CAPA: Who Could Be Against It?
For shelter directors accustomed to operating their facilities with little to no oversight, no lifesaving expectations, and virtually unfettered discretion, laws like CAPA are deeply threatening.
For shelter directors accustomed to operating their facilities with little to no oversight, no lifesaving expectations, and virtually unfettered discretion, laws like CAPA are deeply threatening.
To save lives, we do not need to look across our borders; we need to look no further than a neighboring American community.
Twelve years ago we had not a single No Kill community, today we have over 90 communities representing about 300 cities and towns nationwide saving between 90 and 99% of all animals. And this success comes in spite of the best efforts of some groups to stem that tide, to undermine No Kill reform efforts across the country.
An open letter to supporters of PETA, the ASPCA, and the Humane Society of the United States,
November 4 is the official kick off of “National Animal Shelter Reform Week.” It is a week dedicated to educating the American public about the rampant neglect and abuse in U.S. “shelters,” the systematic killing that goes on in them, and what we can do to bring this tragedy to an end.
We wrote Friendly Fire not only to expose this crisis of cruelty, but to explain the nature of the opposition to the No Kill movement so that others—animal lovers, public officials, legislators, the media—can find the confidence and courage necessary to see through, and stand up to, those who seek to delay and derail urgently needed shelter reform.
This movement no longer belongs to people who are willing to look the other way while animals are killed by our movement, or worse, have the audacity to defend them and to call us “divisive” for trying to keep them from doing so. The fight with PETA is on. And we intend to stop this evil.