Please ACT now to help protect Alabama's animals!
Dear ALDF Anti-Cruelty Team Member:
Allen Lawson made a mistake. He admits it. Now is the time to make sure the Alabama legislature and governor do not make the same mistake by reducing legal protections for animals.
Currently, Alabama law makes animal abuse punishable as a felony. Rep. Allen Lawson (D-Tuscaloosa) has introduced a bill (HB 180) that would reduce the stiffest penalty for animal cruelty to a misdemeanor. But he says his bill was incorrectly written and he wants it changed so that it would remove the felony charges only in cases of people who do not have the means to provide adequate shelter for animals in their care.
And that's just flat out wrong.
In many animal "hoarding" cases, people simply do not have the resources to provide adequate housing, medical treatment or food for the animals they control. This can result in untold suffering and medical afflictions such as blindness and wasting. Would it be just a misdemeanor if people let their children live in such conditions?
If you agree that Lawson's bill, which must pass through both houses of the state legislature and the governor's desk before it can become law, should be defeated even with his proposed amendment, you can ACT now.
Express your concern for the legal protection of animals in Alabama by contacting Rep. Layson and Alabama's Governor Bob Riley today!
Rep. Allen Layson
Room 537-E
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
Work: (334) 242-7748
Home: (205) 375-6172
E-mail: Rep. Allen Layson
Alabama Governor Bob Riley
State Capitol
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery AL 36130
(334) 242-7100
To e-mail the governor, Click here.
With urgent thanks,
