Ban Pound Seizure in Minnesota
Target:
Minnesota state senators and representatives
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Pound seizure is the sale or release of unclaimed dogs and cats from publicly funded pounds and shelters to laboratories for experimentation. Only three states in the U.S. - Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Utah - still legally require that pounds and shelters turn over unclaimed animals for experimentation if requested by a registered research facility.
Difficult as it is to imagine, healthy dogs and cats who once lived in someone's home like your own are confined to laboratory cages where they will be killed after being used in painful and sometimes long-term experiments.
Pound seizure is the sale or release of unclaimed dogs and cats from publicly funded pounds and shelters to laboratories for experimentation. Only three states in the U.S. - Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Utah - still legally require that pounds and shelters turn over unclaimed animals for experimentation if requested by a registered research facility.
Difficult as it is to imagine, healthy dogs and cats who once lived in someone's home like your own are confined to laboratory cages where they will be killed after being used in painful and sometimes long-term experiments.
We signed the "Ban Pound Seizure in Minnesota" petition!
# 402:
9:08 am PST, Dec 30,
Jill Larsen, Minnesota
We should not be sending any animals to laboratories. We don't send unwanted children there so we shouldn't be sending pets there either.
We should not be sending any animals to laboratories. We don't send unwanted children there so we shouldn't be sending pets there either.
# 401:
2:57 pm PST, Dec 28,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 400:
5:15 pm PST, Dec 24,
Jennifer Cross, Washington
How awful? We dont need innocent animals going to labs!
How awful? We dont need innocent animals going to labs!
# 399:
12:05 pm PST, Dec 7,
Mae Volk, Minnesota
I am a pet owner and have been my whole life. I cannot imagine my loved pets being siezed, if ever lost (God forbid). Animals, to me and my family, are like family members and they are living, breathing and feeling creatures who deserve kindness just like anyone else. I am disgusted by this law and I am signing this to hopefully make a difference.
I am a pet owner and have been my whole life. I cannot imagine my loved pets being siezed, if ever lost (God forbid). Animals, to me and my family, are like family members and they are living, breathing and feeling creatures who deserve kindness just like anyone else. I am disgusted by this law and I am signing this to hopefully make a difference.
# 398:
8:19 pm PST, Dec 5,
Lisa Lewis, North Carolina
# 397:
8:30 pm PST, Dec 2,
Jeffrey Allen, Canada
# 396:
2:42 pm PST, Dec 2,
Claudia For the Oceans, Netherlands
# 395:
2:41 pm PST, Dec 2,
Cid Martins, Portugal
# 394:
12:41 pm PST, Dec 1,
Samantha Van Niekerk, South Africa
# 393:
7:03 pm PST, Nov 25,
Chris Jordan, Canada
Oh god why do we do this
Oh god why do we do this
# 392:
7:43 pm PST, Nov 22,
Amy Blake, New Hampshire
# 391:
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5:10 am PST, Nov 22,
Martine Dann, South Africa
How much "power" are we going to allow research facilities to use lost or abandoned animals to use for selfish experimentation? We are the voice, we stand up and say NO. We don't need more synthetic drugs to make the pharmaceutical company's richer. God gave us a natural pharmacy of herbs & plants. Stop using animals in this barbaric manner. I wonder how they sleep at night, knowing what they do? And to think they might even have children and pets of their own.. |
# 390:
3:48 pm PST, Nov 21,
Karen Daley, Oklahoma
What an atrocious, abusive practice! This is just not acceptable at all. These are living creatures just as deserving of respect as any other. They are not "things" to be siezed and used.
What an atrocious, abusive practice! This is just not acceptable at all. These are living creatures just as deserving of respect as any other. They are not "things" to be siezed and used.
# 389:
2:50 pm PST, Nov 21,
Christy Tucker, Alabama
# 388:
10:30 am PST, Nov 21,
Margi Lebold, Utah
# 387:
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10:19 am PST, Nov 21,
Mary Susan Harrington, Minnesota
I LIVE HERE IN MN AND I AM OUTRAGED!! STOP THIS NOW!! I AM SPREADING THE WORD! I WORK IN THE ANIMAL FIELD!!!!!!!!!! |
# 386:
6:43 am PST, Nov 17,
Heidi Stumpf, Minnesota
# 385:
5:33 am PST, Nov 17,
Mariska Catsman-Okkersen, Netherlands
# 384:
10:31 am PST, Nov 15,
Michael Meka, Minnesota
stop testing on pets, how about government employees they have less feelings
stop testing on pets, how about government employees they have less feelings
# 383:
1:49 pm PST, Nov 14,
Millie Caballero, Minnesota
# 382:
4:09 pm PST, Nov 10,
Michelle Adams, Texas
# 381:
2:48 pm PST, Nov 10,
Jennifer Meka, Minnesota
# 380:
6:18 am PST, Nov 10,
Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 379:
6:51 am PST, Nov 8,
Michelle Hagberg, Minnesota
# 377:
10:33 pm PST, Nov 7,
Melissa Boonstra, Indiana
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my comments on this issue. I volunteer @ my local humane society and have, for all my life been very passionate and concerned about the welfare of our societies animals. They are a precious resource and the way we treat the animals that need us for everything from teaching discipline to thier next meal..we treat them pretty cavalier. All an animal will do is look to thier owner for protection and always be there needing and loving us like the petition website states" we are in place to help give an animal refuge from disaster and abuse not deliver them to a source of it!!
