CA may end pet housing discrimination
News and headlines for April 6 - 12, 2024
In other news: Groups like CalAnimals, Best Friends, HSUS, and the ASPCA are trying to kill a bill that would require regressive California “shelters” to notify rescuers before killing animals. Under a program called Human Animal Support Services (HASS), shelters are turning away stray dogs, and they are ending up dead. The Los Angeles City Council voted to “stop issuing new dog breeding licenses.” Communities are looking for someone to run their animal shelters. A growing number of colleges have created pet-friendly dorms. Thanks to a presidential decree, feral cats who roam the grounds of Mexico’s Presidential Palace will be cared for and fed for their entire lives. France has banned plant-based food companies from using terms like “steak,” but a court has suspended the decree. Iowa legislators do not want schools to buy plant-based foods. A Wyoming hunter who tortured a wolf will not face charges because the Attorney General says cruelty laws do not apply to wild animals. Corrupt “environmental” groups are urging Maryland to kill thousands of swans because they are considered “non-native.”
These are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:
Time is running out for thousands of animals every year — animals like Gabriel, who arrived at a Los Angeles County “shelter” with a probable broken jaw. Rather than provide medical care or contact rescuers for assistance, the staff found it easier to kill him — and that is what they did. The little puppy who should have had his whole life ahead of him would be alive today if AB 2265 were the law.
AB 2265 would require California shelters to notify rescuers before killing an animal. And given that such notifications are possible through shelter software already used by these facilities or available for free, complying would require nothing more than a stroke on a keyboard: one click to notify rescuers that an animal needs saving.
AB 2265 is such a simple, commonsense law it is astonishing that anyone opposes it. But it is being opposed by regressive “shelters” in the state, including SEACCA — the pound that killed little Gabriel — and their state and national enablers like the Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, Best Friends Animal Society, the National Animal Control Association, and CalAnimals. (A complete list of all organizations who oppose the bill is below.) And if they get their way, thousands of animals like Gabriel will continue to die yearly.
If you live in California, please join The No Kill Advocacy Center by contacting members of the Assembly Committee hearing the bill and urging them to vote YES.
One of the pounds opposing AB 2265 is the Inland Valley shelter in Pomona. Despite being required by law to take in stray dogs, the shelter has turned them away. A few days later, one of those dogs was found dead on the shoulder of the freeway. The dog had a microchip.