Implementing Regulations of The Agriculture Law

1. The parties concerned with animal resources shall take adequate precautions to avoid harm or death, such as negligence in storing hazardous materials inside animal 50| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law homes, or in covering openings or high-risk structures therein, or failing to take adequate precautions against their escape, predation by other animals, or exposure to traffic accidents. 2. Animal resources shall not be disposed of in a merciless manner, such as using slow- death methods, or any other method causing terror, panic, or severe pain thereto without any justification, or through intentional administration of poison. 3. Animal resources shall not be abused, harmed, neglected, tampered with, strayed, exposed to malnutrition, or left without adequate food and necessary treatment while still alive. 4. Animal resources shall not be given any veterinary preparations, feed, food, feed additives, or cosmetics that are not authorized by the relevant agencies for any purpose whatsoever. Nor shall they be given any growth-promoting preparations, hormones, steroids, or any food, materials, or anabolic steroids for non-medical reasons, including stimulants given to animals for participating in any type of competition, such as speed and endurance competitions, and beauty contests. 5. Animals shall not be disposed of except in cases of extreme necessity such as epidemics or any disability that prevents an animal from continuing its normal life; the Ministry shall lay down the necessary procedures and controls in this regard. 6. Animals that are unable to stand up shall be gently treated and shall not be pulled in a painful way that could cause wounds, bruises, fractures or dislocations. 7. Any practice carried out to change the shape of an animal without medical reasons shall be deemed as an abuse of animal resources; this shall include the following: a) Performing surgeries for cosmetic or marketing purposes, including cutting off ears, tails, lips, or any part of a living animal's body; b) Injecting any local or general medicinal preparations to change an animal's shape for marketing purposes; c) Burning an animal’s face with fire (branding); d) Dyeing animals with any materials unlicensed by the Ministry; e) Removing an animal's organs or performing surgeries thereon without medical reasons and without the supervision of a veterinarian licensed by the Ministry; and f) Chemical castration. 51| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law 8. Animal resources shall not be abused, including intentionally taking same as a target for shooting, hunting, drowning, burning, dragging, torture, pulling, severe beating, hitting, running over, or strangling while alive, poisoning, sexual assault, or starvation with intent to harm, or instigating fights thereamong, or harmful tampering therewith to change their shapes, such as stretching, face lifting, and cutting) and any similar type of harm. 9. Tame animals may not be offered for adoption with a requirement that they be purchased from the licensed agricultural or veterinary facility for a certain amount or that a certain amount be paid therefor, except for costs of vaccination or medical treatment that the animal received prior to being offered, provided that proof thereof be submitted, along with a book of immunizations showing the dates of vaccinations received by the animal, and issued by an agency licensed by the Ministry to exercise the animal adoption activity.