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Join us in
our fight to end the cruelty by contacting:
In Defense
of Animals
Phone: (415) 388-9641
ida@idausa.org
Help IDA
get our public service announcement (PSA), “Adopt and Save a Life,”
aired in your community. Call 415-388-9641 or email at ida@idausa.org
for more information.
Write and/or
call the CEO and demand that Petland stop using puppy mill animals.
Ed Kunzleman,
CEO
Petland
250 Riverside Street
P.O. Box 1606
Chillicothe, OH 45601
operations@petland.com
800.221.5935 Telephone
740.775.2575 Fax
Contact the Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, to insist that federal
employees enforce provisions of the Animal Welfare Act that to date are
not being enforced. Policies need to be changed that permit licensee’s
to operate indefinitely with "non-compliant" items or violations.
Address your letters to:
Honorable Mike Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D.C. 20250
Tel.: 202.720.3631
agsec@usda.gov
View
sample letter here.
- Help IDA
get our public service announcement (PSA), “Adopt and Save a Life,”
aired in your community. Call 415.388.9641 or email at ida@idausa.org
for more information.
- Adopt
animals from shelters instead of purchasing them from stores. If you
are looking for a specific breed, check your local listings or the Internet
for purebred rescues that need homes. Click here for a world-wide directory
of animal shelters. http://www.h4ha.org/shelters/
- Have
your companions spayed or neutered.
- Boycott
all pet stores that sell animals, including Petland, one of the nation's
largest puppy and kitten sellers.
- Educate
your community, friends and family about companion-animal overpopulation.
- Send
a letter to the editor of your local paper telling people why you won't
buy animals, or shop at pet stores that sell animals. Sample
letter to the editor.
- Contact
IDA for brochures and flyers to distribute to your friends and family.
- Always
represent yourself as a guardian, never an "owner" of an animal.
Remember, animals are not commodities.
- Show
your support of IDA's boycott of petland by placing a "Boycott
Petland" banner on your web page. Banners and linking information
is available by clicking
here.
- Support
IDA financially.
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