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Animal cruelty is everyone's responsibility. You can help!

Download this petition and collect signatures supporting the bills below.
Send them Assemblyman James Tedisco at 12 Jay Street, Schenectady, New York 12305.

Learn more ways to help below ...

"Reporting Animal Cruelty:
What Caring Citizens Need to Know"

This program is for anyone with a concern for animals, especially those who have witnessed animal cruelty or neglect and not known what to do about it. It will provide an overview of animal cruelty law, practical advice on gathering evidence, and who to contact for help.

Crimes against animals often go unpunished because they are not reported. Others that are reported are often not pursued because evidence is gathered incorrectly. In addition, laws pertaining to animals are sometimes misunderstood, even by authorities who are charged with enforcing them.

For that reason, those who care about animals need to be familiar with the law, as well as how to best present evidence and eyewitness accounts of cruelty and neglect.

Presented by Sheila McGee, an animal advocate and student of HVCC’s Animal Law program.

We are happy to bring this program to your location. If you wish to have this program presented to your group, please call (518) 374-3944, ext. 113.

Support Assemblyman
Jim Tedisco’s efforts to strengthen
and clarify Buster’s Law.

Assembly Bill 8444 - Requires psychiatric
counseling for those convicted under Buster's Law

Assembly Bill 9912 (Skye's Law) - Brings pet
horses under the clear protection of Buster's Law

These bills need Senate support.

1. Click here to find out your NY State Senator's contact information.

2. E-mail or send a polite, concise letter asking your Senator to sponsor A8444 (which would require psychiatric counseling for those convicted of aggravated animal cruelty) and A9912 (which would include pet horses as companion animals under Buster’s Law and therefore allow for felony prosecution for aggravated animal cruelty).

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Write to these assemblymen and state senators to tell them you support Assemblyman Jim Tedisco's bills to strengthen Buster’s Law. They are also in support and need to hear from constituents that these bills are is important to them.

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=110&sh=contact
Assemblyman James Tedisco

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=050&sh=contact
Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol

http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/hugh-t-farley/contact
Senator Hugh Farley

http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/roy-j-mcdonald/contact
Senator Roy J. McDonald

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=105&sh=contact
Assemblyman George Amedore

Resources

How to Investigate Animal Cruelty In New York State
(a comprehensive manual that can be downloaded)
New York State Humane Association (NYSHA)

Resources on various cruelty and neglect topics
Animal Legal Defense Fund

Animal Law in New York State
New York State Bar Association

Summary of NYS Animal Cruelty Laws
ASPCA

Pets and Foreclosure, Abandoned Pets
New York State Bar Association

Schenectady County SPCA click, or call 518-755-9517