Support to end killing of abandoned cats and dogs
Eligibility - Queensland citizens
Principal Petitioner:
Joy Verrinder
C/- Animal Welfare League
Coombabah QLD
C/- Animal Welfare League
Coombabah QLD
Total Signatures - 7343
Sponsoring Member:
Peta-Kaye Croft
Posting Date:
30/11/2006
Tabled Date:
30/11/2006
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
This petition of citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the House that 200,000 + healthy cats and dogs taken as stray or surrendered are killed each year across Australia, and this is mainly a result of the large numbers of fertile companion animals.
Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to call on the Queensland Government to end this unjustifiable slaughter in Queensland through:
- prohibiting the sale or adoption of companion animals which have not been desexed and microchipped, unless being sold to, or adopted by, a holder of a breeding permit;
- requiring and/or assisting current owners to desex and microchip their animal companions.