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 PET
SAFETY AND PROTECTION ACT
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On February 17, 2005 the Pet Safety and Protection Act
(PSPA)(S.451) was introduced to Congress by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI).
The act was assigned to the Agriculture, Forestry and Nutrition Committee. The PSPA amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit USDA licensed
Class B dealers
(who obtain animals from "random sources") from supplying cats and dogs to research facilities. Many of these animals are stolen pets, strays, seized shelter animals, or obtained through "free to good home" ads. LCA is actively working to get the PSPA passed.
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visit www.stolenpets.com for more information on the PSPA.
Learn what you can do to help get the act passed and to participate in LCA's
National Pet Theft Awareness Day every year on February 14th.
You can participate in the crucial effort to educate people about pet theft all year long. Please
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Join LCA on February 14th each year for Pet Theft Awareness Day!
ELEPHANT
SANCTUARIES -- NOT CAPTIVITY!
Simply put, elephants do not belong in circuses, zoos, state fairs, on movie sets or any other unnatural environment. Elephants in captivity are regularly chained, beaten, kept in woefully inadequate quarters and forced to perform unnatural “tricks” for human entertainment. Captive elephants suffer from ailments rarely seen in the wild and have much shorter life spans. While wild elephants often live past the age of 70, captive elephants are lucky to make it to age 40.
Elephants are highly intelligent, sensitive mammals that normally travel up to 40 miles a day in the wild. They live in large herds -- sometimes as large as 100 members -- and maintain the most complex and extensive social network of any mammal studied. Captive elephants are denied all natural elements essential for their survival. The mistreatment of these magnificent creatures for human entertainment must come to an end! Because reintroduction into the wild is not yet available, relocation to sanctuaries is the only suitable option for elephants in captivity.
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PET
PROTECTION AMENDMENT
The Pet Protection Amendment 1729 was introduced in September 2005 as an amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. It passed in the Senate, but was removed from the final bill while in conference.
Even though the Pet Protection Amendment was deleted from the Agriculture Appropriations Bill, there is some GOOD NEWS! It was replaced with text that asks for a complete report on B dealers from the USDA. LCA will utilize this report to move senators and representatives to action to protect our companion animals and save them from ending up in research facilities! THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER YET!
CLICK HERE to read more about the Pet Protection Amendment.
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Approximately 500,000 puppies per year are bred in puppy mills, facilities known for their filthy, overcrowded conditions and the unhealthy animals they produce. Each of the 4,000-5,000 puppy mills in the U.S., most of which are located in the Midwest, houses between 75 to 150 breeding animals. Only half of the dogs bred at puppy mills make it to the pet store; the other half die from the mill’s squalid conditions, hypothermia starvation, or other horrors of transport. Cat breeding occurs on a smaller scale but under similar conditions. Most of the dogs sold in pet stores come from puppy mills.
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POUND SEIZURE - A Terminal Fate
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Pound seizure is the practice, which refers to the taking of cats and dogs from shelters and pounds, to supply the biomedical research industry. When dogs and cats are obtained for research, their fate is terminal. Some animals die quickly, while others are allocated for long-term, agonizing studies. Once the animal is turned over to the research facility, the Animal Welfare Act and anti-cruelty laws are close to nonexistent. Although there is no law pertaining to pound seizure, fourteen states prohibit it. Most other states have no declaration regarding pound seizure and leave it up to the county or town governments to decide. Several anti-pound seizure bills have been presented before Congress, but have yet to be ratified.
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PREMARIN
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In 2003, LCA's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) completed an investigation to expose the horrendous treatment of pregnant mares and foals in the production of the hormone replacement therapy drugs Premarin
(Pregnant Mare's Urine) and the Premarin family of products (Prempro, Prempak-C and Premphase), made by Wyeth Ayerst. Harvested for their urine using a gruesome urine collection method, the horses suffer terribly for the production of this drug. Additionally, numerous studies have shown the negative health risks to women associated with Premarin products.
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GREYHOUND RACING
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Dog racing is a national industry with racetracks in 15 remaining states. Greyhound racing began in America nearly eighty years ago and reached its peak in the 1970s. Since then, the inhumane treatment rampant in racing kennels and the mass killing of unwanted dogs has been brought to the public’s attention and has steadily undermined patronage at the tracks. Competition from casinos, lotteries and other forms of gambling has also contributed to the decline of the racing industry.
Even though greyhound racing is a dying industry, it has continued to survive in part due to legislative handouts tracks have received across the country. Racetrack owners are looking to legalize gambling at dog racing tracks in order to prop up their dying industry. As long as the industry remains in existence, thousands of greyhounds every year will continue to suffer and die.
LCA works in alliance with national and local greyhound protection organizations to pass greyhound protection laws through the legislation process and end the killing and cruelty that exists in the dog racing industry. Every year, thousands of greyhounds are abused, neglected, injured and killed by the racing industry that puts profits first and racing animals last.
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GREYHOUNDS WIN IN ARIZONA IN 2003
GREYHOUNDS ALMOST WIN IN FLORIDA IN 2004
VIVISECTION
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Last Chance for Animals has also targeted the cruel dog experiments at the
University of Arizona. LCA President Chris DeRose and Poison drummer Rikki Rockett held a press conference in Tucson to protest the University’s toxicity experiments and other tests performed on Beagles, Labrador Retrievers, and additional breeds.
PLEASE NOTE: Additional information on any of our campaigns may be requested by emailing
Campaigns@LCAnimal.org or by clicking on each heading listed above.
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