What You Can Do
- Keep your pet safe and identify your pet (ID tags and microchips are good ways to keep your pet safe).
- Spay and neuter your pet.
- Find out how your state stands on pound seizure at http://www.banpoundseizure.org/yourstate.shtml. Click on your state to find out whether or not your state prohibits, mandates, allows or has not dealt with the issue of pound seizure.
- If you live in one of the states that permit pound seizure, work for state legislation to end it. It’s been done, it’s being done and you can do it in your state. Bills have been presented before and it is not hard to introduce them. You just have to do it. Until there is a law to protect our animals, every animal is at risk.
- Contact those in charge of local pounds and shelters and find out what they have done or are doing to cease this horrendous practice. Talk with town or state officials on the issue and insist laws are created to end pound seizure.
- Speak out, organize letter-writing campaigns, and get petitions signed.
- Refuse to buy products that are tested on animals.
- Write letters to companies that test their products on animals, and tell them that you will not purchase their products until they stop animal testing.
- Contribute only to charities that do not fund animal experiments.
- Ask your government to stop wasting billions of dollars each year on animal experiments. (Your elected officials' contact information can be found at www.votesmart.org.)
- Educate your community by tabling, distributing literature, or arranging a demonstration.
- Teach others to respect all living things.
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