Sentences with phrase «unnecessary shelter killing»

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Philadelphia, PA — Monday, April 24, 2006 — The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and the Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association (PACCA) are partnering to eliminate the unnecessary killing of potentially adoptable animals in the City of Philadelphia with the launch of the spay / neuter component of the School's new Shelter Animal Medicine Program.

Having killed hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of dogs and cats, convinced there was no other way, shelter administrators are not able to face the fact that the vast majority of the killing they do is unnecessary.

«This type of facility is critical for helping underserved communities keep their pets, reducing shelter intake and unnecessary euthanasia, and helping us work toward a no - kill nation,» said Shelly Thompson, Director of Grants at Maddie's Fund.

Everyone in this movement makes a valuable contribution to the honorable goal of ending the unnecessary killing in shelters and providing humane care.

This day was launched in 2001 by Alley Cat Allies, a national advocate for feral and stray cats and the foremost authority on Trap - Neuter - Return, to bring attention to the unnecessary killing of cats in shelters.

According to the American Humane Society, «Anti-cruelty laws exist in all U.S. states and territories to prohibit unnecessary killing, mutilating, torturing, beating, neglecting and abandoning animals, or depriving them of proper food, water or shelter.»

Last month, long - time Lucas County Dog WardenTom Skeldon resigned amid a swirl of controversy surrounding what animal advocates in the city decided was a lot of unnecessary killing of animals in the shelter.

Under current law the negligent act or omission must be (1) one of «torture, torment, unnecessary mutilation or maiming, cruel beating, poison or unnecessary killing»; or (2) one of deprivation of necessary and good, wholesome food and water or access to shelter if the animal would reasonably be expected to become sick or suffer without it.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.