The following post is courtesy of www.animalalliancenyc.org.
Why microchip your pets?
Having your pets microchipped is one of the best ways to increase the chance that, if your pet becomes lost or stolen and winds up at an animal shelter or veterinary office, he or she can be returned to you. Unlike dog tags and collars, which can fall off or be removed, microchipping is a more permanent form of identifying your dog or cat.
How does it work?
A tiny capsule about the size of a grain of rice is injected under the loose skin on the back of your pet's neck. The procedure provides no more discomfort than a vaccination.
What do I have to do?
Register the chip. This is extremely important! If your vet does not submit the paperwork for you, make sure YOU complete the form and mail it to the company. And even if your vet submits the paperwork for you, it's a good idea to follow up with the company to make sure the chip was registered correctly. (If you have your dog or cat microchipped at a Mayor's Alliance low-cost microchipping clinic, the Mayor's Alliance will submit the paperwork for you.)
I've lost my microchipped pet. Now what?
If your dog or cat becomes lost and turns up at a shelter or vet's office, a scanner can be used to read the digital number on the chip.
A phone call to the microchip company to which you registered the microchip provides the shelter or vet with your contact information, and you can be contacted to retrieve your pet.
Where can I have my pet(s) microchipped?
The Mayor's Alliance holds low-cost microchipping clinics at events throughout the year where you can have your dog(s) or cat(s) microchipped for only $25 each. If you'd like to host a microchipping clinic in your neighborhood, please contact us at info@AnimalAllianceNYC.org.
You can also ask your veterinarian or local animal shelter for advice about microchipping and prices.
If you'd like to host a microchipping clinic in your neighborhood, please contact us at info@AnimalAllianceNYC.org.
Showing posts with label Need to Know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Need to Know. Show all posts
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
A reminder from ASPCA:
Dear New York Advocates,
There is still time to save low-income spay/neuter! Last week, we contacted you about New York’s proposed 2010-2011 Executive Budget, which seeks to eliminate a statewide program called the Animal Population Control Program (APCP) but includes no plan to replace it. We need to ask you to contact your legislators once more—even if you already emailed them last week, please do so again.
We’ve set up our online letter-sending system to fax your senator and assemblyperson, since their staffs have informed us that for this issue, this is the best way to get your opinions heard. We also hope you can take a minute to call Governor Paterson at (518) 474-8390 to urge amendment of the proposed Executive Budget to save the statewide spay/neuter program for low-income New Yorkers' animals.
As you know, animal control resources are already stretched to their limits—and without a pet sterilization program to meet the needs of low-income New Yorkers, the number of unwanted dog and cat births in our state will skyrocket, leading to further overcrowding in shelters and increased euthanasia.
What You Can Do
Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to fax your state legislators about saving the state’s low-cost spay/neuter program.
Thank you, New York, for caring about our state’s neediest animals.
There is still time to save low-income spay/neuter! Last week, we contacted you about New York’s proposed 2010-2011 Executive Budget, which seeks to eliminate a statewide program called the Animal Population Control Program (APCP) but includes no plan to replace it. We need to ask you to contact your legislators once more—even if you already emailed them last week, please do so again.
We’ve set up our online letter-sending system to fax your senator and assemblyperson, since their staffs have informed us that for this issue, this is the best way to get your opinions heard. We also hope you can take a minute to call Governor Paterson at (518) 474-8390 to urge amendment of the proposed Executive Budget to save the statewide spay/neuter program for low-income New Yorkers' animals.
As you know, animal control resources are already stretched to their limits—and without a pet sterilization program to meet the needs of low-income New Yorkers, the number of unwanted dog and cat births in our state will skyrocket, leading to further overcrowding in shelters and increased euthanasia.
What You Can Do
Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to fax your state legislators about saving the state’s low-cost spay/neuter program.
Thank you, New York, for caring about our state’s neediest animals.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
An important message from Animal Alliance
-----Original Message-----
From: Animal Alliance (Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals) <info@animalalliancenyc.org>
Subject: A disaster in the making in the NYS Budget!
Your help with a serious issue facing dogs and cats in the State of New York is urgently needed.