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my comments on this issue. I volunteer @ my local humane society and have, for all my life been very passionate and concerned about the welfare of our societies animals. They are a precious resource and the way we treat the animals that need us for everything from teaching discipline to thier next meal..we treat them pretty cavalier. All an animal will do is look to thier owner for protection and always be there needing and loving us like the petition website states" we are in place to help give an animal refuge from disaster and abuse not deliver them to a source of it!!
# 376:
1:30 pm PST, Nov 7,
Suzanne Dunham, Minnesota
To Whom It May Concern, There exists 'Cruel and Unusual" Punishment in this country for humans - well need I remind you that this should apply to animals, who live, breath, experience, and feel just like us humans do. The mere thought of these innocent animals being tortured for no good reason - animals that may be lost and whose families are trying desperately to find them - makes me ill. How dare you deprive them of their right to live a "humane" life? I strongly oppose this Minnesota Statue. Animals were not put on this earth to be Abused!
To Whom It May Concern, There exists 'Cruel and Unusual" Punishment in this country for humans - well need I remind you that this should apply to animals, who live, breath, experience, and feel just like us humans do. The mere thought of these innocent animals being tortured for no good reason - animals that may be lost and whose families are trying desperately to find them - makes me ill. How dare you deprive them of their right to live a "humane" life? I strongly oppose this Minnesota Statue. Animals were not put on this earth to be Abused!
# 375:
1:04 pm PST, Nov 7,
Stacey Dunham, Minnesota
# 374:
9:15 am PST, Nov 4,
Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 373:
5:23 am PST, Nov 4,
Clairetta Anderson, Minnesota
I have just become aware of the forced relinquishing of impounded animals for research purposes. I am outraged that, here in MN. pounds are made to give or sell these animals to them or pay a fine and be cut off from state funds. I'm also outraged that there is Statute 35.71 that states this practice is acceptable. These former pets are tortured for science's sake and then, finally, mercifully, killed. Whatever happened to animals' rights to have quality lives? I cannot believe we are faring any better for their suffering. This needs to be addressed and stopped immediately. Some former owners don't even know what happens to their beloved pets. I propose, instead of using funding for those less fortunate to have their pets micro chipped rather than putting these animals through this torture. This way, if a pet is lost, then they can be reunited with their owners. We tried every way we could to help animals after the hurricanes destroyed New Orleans and in many other instances. Why are we using them for research purposes? It seems like this is a two sided attitude. Give in one case, and torture and destroy in another? Doesn't make a lot of sense, when you think of it, does it?
I have just become aware of the forced relinquishing of impounded animals for research purposes. I am outraged that, here in MN. pounds are made to give or sell these animals to them or pay a fine and be cut off from state funds. I'm also outraged that there is Statute 35.71 that states this practice is acceptable. These former pets are tortured for science's sake and then, finally, mercifully, killed. Whatever happened to animals' rights to have quality lives? I cannot believe we are faring any better for their suffering. This needs to be addressed and stopped immediately. Some former owners don't even know what happens to their beloved pets. I propose, instead of using funding for those less fortunate to have their pets micro chipped rather than putting these animals through this torture. This way, if a pet is lost, then they can be reunited with their owners. We tried every way we could to help animals after the hurricanes destroyed New Orleans and in many other instances. Why are we using them for research purposes? It seems like this is a two sided attitude. Give in one case, and torture and destroy in another? Doesn't make a lot of sense, when you think of it, does it?
