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VOTE YES FOR HB 130 SUBSTITUTE
Why does Georgia need a Dog and Cat Sterilization License Plate?
- Decreasing the number of feral and free-roaming domestic animals reduces losses on:
- property, livestock and poultry
- wildlife and the environment
- Half of the counties in George have no animal control
- Fewer animals mean fewer new shelters must be built and fewer animal control professionals must be hired.
- This license plate would save the state money and lives by reducing the number of animals:
- controlled, housed and put to death in shelters
- causing vehicular accidents
- involved in insurance cases, including bite claims
- spreading zoonotic diseases, like rabies
- $1 spent on sterlization programs today will save $20 by the year 2006
- It costs approximately $70 of our tax money to kill each surplus animal
- Roughly $7.3 million was spent in Metro Atlanta in 1998 to destroy unwanted animals.
- The Department of Human Resources spends at least $3 million annually on rabies post-exposure treatment and testing.
- Three southern states: Texas, Virginia and Alabam have passed laws that allow for license paltes to provide funding for animal sterlization programs.
- At least $49 million annually is collected in sales tax for dog and cat food alone in Georgia. No sterilization education or programs are provided and less the $500,000 annually is spent for companion animal protection statewide.
- 61% of households have companion animals and 5% have hunters.
Please Vote YES for HB 130 Substitute, Dog and Cat Sterlization License Plate.
[Reprinted with the permission of the Humane Association of Georgia]
Prevent a Litter Coalition, Inc.
Post Office Box 9294, Reston, VA 20195
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