- Signatures: 1,747
- Goal: 25,000
- Deadline: Ongoing...
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Email this PetitionThursday., Aug. 30, 2007: VIRGINIA COUNTIES ACT TO END CARBON MONOXIDE GAS CHAMBERS! Virginia Shelters Making Carbon Monoxide Euthanasia a Thing of the Past
Read animalsheltering.org story online at http://tinyurl.com/255m84
Sat., Feb. 24, 2007: VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE REFUSES TO END GASSING OF PETS! General Assembly Adjourns! House Bill 3004 Dies Without Passage!
NEW SESSION CONVENES APRIL 2007! (2008 Bills to be Prefiled by Nov. 2007) END INHUMANE GASSING OF INNOCENT ANIMALS IN VIRGINIA!
“I’ve been a licensed vet tech for 20 years and have assisted and performed humane euthanasia countless times. This method is nothing short of archaic and disgusting and obviously done to cut corners. Again, the almighty $$$$$$$$ wins over what is humane. What ever happened to the old fashioned syringe? It’s not that difficult to euthanize an animal with compassion and dignity. This world and how it treats the beings that can’t speak for themselves makes me embarrassed to be part of the human race. Step up and do what’s right for these deserving animals!”–Petition Signatory No. 941, Lisa Carrano, New Port Richey, Florida, Feb. 26, 2007
“Virginia is for lovers?? Evidently not for lovers of animals!!!!”–Petition Signatory No. 998, Cayce O’Keefe, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Feb. 27, 2007
“Perfect example of Man’s inhumanity ... ...Worst animal on the planet.”–Petition Signatory No. 1,000, Diane Cieslak, Bay Village, Ohio, Feb. 27, 2007
“[A]nimal welfare is not just a moral problem to be solved with statutes, but a moral opportunity to fill our own lives with acts of compassion.... How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each of us, every day, writes our own epitaph—bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world’s joy or to its despair.”–Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Calling to Mercy, by Matthew Scully, 2002 (New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press)
2007 Virginia Legislative Report Card:
(Source: Humane Society of the United States, http://tinyurl.com/yo6xx9)
A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia, relating to euthanizing animals.
View the complete text of House Bill 3004 here!
Stop gassing helpless pets to brutal death in Virginia's animal shelters!
Find your local Virginia legislators here!
Contact the Members of the Agriculture Subcommittee of the Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee!
Email Chairman Robert D. Orrock, Sr., here
Email Member Clarke N. Hogan here
Email Member Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr., here
Email Member Matthew J. Lohr here
Email Member and Bill Co-Patron Kenneth R. Plum here
Email Member Christopher B. Saxman here
Email Member Edward T. Scott here
Email Member Beverly J. Sherwood here
Email Member James A. Shuler here
Contact the Members of the Virginia House of Delegates here!
Contact the Members of the Virginia Senate here!
Helpful Links:
Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare:
http://www.virginiavotersforanimalwelfare.com/
Humane Society of the United States
Legislative Summary for Virginia:
http://tinyurl.com/yo6xx9
Richmond SPCA is not the author of this petition.
