz filed the lawsuit against the CDC in Boston, hoping to bar this rule before it goes into effect.
WBZ NewsRadio's Shari Small (@ShariSmallNews) reports.
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