On page 171 of a 585 page document entitled "Executive Budget Agency Presentations" there is a seemingly innocuous heading "Dog license reform". The suggestion from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets and accepted by governor Patterson is to eliminate the State's role in dog licensing and have each city, town and village (over 1,000 across the state) do their own licensing. Hmmm, sounds like it wouldn't make much difference, you'll still get a dog license and show proof of rabies vaccination at your town clerk. Might not sound much different. There are many issues around decentralizing dog licensing, but that's not the biggest concern.
The problem is what this summary does not say. What the governor left out (wisely) is that with the elimination of the central dog license database, the governor is also planning to eliminate the State's Animal Population Control Fund (APCF). The APCF gets money from a $3 surcharge on every dog license sold in the state for dogs that are not spayed or neutered. The fund then pays for spay/neuter surgeries for low income people and animals adopted from shelters that were not already altered. This fund has subsidized surgeries for over 90,000 animals. That means millions of animals were never born that would have ended up in shelters and added strain and expense to an unfunded non-profit system.
This is a system that worked, helped animals, helped people and was paid for. In 2008, the governor stole $1 million from the fund and put it in the general fund, who knows where that money went, but it did not go to help animals. It’s time we stand up and tell our government to stop taking away service we care about for our companion animals.
We should not allow this important service to disappear in our state. Other states have seen the value and success of similar programs and understand that spaying and neutering animals saves money because the puppies and kittens don't have to go to shelters.
We have recommended to legislators that they create a statewide non-profit entity that will collect funds from the $3 surcharge and give grants to veterinarians and organizations that wish to help low income people spay or neuter their pets. The administration costs for the non-profit would be significantly lower than what the government has spent on the fund and would create a sustainable statewide spay/neuter system, but we need your help now!
YOU CAN DO SOMETHING.
Act now:
Contact your local Senators and Assembly members:
To find out who your senator is click here. Enter your address and you will be told who your senator is. Then call, write and e-mail and let them know you want the State's Spay and Neuter fund to be preserved.
To find out who your assembly member is click here. You can enter your zip code and find out who your assembly members is, again, let them know you want the state spay/neuter fund to be saved.
Contact the governor:
David A. Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
518-474-8390
Let him know that he was wrong to suggest eliminating the fund and he withdraw his recommendation.
Thank you for your support and please speak out for the animals, they have no voices of their own.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Will Work For Food
The NYC's Animal Care and Control budget was cut by the department of health. As a result, ACC is running out of food. They apparently have a week's worth of food left for their cats and when the food runs out, so do the cats.
Here's how you can help: Call or visit Petropolis, and tell them you want to purchase pet food for the NYC ACC.
Petropolis
91 Washington St.
New York, NY 10006
Phone: 212-608-2234
Fax: 212-608-2235
It's important that all donations are food and not money because we don't want our money being used to purchase the drugs that will be used in the next round of euthanizations.
Please help out - your food donation will save a life.
Opt to Adopt!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
An Unfortunate Example
This is a prime example of why it is imperative to spay and/or neuter our pets:
ASPCA, working with ten NYC based rescue groups, has just pulled thirty-seven cats from a woman's one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. This is a woman who started out with two unaltered cats and ended up with thirty-seven cats and kittens. Why? Because unaltered cats will have sex and get pregnant. It's called breeding and the only way to prevent it is to have our cats and dogs spayed and neutered. Abstinence training doesn't work on animals, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on people either.
Professionals are calling this a hoarding situation, but it is a situation that would have been entirely avoided had this woman taken her cats to one of the dozens of free or low cost spay/neuter clinics in the city. You can read some articles about the rescue operation here and here.
Please, please, please be a responsible pet owner. Give your pet the happy life it deserves. Irresponsible breeding is not cute or fun and it isn't even necessarily healthy for your pet. The only thing it does is put to unwanted pets into shelters. In this case, ASPCA and ten other rescue groups are taking responsibility for the cats - Tail At A Time has even been able to take in a momma and her litter of kittens - so this story has a happy ending. But many do not.
For more information on free and low cost spay/neuter clinics in NYC, click here and here.
ASPCA, working with ten NYC based rescue groups, has just pulled thirty-seven cats from a woman's one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. This is a woman who started out with two unaltered cats and ended up with thirty-seven cats and kittens. Why? Because unaltered cats will have sex and get pregnant. It's called breeding and the only way to prevent it is to have our cats and dogs spayed and neutered. Abstinence training doesn't work on animals, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work on people either.