| Number | Date | Name | Age | Gender | City | State | Zip/Postal Code | Country | What is your opinion about placing Virginia's homeless pets in lethal gas chambers? | What can the Virginia House of Delegates do to safeguard Virginia's endangered pets? | What can the average citizen do to enhance the safety and well-being of the community's homeless pets? | Picture | Report |
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| 1,756 | 2:55 pm PDT, Jul 3 | Annalisa Nipoti | 29 | Female | Desio | 20033 | Italy | Reminds me about Nazist Camps and it's disgusting! |  |
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| 1,755 | 12:33 pm PDT, Jul 1 | Sherri O'Connor | 0 | Female | Brantford Ontario | N3T 5W3 | Canada | People who would do this to another living creature are no better than the Nazis. | |
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| 1,754 | 12:38 pm PDT, Jun 27 | Lori Baquero | 45 | Female | Cape Coral | Florida | 33991 | United States | Barbaric!! | Donate some of their over inflated salaries to No-Kill Shelters | Spay and Neuter your pets so they don't contribute to the problem! | |
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| 1,753 | 7:56 am PDT, Jun 14 | Susan Halloran | 39 | Female | Virginia Beach | Virginia | 23453 | United States | It is senseless cruelty, and barbarism that reflects back to the middle ages. | Give support and funding to no kill shelters to assist them in their programs. | Trap & Neuter programs are an effective alternative to euthenasia in mass quantities. Also, make your local shelter a monthly donation, and volunteer a couple hours a week. Become a foster home for your local shelter! |  |
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| 1,752 | 9:17 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Victoria Mary Stong/ AnimalRightsActivist | 44 | Female | Long Island City | New York | 11101 | United States | It's awful and horrendous! Please help a dog also who has been in a cage for 16 years!: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-peppy-who-has-lived-in-a-cage-for-16-years | Ban euthanization and build or sponsor No-Kill Shelters. | Spay and Neuter your pets immediately! |  |
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| 1,751 | 6:52 pm PDT, May 25 | Silpa Solorio | 24 | Female | El Paso | Texas | 79924 | United States | How can you do this? This is wrong! | |
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| 1,750 | 1:37 pm PDT, May 9 | Carrie Vogan | 19 | Female | Lexington | Tennessee | 38351 | United States | Awful. | |
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| 1,749 | 11:01 am PDT, May 4 | Kimberly Tilley | 28 | Female | Mountain Home | Idaho | 83647 | United States | I think it should be stopped. All animals can be rehomed into loving and caring homes. Should you also put homeless people into the chambers to? People and animals deserve the same rights. | |
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| 1,748 | 6:06 pm PDT, May 2 | Manuela Ramirez | 29 | Female | Eppstein | 65817 | Germany | Stop killing defenseless pets! Thats barbaric! | |
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| 1,747 | 6:47 pm PDT, May 1 | Lisa Murr | 33 | Female | Columbia | South Carolina | 29212 | United States | Absolutely horrific!! Reminds me of the Nazis. |  |
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| 1,746 | 12:05 pm PDT, May 1 | Andrea Townsley | 24 | Female | Ocala | Florida | 34479 | United States | Disgusting! What is this, Nazi Germany for pets??? | Make all shelters no-kill and ban gas chambers. | Don't put have poisonous plants in their yard, use care when driving to make sure they don't hit an animal that may run out in the road, be kind to any animal they may find, try to find a home for an animal they come across, and if they can't find a home, take it to a no-kill shelter. | |
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| 1,745 | 9:53 pm PDT, Apr 29 | Ana Loa | 33 | Female | Pleasanton | California | 94566 | United States | I can't believe it is still legal to gas these defenseless animals! | |
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| 1,744 | 2:57 am PDT, Apr 29 | Cecy V. Aguirre López | 36 | Female | Mexico City | 04389 | Mexico | It's so cruel | help finding homes for this pets | try to adopt them |  |
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| 1,743 | 12:45 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Tabitha McCoy | 26 | Female | Fort Myers | Florida | 33908 | United States | It is so wrong | |
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| 1,742 | 11:44 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Desiree Young | 16 | Female | Cooper | Texas | 75432 | United States | You don't kill homeless people who can help themselves better than the homeless animals can; why kill the pets that are less bothersome than the people? | |
