Keeping Our Pets Safe

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 4:56 am

The proverb “it’s a dog’s life” doesn’t mean what it used to. Today, animals of all kinds are protected by state and Fed. laws and have been granted particular rights that help protect and keep them healthy. In addition, many people are closer with their pets than in the recent past, with a big number asserting that they consider their animals to be part of the family. In fact, a day in the life of a pet may entail visiting a spa or salon, being carried in a designer bag or wearing a jewel-encrusted collar-quite a different story from one hundred years back.

Seem far-fetched? On average, dog owners say they spent more than $263 on their four-footed friends during the past twelve months ( not including food expenses ). Kitty owners expended over $100. One reason for the improvement of animals’ quality of life is that animal welfare organizations like the ASPCA ( Yankee Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals ) have worked to change the way people think about and treat them. Celebrating its 140th anniversary this year, the association is the oldest animal welfare organization in the Western Hemisphere. The association will mark its anniversary with a yearlong celebration highlighting the progress it has made for animals since it was founded by a NY City socialite in 1866.

With the stamp of this milestone anniversary, the group is launching what it calls its most aggressive initiative to date, working town by town to turn the U. S. into one “Humane Community.” The program is designed to bring community organisations together to help make sure that no adoptable companion animal is euthanized for reasons aside from behaviour or medical problems.

The new initiative includes increasing the requirement for adoptable shelter animals, while at the same time reducing the quantity of unwished-for litters being born. Additionally, the organisation’s “Meet-Your-Match” program is being revamped and will better pair new pet owners with shelter dogs and cats. The group plans to expand its tolerant Law Enforcement Department also permitting for more investigations and arrests for animal barbarity.

“While our 140th year is revving up to be one of extraordinary growth, it is our sincerest hope the further we get from our date of inception, the closer we come to being an association that is no longer needed-that our work will have diffused society to the point that the rights of companion animals will be 2nd nature to everyone,” recounted Ed Sayres, president & manager, the ASPCA.

There are far more than 140 million pet cats and dogs in the U.S.

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