AR-News: (US NY) No Kill, The New Goal In Animal Control

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

by Lynda Crawford
February 2, 2004 

A red pit bull was brought to the city's animal shelter in the Bronx recently 
with two broken legs. A shelter official contacted Jane Hoffman from the Mayor
’s Alliance for New York City Animals, who called a private veterinarian. The 
vet agreed to examine the animal for free, and do the orthopedic surgery at a 
reduced rate, which was paid for by a charity set up for this purpose called 
the Picasso Fund. 
If it had been brought in just a year ago, chances are good that the dog -- 
badly injured, homeless, and thus deemed un-adoptable -- would have been 
killed. 


 
full story:

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20040202/200/856



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

          /\  /\            
>' .' < 












    
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/attachments/20040202/5d0c341b/attachment.html