Minnesota's Pound Seizure Law in the News

The Salt Lake Tribune, 3/2/10, "Two animal shelter bills advance"

The Salt Lake Tribune, 11/11/09, "Utah's pound seizure law implicated in PETA probe"

examiner.com, 4/28/09 "Minnesota Pound Seizure Law"

How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation: Understanding Pound Seizure, by Allie Phillips
When Phillips, who had once worked as a volunteer at an animal shelter, learned of the practice of pound seizure, she turned a "betrayal of trust" into action. As vice president of No Paws Left Behind and director of public policy at the American Humane Association, the former prosecutor has made it her mission to expose and fight the practice of shelters giving or selling cats and dogs to research facilities, universities, or Class B Dealers (animal brokers licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture).

The message is simple - this is a practice that could literally affect you and your pet tomorrow. For the local animal control or community animal shelter, this book is a message that engaging in pound seizure is a practice that, if discovered, can and will result in the withdrawal of precious donation dollars, loss of community support, and loss of compliance with stray dog laws and abuse/neglect laws.
Available for purchase online from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.