How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure
248How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442202139 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 12/28/2010 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 248 |
File size: | 326 KB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Section I - Discovering the secretChapter 1 - A terrible discovery
Chapter 2 - What is pound seizure?
Chapter 3 - Laws and Legislation on pound seizure
Chapter 4 - Betrayal of Trust
Section II - The faces of pound seizure
Chapter 5 - Exposing dealers that violate the law
Chapter 6 - Experiments on random source animals
Chapter 7 - Alternatives to animal research
Chapter 8 - The victims of pound seizure
Chapter 9 - Voices of the research community
Chapter 10 - Shelters and pound seizure
Chapter 11 - Voices of the advocates to stop pound seizure
Section III - Taking Action
Chapter 12 - Advocacy Techniques
Chapter 13 - Threats, intimidation and lawsuits
Chapter 14 - Conclusion
Appendix A = Laws
Appendix B - Federal and Michigan pound seizure bills
Appendix C = PCRM medical school charts
What People are Saying About This
Allie Phillips reveals a tragic failure to protect former pets from unnecessary-and at times, unlawful-use and abuse in science labs. She lays out the issues and the influences that have evolved over decades, and points to a solution that starts with each of us. She is an inspiring, model advocate, with courage and tenacity.
Allie Phillips shares an insider's view of the generally unknown business of Class B animal dealers and pound seizure. As a lawyer, pet owner, shelter volunteer and currently VP of Public Policy for American Humane Association, Allie details the ways that some animals have been silently diverted from pounds and sold into a murky research world. The good news is it appears fewer are being sold now, but that pound seizure exists with no visibility violates a public trust. This book is a recommended read for everyone working in animal welfare. If we could change the hearts of people...
This book is a must read for anyone who knows nothing about pound seizure, as well as for the person well versed in this heinous practice and who wants to understand what she or he can do to make the madness stop. This book is for anyone who considers themselves a "Good Samaritan" in helping to get animals in-need to shelters, yet may be contributing to the delivery of a pet to an animal research facility. This book also painfully illuminates how owners who surrender their pets due to situations beyond their control, or have their precious pets stolen from their own yards, can never be sure that their pet won't end up splayed on an operating table or housed in sterile lab conditions and subjected to repeated experimentation. The message is simple - this is a practice that could literally affect you and your pet tomorrow. For the local animal control or community animal shelter, this book is a message that engaging in pound seizure is a practice that, if discovered, can and will result in the withdrawal of precious donation dollars, loss of community support, and loss of compliance with stray dog laws and abuse/neglect laws. I highly recommend this as an important book both for educating the pet-owning public as well as for animal advocates seeking advice and a road map in their work to ban pound seizure in our country.
Consider this your go-to source on the tragedy that is "pound seizure" and all of its ugly truths.