Hello. My name is Bam! Rodriguez (aka Dj Bam!). I live in the beautiful city of Austin, TX and proud owner of 2 spoiled rotten cats, Ila and Worms. I am blessed to successfully run my pet sitting business for 12 years now. It's time to give back to my passion of caring and loving for pets, for all animals furry, feathered, and scaled. I have always had a strong commitment to their well being and happiness. This campaign is more for those without a voice, support, and luv. Project: LUV will connect that gap so we can reach a full, no-kill status in Austin, TX and surrounding areas, including other states and areas trying to reach the same goal. This donation is important that it will provide with meals, toys, bedding, and other necessities for area shelters, as well as providing support for forstering these pets.
What is a no kill status?
A "No Kill" shelter is an animal shelter that do not euthanize animals that can be adopted, reserving euthanasia only for animals that are terminally ill or considered dangerous.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) estimated in July 2008 that approximately three to four million pets are killed yearly in shelters across the United States.[1] The No Kill Advocacy Center and Alley Cat Allies claim this number is closer to five million.[2] No-kill shelters are trying to end this killing by increasing the demand for shelter dogs and cats and reducing the supply by reducing the number of animals born and thus the number of animals which end up in shelters, and through increased spay/neuter, including low-cost/free help for low-income people.
However, the numbers of animals that have been euthanized by the kill shelters has gone down in a large way. In the 1970's an estimated 12-20 million dogs and cats were euthanized per year as a means of population control within the kill shelters.[3] By today's standards, fewer than 4 million animals are euthanized each year. While still a high count, the efforts made by No-Kill shelters to re-place the animals with loving homes or their efforts to reunite them with the families they came from have made a significant improvement in these numbers.
The no-kill concept received a legal boost in 1998 when the state of California passed three pieces of legislation directed to reduce animal suffering at shelters in California: the Vincent Law, which requires shelters to spay or neuter animals prior to adoption; the Hayden Law, which requires improved shelter accountability;[4] and the Kopp Law, which prohibited the use of carbon monoxide to euthanize animals.[5]
No-Kill shelters received a financial boost with the establishment of the $250 million Maddie's Fund. A number of communities in the United States have received financial grants from this fund which they credit with increasing their live-release rate.[6] According to Maddie's Fund, in America only about 20% of pets are adopted while the rest are from breeders and other sources. By increasing that number by just a few percentage points, they believe that the problem of euthanasia of healthy cats and dogs can be solved.[7][8][9]
To see Austin's progress, click here: http://www.austinpetsalive.org/about/austin-progress/
Supporting www.hardluckhounds.com & www.austinpetsalive.org
Thank you in advance for all your suport!
