[brittnykim]

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitio...n/aces-law-animal-welfare-rights-act/XLLS4srL

We the People in Memory of Ace, would like the Government to step in for Animal Rights. We would like to see all Government Funded (National, State or Local) Humane Societies, Animal Welfare Agencies, Animal Control, Animal Shelters or any other Government Agency that deals with Animals to be required to work with local Animal Rescue Groups to place any animal they are willing to take and assume care and liability for. Furthermore, we would like to see an end to Breed Specific Legislation and the use of Gas Chambers as a means of Euthanasia in these Facilities.

I know that Ace was a pitbull, but this petition addresses animal rights, and breed specific legislation, which affects dobermans as well. Please take the time to go sign this petition - they need almost 20,000 more signatures. Please pass this on to your facebook friends and get the word out!!

 

[monicaei]

Sadly if every animal control were required to transfer their dogs to rescue rather than be PTS, then the rescues would be over run within the first week. I know where I am, the problem isn't that ACs don't work with or contact rescues. It's that the rescues are full. Now if everyone who signed this petition agreed to take a foster, we'd be getting somewhere!

 

[StarlightDobe]

Do local shelters check for microchips or tattoos on cases of dogs that have no tags? Are they required by law to do so, and is it enforced? I think in the very least they should exhaust every resource to find owners and give more than 4 days to locate them before taking extreme measures to keep their population down.

 

[monicaei]

Do local shelters check for microchips or tattoos on cases of dogs that have no tags? Are they required by law to do so, and is it enforced? I think in the very least they should exhaust every resource to find owners and give more than 4 days to locate them before taking extreme measures to keep their population down.

Ours does. I certainly hope they all do. It would be beyond belief not to scan upon intake.

 

[StarlightDobe]

I am upset that the city of Detroit only allows 4 days before euthanizing a dog in its shelters, not to mention that "The city of Detroit does not consider the pit bulls to be transferred for adoptable pets," (direct quote from Denise Gardner of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's office) I am also shocked at other things I have recently found out regarding that story, and have hopes that the efforts of the Animal Rescue organizations in the city of Detroit are successful in changing the citys policies. What follows is a copy of an article that appeared online on a local news channels page.

DETROIT -
The public plight of a pit bull that was euthanized after being rescued from a hardware store in Detroit continues as rescue activists push forward with pressing the city to change its policies on such cases.
The dog garnered attention across the city after he was found in poor health in a doorway of an Ace Hardware store on McNichols Road. He was publicly given the nickname "Ace."
A number of animal rescue groups asked Detroit City Council members to let them have the dog so it can be put up for adoption.
But Denise Gardner of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's office told council members during a meeting on Tuesday that the city has a policy of not putting pit bulls up for adoption. "The city of Detroit does not consider the pit bulls to be transferred for adoptable pets," Gardner said.
A Wayne County judge on Wednesday signed an emergency injunction in the euthanasia of Ace. But, Bruce King, general manager of Detroit’s Environmental Health Services, said the Detroit Animal Control never got it. He said Ace was euthanized Wednesday night.
"We are not insensitive to the overwhelming appeal from citizens for an alternative approach," King said. "We are, indeed, heartened by these appeals. However, if we grant this one exception, we are simply not set up for what will undoubtedly lead to overwhelming appeals in similar cases."
King said Ace was put down following expiration of the four-day holding period and department policy.
Nitta Moses said she recognized the dog as the one she had raised since a puppy when she saw him on television. She said she hasn't seen him since July, when he was stolen.
But when she went to the Detroit Animal Control center on Wednesday to claim him, accompanied by her attorney, she said a different dog was brought out to her. "This is not the same dog," Moses said. She and her attorney, Corbett Edge O'Meara, said they had a sneaking suspicion the dog had already been put down before their visit.
“If we can change this policy, the tragedy that is Ace’s death has not been in vain,” O’Meara said. “I was preparing a request that the city of Detroit, the Department of Health, be held in contempt of court for violating it. But, if they are willing to change their policy, we can save these animals. If we can change the policy of the city of Detroit, I don’t want to fight them.”
Several animal rescue organizations said they are meeting with the city’s shelter officials to come up with a plan for finding more places for the rescued dogs to go to.


Source:Animal rescuers meeting with Detroit in effort to save dogs | News - Home

 

[monicaei]

That is heartbreaking. Rest In Peace, Ace.

If they were in violation of an injunction signed by a judge, and someone can track down the paper trail proving it was delivered, I hope they get slapped with the largest fine allowed by law. And jailed for contempt.