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The California Healthy Pets Act AB1634 

The Bumper Foundation, a Los Angeles Dog rescue and Dog adoption foundation asks you to please help save animals’ lives by supporting the California Healthy Pets Act (AB1634), which is coming up for a vote in the Senate in early ‘08.

• $250,000,000 of tax payers’ $$$ are spent each year on animal shelters. 

• 450,000+ animals were euthanized in California shelters in 2006.

The first ever state-wide neutering/spaying subsidy for low income families’ pets will be available from animal welfare group when AB1634 passes.Please support AB1634. Copy, sign, and fax the attached letter. It is best to also print your name, city & zip code.  Please ask everyone you know to sign the letter & fax them to 310-274-2003.  Ask professionals your vet, business owners, corporations, and non profit organizations to write support letters on their letterheads & fax them to 310-274-2003.

Be part of history! 

Thank you for helping all of California’s dogs and cats!

Buddy, a friend of Bumper’s

Call/fax/write your senator

to support AB1634

Dear Senator                        :

Re:  AB1634                                      

I urge you to support the California Healthy Pets Act (AB1634). 

AB1634 is an important legislation concerning the costs of pet overpopulation.  $250,000,000 of taxpayers’ dollars are spent each year on government funded shelters for the intake, housing, and euthanasia of dogs and cats. An intact male dog can impregnate several female dogs, one female dog can give birth to a litter of 6 or more puppies.  Those puppies can have their own litters within a year. Cats are even worse. The result is an overwhelming and undisputed problem of pet overpopulation. AB1634 encourages owners to neuter/spay their pets.  It requires no additional government funding.  Enforcement of the neutering/spaying will be by existing Animal Control staff as part of their regular duties. AB1634 does not impose undue burden on pet owners.  Low-cost and free neutering/spaying is widely available throughout the state.  The first state-wide neuterint/spaying subsidy for low income families’ pets will be available from animal welfare group when AB1634 passes the Senate.AB1634 exempts guide/service/police dogs; owners of purebred or competitive dogs can  get an exemption permit for a nominal fee.  Sick pets are exempt if a veterinarian so determines.AB1634 limits breeding from unlicensed people who profit from the sale of puppies and kittens without paying state and local income taxes.  Many of these animals are unhealthy as a result of inbreeding, and end up in shelters because their owners cannot or will not pay for veterinarian bills, incurring additional taxpayers’ dollars.      I strongly urge you to support AB1634, the humane way to address the pet overpopulation problem and save taxpayers dollars.  It is time to address this issue.                                                                                   Sincerely,                                         City:                                                                                  Zip:  California State Legislature Information link:http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.htmlCalifornia Healthy Pets Act Home pagehttp://www.cahealthypets.com/ca-healthy-pets-ab-1634-home.php

The Bumper Foundation wholeheartedly thanks the Los Angeles City Council and everyone working in the Los Angeles dog rescue and dog adoption community who is working hard to make our city a better place for all animals. Together we can reduce the dog over population in Los Angeles.

Bumper

City Council votes to require spaying or neutering for dogs and cats that are 4 months or older.

By Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer2:33 PM PST, February 1, 2008The Los Angeles City Council voted 10 to 1 today to approve mandatory sterilization of most pets at the age of 4 months or older - a decision greeted by cheers and applause from the crowded room at the Van Nuys City Hall - where the council meets the first Friday of every month.The bill must get a second reading in a week, but it is expected to pass. A parade of supporters and opponents of the bill spoke passionately to the council, but in the end, the measure passed, with the sole dissenter being Councilman Bill Rosendahl.He told the council that he was an animal lover, but he professed outrage at the thought of animal control officers knocking on the doors of people’s homes, calling it a “fascist-like” move.The city has said enforcement of the measure, which affects dogs and cats, will be very low key.”Compassion rules the day!” exclaimed Judy Mancuso, who runs the campaign to pass a similar law on the state level and was one of more than 100 people at today’s meeting.”I’m deeply disappointed,” said Cathie Turner, the executive director of Concerned Dog Owners of California. “We have to think about what to do next. The mission of our organization is to protect the health of our dogs.The City Council has passed a bill that will force 95% of Angelinos to live with impaired dogs - not because they’re spayed and neutered, but because they’re spayed and neutered at the wrong age. “The organization believes the decision on when to spay or neuter, if at all, should be left to owners.”Mandatory spay-neuter is a necessity,” said former game show host Bob Barker, who has donated millions to subsidize the sterilization procedure. “For decades I closed every ‘Price Is Right’ urging viewers to have their pets spayed. . . . I’d like to think all of us working together would be enough. But it’s not enough. We need legislation.”His remarks were greeted with applause and hoots of approval. The parade of speakers supporting the legislation included INXS band member Garry Beers, who told the council that his wife works with a rescue organization.”I have seen the hopeless cause these people face trying to find homes for these animals,” Beers said.Other rescuers echoed his remarks, emphasizing the overwhelming nature of the task of finding homes for unwanted pets.”I would like my guest house not to be a permanent foster facility,” said Elizabeth Oreck, who works with a private rescue group. “I would like my taxes to be spent on something other than the housing and killing of animals.”carla.hall@latimes.com

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