Initiatives and Projects To Date

   

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• Created and Successfully lobbied for and received funding from the state for the Georgia Responsible Pet Owners Initiative, due to be unveiled by the GA Dept. of Agriculture in 2025.

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• We are working to ban bush track racing in Georgia as a top priority in 2025.

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• We are networking with industry to create a sustainable spay/neuter funding stream which is the only solution to bringing down shelter intakes and euthanasia.  This is our highest priority in 2025 forward until we have attained it.

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• We compiled total costs to the state for the shelter system needed due to lack of spay neuter in Georgia.  The 2019 total was > a very conservative $140 million per year.

 

• We compiled euthanasia and intake totals for the state of Georgia for  2015 through 2018 

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• We compiled and a maintain a statewide list of animal ordinances to identify best practices for communities looking to improve their own

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• We prepared a comparison of animal services software that can assist Georgia's humane agencies in choosing the best one. ​

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• Funded Anti-Cruelty billboards in the city of Columbus, Georgia.

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• We maintain a Facebook page  that provides useful information to the Georgia companion animal community stakeholders

• We formed a partnership to prepare humane education curriculum for Georgia's schools

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• We sponsor memberships to Justice Clearinghouse for interested animal control officers

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• We support community outreach through cash donations and donations of materials such as dog houses, kennel decks and other supplies

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• We support local community advocates trying to change Animal Control ordinances and/or policies and procedures with meeting materials

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• We supply educational materials to state legislators on the implications of growing horseracing in Georgia

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• We supply educational materials to state and local officials on pet overpopulation, its effects on public safety and its financial costs to the state of Georgia

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