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ASPCA Announces President and CEO Ed Sayres' Intention to Step Down - MarketWatch - 0 views

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  • Ed has established the ASPCA as a leader in providing sheltering expertis
  • Under Ed's leadership, the organization's membership base has tripled to more than 1.2 million
  • revenues have quadrupled to $148 million in 2011
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  • "I joined the ASPCA to bring the life-saving model I championed in San Francisco to NYC and beyond
  • As a pioneer of the "no-kill" model of animal sheltering
  • which exhorts community groups to collaborate to stop the killing of healthy or treatable dogs and cats in animal shelters
  • Mr. Sayres was recruited to the ASPCA in 2003 to bring no-kill to New York City
  • At that point, only 33 percent of the animals in New York City's shelters made it out alive. By the first quarter of 2012, that figure had risen to approximately 80 percent.
  • Mr. Sayres has been the guiding force behind the ASPCA's effort to build collaborative partnerships across the country with municipal and non-profit animal welfare agencies so that they may end the killing of healthy and treatable dogs and cats.
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Op-ed: Creating a No Kill Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture i... - 0 views

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  • in Norfolk, Virginia, seven out of 10 cats and almost half of all dogs are still being needlessly killed. Why? Because shelter officials are mired in the 19th century model of animal control based on an “adopt a few, kill the rest” mentality.
  • And we aim to change that.
  • We’ve requested that the City Council pass an ordinance requiring Norfolk to run its shelter in line with those of the most successful communities in the nation, by requiring simple, commonsense and cost-effective alternatives to killing that most animal lovers would be shocked to learn are not already being comprehensively implemented voluntarily.
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  • One of the proposals is to make it illegal for Norfolk shelters to kill animals using taxpayer money when qualified non-profit rescue organizations are willing to save them at private expense.
  • All it will require are foster care,
  • That number now stands at over 58,939—a 370% increase in annual lifesaving, all at no cost to taxpayers.
  • Another of the Norfolk proposals would end the practice of killing animals simply because the mandated stray holding period has passed.
  • Before the California law went into effect, only 12,526 animals were being transferred from shelters to rescue groups statewide every year.
  • working with rescue groups,
  • marketing and adoptions
  • Can anyone with even a hint of common sense or compassion actually say it is better to kill baby kittens than have volunteers bottle feed them?
  • Right now, excluding laws imposed by health departments regarding the use of controlled substances, the disposition of rabid and potentially aggressive animals and mandated holding periods, shelter directors in this country have essentially unlimited discretion as to how they operate their facilities.
  • They can exclude members of the community from volunteering.
  • They can prevent other non-profits, such as rescue groups and other shelters, from saving the lives of animals in their custody.
  • And when volunteers or rescuers go public with their concerns, they are terminated.
  • Where shelters are not willing to do these things voluntarily or do so on a limited basis when they should be doing it for every single animal, every single time, we must pass laws forcing them to do so.
  • when all you ever do is all you’ve ever done then all you’ll ever get is all you’ve ever gotten.
  • Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity.
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Op-ed: No Kill: A Battle for the Soul of Norfolk | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating ... - 0 views

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  • An HSUS/Maddie’s Fund survey has determined that 23.5 million Americans will take in a dog or cat next year. 17 million have not yet made a decision where that pet will come from.
  • the killing stops.
  • about half are euthanized.
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  • If we convince less than 20% of these 17 million potential adopters to adopt from a shelter
  • and if those shelters keep the animals alive while homes are being found
  • “In the U.S., 6 to 8 million animals enter shelters annually,
  • The numbers are overwhelmingly in the animals’ favor. This is why the No Kill Equation has worked, always, wherever it has been rigorously applied.
  • A brave city councilman, Andy Protogyrou, has proposed that Norfolk become a No Kill city
  • Nothing would alter the landscape of animal welfare more than this: to have the city in which PETA is headquartered demonstrate that shelter killing is entirely unnecessary.
  • Still, you must decide. The No Kill Equation depends upon the community.
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Power to the People : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • Despite the entrenchment of groups like the ASPCA, the widespread success of the No Kill movement has invigorated animal lovers nationwide, and one of the results of that success has been an exponential increase in the number of rescue organizations.
  • Her opposition is, at its core, about fear—a fear of losing power. A fear that Oreo’s Law—by eliminating her role as the unnecessary “middle man” between shelters and rescue groups will render her obsolete, as it should.
  • While Sayres continues to write checks to Hoffman’s group, such as the additional $150,000 given in 2009 for her discretionary use, the initial $5 million from the ASPCA has been spent. And the Maddie’s Fund project ends this year. The Mayor’s Alliance and her role as its head cannot survive in New York without grant funding from the ASPCA. And there lies the rub. Hoffman needs Ed Sayres’ money and control over the rescue groups to stay in power, and Ed Sayres needs Jane Hoffman’s support to fight a law which will forever memorialize his betrayal of an abused dog. It is an unholy alliance based on greed, naked self-interest, and the preservation of near unequivocal power the two currently enjoy over the smaller non-profits in New York City.
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  • Like the network of “safe houses” which protected runaway slaves as they fled north to freedom, the thousands of rescue groups, No Kill sanctuaries and No Kill shelters throughout our nation are our movement’s own safe houses.
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