Alrighty guys, this is huge. Starting today, we have a chance to show President Obama and our government that the companion-animal homelessness crisis deserves national attention.
The White House just launched a site on which citizens can post their own petitions, and any petition that receives 5,000 signatures in 30 days will be reviewed by administration officials. PETA has posted a petition asking that all animals adopted from animal shelters and bought from pet stores, puppy mills, and breeders be spayed and neutered. Bob Barker (!!!) will be signing it, and he's asking for your support.
This is an opportunity to get the White House to pay attention to the fact that millions of dogs and cats are abandoned on the streets or turned over to severely crowded animal shelters each year.
You can help millions of homeless animals today!
Be sure to sign PETA's "Stop Animal Homelessness at Its Roots" petition now and forward it to everyone you know. Get your mom, dad, grandma, friends, teachers, your animal rights group at school, your little brother—everyone!—to sign it ASAP! After signing the petition, please be sure to share it with everyone that you know and send us a screenshot at StreetTeam@peta2.com for 500 points!
If the petition site doesn't work, please try back later. It looks like the site has been having some issues this morning, and we're hoping that it's just because so many of you have been signing the petition that the site is trying to catch up.
Thanks for speaking up for dogs and cats!
i'll sign!
Soooo glad something concrete and (rather necessarily) drastic is being done to end companion animal homelessness! I was wondering though, if anyone knows the details of the law? Does it only require that animals adopted/bought under those conditions be spayed/neutered, or does it require breeders and other companion animal-producers (like puppy mills!!!) to not produce any new litters, so that there isn't still a supply of companion animals other than shelter animals available? If that is the case, what's to become of people who make their living and support their families as breeders? They're not all evil, greedy people. Also what's to keep people who didn't actually think through bringing an animal into their home and find they don't want or just can't handle taking care of one from giving theirs away to a shelter? Wouldn't that also keep the shelters filled? Or what about animals that wind up there pretty much on accident, because they've gotten lost or something? Also, as shelter business slows down, what about the people who work there and would get layed off? Also what's to happen after the end goal of no more homeless companion animals is reached? What's going to happen then?
Don't mean to be so uber nitpicky. I'm just wondering about the thought process and comprehensiveness of the law.
Hey everyone sign my petition here- http://wh.gov/gdj
Ban the sale, ownership, or breeding of invasive red-bellied pacu.
Red bellied pacu are a 3 foot relative of the pirahna. They are common in the
pet trade, and are often seen in pet stores. These specimens are small,
leading unsuspecting aquarists into buying them. When they realize that these
fish need a large tank, and live 20+ years, they are often released into
waterways. This can either kill the fish, or, even worse, the fish can live
and wreak havoc on the ecosystem. These fish eat all plant matter, and are
forced to consume native species. Pacus are alteady found in pats of the
southeast. Please ban these fish!
Best believe I signed this! I'm happy to see it's got almost 9000 signatures. I'd like to get my own petition started for animal rights. I now have to think of something.
YAAAAAAAY there is more then 10,000 signatures!!!!
i signed the first day the email was sent and since then there has been 7,000+ signatures added. EXCITE!!!!!
i was one of the 3,000 that signed and since then there have been 7,000 more signatures!!! wow excite!