In Defense of Animals’ Justice for Animals Campaign held its first regional meeting Sunday, February 21, 2016 in Madison, Mississippi. Attendees represented advocates from Grenada, Carroll, Madison, Hinds, and Rankin counties. Even an advocate from the state of Louisiana joined the meeting.

This campaign to change city and county ordinances emerged from the last two decades of In Defense of Animals’ Hope Animal Sanctuary’s service in the region. Within minutes of meeting and reacquainting with fellow advocates, each on a mission to change the lives of Mississippi’s animals, it was clear that talent, savvy, and dedication had filled the room.

The meeting was one of exchange and collaboration amongst seasoned and newly dedicated animal advocates, most representing rescue and sheltering interests. The group was in accord to work with any Mississippi established advocacy, government agency or department, or individual offering energy, skills, talent, resources, and the stick-to-it-ness to achieve the goal of liberating animals from oppression and aggression. Animals of other species should have kindred intrinsic rights like ours. All species feel, think, dream, crave nourishment, and suffer, yes – suffer just as humans do.

In Defense of Animals’ Justice for Animals Campaign will be holding regional meetings throughout Mississippi. IDA-JAC coalition members are spreading the news that there is a another way to gain the strictest animal cruelty laws for communities in Mississippi until the Mississippi State Legislature and Farm Bureau get the message that there will be a price to pay for ignoring the will of the citizens who elect them. JAC members will be aiding other communities with their experiences once they’ve succeeded in inspiring the passage of protective ordinances in their communities.

Please help our effort here:

http://www.idausa.org/nodogshouldburn

Points were made by advocates for the passage of laws that on the surface appear to be more control than protection. I cited the reasons IDA-HAS was invovled in the passage of breed ordinances in the City of Winona and Carroll County and how the restrictions for housing, walking, and other critical aspects of guardianship for an animal will easily be met by caring guardians and the users and abusers simply won’t comply. Good, they cannot have/harbor/own a bully breed and No Bullies Will Be Legally Chained. Backdoor tethering, sheltering, and care law.

for an ordiance or state statute. Questions were raised about the FBI’s decision to track egregeous crimes of cruelty to animals and issues of tethering, sheltering, and even dangerous dog or breed laws were raised.

Points were made by advocates for the passage of laws that on the surface appear to be more control than protection. I cited the reasons IDA-HAS was invovled in the passage of breed ordinances in the City of Winona and Carroll County and how the restrictions for housing, walking, and other critical aspects of guardianship for an animal will easily be met by caring guardians and the users and abusers simply won’t comply. Good, they cannot have/harbor/own a bully breed and No Bullies Will Be Legally Chained. Backdoor tethering, sheltering, and care law.