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Thank you for supporting S.B. 602

Dear Senator,
As your constituent, I want to thank you for your humane efforts as Senate Majority Leader, not least your willingness to pass, unamended, S.B. 602, which would recommission the Humane Task Force to Study the Humane Treatment of Animals in Municipal and Regional Shelters and require it to report on enumerated humane issues, including "the failure to provide animals with proper shelter and…the failure to properly confine animals.” As you know, the proper shelter provision is critical to the safety of Connecticut’s animals, now often subject to neglect and subpar shelter but not eligible for assistance under the state cruelty law. Again, thank you so much for your willingness to support and pass S.B. 602 with no amendments.

Please pass S.B. 602 unamended

Dear Legislator,
As your constituent, I respectfully urge you to immediately pass S.B. 602 as drafted, with no amendments. S.B. 602 recommissions the Humane Task Force to Study the Humane Treatment of Animals in Municipal and Regional Shelters, requiring it to report on certain enumerated humane issues by January 1, 2018. One of these issues is “[animal] abuse, including but not limited to, the failure to provide animals with proper shelter and…the failure to properly confine animals.” This provision is critical to the safety of Connecticut’s animals. For example, in 2013, a Norwalk pit bull named Lucy was burned over most of her body, and her male companion injured and two puppies killed, when a space heater ignited the tarp that served as a roof over their makeshift doghouse. More recently, a court returned a substantial number of larger breed dogs to a “rescuer” who had kept them in a frigid Bethlehem barn because the state could not prove cruelty under current law. The proper shelter question is clearly an appropriate and needed subject of study for the Humane Task Force. Again, as your constituent, I respectfully urge you to immediately pass S.B. 602 unamended.