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March 13, 2024
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Orange County, Calif – Might U.S. Rep. Katie Porter quickly be visiting homeless animals in want at her native shelter? Since Porter will not be organising store within the U.S. Senate Chamber come January and promised her youngsters a pet if she misplaced her bid, PETA rushed a letter at this time to the consultant urging her to set a compassionate instance for her constituents by adopting—not procuring—for the brand new addition to her household.
“You don’t want it spelled out on a whiteboard to see that shelters in California and throughout the nation are overflowing with unprecedented numbers of animals in want of loving properties,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is hoping that Rep. Porter stands up for everybody in California by adopting her subsequent member of the family from a neighborhood shelter as an alternative of shopping for a pet from a breeder or a pet retailer.”
PETA notes that animal shelters have been severely crowded for years and that now, “pandemic puppies” purchased from breeders and pet shops throughout the COVID-19 lockdown are being returned or deserted in document numbers. At Orange County Animal Care, extra canine are coming in than are being adopted, leaving the shelter as much as 100 canine over its capability. The answer to this disaster is to implement and implement strict, necessary spay/neuter legal guidelines and to undertake animals, not store for them.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to abuse in any manner”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and affords free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X, Fb, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Porter follows.
March 13, 2024
The Honorable Katie Porter
U.S. Home of Representatives
Expensive Consultant Porter:
I’m writing on behalf of Individuals for the Moral Remedy of Animals—PETA entities have greater than 9 million members and supporters worldwide, together with over 600,000 in California. We lately discovered that you just promised your youngsters a pet. Once you’re prepared, we urge you to make the compassionate option to undertake your new member of the family from an animal shelter.
It’s possible you’ll be unaware that shelters throughout the nation—together with in Orange County—are in disaster mode, overflowing with unprecedented numbers of fantastic canine, cats, and different animals who’ve ended up homeless by no fault of their very own. Recognizing the animal overpopulation disaster, Los Angeles Metropolis Council members lately proposed a pause on issuing new breeding permits, stating, “It’s unacceptable for the Metropolis to proceed issuing breeding permits whereas 1000’s of animals are affected by overcrowded circumstances in our animal shelters.”
Just lately, Orange County Animal Management was reportedly so severely crowded that it was housing 100 extra animals than it had area for and was giving canine away without cost—a follow that has proved harmful for animals. Comparable inhumane circumstances and harmful practices are being reported at packed services throughout the state, together with confining animals to stacked crates in hallways and places of work and leaving them on the streets or in neglectful properties.
Adopting from a shelter would set a constructive instance of kindness on your constituents, and also you’re in a singular place to make an enormous distinction. With so many canine of all ages, power ranges, and character sorts in want of accountable, loving properties, I’m assured that you’d rapidly discover a really perfect companion for your loved ones at a shelter.
In case you whiteboard this subject, you’ll discover that the one type and simply choice is to undertake. We hope you’ll think about offering a loving dwelling to one among tens of thousands and thousands of homeless animals within the U.S. Please let me know if we will help you in any manner. Thanks on your consideration.
Sincerely,
Daphna Nachminovitch
Senior Vice President
Cruelty Investigations Division