Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Austin Pets Alive's Plan for City of Austin Partnership

Tonight is the evening session of the Animal Issues Forum. It will be at Terrazas library at 6:30 pm.

I'm looking forward to hearing what people have to say about Austin Pets Alive's Plan for a Partnership with the City of Austin for 2009-2010.

You can read the proposal at this link:
http://www.animalissuesforum.org/APA/APA!Proposal.doc

I think it's an exciting endeavor that APA has initiated and I hope people will come out to hear more about it and lend their support.

Pat Valls-Trelles

Sunday, July 26, 2009

July 28 and July 30 Animal Issues Forums

Here's an upate and a question about the agenda for the two sessions of the Animal Issues Forum coming up on:
1) Tuesday, July 28 at 6:30 pm at Terrazas library
2) Thursday, July 30 at 11:30 am at City Hall.

At the Tuesday evening forum, Dr. Ellen Jefferson will be presenting the proposal Austin Pets Alive has made to the City for a partnership for increasing live outcomes for dogs and cats. I hope that people are interested in hearing about this and will attend.

We will also have a discussion about the Donations Fund and follow up on the discussion we started last time with Chandra and Gretchen about the Companion Animal Protection Act which they heard about at the No Kill Conference they attended in May.

At the Thursday session we will have a discussion about those same topics, except Dr. Jefferson will not be presenting herself, but will have someone fill in for her. We'll still discuss Austin Pets Alive's proposal though.

I have a question prompted by the Taylor shelter situation and their end to use of the carbon monoxide gas chamber: I'd like to see if anyone else is interested in discussing possible legislation for next session to ban use of carbon monoxide gas chambers in Texas. If there is interest and time, we could discuss this month, or possibly next month. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

It's not necessary to RSVP for either of the sessions, but if you're planning to attend and have not already let me know (thanks to those of you who have), I'd appreciate getting an idea in advance of who's coming.

Thanks.

Pat Valls-TrellesAnimal Issues Forum
http://bit.ly/animalissuesforum

Friday, July 17, 2009

July Animal Issues Forums

Dr. Ellen Jefferson will be speaking about Austin Pets Alive's proposal to City Council for a public-private partnership to increase live outcomes.

We'll continue to talk about the City Manager's proposed budget cuts with a focus on saving the Emancipet Free Days and the Feral Cat Sterilization Program.

Pat Valls-Trelles