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Please protest against Georgia's new rescue policy (spread the word)

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Chatsworth, Georgia. Changes To Greatly Restrict Rescue Protocol as of May 1, 2013. at Murray County Animal Shelter. Please Voice Your Protest.
Many Animals Have been Rescued / Adopted From Out of State. This New Law would Hurt The Animals!
The Sheriff’s Dept is taking over the shelter as of May 1. Under the new process, rescue as we know it will be virtually impossible.

As we understand it, the new requirements will be:
* no out-of-state rescues, only local rescues, may save an animal
* only GA Dept of Ag-registered transporters may be used
* absolutely NO holding over an animal past deadline
Given those criteria, we will have little or no hope of saving lives at this shelter in the future. While we get as much support as possible from local rescuers, the fact is that 95% of our dogs and kitties have been saved with out-of-state rescues. Thus eliminating this option would devastate our efforts.
write/call/contact: County Commissioner Brittany Pittman, the sole county commissioner and decision-maker on this change. bpittman@windstream.net, (706)-517-1400, ext 277.


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Who in the world has initiated this new policy? I can't imagine who stands to gain anything from such restrictions. Just awful.

I have some friends who live in Georgia. Do you have links to any legal document that I could send them to spread the word?
 
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