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I'm glad to hear about your sororities involvement. I'd like to see more involvement with the National Sororities as well. Not to mean that you don't make a difference, you certainly do, but Nationals can a lot of times make contracts with other National Organizations. Animal rights is a great venture. I'm not a die hard animal rights activist (I've got a fur coat coming to me in the future, and my favorite food is steak), but I don't like to see pets abused in ANY way, whether it's neglect or beatings.
As for our local Humane Society. Both of my pets came from the same shelter. All I had to do was sign and agreement (to provide and properly care for my pet and to have it spayed/neutered), and answer a few questions, such as where I live, do my landlords allow pets, my drivers liscense number, etc etc. I had to show my drivers liscense and that was that. They never did a follow up on us--which I am disappointed about. It's one thing to ask the questions, but people can lie, they need to follow up, make sure the animals are getting spayed/neutered, make sure they actually live at the address given, make sure the landlords agree, etc etc. That was one problem with this specific case. The girl adopting the pet didn't even give the correct address and phone number. She gave her grandmother's address and phone number. She doesn't live there, nor was the puppy ever living there. There are a lot of measures that my local humane society fails to do, as a 'concerned' citizen, I WILL be taking some action and writing a few letters. Hopefully some things start to take effect.
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