Petition for Positive Change

As the original sponsor of Section 353-a of Article 26 of the NYS Agriculture and Markets Law - commonly known as Buster's Law - Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has introduced a bill known as A8444 to 'increase certain penalties for violating the prohibition of animal fighting and for aggravated cruelty to animals and requires a psychiatric evaluation for defendents convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals'. In other words, to put some teeth in the law.

Another bill A9912 or Skye's Amendment will allow pet horses to be included as companion animals under Buster's Law.

To show your support of these efforts, please download a copy of the petition, collect signatures and mail it to Valerie Lang, JD,MLS, Assistant Professor, Hudson Valley Community College, 80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy, NY 12180

To date thousands of signatures have been collected but there is no such thing as too many. This is an on-going project until these bills are signed into laws. Please add yours today.

Click here to download a petition (PDF file)

NETWORK PARTNERS FOR ANIMALS

OUR GREATEST WISH
.....and maybe yours too, is that one day every animal that is born will be a wanted and cherished animal. Can you imagine a day when there could be a shortage of animals? Shelters and rescues would have to close for lack of clients. Creatures would be loved and cherished and valued for their entire lives. Not cast off in a whim but allowed to live a life filled with respect, love, and joy. Please join with us as we try to make a difference, one life at a time, one day at a time.....

MISSION/VISION STATEMENT

To pool our experience, expertise, ideas, programs, needs, wants, capabilities, cooperation and love for what we are doing to better the lot of the animals that we oversee and strive towards lowering euthanasia, alleviate suffering, neglect, and abuse, find solutions to common animal related problems (domestic pets, wildlife and farm or exotic animals), and to prevent the further reproduction of any 'surplus' companion animals in the state of New York.

To bring all sheltering facilities, sanctuaries, Animal and Dog Control Officers, Rescue Groups, volunteers, veterinarians, animal handlers, caregivers, and other such agencies/groups together for the benefit of animal welfare; by meeting monthly on a continuing basis to discuss and make efforts to find solutions for common problems that all of us experience.

To find ways to increase funds to all of us to better enable us to enrich programs and/or implement them, to improve facilities, expand services, and offer more to the community regarding animal care, education, and services.

To support one another in many ways; by keeping communication lines open, assist each other in case of emergency, i.e., unexpected overload of animals, share ideas and resources, possibly connect all of us regarding large scale fund raising endeavors, adoption programs ("trading" animals or transporting unique animal to a permanent home if one is difficult to find for the agency), or convention type events in one central location.

By one central office to keep us all connected, advise all agencies of conditions or events that affect us all, keep a lost/found system for animals, advise on potential collectors or abusers on a statewide scale, to keep each other in touch with animal related problems on a daily basis by the use of our Web bulletin board.

HOW TO JOIN

If this sounds like a group of interest to you, please contact us by phone or email so that we can get you signed up and a packet out in the mail. Our monthly meetings are usually the last Wednesday of each month at Spring Farm CARES. The tranquil atmosphere at Spring Farm CARES is a welcomed respite from the hustle and bustle for your staff and volunteers. Everyone comes away renewed and refreshed. We are all trying to accomplish the same end goal and should join together to maximize our efforts. Our two hour long meetings begin at 1pm and feature speakers and topics of interest whether you are an individual or staff of a humane organization.

TO SIGN UP FOR OUR WEB BOARD

We think you'll find our Web based board an extremely useful tool with its daily updates ranging from topics on transportation of animals at risk to legislative issues. Health issues, fundraising, and cooperative ventures are some other topics. We look forward to working with you and your organization in the near future.

To sign up for the web board now, click on the following link:

Spring Farm CARES Network Partners for Animals

To contact Robin Yager, Director of Network Partners for Animals:

Phone: (315) 790-1404
Fax: (315) 737-8507
email: robin@springfarmcares.org