If you love animals then please read on
Taken from my good friend sinister_foxx's journal
-posted from dogs and also animalrescue
"You've probably already heard part of this story -- that California's sole statewide Republican officeholder, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is supporting a plan to speed up the killing of strays in California animal shelters -- but you may have missed the worst part. It's more than just saving a few dollars by putting more animals to death: it also involves ending some important penalties for animal cruelty (details below).
Under Schwarzenegger's plan, California shelters would only have to hold stray cats and dogs for three days before they could be killed; all other animals (than cats and dogs -- birds, for example) could be killed immediately; and shelters would no longer be required to look for the embedded microchips put in some pets to ensure their safe return. Worse yet, the "three day limit" would apply even if the shelter was closed for some, or even all, of those three days (i.e., it's three days total, not three business days).
Under current California law, written by Tom Hayden (Dem.), all animals must be kept six days before being killed, and L.A. Mayor James K. Hahn (Dem.) had announced a plan to end all animal killings in L.A. shelters by 2008.
But Schwarzenegger's plan goes further. Currently, those convicted of animal cruelty are forbidden to own pets for three years after their conviction, and must pay the medical bills of the animals they harmed. Incredibly, Schwarzenegger's plan would revoke these penalties. While some will try to defend his slashing the animal-protection time in shelters on budgetary grounds, this latter proposal would actually cost taxpayers money, by forcing the taxpayer -- instead of the abuser -- to foot the medical bills for the animals he abused...and help him to get more animals to abuse right away, since there'd no longer be a three year no-pets rule for such abusers."
GO HERE http://www.govmail.ca.gov/ and email
OR CALL 916/445-2841 and voice your opinion.
PASS IT ON!!!
sinnister_foxx