Ban the Use of Lost Pets from Ontario's Municipal Pounds and Shelters for Animal Testing

- sign now
Goal : 768 / 10000

Dear Premier McGuinty,

We are petitioning to ask that you amend the Animals for Research Act to ban the use of lost pets from Ontario's municipal pounds and shelters for animal experimentation.

According to the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), from 2000 to 2005, 78,506 dogs and cats were used for experi- mental purposes in Canada, 22,747 or 29% were used in Ontario. Of all the dogs and cats used for research in Canada, 59% or 45,966 were lost pets,taken from pounds. Approximately 13,300 of those were from Ontario. This practice is known as pound seizure or pound release and Ontario's Animals For Research Act makes this practice the law! Ontario is now the only province in Canada where pound seizure is mandated.

Dogs and cats who end up in municipal pounds deserve a second chance at life in a loving home, not as a research subject in a cold sterile laboratory cage. Because of Ontario's Act, many of our publicly funded municipal animal shelters have become little more than pet disposal operations and suppliers of cheap research animals. Instead these shelters should be returning lost pets to their owners and finding the rest permanent homes. There is no doubt that the public trust and confidence in these facilities is severely compromised.

Several countries including Great Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands have prohibited this cruel and archaic practice. Indeed, progressive Canadian cities like Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Clarington and Vancouver have already banned the practice. This is why it is imperative that you to take a stand against pound seizure and make it illegal in Ontario. Your govern- ment must send a clear message that homeless pets need to be in homes, not laboratory cages. We look forward to receiving a response from you.

sign the petition

Sign with Sign with Sign with
OR

If you already have an account please sign in, otherwise register an account for free then sign the petition filling the fields below.
Email and the password will be your account data, you will be able to sign other petitions after logging in.

Privacy in the search engines? You can use a nickname:

Attention, the email address you supply must be valid in order to validate the signature, otherwise it will be deleted.

donate

Help keep Petition Online Canada free!
Please consider making a small donation today. This will allow us to keep Ban the Use of Lost Pets from Ontario's Municipal Pounds and Shelters for Animal Testing alive and available to a wide audience.


Every cent you give goes toward maintaining the website and the petitions. Even a small contributions helps!
Support the Cause

information

2011-07-20 22:05:22Added on:

10 months ago 

Kimberly Johnston By:

Animals In:


Petition target:
Hon. Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario Legislative Building, Queen's Park


Petition community:
Brittney Johnston and All Animal Lovers

 

tags

animal alliance, animal issues, animal laws, animal research act, lost pets, ontario, pound seizure

 

share

Invite friends from your address book

 

embed codes

direct link

link for html

link for forum without title

link for forum with title

 

Widgets

728x90

 

468x60

 

336x280

 

125x125

 

 

 

 

 

latest signatures

browse all the signatures

related petitions

shoutbox

22/7/11
kim johnston
Also be sure to watch the video. There are 3 parts and it runs 20min. This documentary was created by 2 13 year old grade 8 students for a class project. They are trying to raise awareness and get the pound seizure law changed.
22/7/11
kim johnston
Please pass this on to everyone who loves animals and lets get this law changed!!
21/7/11
GIANFRANCO FRONZI
WE ARE THE ANIMALS . GIANFRANCO FRONZI . JULY/ 21/2011

Referers

all sites linking this petition