Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
 
Board
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
 
chapter
Regulations for Determining Whether a Facility Meets the Purpose of Finding Permanent Adoptive Homes for Animals [2 VAC 5 ‑ 115]
Action Promulgate regulation required by Chapter 319 of the 2016 Acts of Assembly
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 12/14/2018
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12/12/18  11:36 pm
Commenter: Karen Porreca

No metrics!
 

I support the current regulations. Animals aren’t numbers. They’re individuals with individual needs. When shelters concentrate on statistics instead of animal welfare, animals suffer the consequences—they’re turned away from full shelters that are trying to meet an arbitrary metric, released to negligent owners to keep adoption statistics high, sent to languish in hoarders’ basements or barns so they can be counted as “live releases,” etc. It's not right. No metrics!

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