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| 1,741 | 5:46 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Kristina McArdle | 20 | Female | Glasgow | Ml2 8NJ | United Kingdom | I think it is a disgrace.All living things should have a chance to live a happy and care free life.These animals should be re-homed and if not the people in charge should keep trying to re-home them.No living creature should be put through this! | There should be more safe places for these animals to be kept.These places should consist of comfort,shelter,food,water,friendly and caring interaction between the workers and animals and there should be hope for these animals.Don't give up on them because they are homeless.Don't give up on finding them homes. | |
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| 1,740 | 12:38 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Daniel Amon | 25 | Male | Easley | South Carolina | 29642 | United States | This is horrible! | |
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| 1,739 | 8:14 am PDT, Apr 19 | James Herald | 21 | Male | Fort Wayne | Indiana | 46835 | United States | This makes me sick, and should never be allowed! | |
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| 1,738 | 5:40 am PDT, Apr 19 | Francesco Mengo | 0 | Male | Macerata | 62100 | Italy | fuckin' inhuman. death to everyone who does it. | |
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| 1,737 | 3:15 am PDT, Apr 19 | Claire Duque-Perez | 23 | Female | sydney | 2153 | Australia | Putting homeless pets in gas chambers is cruel. If we focus on nuetering and spaying we wouldn't have such an issue with finding placements for these animals. | insist on desexing animals, pass this bill and enforce the ban of animals being sold in pet shops, we should adopt shelter animals. | Spay pets and adopt from shelters, not pet shops, obviously. |  |
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| 1,736 | 2:45 pm PDT, Apr 18 | Anonymous | 17 | Female | Portsmouth | United Kingdom | It's disgusting and inhumane! It needs to be stopped! |  |
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| 1,735 | 9:04 am PDT, Apr 18 | Helene Johnson | 38 | Female | Dade City | Florida | 33525 | United States | why is it I need to tell you what is so horriffic, about this. we are God's children and we are here to care for his creatures, not make them suffer. | |
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| 1,734 | 8:47 am PDT, Apr 16 | Emily Davidson | 26 | Female | Norfolk | Virginia | 23508 | United States | As a resident of Virginia and taxpayer I ashamed that my tax dollars would be spent on inhumanely gassing animals! The humane mehtod of euthanasia of injection, causing a PAIN FREE death should be the only method used!! We are not some backwards place but this sure does make us look like one. I hope that enough citizens will stand up for righting this wrong. We are the only voice that these poor, unfortunate animals have! | Spay and Neuter! Adopt don't Buy!!! | |
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| 1,733 | 11:59 pm PDT, Apr 12 | Cassandra Jackson | 20 | Female | Fouke | Arkansas | 71837 | United States | I think we should place the people in lethal gas chambers |  |
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| 1,732 | 8:42 am PDT, Apr 10 | Anonymous | 28 | Female | Sofia | 1000 | Bulgaria | This is inhuman. This is unforgivable! | |
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| 1,731 | 6:21 am PDT, Apr 10 | Richard Michael Brugger Jr | 55 | Male | Rochester | New York | 14615 | United States | PLEASE DON'T ALLOW THIS !!!! | |
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| 1,730 | 8:22 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Megan S | 0 | Female | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55199 | United States | it's wrong! | |
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| 1,729 | 3:18 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Gillian Miller | 50 | Female | Bracknell | 12345 | United Kingdom | Reminds me of the Holocaust when the Nazis gassed 11 million people. | Pass a bill giving the animals the right to have the chance of a good home. | Volunteer to walk dogs and pet or play with the cats. Foster homes might help. Many many abandoned animals have sweet natures that help disabled or elderly people. |  |
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| 1,728 | 10:55 am PDT, Apr 8 | Lashitha Sanjeev | 23 | Female | Hyderabad | 500034 | India | its a pathetic inhumane act | |
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| 1,727 | 9:54 am PDT, Apr 8 | Martha Parry | 0 | Female | Fishburn | ts21 4dl | United Kingdom | basicly, its disgusting. | . | . | |
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| 1,726 | 9:42 am PDT, Apr 8 | lucy reeves | 0 | Female | birmingham | b23 7hy | United Kingdom | ABSOLUTELY SICK! | GIVE THEM HOMES ASAP | TAKE THEM IN. FEED THEM. GIVE THEM LOVE! | |
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| 1,725 | 11:41 pm PDT, Apr 7 | Alicia Benke | 30 | Female | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15206 | United States | It is horrible and inhumane to put pets in lethat gas chambers. | Please ban the practice of using gas chambers to euthanize pets. | Everyone should spay or neuter their pets to prevent pet overpopulation and end the need to euthanize pets for the sole reason that they are homeless. | |
