PAR
Membership Meeting
November
5th, 10:15am
Central Library, Room 312
We
will be holding our next monthly meeting on Saturday,
November 5th at the Central Library. The
library is
located at 14 West 10th (at 10th and
Baltimore),
and the phone number is (816) 701-3400.
Weekend
parking is free.
At
this meeting, we'll be finalizing plans for
year-end events,
and holding our annual election for board
members/officers.
Our
meetings are free and open to the public. If you
have
a desire to help animals, we'd love for you to
join us!
Pet
Protection Amendment Passes in the Senate
On
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2005, Senator Daniel
Akaka introduced
an important amendment to the Agriculture
Appropriations
Bill that will help protect our nation's
companion animals.
We are happy to announce that this amendment
passed
in the Senate and will now be included in the
Agriculture
Appropriations Bill as it heads into conference
hearings.
Amendment
1729, called the Pet Protection Amendment,
prohibits federal
funds from being provided to a research facility
that
purchases animals from Class B dealers. Class B
animal
dealers collect dogs and cats from "random
sources"
and routinely violate the Animal Welfare Act.
In
his speech on the floor of the Senate, Senator
Akaka said,
"Class B-acquired animals have not had
standardized
care, nor is there any certainty of the history
of the
animals. These circumstances make them
unsuitable as research
subjects in any case, since they cannot be used
as control
cases or experimental animals." Often these
Class
B "random source" animals are obtained from
free-to-good home ads or stolen from backyards,
cars and
sidewalks.
