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End Euthanasia of Healthy and Treatable Animals!
Sponsored by: American Humane AssociationEvery year, an estimated four to six million dogs and cats are euthanized in animal care and control facilities in the United States. This problem is pervasive, and it remains a source of shame for our country.
The American Humane Association's Getting to Zero® Initiative is a national undertaking based on the profound belief that, within our lifetime, American society can reduce to zero the number of healthy or treatable dogs, cats and other companion animals that are euthanized in animal care and control facilities.
This program will help identify, support and obtain funding for the replication of community-based interventions that have demonstrated success in reducing the euthanasia of healthy and treatable animals. These include adoption, foster care, spay/neuter, training, transfer and generally bringing community support where it is needed most.
Sign this petition today to support programs like American Humane's Getting to Zero® Initiative, because these animals all deserve a chance to live!
The American Humane Association's Getting to Zero® Initiative is a national undertaking based on the profound belief that, within our lifetime, American society can reduce to zero the number of healthy or treatable dogs, cats and other companion animals that are euthanized in animal care and control facilities.
This program will help identify, support and obtain funding for the replication of community-based interventions that have demonstrated success in reducing the euthanasia of healthy and treatable animals. These include adoption, foster care, spay/neuter, training, transfer and generally bringing community support where it is needed most.
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This is sad
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We REALLY need to get this passed to protect all the precious animals! Its not their fault they got sick and if all it takes is a little medication to make them better that quit being so damn cheap and just give it to them. Let them get better and be given a 2nd chance at finding a home and a better life full of happiness.
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8:05 am PDT, May 5,
Amy Kelly, Colorado
Let's try to find a humane way to care for these animals. We have to be able to better than 6 million euthanizations per year. |
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Killing what you cant control is not the answer. We need state mandated spay and neuter laws that are strictly enforced. We did not become a nation of animal population problems overnight and it wont stop over night it takes effort but it has to start with spay and neuter laws. Either on federal or state level.
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y put down more animals than you have to. let them have a chance to live
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sad! would you want to put an animal to sleep? why dont we stick a needle up your butt and see if you like it?
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Government funded spay/neutering programs, larger shelters with well paid employees, discount pricing, advertising the animals who need a home...
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Having worked in a shelter for ten years in all capacities, I believe it is possible to end all euthanasia of healthy animals. Shelter managers are often unwilling to pursue this goal due to lack of resources, education, motivation and dedication to the animals in their care. The easiest way to stay within the confines of budgets and limit the amount of effort it takes to do it any other way is simply to euthanize animals. I left my shelter after ten years of working towards zero euthanasia, because a new director's beliefs were directly opposed to that goal. It was a difficult decision after working so many 70-80 hour weeks to improve life for our animals and garner the respect and support of our community. It seemed we were making progress. Staff turnover was small and the public was getting behind us. Under the new directors care, the euthanasia rate for cats rose to 92% and for dogs 60%. We began to have a lot of confrontation with the public over the new rules. I don't have all the answers, but spay and neuter is certainly an important beginning in tandem with education in the community. Teaching respect for the life of animals to children is imperative to reaching a goal of decreasing euthanasia of healthy animals! Equally important is the training of shelter managers to rethink the "old ways" and be creative in how the staff is trained. For example; making all staff participate in euthansia means only certain people are hired. Compassion is considered a weakness and shelters loose the commitment of volunteers and staff alike. Those are the same people that go out into the community and garner the support needed! I now volunteer for a small rescue with no shelter and a volunteer core of five. In one year we have spayed or neutered 572 animals, found permanent homes for over 80 animals and operated a pet food bank that feeds thousands of rescued animals and shelter animals, held two s/n clinics with a local vet and held a rabies vaccination clinic. All with donations, bake sales, yard sales and raffles. We have treated all animals that come into our care despite the cost and not one has been euthanized. All have life-time homes. Anything is possible with motivation and a desire to make a difference!
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9:35 am PDT, May 3,
Name not displayed, Canada
Pet Euthanasia on innocent and treatable pets is wrong because some owner could come along any day and pick that pet up and say wow this is a wonderful animal. All animals deserve to live. You don't go into an orphanage and pick up a baby and then kill it because it's been there three years. No!! That's what we are doping to animals and it is so wrong!! It needs to be stop. Spay and neuteryour pets that's part of the problem TOO MANY PETS. But if the goverment can't take care of them all maybe they should try harder to give them to good owners,. Like lower the prices to adopting a pet. I think That all animals deserve to live and that every pet should have a good home. |
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This must be stopped! All life is precious!
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Euthanasia should only be used for relieving the suffering of incurably ill animals. It should not be a method of population control. Euthanasia of healthy animals is not euthanasia, it is killing. No healthy animals, or those that can be cured, should be killed. Spaying and neutering is the way to control population. Behavior problems should be addressed with training and medication.
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I think the best approach to reducing the euthanasia count is by making it a mandatory law that any owner with a pet MUST have them spayed or neutered or suffer severe fines as a penalty. Maybe people should be given extensive community service sentences along with severe financial penalties for violation. Another option is requiring those involved in the sale of pets to have them spayed/neutered BEFORE they are allowed to sell them to anyone and penalize them heavily if they don't. They can build the cost of having it done into their sale price or they can simply refuse to buy from breeders who haven't already had them "fixed." Breeders should be regulated anyway. There are too many illegitimate ones & far too many that are incredibly inhumane. If the government would crack down in these two areas with stiffer penalties and punishment for breaking the law, it would improve matters all the way around.
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Be careful what you do to the animals creator has put here, for the same may one day be visited upon us!
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This is absolutely shameful. How would the public react if we started euthanising our extra people? These animals deserve the quality of life and respect that we have denied them for so many years.