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UPDATE: Michigan Shelter Stops Sending Its Animals To Research

JAN 2012 - Mecosta County Animal Shelter in Michigan will no longer hand over dogs to Class B "random source" dealers, notorious for selling one-time companions to research labs. Kinship Circle’s original alert asked Mesta County Commissioners to ban the practice of selling pound dogs and cats to dealers for abbreviated lives of misery as experiment subjects.

Kinship Circle, together with tireless Michigan animal advocates and other groups, explained the cruelty behind pound seizure and why animal "specimens" subjected to toxic dosing, invasive surgery, amputation… fail to advance medical discovery.

Months before Mecosta Commissioners confirmed a ban on future contracts with Class B dealers (activated July 1, 2012), Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine filed a complaint with U.S. Department of Agriculture that prompted the agency to investigate the Mecosta animal shelter. The probe revealed over 140 dogs sent to Class B dealers in 2010.

FROM PCRM: "It looks like the shelter operators could not handle the pressure. In January, they announced to county commissioners that they would retire at the end of their current contract. The commissioners then confirmed that pound seizure will be prohibited in all future contracts, and that carbon monoxide gassing of animals will no longer be allowed. Michigan animal advocates are currently planning a new shelter where the focus will be on animals’ well-being, not on profits."

UPDATE SOURCE: PCRM
Michigan Shelter Stops Sending Dogs to Class B Dealers



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SAMPLE LETTER 1: Pound Seizure in Mecosta County, Michigan

Dear Mecosta County Commissioners:

I am deeply disappointed to learn that Mecosta County sells the pound’s homeless animals to research dealers. I am among the majority who oppose the practice of "pound seizure," in which unclaimed dogs and cats are sold into abbreviated lives of misery.

Behind the locked doors of a research facility, they are gone forever. It is impossible to track a lost or stolen animal once s/he is reduced to a specimen for toxic dosing, invasive surgeries, radiation, electric shock or other experiments.

Animals in shelters are already stressed by loneliness and boredom. Pound seizure is the ultimate betrayal for these animals, many of whom were or could have become beloved companions. In addition, statistics indicate a profit-motivated increase pet-theft rings whenever shelters market their homeless animals.

Of the estimated 70 million animals used in redundant and often immaterial experiments, the bulk of the cats and dogs come from breeders, shelters, pounds and "bunchers" who run "Free to a good home" ads to collect litters or other animals from unsuspecting guardians. Sometimes the animals are trapped and stolen.

Taxpayers annually supply more than $8.5 billion for wasteful and duplicative experiments. Pound seizure promotes animal testing and stalls the pursuit of credible, proficient and humane technologies. Many researchers admit that it’s impossible to extrapolate animal data to humans due to genetic, anatomical, histological, physiological, and immunological disparities between species. In fact, animal studies jeopardize human safety. The U.S. General Accounting Office found that over 50 percent of animal-tested drugs are recalled or relabeled due to harmful repercussions in people.

Many research/development facilities now fulfill study requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling, genetics, clinical research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Please do not support legalized abuse by supplying animals to research dealers. This only allows vivisectors to squander more time and money that could be spent on non-animal research modes relevant to humans. I respectfully ask you to halt the sale of animals to research facilities.

Thank you,

YOUR FULL NAME
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SAMPLE LETTER 2: Pound Seizure in Ingham County, Michigan

Dear Ms. Bennett and the Ingham County Commissioners:

I am deeply disappointed to learn that Ingham County sells the pound’s homeless animals to research dealers. I am among the majority who oppose the practice of "pound seizure," in which unclaimed dogs and cats are sold into abbreviated lives of misery.

Behind the locked doors of a research facility, they are gone forever. It is impossible to track a lost or stolen animal once s/he is reduced to a "specimen" for toxic dosing, invasive surgeries, radiation, electric shock or other experiments.

Animals in shelters are already stressed by loneliness and boredom. Pound seizure is the ultimate betrayal for these animals, many of whom were or could have become beloved companions. In addition, statistics indicate a profit-motivated increase pet-theft rings whenever shelters market their homeless animals.

