Not exact matches
As a
result, congress passed a few different acts to squash these tax
shelters, and prevent people from using life insurance
policies as a short term savings vehicle.
While in many
shelters Pit Bulls are over represented in comparison to other pure breeds this is not due to an over population issue but more due to bad internal adoption
policies within many humane organizations and of a lack of understanding about the breed
resulting in an unnatural deflatation in demand.
This new
policy resulted in the Feral Freedom program that has saved over 15,000 community cats from death in the
shelter by diverting them to our facility, where they are sterilized, vaccinated, ear - tipped, and returned to their territory.
The
results have important implications for
shelter intake
policies and breed - labeling practices.
Just last year, in a letter to California Assembly Member Katcho Achadjian, Chair of the Committee on Local Government, opposing AB - 2343, Longcore argued (using L.A.A.S. data through 2012) that «
policies put in place after the Hayden Act [1999] have
resulted in an increase in the percentage of cats taken in to
shelters that are deemed to be feral, suggesting that the stray / feral cat problem has become worse» (emphasis mine).
Public pressure has
resulted in altered
policies at many animal
shelters in recent years.