With the opening of the 112th Congress this week (which will continue until December 2012), and state legislatures across the country, do you know
what animal protection legislation will be coming before your legislators?
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.