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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 canine 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 at this time to Mayor Brenda Gunter and the members of the San Angelo Metropolis Council, calling on them to cross 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 might be hit by vehicles, contaminated with illnesses, or harm by merciless individuals. Those that reproduce can even add to town’s homeless-animal inhabitants, rising the burden on the taxpayer-funded shelter. The town’s suggestion that laypeople with no animal management experience tackle town’s accountability of capturing and housing stray animals might additionally pose a security danger if frightened stray canine 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 fireplace 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 usually are not ours to abuse in any method”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with 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 had been documented in images shared by the media and which resulted from “no-kill” insurance policies on the facility (hooked up). On November 2, it was reported that town’s public animal shelter would now 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 take care of. We’re writing at this time to induce you to cross an emergency citywide ban on breeding and promoting animals with a purpose to help ones who at the moment are 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 accommodate stray animals for town, a plan that’s harmful for animals and residents alike when untrained laypeople attempt to do the job of skilled animal care and management professionals. Please take be aware: Not too long ago 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 dwelling; and in Fort Price, a lady was killed by a stray canine who had been taken into her dwelling by a resident who was in search of the animal’s proprietor.
Shirking town’s accountability and obligation to guard animals and residents just isn’t 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 type individuals urge you to behave at this time. 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 to your consideration of this pressing matter.
Very actually yours,
Teresa Lynn Chagrin
Animal Care & Management Points Supervisor
Cruelty Investigations Division