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"This organization is necessary for
the protection of animals held in shelters throughout the
United States and we will continue to seek out any and all
legal and viable methods available to us for the purpose of
demanding accountability on the part of each state and
municipality until animals are no longer subjected to
cruelty and abuse at the hands of those paid to protect them."
- DAWN TAYLOR BECHTOLD |
Dawn Bechtold [Right] with Senator Fontenot
Our Focus
We are fighting to end animal cruelty.
We are working to pass laws that will assure
animals doomed in shelters will be euthanized in a humane manner.
We offer a place to report shelter violations and find out what
shelters are violating animal cruelty laws.
Dedicated to improving shelters in America, we
provide database of shelter violations, animal cruelty cases and
proper documentation of neglect in our shelters.
Our Stated Goal:
A. To start a national coalition for shelter
reform.
B. To appoint members in every state that will
properly report abuses to governmental offices including the State
Department of Agriculture, and media outlets, concerning these
violations.
C. To educate and inform the public concerning
these atrocities.
D. To end shootings, heartsticks, gassings and
drownings in Americas shelters.
E. To work to ensure that animal cruelty that
falls under the criteria of 'felony' will be tried as a felony.
Shelter workers committing animal cruelty must be held accountable
for animal cruelty.
F. To demand local shelters properly check for
rigor mortis and heart beat to insure death has actually occurred
following the administration of established protocol for
euthanasia before these bodies are cremated, frozen or other
methods of disposal utilized.
G. To effectively end all cruel, inhumane,
outdated methods of killing shelter animals.
H. To pass laws in each state to prohibit
shelters from selling shelter animals to laboratories and to
further prohibit other methods of Pound Seizures. The word
'shelter' should not be legally utilized to describe houses of
brutality and warehouses for animals to be sold into research.
Shelters should be just that, a shelter and safe haven for
homeless animals. Other facilities should be aptly named to
prevent citizens from unknowingly placing animals in harms way.
I. To stop shelters from profiting on rendered animals and
pound seizures.
"Animal Control facilities that operate as killing machines need to be abolished."
Dawn Bechtold and Val Kilmer, the day before Senate hearings for
the Evacuation Bill in Baton Rouge, Louisiana began
