Nice to make your digital acquaintance, everyone! We are ORA-Organization for the Rescue of Animals, a grassroots, strictly no-kill animal organization located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you share the same values and respect for animal lives that our volunteers do, we are looking for you, and others like you, to sign and share an urgent animal rights advocacy petition happening right now at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ora-project-accountability-now/
This petition is targeted towards the City of Hamilton’s Animal Control, a pound located within an hour of Toronto that is notoriously well-known for killing animals in shocking numbers.
Contributing to the growing problems at the Hamilton Animal Control are the following factors:
1. The City of Hamilton only allows two cats per household.
2. No roaming cats are allowed. Any cat found outdoors can and will be picked by Animal Control on sight and taken to the pound. If nobody claims the animals after 72 hours, they are put down.
3. The fee to retrieve a cat is $51, expensive for the average working class citizen.
4. There is no Trap, Neuter and Return program in place. All of the feral cats that are picked up are summarily killed.
5. The pound is not open for adoptions, and only selected rescue groups can come in to take animals out of there.
As a consequence, any cat that is not rescued by a rescue group is killed.
Feral cats and animals with health issues are killed.
Many of the tame cats are also killed.
Many of these animals were once people‘s pets, picked up simply because their owners allowed them to roam outdoors.
According to the pound manager, 5,000 cats arrive at Hamilton Animal Control every year, and it is likely that this figure is even higher.
This means that thousands of animals are killed here every year.
And these killings needs to stop right now.
Please help immediately by signing this pressing petition to demonstrate our collective outrage and to stop the killings at the Hamilton Animal pound. Cross post the petition link to the folks on your database and networks, to your friends, family, colleagues, fellow volunteers, neighborhood rescuers, and to all of the animal loving persons you know and come across in your daily lives - please encourage them to join our cause as well.
Share and sign the petition today: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ora-project-accountability-now/.
Thank you for taking the time to join us in a continuing battle to effect much-needed change, and thank you in advance for helping Animals Without Voices at the Hamilton Animal Control. We will keep you all apprised as the numbers of Cause and Petition signatures reach their targets over the next few days.
ORA-Organization for the Rescue of Animals
http://orarescue.org
Join ORA's Cause Already in Progress on Facebook
http://www.causes.com/causes/610534
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