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  • Press Release.

    Pet Care Community Adapts To COVID-19 ‘New Normal’ With Additional Safety Measures To Ensure Our Nation’s Pets Are Cared For

    Businesses focus on serving customers, pets, employees and communities safely and effectively as closure mandates lift- [Washington, D.C.] – June 8, 2020 – The responses from a nationwide survey of pet businesses show a pet care community that quickly adapted to the “new normal”; effectively balancing the need for workplace and customer safety with the… Learn More

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    Infographic From Pet Care Community Offers Tips For Keeping “Pandemic Pets” As Things Get Back To Normal-ish

    Leading pet care organizations join together to help pet owners and fosters – WASHINGTON, DC – Pets helped us cope with the pandemic by easing stress, fighting depression and loneliness, giving us reasons to exercise and play, and just being great companions. Now that stay-at-home orders are lifting, America’s pet care community is sharing an… Learn More

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    Statement: First Pets To Test Positive For COVID-19 In United States

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Gwyn Donohue, Director of Communications and Public Affairs [email protected], 202-452-1525 x1080 Statement from Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council President and CEO Mike Bober on  First Pets to Test Positive for COVID-19 in United States “We at the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council have learned from the public health experts at… Learn More

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    Open Letter On Requested Ban On International Live Wildlife Trade

    Open Letter to Senators Cory A. Booker and Lindsey O. Graham and Representatives Mike Quigley and Michael T. McCaul Regarding Your Requested Ban on the International Trade of Live Wildlife We in the responsible pet care community are extremely concerned by the threat to human health posed by the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic, and applaud… Learn More

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    Statement From PIJAC President And CEO Mike Bober On Off-Label Usage Of Chloroquine Phosphate To Try To Prevent COVID-19

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement from Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council President and CEO Mike Bober on Off-Label Usage of Chloroquine Phosphate to Try to Prevent COVID-19 “We at the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council are saddened to hear of the death of a man in Arizona after he ingested a substance labeled for use as a… Learn More

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    An Open Letter To Federal, State And Local Government Officials Regarding Pets And COVID-19 Precautions

    *Note* the first version of this letter was distributed on Friday, March 13. We are updating the letter, and the date below and on the downloadable PDF as more members of the pet care community sign their support.  We in the responsible pet care community are extremely concerned by the threat to human health posed… Learn More


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