Sentences with phrase «shelter animal protection legislation»

Phil also succeeded in passing the most progressive shelter animal protection legislation in the country; legislation that codifies into law many of the protections in the Matrix and guarantees animals in shelters certain rights, the most important of which is making it illegal to kill healthy or treatable animals.

If your state has laws that do not benefit shelter animals (such as allowing gas chambers, pound seizure, or have do not promote adoptions), contact one of these to offer your help in passing / supporting better legislation: HSUS State Director, ASPCA regional director, a large animal shelter in your state that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislation.

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He has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national levels, has created successful no - kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

At the same time, when my organization, the No Kill Advocacy Center, works with activists nationwide to pass legislation to add more protections, such as making it illegal for shelters to kill animals when rescue groups are willing to save them, these groups fight us, as HSUS has done in Minnesota and Best Friends did in New York.

Our mission is to provide education and financial support for spay and neuter efforts in rural areas, foster and adopt dogs from high - kill shelters, provide resources to shelters or humane societies who are caring for animals from large - scale rescues, support Ohio legislation for companion animal protection, and provide temporary pet food assistance for families going through financial hardship.

It successfully defeated animal protection legislation that would have mandated that shelters not kill animals when non-profit rescue groups are willing to save those animals and which would have prohibited the common practice of killing animals when there are empty cages, a thoroughly reprehensible sheltering protocol which PETA endorses.

Nathan J. Winograd is a graduate of Stanford Law School, a former criminal prosecutor and corporate attorney, has spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, has written animal protection legislation at the state and national level, has created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and has consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

During the 2012 Michigan Humane Lobby Day, more than 75 citizens from across Michigan met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to pass legislation to ban the euthanasia of shelter animals by gas chamber, increase protections for dogs at large scale breeding operations, and to increase protections for consumers who purchase sick animals from pet stores and puppy mills.

Under my leadership, Tompkins County, New York, became the first No Kill community in the U.S. I have also spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, have written animal protection legislation at the state and national level, have created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and have consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

And yet those who should be celebrating them as heroes — our nation's animal protection groups — instead denigrate and malign them, paradoxically equating them with some of the cruelest people there are — hoarders and dog fighters — in order to fight legislation that would empower them to overcome shelter directors in community after community who make it impossible to do what should be simple and straightforward — partnering with others to save lives.