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Recent Accomplishments for Helping Animals
- GMAD was proud to have played a role in the passage of S.166, banning the operation of or participation in on-line hunting.
- Sponsored Maisy, an emaciated horse rescued and cared for by Springhill Horse Rescue
- Rescued, rehabilitated and/or placed MANY animals including squirrels, dogs, cats, mice, birds, ferrets, rabbits, and even a pig!
- An ordinance was passed preventing the display of exotic animals in Burlington.
- Organized multiple showings of the animal protection documentary, The Witness
- Continue to work with Students for True Animal Rights (STAR) at UVM
- With the help of Merchants Bank and Petfood Warehouse, we sponsored a wildly successful petfood drive in 2009, collecting over a ton of food for local foodshelves
- Hosted Great American Meatout event - showing of Peaceable Kingdom video
- Helped set up, and continue to sponsor the Vermont Animal Cruelty Reporting Hotline - 1-877-9-HUMANE
- Many stores have stopped selling fur garments.
- Helped pass Student Dissection Choice bill in the Vermont legislature, which guarantees that students will be offered a choice to use a model or other technology, instead of a live or real animal, for the purposes of learning biology/anatomy.
- Countless animals have been rescued, including many left on a goat farm in Corinth.
- Monitored state fairs to ensure that live animals were not awarded as prizes where prohibited by Vermont state law
- Some merchants stopped their cruelest euthanasia methods when disposing of unwanted or sick animals.
- Donated $1500 for surgical supplies to VT-CAN, a low cost spay-neuter clinic in Middlesex, VT
- GMAD continues to run educational events through tabling on Church Street, bringing to light all sorts of animal protection issues from the importance of spay/neuter programs, to the cruelty involved in the fur and garment industry
- Continue to subsidize Low cost spay/neuter programs in Vermont, resulting in reduced pet overpopulation and feral cat colonies.
- Stronger pro-animal Vermont State laws in effect, including the Animal Cruelty Statutes.
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