Professionals are calling this a hoarding situation, but it is a situation that would have been entirely avoided had this woman taken her cats to one of the dozens of free or low cost spay/neuter clinics in the city. You can read some articles about the rescue operation here and here.
Please, please, please be a responsible pet owner. Give your pet the happy life it deserves. Irresponsible breeding is not cute or fun and it isn't even necessarily healthy for your pet. The only thing it does is put to unwanted pets into shelters. In this case, ASPCA and ten other rescue groups are taking responsibility for the cats - Tail At A Time has even been able to take in a momma and her litter of kittens - so this story has a happy ending. But many do not.
For more information on free and low cost spay/neuter clinics in NYC, click here and here.
Spay, neuter, opt to Adopt!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Euthanasia
The following comes from JohnSibley.com, a blog written by a good friend of mine who left a career on Broadway to work for the nation's largest no-kill animal sanctuary. I've copied and pasted the post directly from his blog because it's really worth the read.
This quote has been floating around the 'net today, and I find it disturbing. Dr. Scarlett has a very impressive resume and seems to have spent a great and admirable portion of her career working to end the deaths of animals in shelters - certainly Maddie's Fund has been extremely important and influential in that respect. Assuming the quote is accurate, however, it's an exercise in defeatism.
Dr. Scarlett does not seem to be referring to euthanasia here, she is referring to shelter killing. Euthanasia is a term co-opted by apologists for shelter killing to make it seem more palatable to the general public - necessary and noble, even. It is language used to make the slaughter of innocents seem like a good and positive thing.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, euthanasia is defined as "the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy". Killing for space is not euthanasia. Killing because no one has adopted an animal in a predetermined length of time is not euthanasia. Killing because an animal has an easily treated disease, like kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection is not euthanasia. Killing for old age or minor behavioral issues is not euthanasia.
Dr. Scarlett has even written articles for an audience of fellow veterinariansdecrying the number of animals killed in shelters and asking for their help to try to reduce it as much as possible; but isn't a good first step towards that goal to stop using a term popularized in order to make the killing of animals more acceptable to the general public and calling killing what it is?
Language is important. If you want to make the point that the needless death of animals is, in fact, a bad thing, can we all stop using language designed to make it seem like a good thing?
Euthanasia
"There is no disease or condition of companion animals that takes more of their lives than euthanasia."
-Janet M. Scarlett, DVM, MPH, PhD, Professor of Epidemology at Cornell University, Director of Maddie's Fund Shelter Medicine Program
This quote has been floating around the 'net today, and I find it disturbing. Dr. Scarlett has a very impressive resume and seems to have spent a great and admirable portion of her career working to end the deaths of animals in shelters - certainly Maddie's Fund has been extremely important and influential in that respect. Assuming the quote is accurate, however, it's an exercise in defeatism.
Dr. Scarlett does not seem to be referring to euthanasia here, she is referring to shelter killing. Euthanasia is a term co-opted by apologists for shelter killing to make it seem more palatable to the general public - necessary and noble, even. It is language used to make the slaughter of innocents seem like a good and positive thing.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, euthanasia is defined as "the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy". Killing for space is not euthanasia. Killing because no one has adopted an animal in a predetermined length of time is not euthanasia. Killing because an animal has an easily treated disease, like kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection is not euthanasia. Killing for old age or minor behavioral issues is not euthanasia.
Dr. Scarlett has even written articles for an audience of fellow veterinariansdecrying the number of animals killed in shelters and asking for their help to try to reduce it as much as possible; but isn't a good first step towards that goal to stop using a term popularized in order to make the killing of animals more acceptable to the general public and calling killing what it is?
Language is important. If you want to make the point that the needless death of animals is, in fact, a bad thing, can we all stop using language designed to make it seem like a good thing?
Friday, November 13, 2009
Poor Oreo- Was she really unredeemable?
I was made aware today of Oreo who was going to be euthanised at the ASPCA today. You may remember back in October in the news, her owner threw her off a roof in Brooklyn- 6 stories.
