ASPCA seeks support in stopping funding cuts

ASPCA Urgent Alert

Dear California Animal Advocates,

As many of you have heard, one of Governor Schwarzenegger's ideas to reduce California's $24 billion budget deficit is to slash state funding to city and county shelters. This funding is used to support the state's "animal adoption mandate" to keep shelter animals alive for no less than six days, which gives people a reasonable window of time to locate lost pets. It also gives unclaimed animals the chance to be adopted or taken in by rescue groups. Governor Schwarzenegger's proposal would suspend the state mandate and cut the minimum holding period to three days or less.

Due to the dramatic increase in home foreclosures, more and more animals are ending up in shelters-- and if this proposal passes, shelters will be forced to euthanize scores of healthy, adoptable pets who might have otherwise found happy endings. These animals have already had their lives turned upside down. They deserve the opportunity to get a second chance.

What You Can Do
Please take a few minutes today to call your California state senator and assembly member to ask them to oppose the governor's proposal to suspend the animal adoption mandate.

Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center to find your legislators' phone numbers and let us know you called.

http://www2.aspca.org/site/R?i=gAkMqmNHGosSzkmDXRTFxg..

Thank you, California, for speaking up for your state's neediest animals.

www.aspca.org