I received word today that Governor Brown is planning to repeal important parts of the Hayden Law that protects shelter animals. Please help out by signing the following two petitions asking Governor Brown to reconsider. THANK YOU ALL for showing your love and support!
ANIMAL LOVERS UNITE!
Carrie Ann Inaba from Dancing with the Stars tweeted and shared the following information today:
For all Californians: Please be the voice for the voiceless...
Governor Brown is planning to repeal one of the most important pieces of legislation that exists to protect animals in the CA shelter system. Please take a few minutes of your time to speak out and be the voice for these animals who cannot speak for themselves. As a rescuer I see how the Hayden Law saves the lives of animals every single day. So please, help us stop this repeal. Please forward this email to every Californian you know and ask them to take action as well. This is urgent as Governor Brown is already making this plan. So please act quickly. Thank you.
What you can do:
* PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION and forward to others! This link also has more information about the Hayden law.
* PLEASE SIGN THIS SECOND PETITION that also sends a letter to Governor Brown as well as to your Senator and Assembly Member.
* Phone calls and letters make the biggest difference. So please pick up the phone and make that call to Governor Brown. Please tell him that you do not want the Hayden Law repealed. Let him know that you want The Hayden law and the animals of this state protected. Governor Brown at (916) 445-2841 (9am to 5pm)
For more information about the repeal and efforts to fight it go to the community page for Governor Brown's own dog! Sutter's Friends: https://www.facebook.com/suttersfriends
Also, below is Vicki Steiner's very informative post with specifics on what this repeal would mean for the animals in our shelters. PLEASE READ.
CONFIRMATION: Gov. Brown Seeking to REPEAL provisions of CA's Hayden Law
YES, Governor Brown WILL be seeking repeal of those provisions of Hayden found to be "reimbursable state mandates." I just got off the phone with Jeff Carosone, the analyst in the Dept. of Finance assigned to this portion of the Governor's proposed budget.
Brown is definitely seeking to repeal ALL of the provisions of Hayden that the Commission on Mandates ruled to be “reimbursable state mandates,” so Carasone referred me to the 2001 Statement of Decision (http://www.csm.ca.gov/sodscan/98tc11sod.pdf) and the 2006 Adoption of Parameters and Guidelines (http://www.csm.ca.gov/sodscan/203.pdf).
The provisions subject to repeal will be:
Providing care and maintenance during the increased holding period for impounded dogs and cats that are ultimately euthanized. The increased holding period shall be measured by calculating the difference between three days from the day of capture and four business days from the day after impoundment, as specified below in 3 (a) and 3 (b), or six business days from the day after impoundment (Food & Agr. Code, §§ 31108, 31752);
Providing care and maintenance for four business days from the day after impoundment, as specified below in 3 (a) and 3 (b), or six business days from the day after impoundment, for impounded rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, pot-bellied pigs, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, or tortoises legally allowed as personal property that are ultimately euthanized (Food & Agr. Code, § 31753);
For dogs, cats, and other specified animals held for four business days after the day of impoundment, either: (a) Making the animal available for owner redemption on one weekday evening until at least 7:00 p.m., or one weekend day; or (b) For those local agencies with fewer than three full-time employees or that are not open during all regular weekday business hours, establishing a procedure to enable owners to reclaim their animals by appointment at a mutually agreeable time when the agency would otherwise be closed (Food & Agr., Code §§ 31108, 31752, and 31753);
Verifying whether a cat is feral or tame by using a standardized protocol (Food & Agr. Code, § 31752.5);
Posting lost and found lists (Food & Agr. Code, § 32001);
Maintaining records on animals that are not medically treated by a veterinarian, but are either taken up, euthanized after the holding period, or impounded (Food & Agr. Code, § 32003);
and Providing "necessary and prompt veterinary care" abandoned animals other than injured cats dogs given emergency treatment that are ultimately euthanized.
TAKE ACTION: Contact Governor Jerry Brown, and tell him you OPPOSE the repeal of any portion of Hayden. At a time when other states in the U.S. are enacting legislation to advance the protection of animals in shelters, California should not be stepping backwards. Contrary to the assertion of HSUS' Jennifer Fearing, the paradigm has NOT shifted in California's shelters and animals continue to be killed at rates that far outpace the rates of adoption. [ETA: Jennifer Fearing has informed me that the statements attributed to her in the original Sacramento Bee article are inaccurate and that HSUS will be lobbying against the repeal of Hayden.] The public policy preference of California continues to be favoring life over death, and thus the adoption, rather than killing, of shelter animals.
CONTACT your local representatives to let them know you oppose any repeal of any portion of Hayden. If you do not know who your representatives are or do not have their contact information, you may enter your zip code in the search box on the following site to get that information: http://leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
PLEASE share far and wide and send a CLEAR AND LOUD MESSAGE to Sacramento that Californians demand more, not fewer, protections for their shelter animals.
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