ASPCA and NFL Team Up to Fight Animal Cruelty

New accessible account advertisement appearance Jason Taylor of Miami Dolphins. We acclaim the NFL's charge to adopting acquaintance of abominable animality and advancement the accommodating analysis of animals In abutting our efforts to eradicate abominable cruelty, the NFL is sending a able bulletin to players, admirers and the accepted accessible -- that the abusage of animals will not be acceptable and is, in a word, artlessly unacceptable. Jason is one of abounding players in the alliance who shares his home with a pet We are admiring to be partnering with one of the a lot of admired abominable abundance organizations in the apple in abutment of a could cause accepted by so abounding NFL players -- and one that is important to millions of Americans.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 20, 2007 -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) and the National Football League will admission a new anti-cruelty accessible account advertisement (PSA) featuring Miami Dolphins DE Jason Taylor, it was appear today. The PSA, produced by NFL Films, is appointed to activate airing December 22 on NFL Network and ESPN.

In June 2007, the ASPCA and the alliance appear a accord on the development of educational abstracts to enhance acquaintance on the able analysis of animals a allotment of players and employees. In accession to educating its players and teams on the accent of caring appropriately for animals, the alliance has continued its efforts in this across by partnering with the ASPCA to advice accession acquaintance of abominable animality above the nation. Featuring Jason Taylor and Bear, his Akita of 11 years, the PSA encourages admirers to advice the ASPCA put an end to abominable cruelty, and can be beheld at www.fightcruelty.org.

"We acclaim the NFL's charge to adopting acquaintance of abominable animality and advancement the accommodating analysis of animals," said ASPCA President & CEO, Ed Sayres. "In abutting our efforts to eradicate abominable cruelty, the NFL is sending a able bulletin to players, admirers and the accepted accessible -- that the abusage of animals will not be acceptable and is, in a word, artlessly unacceptable."

"Jason is one of abounding players in the alliance who shares his home with a pet," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "We are admiring to be partnering with one of the a lot of admired abominable abundance organizations in the apple in abutment of a could cause accepted by so abounding NFL players -- and one that is important to millions of Americans."

Jason Taylor was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third annular of the 1997 NFL Draft. Since then, he has durably accustomed himself as one of the arch arresting ends in the league. Taylor was awarded the 2006 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award, and is widely-recognized as a baton in off-field association account in South Florida and beyond. He lives in Florida with his wife, three accouchement and the admired four-legged affiliate of his family, Bear.

About the ASPCA®:
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) was the aboriginal accommodating alignment accustomed in the Americas, and today has added than one actor supporters throughout North America. A 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA's mission is to accommodate able agency for the blockage of animality to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides bounded and civic administration in animal-assisted therapy, abominable behavior, abominable adulteration control, anti-cruelty, accommodating education, aldermanic services, and apartment outreach. The New York City address houses a full-service, accredited, abominable hospital, acceptance center, and adaptable berth beat program. The Humane Law Enforcement administration enforces New York's abominable animality laws and is featured on the absoluteness television alternation "Animal Precinct" on Animal Planet. For added information, amuse appointment www.aspca.org.

Contact:
Melissa Treuman
(212) 876-7700 x 4521

Clare Graff
NFL
(212) 450-2435

ASPCA Deploys Disaster Response Team to Assist in Animal Evacuations, Sheltering in Anticipation of Hurricane Gustav

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) has deployed a aggregation of adversity acknowledgment experts to abetment the accompaniment of Louisiana in pre- and post-storm aborticide and apartment in alarm of Hurricane Gustav. Louisiana accompaniment admiral accept declared a pre-storm State of Emergency, and Gustav is a Category 3 Hurricane that could accomplish landfall as aboriginal as Monday morning, September 1. We accept accustomed abundant requests for abetment from bounded archdiocese shelters and added abominable abundance organizations in Louisiana We are alive carefully with the Louisiana State Animal Response Team to abetment and accommodate resources. We are admiring to be able to accommodate our assistance, both in agreement of animal assets and equipment, in adversity abatement efforts By application our assets strategically and authoritative key access at the bounded levels, the ASPCA's Disaster Response aggregation is able to bigger acknowledge to shelters and animals in need.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 30, 2008 -- The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) has deployed a aggregation of disaster response experts to abetment the accompaniment of Louisiana in pre- and post-storm aborticide and apartment in alarm of Hurricane Gustav. Louisiana accompaniment admiral accept declared a pre-storm State of Emergency, and Gustav is a Category 3 Hurricane that could accomplish landfall as aboriginal as Monday morning, September 1.

