[ SHOWGSD-L ] Please take a moment and read....Michigan is one of the worst places to be a shelter dog!
- From: Dawn Restuccia <windwych@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gsd <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:12:09 -0800 (PST)
This is the fate of many shelter dogs; some of them purebred
GSDs as evidenced by the accompanying picture that I wasunable to print. Please
see if your area is listed here and ifit is, please contact your local
Congressman/Senator/Mayoror any government official and proclaim your anger and
distaste. Practices such as this should be banned nationally.Dawn
Pound Seizure: The Shame of
Shelters
The public and private pounds and shelters of the United
States were established to care for homeless animals, for both humane and
public health reasons. Some are brought to the shelters by guardians who
can no longer keep them but usually hope that they are adopted. Others
are
brought in by concerned individuals, police or animal control officers.
These animals have been abandoned by their families, have run away from
home, or have simply gotten lost. While shelters sometimes take in other
animals, most of their charges are dogs, cats, puppies and kittens,
almost
all of them former companion animals or their offspring.
Pound Seizure Defined
Pound seizure means that animals who arrive in a pound our
shelter and who are not claimed by former or new guardians within a
specified time limit, which may be as short as a day or so, are required
by law to be turned over on demand to laboratories for experimentation.
The ultimate fate of these animals is inevitably death.
Pound Seizure is illegal in England, Denmark, Sweden and
Holland. In the United States there is no federal law regarding pound
seizure, but 14 states forbid it. Pound seizure is
not illegal in Michigan and is practiced in many counties and the city of
Detroit.
Pound Seizure Problems
Animal protection organizations object strongly to pound
seizure and for good reason. Animals who were once well-loved companions
suffer the double blow of living in a laboratory cage, as well as feeling
the loss of their human friends. Families experience the anguish of
knowing that a lost animal or one they have given up may have been killed
in a painful experiment. In communities that allow or enforce pound
seizure, people often choose to abandon on the street or in a field,
animals they cannot keep, rather than send them on their way to a
laboratory via the local animal control facility, thus adding to the
problem of homeless strays. Some animal control facilities have been
known
to quickly sell their healthiest and most adoptable wards to a laboratory
rather than adopt them to a new home.
What You Can Do
If you live in a county or city that practices pound
seizure, contact your local humane society (previous screen) to see if
their is any current initiative to stop the practice. If there is no
local
movement to stop pound seizure in your community, but you are interested
in halting the sale of former pet and stray animals to animal dealers or
research facilities e-mail us at: harriss@xxxxxxxxxxx for more
information.
Additional Pound Seizure Information
Where is Pound Seizure-Pound Release
practiced in Michigan?
Counties with Pound Seizure/Pound
Release (as of November 2001)
Clinton
Gratiot
Ingham
Jackson
Kent¹
Mecosta
Midland
Montcalm
Montmorency
Osceola
Shiawassee
St. Joseph
Tuscola
Cities that Practice Pound
Seizure-Pound Release
Detroit¹
Ecorse-River Rouge
Inkster
Townships
Huron
Sumpter
(Both in Wayne County)
¹Only release to Michigan research
labs
Who and where are these "class B
research animal dealers?
Hodgins Kennels, Howell
Cheri-Hill Kennels, Stanwood
R&R Research, Howard City
States that PROHIBIT Pound Seizure
1. Connecticut
2. Delaware
3. Hawaii
4. Maine
5.
Maryland
6. Massachusetts
7. New Hampshire
8. New Jersey
9.
Pennsylvania
10. Rhode Island
11. Vermont
Dawn Restuccia, Pres.
Last Hope, Safe Haven
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