by Pets Alive | Mar 31, 2015 | Call to Action, Legislation, No Kill
This is a story about how the legal system failed. This isn’t fiction. This isn’t something that happened somewhere you have never heard of, in some place far away. This happened here, in our back yard. This happened at Pets Alive. It’s not about someone who made a...
by Pets Alive | May 16, 2012 | Animal Rescue, Legislation, No Kill
A healthy 3 week old kitten arrived at the ACC, and 45 minutes later was killed for “having no mother”. No adopter or rescuer was given the opportunity to save this kitten. On Mother’s Day, a mother cat and her two tiny kittens were on the ACC kill...
by Pets Alive | Apr 5, 2012 | Legislation
Below is an email sent by Pets Alive to the Middletown Council to consider instead of a city wide insurance requirement for renters. We hope that they might consider this option instead of the current plan, or working in conjunction WITH the insurance plan:...
by Pets Alive | Apr 4, 2012 | Legislation
This speech was given last night, April 3, to the Middletown Council Members in response to the proposed ordinance that would ban the feeding of feral cats and require all renters to carry dog insurance. There were no pictures in my speech. I just added these to break...
by Pets Alive | Apr 1, 2012 | Legislation
At the last Common Council meeting in Middletown a proposal was made and it appears to have been accepted, to prohibit the feeding of stray or feral cats. This ban on the feeding of feral and stray cats, while on the surface appears to address a problem, will actually...
by Pets Alive | Feb 16, 2012 | Legislation
It has been a very “up and down” couple of days and for many that read the normal Pets Alive twitter and Facebook, we haven’t been up to our usual light hearted tweets and posts. I learned a long time ago that the thing that keep all of you coming...