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| 1,724 | 5:57 pm PDT, Apr 7 | Deb Ryan | 48 | Female | Dover | New Hampshire | 03820 | United States | There has to be a better alternative. | |
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| 1,723 | 3:38 pm PDT, Apr 7 | gina cogeasca | 48 | Female | Birmingham | B29 6JW | United Kingdom | is a shame for all humans | really don't know, I thought that this cruelty is happening only in my country Romania, but as I see ... | A plate of food per day everybody has, so why don't take them a pet in the house??? This is the first thing to do, then a very strong birth control...although, I do not understand why only the humans race has the right to grow... |  |
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| 1,722 | 11:32 am PDT, Apr 7 | Monica Rega | 23 | Female | King George | Virginia | 22485 | United States | I'm disgusted. This is rediculous. How hard is it for you to do it humanely and with dignity??!!! To throw a bunch of animals in a little box and turn on the gas and hear them cry and try to get out is wrong on soo many levels!!!!!!! | Ban the Gas Chamber from ALL shelters that puts "down" homeless pets!!! | Take to No kill shelters. Get them spaded and neutered. help out the ASPCA shelters and the like with donations. | |
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| 1,721 | 6:35 am PDT, Apr 7 | Jason Turgeon | 27 | Male | Portland | Maine | 04101 | United States | Putting homeless pets in gas chambers is cruel. If we focus on nuetering and spaying we wouldn't have such an issue with finding placements for these animals. | |
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| 1,720 | 5:45 am PDT, Apr 7 | LuCy J. Boogaard | 47 | Female | Hengelo Ov | 7556 VS | Netherlands | This is inhumane and just cruel.. Have you forgotten the German war..?? This is genocide at it's worst level.. Come in to the 21st century and be more considerate and caring..!! | Find no kill shelters, foster homes and animal rescue groups for the remaining animals and close this shelter down..! Re-open with properly trained and caring employees, find other alternatives than putting animals down, take an initiative to find homes or other shelters for these animals and those who come to them in the future.. Educate the public..! | Have their animals spayed/neutered. donate or volunteer at a shelter to take care of the animals.. Teach their children about the responsibilities of caring for animals.. Always keep their animals supervised when outside of the house.. |  |
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| 1,719 | 4:06 am PDT, Apr 7 | Carrie L. | 0 | Female | Ottawa | K1N 6K3 | Canada | We need to take responsibility for the care and treatment of the animals we bring into this world. Spay and Neuter your pets! | |
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| 1,718 | 1:33 am PDT, Apr 7 | Ann Tuton | 55 | Female | Ennis | Texas | 75119 | United States | no | help find places for them | make them pay if you put a chip in a pet and find the owner |  |
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| 1,717 | 9:24 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Jo Carlyle | 29 | Female | Lemon Tree Passage | 2319 | Australia | It is so sad. This method is to horriable for humands why use it on animals. | desex them | Keep your pets inside at night. |  |
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| 1,716 | 8:08 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Bill McGlone | 100 | Male | New Haven | Connecticut | 06511 | United States | Disgusting like the Nazi's did to the Jews! | Spayed/neuter program. | Spay/neuter. |  |
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| 1,715 | 2:04 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Ian Moore | 31 | Male | Manchester | M28 3WX | United Kingdom | If thay really want to keep these gas chambers running then use them on the politicians instead of defenceless animals! | |
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| 1,714 | 1:31 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Debora Santo | 18 | Female | Kikinda | 23300 | Serbia And Montenegro | there are other ways to deal with this problem. the animals should always get a chance to be adopted. | to adopt a pet rather than to buy one | |
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| 1,713 | 12:18 pm PDT, Apr 6 | Fenix Melly | 33 | Female | Pretoria | 0081 | South Africa | It's heartless and cruel :( |  |
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| 1,712 | 10:17 am PDT, Apr 6 | ivonne maldonado | 61 | Female | Naples | Florida | 34110 | United States | This is nothing less than murder!!! | Supply the public with lowe fees for adoption and advertise it. | Adopt them and get them fix... | |
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| 1,711 | 9:54 am PDT, Apr 6 | Pearl Millard | 65 | Female | Leyton | E10 5RB | United Kingdom | I think it is a terrible thing to do. Every animal deserves its life and there must be ways of finding shelters and homes for them. | |
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| 1,710 | 8:52 am PDT, Apr 3 | Teresita Garza | 31 | Female | Gainesville | Florida | 32653 | United States | There is no reason why the innocent should suffer. | |
