My vision for ethical treatment of animals

This is my statement, my view of the ideal, practical, perhaps-one-day possible world.

1. - No one expects to obtain companion animals no-questions-asked, or for free
2. - All homeless animals with a reasonable expection of quality of life being able to find a good home, covered by a much broader geographic area than we now consider convenient
3. - An end to all blood sports, including the feeding of live prey to domesticated carnivores/predators
4. - No companion animal being denied veterinary treatment because "it's just an animal" or because "it's cheaper to buy a new one." No companion animal being denied prompt veterinary treatment because of ignorance or lack of affordability
5. - All pet guardians learning about, respecting, and meeting the real physical and psychological needs of their companion animals
6. - No more vanity- or folkloric consumption of animals and animal parts, or regulatory redundancy that takes animals' lives
7. - Outlawing (or out-regulating) the breeding of domestic companion animals as a gainful source of part-time or full-time employment or small business category. Outlawing of industry practices and recalling of products that are known to be harmful to our pets, yet continue to be practiced and marketed.
   
8. - Licensed breeding becoming truly controlled and licensed, guaranteeing that the breeders care about their progeny
9. - Law enforcement acting on their animal protection mandates and receiving appropriate budgets to take action every day
10. - All hunters learning everything about the ecology of their game and the ethics of hunting and the humane kill well before they learn how to pull a trigger safely. (To be a hunter, one only has to learn how to fire a gun.) Credit goes to those who are already ethical advocates and conservationists
11. - Working animals routinely granted the opportunity to join families as companion animals at a reasonable stage of retirement
12. - Industries that necessarily use working animals give back into causes that directly benefit animals in order to honour the animal sacrifices their industries require – rather back into causes that support their industry's bottom line. By this, we certainly do mean medical research and farming - they are legitimate businesses that are too paranoid of the ethical intentions of animal welfare, and do not contribute back to those whose goods and lives they make their money from. e.g. Cancer research supports ever more cancer research - while our pets and shelter animals are denied drugs and treatments known effective to them, and refuges get no sponsorship from those who profit from research
    
13. - Pet stores become the repository and distribution point for homeless pets, safe and healthy pet products, and real humane education, so they can truly become joyful places, rather than a happy face denying the economic enslavement of animals
    
14. - A clearly defined, educated, and enforced limit to the influence that non-guardians can exert on curbing the behaviour and lifestyles of animals and their guardians. Parks are paid for from public funds dog owners contribute to; breed-specific legislation is not a right to beat or poison neighbour's pets or launch civil suites; leash laws are not permission to surveille, stalk or otherwise harrass dog owners; nor shoot-shovel-shutup and other forms of extermination for animals without guardians. We share the same world, and animal rights and guardian rights should not be subordinate to zoophobias and disinformation.

Animals confer more blessings on us than we could care to count. We need to confer the blessings back.