# 372:
9:39 am PDT, Nov 1,
Heidi Ahlstrand-gallagher, Minnesota
another shame on you minnesota!i am not proud to say im from minnesota now that i found this out!what is wrong with these 3 states that do something this evil!!!!being euthined is a hell of a lot better than being in a experimentation lab!what the hell is wrong with our society?what is wrong with the people that do these things?BAN THE POUND SEIZURE NOW!!!!!PLEZ DO NOT ABUSE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
another shame on you minnesota!i am not proud to say im from minnesota now that i found this out!what is wrong with these 3 states that do something this evil!!!!being euthined is a hell of a lot better than being in a experimentation lab!what the hell is wrong with our society?what is wrong with the people that do these things?BAN THE POUND SEIZURE NOW!!!!!PLEZ DO NOT ABUSE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 371:
9:12 pm PDT, Oct 31,
Kim Reyes, Oregon
# 370:
2:25 pm PDT, Oct 31,
Anna Krochmal, Poland
Ban pound seizure and stop euthanizing healthy pets!
Ban pound seizure and stop euthanizing healthy pets!
# 369:
2:10 pm PDT, Oct 27,
Bobbi Ostrander, Wisconsin
# 368:
12:36 pm PDT, Oct 27,
Kathy Baer, Minnesota
# 367:
10:32 am PDT, Oct 24,
Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania
# 366:
4:45 am PDT, Oct 22,
Ralph Xx, Germany
# 365:
5:21 pm PDT, Oct 21,
Maria Grazia, Peru
# 364:
1:10 am PDT, Oct 16,
Debra McIntyre, Minnesota
I am ashamed to live in MN and not know this is happening.
I am ashamed to live in MN and not know this is happening.
# 363:
1:27 pm PDT, Oct 15,
Heidi Wolfe, Minnesota
This is barbaric. It MUST stop now!
This is barbaric. It MUST stop now!
# 362:
2:59 am PDT, Oct 13,
Barbara Mares, Minnesota
This is outrageous!! I wonder how many of their donors are aware of this practice. And then the ones around where I live won't work with a rescue willing to take the animal.
This is outrageous!! I wonder how many of their donors are aware of this practice. And then the ones around where I live won't work with a rescue willing to take the animal.
# 361:
2:56 pm PDT, Oct 2,
Rachel Buell, Minnesota
# 360:
11:02 am PDT, Oct 2,
Michelle Hilmanowski, Minnesota
# 359:
8:24 am PDT, Oct 2,
Angelina Fauskee, Minnesota
If you had to move, but couldn't bring your dog with you would you be alright with a lab taking it and putting it through great amounts of pain before they kill it? or to another loving home?
If you had to move, but couldn't bring your dog with you would you be alright with a lab taking it and putting it through great amounts of pain before they kill it? or to another loving home?
# 358:
8:56 pm PDT, Sep 30,
Katrina Hart, Texas
# 357:
8:32 pm PDT, Sep 29,
Kim Harris, Oregon
# 356:
3:20 pm PDT, Sep 23,
Mervi Rantala, Finland
Please stop this horrible practice right now!!!
Please stop this horrible practice right now!!!
# 355:
7:00 pm PDT, Sep 22,
David Jackson, Florida
Thix is appalling, cruel, and sad, and needs to stop. Government and those entrusted with animal welfare should not support cruelty and torture of animals. Pounds should exist only to assure animal welfare, not as a source for animals to be tortured and cruelly and inhumanely treated. No civilised society permits the cruel treatment and torture of animals.
Thix is appalling, cruel, and sad, and needs to stop. Government and those entrusted with animal welfare should not support cruelty and torture of animals. Pounds should exist only to assure animal welfare, not as a source for animals to be tortured and cruelly and inhumanely treated. No civilised society permits the cruel treatment and torture of animals.
# 354:
1:37 pm PDT, Sep 22,
Susan Holmes, United Kingdom
Disgraceful, this needs to stop.
Disgraceful, this needs to stop.
# 353:
4:47 pm PDT, Sep 21,
Melissa MacDonald, California
My GOD! This makes my heart bleed! This is totally unacceptable and needs to be stopped immediately! These animals are not ours to do this with. Life is a gift and it ought to be treated as such. We have no right to these animals lives. Please do the right and humane thing and do not allow this horrible, unthinkable practice to occur any longer! Let us unite together to love and care for our animal companions. On behalf of the animals. Melissa MacDonald
My GOD! This makes my heart bleed! This is totally unacceptable and needs to be stopped immediately! These animals are not ours to do this with. Life is a gift and it ought to be treated as such. We have no right to these animals lives. Please do the right and humane thing and do not allow this horrible, unthinkable practice to occur any longer! Let us unite together to love and care for our animal companions. On behalf of the animals. Melissa MacDonald
# 352:
3:17 am PDT, Sep 21,
Filomena Pereira, United Kingdom
# 351:
10:40 am PDT, Sep 19,
Patrick O'Neil, New Mexico