Of the estimated 70 million animals used in redundant and often immaterial Of the estimated 70 million animals used in redundant and often immaterial experiments, the bulk of the cats and dogs come from breeders, shelters, pounds and "bunchers" who run "Free to a good home" ads to collect litters or other animals from unsuspecting guardians. Sometimes the animals are trapped and stolen.

Taxpayers annually supply more than $8.5 billion for wasteful and duplicative experiments. Pound seizure promotes animal testing and stalls the pursuit of credible, proficient and humane technologies. Many researchers admit that it’s impossible to extrapolate animal data to humans due to genetic, anatomical, histological, physiological, and immunological disparities between species. In fact, animal studies jeopardize human safety. The U.S. General Accounting Office found that over 50 percent of animal-tested drugs are recalled or relabeled due to harmful repercussions in people.

Many research/development facilities now fulfill study requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling, genetics, clinical research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Please do not support legalized abuse by supplying animals to research dealers. This only allows vivisectors to squander more time and money that could be spent on non-animal research modes relevant to humans. I respectfully ask you to halt the sale of animals to research facilities.

Thank you,

YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY



SAMPLE LETTER 3: Pound Seizure in City of Inkster, Michigan

Dear Mr. Gordon:

I am deeply disappointed to learn that City of Inkster sells the pound’s homeless animals to research dealers. I am among the majority who oppose the practice of "pound seizure," in which unclaimed dogs and cats are sold into abbreviated lives of misery.

Behind the locked doors of a research facility, they are gone forever. It is impossible to track a lost or stolen animal once s/he is reduced to a "specimen" for toxic dosing, invasive surgeries, radiation, electric shock or other experiments.

Animals in shelters are already stressed by loneliness and boredom. Pound seizure is the ultimate betrayal for these animals, many of whom were or could have become beloved companions. In addition, statistics indicate a profit-motivated increase pet-theft rings whenever shelters market their homeless animals.

Of the estimated 70 million animals used in redundant and often immaterial Of the estimated 70 million animals used in redundant and often immaterial experiments, the bulk of the cats and dogs come from breeders, shelters, pounds and "bunchers" who run "Free to a good home" ads to collect litters or other animals from unsuspecting guardians. Sometimes the animals are trapped and stolen.

Taxpayers annually supply more than $8.5 billion for wasteful and duplicative experiments. Pound seizure promotes animal testing and stalls the pursuit of credible, proficient and humane technologies. Many researchers admit that it’s impossible to extrapolate animal data to humans due to genetic, anatomical, histological, physiological, and immunological disparities between species. In fact, animal studies jeopardize human safety. The U.S. General Accounting Office found that over 50 percent of animal-tested drugs are recalled or relabeled due to harmful repercussions in people.

Many research/development facilities now fulfill study requirements with non-animal research tools, including in vitro analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer and mathematical modeling, genetics, clinical research, autopsy/biopsy studies, and advanced MRI imaging.

Please do not support legalized abuse by supplying animals to research dealers. This only allows vivisectors to squander more time and money that could be spent on non-animal research modes relevant to humans. I respectfully ask you to halt the sale of animals to research facilities.

Thank you,

YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
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SAMPLE LETTER 1: Pound Seizure in Mecosta County, Michigan
Board of Commissioners
400 E. Elm Street
Big Rapids, Michigan 49307
ph: 231-796-2505

SAMPLE LETTER 2: Pound Seizure in Ingham County, Michigan
Becky Bennett, Board Coordinator
Board of Commissioners
P.O. Box 319
Mason, MI 48854
ph: 517-676-7200; fax: 517-676-7264
email: bcbeck@ingham.org

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SAMPLE LETTER 3: Pound Seizure in City of Inkster, Michigan
Robert Gordon, City Clerk Manager
2121 Inkster Road
Inkster, MI 48141
ph: 313-563-4232

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