1 of 5. The No Kill Advocacy Center has model laws that save lives, including legislation that:
- Makes it illegal to round up and kill community cats;
- Gives rescuers the legal right to save animals from pounds intent on killing them;
2 of 5. - Makes it illegal to kill animals unless those animals are irremediably suffering;
- Makes it illegal for anyone else to kill them, including private veterinarians;
- Prevents people convicted of animal abuse from acquiring animals;
- Bans cruel methods of killing;
3 of 5. - Requires pounds to focus on saving animals, rather than killing them, including providing prompt and necessary veterinary care;
- Prevents landlords from discriminating against renters with pets;
And more.
4 of 5. These laws are already saving tens of thousands of lives every year — well over a million since their inception — in those cities, counties, and states that have passed them, reducing killing in some cases by over 90%.
5 of 5. The No Kill Advocacy Center has free guides to help you introduce such laws in your community or state. And No Kill Advocacy Center attorneys stand ready to help.
2. On Oct. 18, 2014, two PETA reps backed their van up to a home in Parksley, VA, and threw biscuits to Maya, who was sitting on her porch. They were hoping to coax her off her property and give PETA the ability to claim she was a stray dog "at large": .
3. Maya refused to stay off the property and after grabbing the biscuit, ran back to the safety of her porch. One of the PETA representatives went onto the property and took Maya. Within hours, Maya was dead, illegally killed with a lethal dose of poison: .
1. CDC says "there is no evidence that companion animals, including pets, can spread COVID-19 to people or that they might be a source of infection in the United States." So why is Maddie's Fund fear-mongering?
2. They are not alone, like the call by nat'l groups to "just stop" doing TNR and essentially abandon "feral" cats to a potentially deadly fate: blog.theaawa.org/open-letter-fr…
3. The information about Covid-19 and pets coming from too many wannabe "leaders" in this movement is not only derivative at best. At worst, it is dangerous. In their bid to make a name for themselves, they are throwing animals under the bus.
1. A judge has ordered a man who tortured his girlfriend’s cat to death in a case the Sheriff called "one of the most heinous acts of cruelty" he'd ever seen to do community service at an animal shelter: cincinnati.com/story/news/cri…
2. The cat was “hung by a rope and severely beaten, causing the death of the animal” to get back at the woman for breaking up with him. He should be in prison, not an animal shelter.
3. Can you imagine a judge ordering someone who “severely beat” their spouse to volunteer at a woman's shelter? Or a rapist to volunteer in a similar capacity? Or a convicted pedophile to volunteer at an orphanage? It's unthinkable.