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Puppy Mills
www.banpuppymills.com
Best Friends Puppy Mill Info
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Last Chance for Animals
Dedicated to reducing exploitation of animals across a variety of issues.
Last Chance for Animals (LCA) recognizes that animals have the ability to experience pain, and as such they deserve certain basic rights protecting them from pain caused by humans. LCA believes that non-human animals should not be subjected to suffering and exploitation by humans because alternatives exist for nearly every traditional "usage" of animals.
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Animal Defense League of Arizona
To Protect and Defend Arizona's Animals
The Animal Defense League of Arizona is a statewide animal protection organization that has worked for two decades on behalf of companion animals, wildlife, animals in laboratories, animals in entertainment, and farm animals. ADLA zealously employs all legal means available in its role as as a defender of and advocate for animals.
The Animal Defense League of Arizona was founded in 1997 through the merger of Phoenix-based Concerned Arizonans for Animal Rights and Ethics (CAARE) and Tucson-based Voices for Animals (VFA). ADLA is a statewide non-profit 501(c)(3) animal rights organization.
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Animal Related Legislation
At the ALIS website, you can track bills introduced into the legislature by topic - for example, you can type in "animal" and see what's happening on legislature related to animals!
Legislating the "Humane" Back into "Humane Society"
www.NoKillAdvocacyCenter.org
This year, nearly five million dogs and cats, and hundreds of thousands of other animals, will be killed in U.S. animal shelters.The Companion Animal Protection Act 2007 is part of the No Kill Advocacy Center's national strategy to end the unnecessary killing of millions of animals in U.S. shelters annually.
For well over a decade, we have known how to bring this killing to an end. The programs and services, which we collectively call the No Kill Equation, include:
- shelter accountability
- affordable spay/neuter
- rescue group access to shelter animals
- comprehensive adoption programs including evening and weekend hours and offsite venues
- a feral cat neuter and release program
- medical and behavioral rehabilitation
- public relations and marketing
- use of volunteers including foster families
- socialization program
- a compassionate, hard working shelter director who is not content to hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes"
Nonetheless, too many shelters are not voluntarily implementing these programs. As a result, animals are being needlessly killed. In response, the No Kill Advocacy Center has developed model legislation to help animal advocates force an end to the killing in their own communities: The Companion Animal Protection Act of 2007.
This law: mandates the programs and services which have proven so successful at shelters which have implemented them, follows the only model that has actually created a No Kill community, and focuses its effort on the very shelters that are doing the killing.
As a result, it provides a framework for success unavailable from traditional legislative models such as punitive legislation aimed at the public or through counterproductive national efforts that legitimize the killing.
Companion Animal Protection Act highlights:
- establishes the shelter's primary role as saving the lives of animals
- declares that saving lives and protecting public safety are compatible
- establishes a definition of No Kill that includes all savable animals including feral cats
- requires shelters to spay/neuter before adoption
- protects feral cats and their caregivers
- makes it illegal for a shelter to kill an animal if a rescue group or No Kill shelter is willing to save that animal
- requires shelters to provide good quality care to animals
- requires shelters to have fully functioning adoption programs including offsite adoptions and use of the Internet to promote animals
- requires shelters to be proactive in reuniting lost pets with their families
- prohibits shelters from killing animals based on arbitrary criteria such as breed bans or when alternatives exist
- requires animal control to allow volunteers to help with fostering, socializing, and assisting with adoptions
- bans the use of gas chambers to kill animals
- prohibits pound seizure where animals are sold to laboratories
- requires shelters to be truthful about how many animals they kill and adopt
- requires shelters to notify people surrendering animals about the likelihood their animal will be killed
- requires revenues from dog licenses to be used solely for spay/neuter and medical care for animals in the community
- provides free spay/neuter for all feral cats and for the pets of qualified low-income households
- repeals laws that unnecessary kill animals such as pet limit laws and laws that prohibit the feeding of stray animals
- allows residents to sue the shelter and compel compliance if shelters fail to do so
The Companion Animal Protection Act mandates the provision of low-cost spay/neuter and medical care. Because many shelters have fees which are not "low cost" despite the claim, we also recommended a fee schedule for services at public sheltering agencies. For a copy of the No Kill Advocacy Center's recommended fee schedule, click here.
To read why mandatory spay/neuter and licensing laws do not work, click here.
To start the process of reforming animal control and private shelters in your community, click here.
Please note: No law can anticipate every contingency and the Companion Animal Protection Act is no exception. It is not intended to be complete or eliminate the need for other animal protection laws. Nor is it intended to reduce stronger protections that animals may have in a particular jurisdiction. The legislation can and should be modified in these circumstances. However, if animal advocates are aware of any unintended consequences, we encourage you to share your comments with us so that we may strengthen it. As such, it is considered a work in progress.
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