The ASPCA took her and brought her back to health. 2 broken legs later she is euthanised. I believe she could of been saved and retrained to be a great pet. Michael Vick's dogs were this age and they were retrained. When I received the call saying it was confirmed she was put to death my stomach turned and I had to hold the tears back. People will always be cruel, who knows why, her owner was 19, Fabian Henderson. Because of his abuse to her, this beautiful loving dog, she became aggressive in order to defend herself. Neighbors reported they heard howls from her that would last 20 to 30 minutes. Why did they not intervene sooner! Why do people do this to helpless animals? And then when the animal finally gets into safe hands that human euthanises her!? I believe she could of been redeemed.
We need to protect and speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Because of Mr. Henderson's abuse she died! He is up for sentencing in December, he should suffer what she has suffered. A dog only wants to give their love and loyalty to us. My insides scream because of the anger I have towards these people. Many in the NYC community are quite upset. Many of us are rescuers and know the complications and realities which is why it is even more upsetting to know that she could have been redeemed.
What else can we do.
The below is from the NY Times.
ASPCA Two of Oreo’s legs were broken when she was tossed from a building roof.Oreo, a dog that was nursed back to health after surviving being thrown off the roof of a six-story building, was killed Friday by lethal injection.
A 2-year-old pit bull, Oreo was euthanized in the New York City headquarters of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after the organization rebuffed last-minute pleas to spare her life. The organization called the dog a danger to the public.
On Friday morning, Oreo received a last meal of “premium quality” kibble and canned dog food. She was then given a sedative, though she appeared “content, alert and panting,” according to an organization spokesman. Oreo was injected in the leg with an overdose of sodium pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 3 p.m.
The organization has euthanized 107 dogs so far this year, through October.
Oreo’s case came to public attention in June when her owner, Fabian Henderson, threw her off the roof of his apartment building at the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn. Mr. Henderson was convicted of animal cruelty and was scheduled to be sentenced in December.
Oreo broke two legs in the fall. News reports of the incident, accompanied by photos of the brown and white dog with her front legs in casts, triggered a flood of adoption offers and financial donations to help pay for the medical care.
However, as Oreo recuperated from her injuries under the care of the A.S.P.C.A., she was increasingly viewed as a danger — difficult to control and “unpredictably aggressive,” according to an organization spokesman.
News of Oreo’s death provoked angry reactions among supporters who had been frantically lobbying the A.S.P.C.A. to delay the euthanization and allow time to negotiate a deal to transfer Oreo to an animal sanctuary in the Hudson Valley.
In one appeal, Camille Hankins, the director of Win Animal Rights, sent an e-mail message to the A.S.P.C.A. begging for clemency and accusing the organization of completing “what the animal abuser who threw her off that Brooklyn roof top set out to do.” Protesters also gathered briefly at the headquarters Friday morning.
The A.S.P.C.A. was unmoved, citing the evaluation of staff members and an outside veterinary behaviorist who said that Oreo could not be rehabilitated. “Animal cruelty isn’t pretty and doesn’t always have a happy ending,” said the society’s president and chief executive, Ed Sayres, “It is ugly and sad and, ultimately, tragic.”
Seven staff members were present during the euthanasia procedure. But the dog’s former owner, Mr. Henderson, was not on hand to witness his pet’s final moments.
The ASPCA took her and brought her back to health. 2 broken legs later she is euthanised. I believe she could of been saved and retrained to be a great pet. Michael Vick's dogs were this age and they were retrained. When I received the call saying it was confirmed she was put to death my stomach turned and I had to hold the tears back. People will always be cruel, who knows why, her owner was 19, Fabian Henderson. Because of his abuse to her, this beautiful loving dog, she became aggressive in order to defend herself. Neighbors reported they heard howls from her that would last 20 to 30 minutes. Why did they not intervene sooner! Why do people do this to helpless animals? And then when the animal finally gets into safe hands that human euthanises her!? I believe she could of been redeemed.
We need to protect and speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Because of Mr. Henderson's abuse she died! He is up for sentencing in December, he should suffer what she has suffered. A dog only wants to give their love and loyalty to us. My insides scream because of the anger I have towards these people. Many in the NYC community are quite upset. Many of us are rescuers and know the complications and realities which is why it is even more upsetting to know that she could have been redeemed.
