URGENT: Speak Up for Animals in Jacksonville Today!

A recent investigative report by ActionNewsJax.com revealed that Jacksonville's Animal Care and Protective Services has been turning away animals, and as a result, they've been "thrown out of moving vehicles, left behind at parks and dumped inside vacant homes." The facility is open to accept homeless and unwanted animals only for 16 hours each week and recently turned away two pit bull–type dogs—a type of dog in particular danger of being picked up and used for breeding or training by dogfighters or other cruel, irresponsible people—who had been abandoned at a park and were found by a good Samaritan.

When shelters stop sheltering animals, more are born into homelessness and more are neglected and cruelly killed by people who can't—or won't—care for them any longer. Please ask city leaders to intervene and require that the shelter fulfill its purpose as a safe haven for any and all animals who have no one to care for them and nowhere else to go.

Animals rejected by shelters don't vanish or magically find refuge elsewhere. They're often dumped by roadsides, where they're at risk of being run over and dying alone and in pain; abandoned to starve to death when their owners move, are evicted, or are hospitalized; killed in horrific ways (for instance, last year, a Phoenix man beat his two cats to death with a sledgehammer because he couldn't find anyone to adopt them and his local shelter charges a fee to accept animals); and even thrown out with the trash.

Additionally, turning away even one unsterilized animal from a shelter can result in the births of thousands more unwanted and homeless animals. Please send an e-mail urging city leaders to prevent animal abandonment and suffering and ensure that the city doesn't contribute to the homeless-animal overpopulation crisis.

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