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.
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
A Message from ASPCA
Dear New York Advocates,
Since 1996, a statewide program called the Animal Population Control Program (APCP) has helped fund spay/neuter surgery for adopted pets and the pets of low-income residents. However, New York’s proposed 2010-2011 Executive Budget seeks to eliminate this life-saving program and includes no plan to replace it.
The APCP is funded by a $3 surcharge on licenses for unaltered dogs. If the budget passes as written, this income stream will no longer be reserved for exclusive use by a spay/neuter program, allowing local governments to use the money for whatever they wish—or to stop collecting it at all.
Without some kind of pet sterilization program to meet the needs of low-income New Yorkers, we will likely experience a large increase in the number of unwanted dog and cat births in our state—leading to further overcrowding in shelters and increased euthanasia. The ASPCA proposes that the $3 surcharge remain in effect and be used to fund a new statewide program similar to the APCP.
What You Can Do
Animal control resources are already stretched to their limits—don’t let Albany make matters worse for countless New Yorkers by taking away the only access they have to spay/neuter for their beloved pets. Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to learn more and to send an email to your state representatives and Governor Paterson, asking them to amend the state budget to preserve low-cost spay/neuter.
Thank you, New York, for caring about our state’s neediest animals.
Since 1996, a statewide program called the Animal Population Control Program (APCP) has helped fund spay/neuter surgery for adopted pets and the pets of low-income residents. However, New York’s proposed 2010-2011 Executive Budget seeks to eliminate this life-saving program and includes no plan to replace it.
The APCP is funded by a $3 surcharge on licenses for unaltered dogs. If the budget passes as written, this income stream will no longer be reserved for exclusive use by a spay/neuter program, allowing local governments to use the money for whatever they wish—or to stop collecting it at all.
Without some kind of pet sterilization program to meet the needs of low-income New Yorkers, we will likely experience a large increase in the number of unwanted dog and cat births in our state—leading to further overcrowding in shelters and increased euthanasia. The ASPCA proposes that the $3 surcharge remain in effect and be used to fund a new statewide program similar to the APCP.
What You Can Do
Animal control resources are already stretched to their limits—don’t let Albany make matters worse for countless New Yorkers by taking away the only access they have to spay/neuter for their beloved pets. Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to learn more and to send an email to your state representatives and Governor Paterson, asking them to amend the state budget to preserve low-cost spay/neuter.
Thank you, New York, for caring about our state’s neediest animals.
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!