What else can we do.
The below is from the NY Times.
Oreo Is Dead
By A. G. SULZBERGERASPCA Two of Oreo’s legs were broken when she was tossed from a building roof.A 2-year-old pit bull, Oreo was euthanized in the New York City headquarters of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after the organization rebuffed last-minute pleas to spare her life. The organization called the dog a danger to the public.
On Friday morning, Oreo received a last meal of “premium quality” kibble and canned dog food. She was then given a sedative, though she appeared “content, alert and panting,” according to an organization spokesman. Oreo was injected in the leg with an overdose of sodium pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 3 p.m.
The organization has euthanized 107 dogs so far this year, through October.
Oreo’s case came to public attention in June when her owner, Fabian Henderson, threw her off the roof of his apartment building at the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn. Mr. Henderson was convicted of animal cruelty and was scheduled to be sentenced in December.
Oreo broke two legs in the fall. News reports of the incident, accompanied by photos of the brown and white dog with her front legs in casts, triggered a flood of adoption offers and financial donations to help pay for the medical care.
However, as Oreo recuperated from her injuries under the care of the A.S.P.C.A., she was increasingly viewed as a danger — difficult to control and “unpredictably aggressive,” according to an organization spokesman.
News of Oreo’s death provoked angry reactions among supporters who had been frantically lobbying the A.S.P.C.A. to delay the euthanization and allow time to negotiate a deal to transfer Oreo to an animal sanctuary in the Hudson Valley.
In one appeal, Camille Hankins, the director of Win Animal Rights, sent an e-mail message to the A.S.P.C.A. begging for clemency and accusing the organization of completing “what the animal abuser who threw her off that Brooklyn roof top set out to do.” Protesters also gathered briefly at the headquarters Friday morning.
The A.S.P.C.A. was unmoved, citing the evaluation of staff members and an outside veterinary behaviorist who said that Oreo could not be rehabilitated. “Animal cruelty isn’t pretty and doesn’t always have a happy ending,” said the society’s president and chief executive, Ed Sayres, “It is ugly and sad and, ultimately, tragic.”
Seven staff members were present during the euthanasia procedure. But the dog’s former owner, Mr. Henderson, was not on hand to witness his pet’s final moments.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Dogs over 25 pounds banned from NYC Public Housing
Pit bulls get such a bad rap. They are not bad evil animals. There are some but it is their owners who made them this way. Why did pit bulls have to become a symbol for being
"bad"? As in cool? I see them in my neighborhood, some of them not fixed, ugh. Their owners having the look of "don't mess with me". This is what other people see. But there are the few that have pitbulls who are mushy huggers and big babies.
NYC Housing Authority has passed a law that dogs over 25 lbs cannot live in public housing. Owners who did have dogs over this weight already had to register them by May 1st. However, some of those dogs were not allowed registration bc they were over the weight limit of 25 lbs. What happened on May 1st when this went into effect? 113 dogs surrendered to the city shelters. 49 of them euthanised because they became sick, due to the shelter or there was not enough space for them. HOW UNFAIR! There are many adorable, loveable pit bulls out there.
NY Times has a piece today about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/nyregion/23dogs.html?_r=1
WHAT CAN YOU DO? educate people that pit bulls are not bad dogs, their owners are. Encourage spay/neuter.
"bad"? As in cool? I see them in my neighborhood, some of them not fixed, ugh. Their owners having the look of "don't mess with me". This is what other people see. But there are the few that have pitbulls who are mushy huggers and big babies.
NYC Housing Authority has passed a law that dogs over 25 lbs cannot live in public housing. Owners who did have dogs over this weight already had to register them by May 1st. However, some of those dogs were not allowed registration bc they were over the weight limit of 25 lbs. What happened on May 1st when this went into effect? 113 dogs surrendered to the city shelters. 49 of them euthanised because they became sick, due to the shelter or there was not enough space for them. HOW UNFAIR! There are many adorable, loveable pit bulls out there.
NY Times has a piece today about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/nyregion/23dogs.html?_r=1
WHAT CAN YOU DO? educate people that pit bulls are not bad dogs, their owners are. Encourage spay/neuter.
