(JP) Unregistered animal dealer arrested for selling dogs

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Unregistered animal dealer arrested for selling dogs

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070730p2a00m0na035000c.html

 

SETO, Aichi -- The owner of a dog that attacked a 33-year-old woman was arrested

Monday for selling three dogs without registering himself as an animal dealer,

police said.

 

Kenji Kondo, 39, a resident of Seto, is accused of violating the Law Concerning

the Protection and Control of Animals.

 

He is suspected of leaving loose six dogs, including the one involved in the

attack, and failing to vaccinate and register them with the municipal

government.

 

In February 2006, Kondo imported a pregnant Great Dane from Germany for about 1

million yen, investigators said. He later sold three of the dog's 11 puppies for

between 350,000 and 500,000 yen, without registering himself with the

prefectural government as an animal dealer, according to local police.

 

Three puppies died, and Kondo kept the remaining five along with another dog,

all unleashed, at a disused convenience store prior to selling them. (Mainichi)

 

July 30, 2007