Fw: California Residents: Help End Pound Seizure!

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Hi all,

Please call or e-mail the Assembly Judiciary Committee Members and

urge them to support AB 588!! Time is of the essence as it goes for a

vote on Tuesday April 22, 2003. Thanks!!

 

 

 

 

California Residents: Help End Pound Seizure!

 

The State Assembly Judiciary Committee will be hearing an important piece of legislation on Tuesday, April 22, 2003, that will affect the lives of countless companion animals, and your help is urgently needed! AB 588, a bill that, if passed, would establish a statewide ban on pound seizure from any public animal shelter or humane society. Pound seizure is the practice of selling, giving, or furnishing any healthy, friendly, adoptable dog, cat, or other animal from public animal shelters or humane societies to laboratories for experimentation, research, testing, or demonstration. Unbelievably, pound seizure is still legal in California and is currently being practiced in Sacramento County.

 

 

The ultimate fate of these animals is inevitably death. But before they die, the animals may suffer horribly at vivisectors' hands. Sacramento County Animal Care and Regulation currently sells animals to the University of California at Davis and to Sutter Hospital for $75 each. At the vet school, animals who once knew the comfort of a home are isolated in cages for several months while students practice procedures on them. Most of them are killed and embalmed and their bodies are used in anatomy classes. The rest are used for terminal surgeries-cut open, sewn shut, and killed before, during, or after surgery by the people they have been conditioned to trust.

 

 

Other countries such as England, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands have already recognized that pound seizure is inhumane and unnecessary and have banned the practice. In the United States there is no federal law regarding pound seizure, but 14 states forbid it: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Hawaii. Please help us add California to this list.

 

 

To see the text of the bill,

 

 

Time is critical. The Assembly Judiciary Committee is hearing AB 588 this Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Please call or e-mail the Assembly Judiciary members today and urge them to support AB 588 to ban pound seizure in California:

 

 

Assemblymember Ellen Corbett (Chair)

Tel.: 916-319-2018

Fax: 916-319-2118

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Corbett

 

Assemblymember Tom Harman (Vice Chair)

Tel.: 916-319-2067

Fax: 916-319-2167

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Harman

 

Assemblymember Patricia Bates

Tel.: 916-319-2073

Fax: 916-319-2173

 

Assemblymember John Dutra

Tel.: 916-319-2020

Fax: 916-319-2120

E-Mail: Assemblymember.dutra

 

Assemblymember Loni Hancock

Tel.: 916-319-2014

Fax: 916-319-2114

E-Mail: Assemblymember.hancock

 

Assemblymember Hannah-Beth Jackson

Tel.: 916-319-2035

Fax: 916-319-2135

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Jackson

 

Assemblymember John Laird

Tel.: 916-319-2027

Fax: 916-319-2127

E-Mail: Assemblymember.laird

 

Assemblymember John Longville

Tel.: 916-319-2062

Fax: 916-319-2162

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Longville

 

Assemblymember Cindy Montañez

Tel.: 916-319-2039

Fax: 916-319-2139

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Montanez

 

Assemblymember Robert Pacheco

Tel.: 916-319-2060

Fax: 916-319-2160

 

Assemblymember Todd Spitzer

Tel.:916-319-2071

Fax: 916-319-2171

E-Mail: Assemblymember.spitzer

 

Assemblymember Darrell Steinberg

Tel.: 916-319-2009

Fax: 916-319-2109

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Steinberg

 

Assemblymember Juan Vargas

Tel.: 916-319-2079

Fax: 916-319-2179

E-Mail: Assemblymember.Vargas

 

Thank you for your time and for all you do for animals!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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