Animal Shelter Disaster Prompts PETA’s Push for Breeding Ban, Open Shelter Doorways
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November 4, 2022
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Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
San Angelo, Texas – Following the discharge of leaked pictures evidently revealing canines caged in their very own waste and a cockroach infestation in San Angelo’s animal shelter—and town’s response of closing the shelter’s doorways to misplaced and homeless animals—PETA despatched a letter in the present day to Mayor Brenda Gunter and the members of the San Angelo Metropolis Council, calling on them to move a complete ban on breeding and promoting animals and require that the shelter settle for all animals. PETA factors out that whereas the shelter is popping animals away, anybody who pays a nominal price can circumvent town’s spay/neuter legislation and breed animals, inevitably including to the flood of homeless ones.
PETA notes that most of the animals who’re turned away by the shelter will find yourself deserted on the streets, the place they could be hit by vehicles, contaminated with illnesses, or damage by merciless individuals. Those that reproduce will even add to town’s homeless-animal inhabitants, growing the burden on the taxpayer-funded shelter. The town’s advice that laypeople with no animal management experience tackle town’s duty of capturing and housing stray animals might additionally pose a security threat if frightened stray canines react aggressively towards the individuals making an attempt to assist them.
“Closing a shelter’s doorways throughout a homeless-animal disaster is like shutting down a hearth station throughout wildfire season, and churning out extra litters of animals is throwing gasoline on the fireplace,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is looking on San Angelo’s leaders to maintain the shelter open and cease the breeders and pet retailer gross sales which can be fueling this disaster.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals are usually not ours to abuse in any manner”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Gunter and town council follows.
November 4, 2022
The Honorable Brenda Gunter, Mayor of San Angelo
Members of the San Angelo Metropolis Council
Expensive Mayor Gunter and Metropolis Council Members:
In September, we wrote to you in regards to the reportedly deplorable situations on the metropolis’s animal shelter, which have been documented in images shared by the media and which resulted from “no-kill” insurance policies on the facility (connected). On November 2, it was reported that town’s public animal shelter would not settle for animals from residents who’ve discovered misplaced and homeless animals in want of refuge or have animals of their very own they’re unable or unwilling to look after. We’re writing in the present day to induce you to move an emergency citywide ban on breeding and promoting animals with the intention to help ones who are actually in disaster and to require town shelter to guard animals and the general public by accepting each animal taken to it.
Astonishingly, residents are reportedly now being requested to deal with stray animals for town, a plan that’s harmful for animals and residents alike when untrained laypeople attempt to do the job of educated animal care and management professionals. Please take word: Lately in North Carolina, an 8-day-old child was killed by a stray canine the household had taken in simply days earlier than; in Oklahoma, a 7-year-old boy was killed by a stray canine taken in by his household; in Nebraska, a younger man needed to be hospitalized after he was attacked by a stray canine he had taken into his residence; and in Fort Value, a lady was killed by a stray canine who had been taken into her residence by a resident who was on the lookout for the animal’s proprietor.
Shirking town’s duty and obligation to guard animals and residents shouldn’t be an answer to animal homelessness. The present disaster calls for emergency motion and laws to ban the breeding and sale of all animals, and town shelter should be required to just accept each animal taken to it.
PETA, our San Angelo resident members and taxpayers, and all form individuals urge you to behave in the present day. Our group stands prepared to offer draft laws {and professional} animal shelter insurance policies or different help. Please let me know what we will do to assist.
Thanks in your consideration of this pressing matter.
Very really yours,
Teresa Lynn Chagrin
Animal Care & Management Points Supervisor
Cruelty Investigations Division