Pet Advocates Decry Cuts To Animal Shelters

February 12, 2012 3:05 PM

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pet advocates are fighting like cats and dogs to stop a deficit-slashing proposal from Gov. Jerry Brown that aims to save $23 million by ending reimbursements to animal shelters for the cost of keeping strays alive.

Brown wants to repeal parts of Hayden’s Law that require the state to pay for such expenses as food, vet care and kitty litter and require shelters to hold lost and stray animals for six days instead of three.

Pet advocates say the change will send the state back to the dark ages when a wandering dog caught Friday could be dead Monday.

Thousands of pet owners and animal welfare groups across the country have lined up to fight the repeal, saying it would lead to countless animal deaths — not just canine and felines.

nothingchanges

Don’t cut care for the respectful animals in California, Make cuts on the lazy sub-humans in the state.
George Bernard Shaw

Too many pets everywhere you go these days. Cutting back on services would make this worse. However, I’d say that the funds for such should come from registration fees on pets.
Matt

Everyone wants to cut spending…except when it affects them or a cause they believe in.
Arizona

Yes, while the state continues handing out checks to almost every lazy person who puts their hand out…Jerry Moonbeam wants to kill the pets…but he would rather let out the murdering felons in our prisons than keep them for their full sentence or carry out the death penalty on these sub-humans.
duh

Kill all the animals. Humans come first. and if humans don’t want them, they are merely going to end up road kill, anyway.

Close down the animal shelters and give cops a few more bullets to kill off strays until the economy is back on its feet.

This problem would have been fixed a long time ago, if the owners were sterilized alongside the pets when they are picked up as runaways, or confiscated from hoarder homes.