That is too bad they didn't call you back, but I bet they would love to have you and just can't get calls returned. I don't know. They didn't seem to have it 'all together' with Katrina. And I'm sure they're still in overdrive with that situation. I think when you get so big there's so much burocracy (sp?). I think I've told you all before that somehow my home address and phone got on a website as a local humane society. Joy, joy! I get lots of calls and they always talk about how this or that organization never calls them back.
I read about the Jersey bear hunt. :( It sucks. I hate hunting, but something is going to have to be done about bears and particularly deer. I don't think in the forseeable future anyone is going to move toward a humane method of keeping their populations down.
The only attorneys I know of that do any animal law do it because they
don't need a paycheck basically. We have one attorney here in Atlanta that gave up her practice or her place in a practice and opened her own shelter/rescue. I think she still does some work as an attorney, but mostly not.
My vet works with a group of attorneys in the Atlanta area that have formed an organization to take animal cases, but they mostly specialize in abuse. She has gone to classes for crime scene investigation, autopsy, etc.... for humans through local and state police agencies. She gets called in for nearly every case that makes the news in the metro area. Basically they work to push for felony charges on cases. My vet's a hoot. She tried to get an ordinance passed banning declawing like they did in a couple of cities or counties in CA a few years ago.
Maybe you could organize something local like that. I don't think any of them do full time animal work
and I think they set it up as a non-profit, though I'm not sure, to take care of insurance, etc...
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It apparently has been pushed to that level in some states-- ALDF sent Hideyo a decision from an appeals court in PA finding a local pet limit ordinance unconstitutional, and there are some from other states also. But there are many different forms of pet limit ordinances, and some are probably unconstitutional and some are probably not, so it is not like there will probably ever be just one decision that clears the issue up in all states regarding all types of ordinances.You are right, though-- there would be more litigation on behalf of animals and rescuers if rescuers had more money.
