Please do not take found cats/dogs to the Michigan Humane Society!! This is unfair to the owner and to the animal!! I cant believe this crap!! Mi-PACA MICHIGAN: we have received disturbing information from Michigan Humane Society (MHS). In an email to volunteers, MHS states that it is changing its policy on stray hold times for healthy cats. MHS will no longer follow Michigan state law that requires all found cats and dogs to be held for a minimum amount of time to allow owners the opportunity to find their missing pets. If you lose your healthy cat and it is not wearing a collar and tag or is not microchipped and it ends up at MHS, you will have zero days and zero minutes to reclaim your beloved pet. This is in effect now, violating state law. WHAT YOU CAN DO: contact the Michigan Dept. of Agriculture and file a complaint that our states largest and wealthiest private shelter is violating state law by ignoring mandatory stray hold times for cats, denying owners the opportunity and the right to reclaim their lost cat. michigan.gov/mdard/0,4610,7-125-2762---C,00.html From the MHS email: MHS, effective immediately, will maintain no hold time for stray cats who are immediately adoptable and do not have any form of traceable identification ... for cats that are candidates for placement and have no identification, we will be evaluating them and moving them up for adoption immediately - no holding period. The entire email: MHS is committed to ending the euthanasia of any healthy or treatable dog or cat. As you are all aware, MHS has not euthanized a single healthy animal in more than 5 years. Then, last week, we affirmed that after years of tremendous progress and hard work, MHS need no longer euthanize a single treatable dog – a milestone day for sure. Today, with great vigor, we must pursue those final challenges specific to the care and treatment of cats, so that in the very near term, this organization will be able to save the lives of every one of the thousands of healthy and treatable dogs and cats whose only hope for a second chance is MHS. All the information above leads us to the point that MHS needs to make a bold lifesaving change – feline lives are depending on it. Currently, there is no statutory hold for cats (THIS IS UNTRUE. Section 287.388 of the Michigan legislature spells out 4-day mandatory stray hold for dogs and cats with no identification, and the Michigan Dept. of Agriculture, which regulates shelters, also states there is a mandatory minimum 4-day stray hold for ALL dogs and cats with no ID). It has been MHS practice to hold stray cats for at least 4 days before placing them up for adoption. However, in order to save more cat lives, MHS, effective immediately, will maintain no hold time for stray cats who are immediately adoptable and do not have any form of traceable identification. Cats with any form of traceable identification will be held for 7 days while we attempt to contact their owners. Furthermore, we will actively make significant efforts to reunite pets with their owners. This marks no change to our current practice. Untreatable cats will be held for at least 4 days, which is exactly the same as our current operating procedure. Not a single cat will be euthanized a day sooner, as might be suggested by anyone critical of this new practice. The only exception being a cat is who is suffering or dying. Again, this marks no change to our current practice, which is supported by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. We will not be changing any practice with regard to cats who are evaluated as unadoptable as we will hold them, just as we historically have, for no less than 4 days. However, for cats that are candidates for placement and have no identification, we will be evaluating them and moving them up for adoption immediately - no holding period. We believe this will significantly decrease the instance of cats getting sick in our care and significantly increase our placement of cats.Logically, in doing so, we will greatly reduce the euthanasia of treatable cats. To reiterate one more time, no cat, none, will be euthanized in any earlier time frame than our current practice.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:21:50 +0000
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