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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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More free spay and neuter programs and more government help with animal rescue organizations.
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I am appalled that healthy animals in our small county are euthanized every week. However, I am more appalled that lazy or irresponsible pet owners do not spay/neuter their animals and then just call animal control to pick up their pets. There has to be some legislation that will better protect the animals. And the animal control officers need more power to confiscate neglected and abused animals. Maybe we could learn from the Child Welfare System, place the animals in protective custody, try to educate the owners, and if they completed their case plan and can demonstrate that they can properly care for their pets, then return them. I personally would volunteer to have a foster home for some of these animals. But maybe I am just a dreamer>
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pet euthanaisa should only be used to releive suffering animals.
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9:30 am PDT, May 8,
Sharri Boyett, Texas
Work with Human Service programs that offer food stamps and public assistance to provide FREE pet spay/neuter and subsidize through taxes the low cost programs for everyone else to spay/neuter |
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5:16 am PDT, May 8,
Amanda Reuwer, Maryland
Do we put people down cause we have to many in the world? No So why put animals down. We need to just spay and newter all pets. Its not even peacful when a animal is put down. He still hurts them inside and they even know that they are dying when the first shot hits them cuase to paralizes their muscles and then its heart attack after that. |
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I am furious that this still happens in todays society. The welfare of our pet companions should not be determined by a limit to how many days it takes to find a family to adopt them. I am very concerned that this has not become law, and would like to do what i can to stop this insanity!
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It is heartbreaking to see animals that are otherwise healthy and absolutely salvagable/adoptable euthanized. I have adopted a total of 9 dogs, 4 cats, 3 dogs out of those 9 have died of natural causes from old age, having lived very long lives. I can well imagine that each of them may have been euthanized had I not wandered into an animal shelter when I did and picked each and every one of them to become my life long companion. They each became my best friend and the loves of my life. It is horrifying to think that as a society we spent thousand of dollars at ballgames to put off fireworks displays to entertain ourselves after watching a ballgame, every week, when that money could have gone to keep many animals in the community alive for a long time. Instead we choose to entertain ourselves for 20-30 minutes of eye candy in the sky, while precious dogs and cats get chemical injected into their veins, lights out for eternity, placed in a black trash bag, throw into a dumpter, and taken to the city dump. Aren't we a selfish bunch?
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