Reply #312: Bullshit. [View All]

[Lisa0825]

NYC has a plan to transistion to no-kill. Many counties across the US have similar plans. Just hoarders with good, PR huh? :eyes:

http://www.maddiesfund.org/nokill/build_com_ny.html

Once it became clear that the City was seriously committed to this and that the leading shelters and rescue groups were on board, it was clear that the Animal Law Committee's work was done and the Mayor's Alliance for NYC Animals was just beginning.

I agreed to be President and Chair of the Board of the Mayor's Alliance. I currently work out of my law office. My motto is "lean and mean." I want whatever money we raise or resources we get to go first and foremost to the animal groups who are doing the work in the trenches. Currently, the work of the Alliance is done by several volunteers who work in the following areas: budget/finance, fundraising, media relations and of course most important - preparing a Maddie's Fund grant application.

To accomplish our goal to make New York a no-kill city (saving all the healthy and treatable animals) by the year 2008 and to better utilize the resources being offered to the Mayor's Alliance, we hope to open a small office and hire a handful of key people in the next few months - funding permitting.

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Q. What's been the biggest surprise to you over the past several months?

A. The level of enthusiasm. New Yorkers can be jaded. And activists had been rightfully yelling about how bad things were for so long but seemed unable to come up with workable solutions. And the City was closed off to any offers of help.

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In a way I was surprised at how quickly people came to the table but I probably should not have been, because at the end of the day all that these rescue groups and shelters want to do is get the cats and dogs out of the shelters and into loving homes. They want to save lives.