November 26, 2009Comments are closed.No Kill
Imagine if you told pounds and shelters tomorrow that they couldn’t kill a pet that a rescue group was willing to take?
Imagine if, instead of being able to gag rescue groups with threats to cut off their ability to rescue when they try and speak out about inhumane treatment of animals, pounds were forced to open their facilities up to public scrutiny?
Imagine if councils were forced to allow TNR programs and release cats to welfare groups willing to manage their colonies?
It’s not a dream – it’s the future of animal sheltering and it’s on the march to Australia.
From Nathan’s blog today, ‘Understanding Oreo’s Law’
Modeled after a successful California law, Oreo’s Law would save animals who are healthy and friendly but who shelters are threatening to kill. It will save sick, injured, or traumatized animals like Oreo in cases where No Kill shelters and rescue groups have the ability to rehabilitate them or provide lifetime care. It will save animals who a shelter claims are ‘aggressive’ even though they are not or may be rehabilitatable. It would save feral cats at shelters which oppose TNR programs and which are determined to kill them. And it will provide a form of whistleblower protection for animal rescuers by protecting their right to continue to save animals when they expose inhumane conditions at shelters. Currently, shelters can retaliate by barring them and killing the animals they want to save if they go public with concerns.
By seeking to limit what is now the almost unrestrained power to kill animals by shelters, and because it empowers those who want to save animals from those who are threatening to kill them, Oreo’s Law is central to the fight for a No Kill nation.
