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Stop Shelter Animals From Being Sold for Research!

Target: Michigan House
Sponsored by: American Humane Association

Michigan House Bill 4663 will eliminate pound seizure in Michigan animal shelters.

Pound seizure is the practice of allowing shelter cats and dogs to be used in experimental research. HB 4663, called "Koda's Law," is named after a shelter dog that, instead of being placed for adoption, was sold to a USDA Class B Dealer (animal broker) and resold to the University of Michigan, where he was used in the university's Advanced Trauma Life Support Class, and then euthanized. Koda's former family believed that taking him to a shelter would allow him another opportunity to find a home and did not know he would be used in a research experiment. Sadly, this happens to far too many shelter cats and dogs in Michigan.

Companion animals depend on humans for their safety and well-being. Tragically, this dependency is betrayed when shelters allow these pets to be taken by Class B Dealers for resale to research. When Class B dealers and research facilities can obtain cats and dogs -- like Koda -- from animal shelters, it diminishes the shelters' credibility and purpose, and betrays public trust.

Currently only two county animal control shelters practice pound seizure. Koda's Law will not prohibit legitimate medical research. Research facilities will still be able to obtain cats and dogs from licensees who breed animals for research. This bill simply stops shelter cats and dogs from being used in research. The bill permits several veterinary training/research activities of shelter cats and dogs, including allowing spay-neuter training, correcting pre-existing medical conditions (such as broken bones or illnesses), and allowing blood banks to obtain life-saving animal blood. The cats and dogs are then placed for adoption.

Please sign to show your support for Michigan House Bill 4663 so we can make Michigan the 19th state to outlaw pound seizure.

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We signed “Stop Shelter Animals From Being Sold for Research!”

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8:08 pm PST, Nov 20, Dani Huffman, Texas

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7:32 pm PST, Nov 20, Alicia Morales, Mexico

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3:45 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Washington

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2:49 pm PST, Nov 20, Susan Miller, Florida

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2:34 pm PST, Nov 20, Joan E Loza Mobry, Wisconsin
"Animals Do Not Have A Voice Of Their Own. If We Do Not Stand Up And Speak For Them... Who Will?!"

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2:27 pm PST, Nov 20, Paloma Aguirre, California

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2:05 pm PST, Nov 20, Faye Durham, Ohio

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1:55 pm PST, Nov 20, Susan Eslick Kevorkian, New Jersey

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1:50 pm PST, Nov 20, Leigh Foster, Kansas
This should be a law in every state and country in the world. END ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION BECAUSE IT DOES NOTHING FOR HUMANS AND IS A SENSELESS WAY TO WASTE OUR MONEY!!!!!! Stop animal experimentation and take the grant money and give it back to the people!!!!!

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1:47 pm PST, Nov 20, Cameron Gore, Canada

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1:44 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, South Carolina
NO MORE!

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12:57 pm PST, Nov 20, Sylvie Ries, Luxembourg

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12:50 pm PST, Nov 20, Theresa Turner, Utah
We really need to stop treating Cats and Dogs like this. They have a brain and a heart and feelings.

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12:32 pm PST, Nov 20, Pete Childs, California

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12:28 pm PST, Nov 20, Alicia Aceves Estrada, Mexico

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12:24 pm PST, Nov 20, Chelsea Peacock, Washington

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12:06 pm PST, Nov 20, Susana Lax, Florida
i cannot even imagine this'its ludicris,it must be stoped.

# 55,471:

12:02 pm PST, Nov 20, Mona Dunn, New York

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11:35 am PST, Nov 20, Betty ann Lunger, Pennsylvania
i cannot even imagine this'its ludicris,it must be stoped.

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11:26 am PST, Nov 20, Denise Crowder, Nevada
This need's to be stopped.

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11:15 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Nebraska
I am horrified that such inhumane acts are allowed to occur. Animals deserve better than to be tested on and killed after they have served their purpose.

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10:44 am PST, Nov 20, Melissa Johnson, Illinois

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10:38 am PST, Nov 20, AJ M., Ohio

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10:08 am PST, Nov 20, Laurie Johnson, Georgia

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10:03 am PST, Nov 20, Shelagh Inglesby, Florida
We the people OPPOSE THIS. It is disgusting. STOP shelter animals from being sold for research now !

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9:28 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

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8:27 am PST, Nov 20, Anna Gunn, Tennessee
Selling animals for research is wrong.

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7:44 am PST, Nov 20, Rita McClain, Pennsylvania

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6:55 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Indiana
Would you like someone to sell you for research?

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3:30 am PST, Nov 20, Jody Paul, California
Selling animals for research is wrong. Plain and simple. There's nothing to debate here.

# 55,458:

10:49 pm PST, Nov 19, Christine Wein, Minnesota
There are better ways to do research than to buy homeless animals and do horrible things to them.

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7:18 pm PST, Nov 19, Mariana Costa, New York

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6:57 pm PST, Nov 19, Roberto Hamilton, California

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5:55 pm PST, Nov 19, Chastity Moses, Nevada

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5:45 pm PST, Nov 19, Charlotte Goble, Michigan

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5:31 pm PST, Nov 19, Mina Watkins, California

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5:17 pm PST, Nov 19, Bharadwaja Phani kumar, India
Stop this. WE are against to it

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