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| 1,709 | 4:29 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Ruth Bescript | 81 | Female | Tucson | Arizona | 85747 | United States | Same reply for all three questions: Put money and efforts into spay/neuter, education, adoption programs, and make puppy mills illegal. All this equals less animals who will face the gas chamber. | |
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| 1,708 | 9:41 am PDT, Mar 30 | Rachel Vittles | 33 | Female | Swindon | sn25 1qu | United Kingdom | We don't place homeless people in gas chambers, so we should not be placing homeless animals in them. | |
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| 1,707 | 6:17 pm PDT, Mar 29 | Ana Quijano | 23 | Female | Pasto | Colombia | itīs cruel and barbaric. animals are sentient beings who have feelings and experience suffering, so itīs the same as if it was homeless people put in lethal gas chambers. | |
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| 1,706 | 7:10 am PDT, Mar 26 | arianna pallanti | 0 | Female | Lonate Pozzolo | 21015 | Italy | LAW MUST PUNISH PEOPLE THAT FORSAKE ANIMALS!!!!!! | |
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| 1,705 | 7:04 am PDT, Mar 26 | Laura Leistad | 19 | Female | Ames | Iowa | 50013 | United States | This is wrong, what happened to just injecting them with a syringe? | They need to create better living in shelters, ban gas chambers, get more advertising for spaying/neutering and adopting these endangered pets. | spay/neuter their pets, adopt an animal at a local shelter, donate to shelters, sign petitions or send letters to congressmen and senators | |
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| 1,704 | 2:11 am PDT, Mar 20 | Leanne Evans | 48 | Female | Kearney | Nebraska | 68847 | United States | This is outrageous! It has to stop! | |
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| 1,703 | 6:16 pm PDT, Mar 16 | Samia Lalani | 15 | Female | Markham | L3R 9C1 | Canada | It's disgusting. | |
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| 1,702 | 7:39 am PDT, Mar 16 | Beatriz Gomes | 45 | Female | Porto Alegre | 90030130 | Brazil | It's a shame !!!!! |  |
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| 1,701 | 4:01 pm PDT, Mar 15 | Angela Williams | 29 | Female | Two Rivers | Wisconsin | 54241 | United States | What did they do wrong? How can people be so cruel to God's creatures? | Pass this bill!!! | Donations and adoptions!!! | |
RICHMOND VA: Stop gassing Virginia Pets! Support House Bill No. 3004
Dear AwlChat,
Tomorrow a member of our Board of Directors, in conjunction with the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, is slated to testify before the House Subcommittee on Agriculture in support of Virginia General Assembly House Bill No. 3004. This bill would eliminate the use of gas chambers when euthanizing animals in Virginia. We support this legislation because the use of gas chambers is inhumane.
Below is a list of members of the subcommittee and their contact information. We would ask that you speak on behalf of animals in our state and support this legislation in any way that you are able. Specifically, you can contact these subcommittee members and ask that they support the bill. Only one member of this subcommittee, Kenneth Plum, is currently a co-patron, so it is urgent that you contact the other members to show your support.
Thank you for your time and support.
Robin Robertson Starr
CEO
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House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Sub-Committee: Agriculture
Chairman:
Robert (Bobby) Orrock, Sr.
Email: DelBOrrock@house.state.va.us
District Address Phone: (540) 891-1322
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1054
Clarke N. Hogan
Email: DelCHogan@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (434) 575-0000
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1060
Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.
Email: DelLLewis@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (757) 787-1094
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1000
Matthew J. Lohr
Email: DelMLohr@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (540) 437-1450
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1026
Kenneth R. Plum - Bill Co-Patron
Email: DelKPlum@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (703) 758-9733
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1036
Christopher B. Saxman
Email: DelCSaxman@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (540) 886-8284
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1020
Edward T. Scott
Email: DelEScott@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (540) 825-6400
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1030
Beverly J. Sherwood
Email: DelBSherwood@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (540) 667-8947
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1029
James M. Shuler
Email: DelJShuler@house.state.va.us
District Office Phone: (540) 953-1103
Richmond Office Phone: (804) 698-1012
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