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MONTCALM COUNTY, MI COMMISSIONERS CANCEL CONTRACT WITH FIRM THAT SELLS ANIMALS TO RESEARCH

4/27/09 - Montcalm County, Michigan Board of Commissioners finally voted to end a 30-year contract with R&R Research. This means impounded animals cannot be relinquished to Class B dealers for sale to medical research laboratories. To citizens who fought for their community, and Kinship Circle members who took action, this is your victory. Montcalm had contracted R&R Research to take unadopted animals through a process called pound seizure. Behind a research lab’s closed doors, trusting animals undergo invasive surgeries, toxic dosing, food-water deprivation, and prolonged pain. Still, taxpayers subsidize pound seizure whether they like it or not.


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Dear Montcalm County Officials,

Please do not send companion animals to research laboratories. I implore you to cancel the county contract with R&R Research, Inc. and never again engage a Class B dealer to dispose of homeless animals.

Behind a lab’s closed doors, trusting animals undergo invasive surgeries, toxic dosing, food/water deprivation, and prolonged pain. Still, your taxpayers subsidize pound seizure whether they like it or not. They indirectly fund animal tests that delay medical progress with misleading results.

It is particularly irresponsible to support animal research when strides in in-vitro technology, computer automation, and more animal-free methods now uncover data relevant to human health and safety.

Clearly, there is no altruism in dealing cats and dogs for research. There is only profit. In 2006, USDA records reveal R&R Research of Howard City, Michigan grossed $196,723 from the sale of 621 dogs and cats. Moreover, R&R flaunts an unethical history. A 2006 USDA citation shows R&R illegally transported dogs chained to a livestock trailer. In 2005, the company was cited for procuring dogs and cats from Howard City, where there is no pound. Apparently officials sold their strays to R&R.

Before that, the Michigan Attorney General ordered R&R to pull its "animal shelter" listing in the yellow pages. In the 1990s, a WOOD TV investigative video portrayed R&R owners gassing animals in a corroded CO2 barrel.

At the very least, Montcalm officials ought to be embarrassed by their relationship with a Class B dealer. I strongly encourage you to terminate your contract with R&R and permanently stop pound seizure, a shady practice abandoned by most counties nationwide.

This issue has generated worldwide publicity via the Internet. I look forward to your feedback.

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Montcalm County Commissioners

Administrative Building, 3rd Floor
211 W. Main St.
P.O. Box 368
Stanton, MI 48888

Commissioner Marcia Walker, home: 616-754-8236, email: lloydwalker@chartermi.net

Commissioner Tom Lindeman, home: 616-754-4918, email: tblindeman@sbcglobal.net

Commissioner Ron Retzloff, home: 989-235-6827, email: comish@casair.net

Commissioner John Johansen, home: 616-754-5375, email: johm@pathwaynet.com

Commissioner Carl Paepke, home: 616-636-5692, email: johm@pathwaynet.com

Commissioner Ron Baker, home: 231-937-5465, email: rbaker68amx@hotmail.com

Commissioner Pat Carr, home: 989-352-8129, NO EMAIL

Commissioner Roger Caris, home: 989-268-5875, email: rcaris@gccmha.org

Commissioner John McCrackin, home: 989-584-3713, NO EMAIL
City of Stanton, Mayor Robert Burns
225 S. Camburn St.
P.O. Box 449
Stanton, MI 48888
ph: 989 831-4440, fax: 989-831-5756
email: mayor@cityofstantonmi.com

Montcalm County Animal Control
154 W. Quarterline St.
P.O. Box 368
Stanton, MI 48888
ph: 989-831-7355; fax: 989-831-7410
SOURCE: www.montcalm.org/animalshelter.asp

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Montcalm County Animal "Shelter" Cruelty Exposed
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
Michigan Animal Shelter Ships Animals to Class B Research Dealer
R&R Research: 19256 W. Kendaville Rd.; Howard City, MI 49329; 231-937-5680

MONTCALM COUNTY, MI COMMISSIONERS CANCEL CONTRACT WITH FIRM THAT SELLS ANIMALS TO RESEARCH
4/27/09 - Montcalm County, Michigan Board of Commissioners finally voted to end a 30-year contract with R&R Research. This means impounded animals cannot be relinquished to Class B dealers for sale to medical research laboratories. To citizens who fought for their community, and Kinship Circle members who took action, this is your victory. Montcalm had contracted R&R Research to take unadopted animals through a process called pound seizure. Behind a research lab’s closed doors, trusting animals undergo invasive surgeries, toxic dosing, food-water deprivation, and prolonged pain. Still, taxpayers subsidize pound seizure whether they like it or not.

1/29/09 - MICHIGAN POUND RENEWS 6-MONTH CONTRACT WITH R&R RESEARCH, BUT AGREES TO REVIEW CITIZEN INVESTIGATION Montcalm County has long harbored a fierce debate over pound animals sent to research laboratories. R&R obtains animals via pound seizure. Animal advocates have targeted the R&R-Montcalm relationship for years. In response, the County crafted a compromise to renew R&R Research services for 6 months, while a Concerned Citizens Coalition investigates and reports back to the Board of Commissioners.
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