"We accept accustomed abundant requests for abetment from bounded archdiocese shelters and added abominable abundance organizations in Louisiana," said Sandy Monterose, the ASPCA's Senior Director of Community Outreach. "We are alive carefully with the Louisiana State Animal Response Team to abetment and accommodate resources."

Members of the ASPCA adversity acknowledgment aggregation accustomed at the website of the Louisiana Mega Shelter in Shreveport, La. on Friday, August 29. One adversity acknowledgment trailer, accepting apprenticed by added ASPCA aggregation members, will access on Saturday. The ASPCA aswell contacted its accomplice agency, the Saranac Technical Rescue Team, to be on standby for post-storm activity. Currently, the ASPCA aggregation is complex in apartment efforts on the arena and is alive to alike aborticide of bounded abominable shelters.

"We are admiring to be able to accommodate our assistance, both in agreement of animal assets and equipment, in adversity abatement efforts," said ASPCA President and CEO Ed Sayres. "By application our assets strategically and authoritative key access at the bounded levels, the ASPCA's Disaster Response aggregation is able to bigger acknowledge to shelters and animals in need."

The ASPCA's Disaster Response Team of ten, which includes a veterinarian, veterinary technicians, adversity responders and apartment professionals, was deployed at the appeal of the Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART), which serves as the advance abominable emergency acknowledgment accomplice of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry beneath ESF-11.

Other agencies besides the ASPCA that are acceptable LSART's efforts cover United Animal Nations, Code 3, American Humane Association, the Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Best Friends, Noah's Wish and abundant added accommodating and adversity acknowledgment groups.

The ASPCA's Disaster Response Team was created in September, 2005 as a apparatus to abetment with the accomplishment of animals in crisis during a disaster. As the charge grew above the country, the ASPCA responded by deploying the teams civic if requested by the agency accepting jurisdiction.

About the ASPCA:
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was the aboriginal accommodating alignment accustomed in the Americas, and today has added than one actor supporters throughout North America. A 501 [c [3 not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA's mission is to accommodate able agency for the blockage of animality to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides bounded and civic administration in animal-assisted therapy, abominable behavior, abominable adulteration control, anti-cruelty, accommodating education, aldermanic services, and apartment outreach. The New York City address houses a full-service, accredited, abominable hospital, acceptance center, and adaptable berth beat program. The Humane Law Enforcement administration enforces New York's abominable animality laws and is featured on the absoluteness television alternation 'Animal Precinct' on Animal Planet. For added information, amuse appointment www.aspca.org.

ASPCA Emergency Grant Funding Tops $75,000 Following Hurricanes Ike & Gustav

Pre-Assessment Funding for Ike Aftermath Already at $25,000. Thanks to the affection and generosity of our supporters, the ASPCA is able to action grants and emergency funds to abetment alignment afflicted by both Hurricanes Ike and Gustav Over the years, these organizations accept apparent aberrant charge and adherence the animals in their care, and we are blessed to be able to accommodate abetment during their time of need.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 17, 2008 -— The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) has broadcast and apprenticed added than $75,000 in admission allotment to organizations in Texas and Louisiana afterward Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, in accession to deploying a aggregation of adversity acknowledgment experts to abetment both states in ambidextrous with the after-effects of abominable and abominable agency casualties.

The admission allotment covers accretion costs, as able-bodied as busline assistance, administration of aliment and supplies, and added needs.

“Thanks to the affection and generosity of our supporters, the ASPCA is able to action grants and emergency funds to abetment alignment afflicted by both Hurricanes Ike and Gustav,” said ASPCA President and CEO Ed Sayres. “Over the years, these organizations accept apparent aberrant charge and adherence the animals in their care, and we are blessed to be able to accommodate abetment during their time of need.”

In the after-effects of Hurricane Ike, the ASPCA has already apprenticed added than $25,000 in pre-assessment grants to the afterward organizations:

 

Animal Aid of Vermillion Parish in Louisiana, for accretion and supplies; Walter Ernst Foundation of the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, for equine hay drops in southwest Louisiana; Habitat for Horses Inc. in Hitchcock, Texas, for emergency hay afterwards abolition of a new barn and sheds, and for 60 horses on website and addition 300 in advance affliction above several states; Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue Organization in Shreveport, Louisiana for abetment with abatement of ankle banal from abounding areas in Vermillion Parish, as able-bodied as hay.
The ASPCA is alive carefully with the Texas State Animal Resource Team (TXSART) and added credentialed abominable affliction agencies to abetment and accommodate resources. ASPCA adversity aggregation associates are stationed at the Area Command Center at the Texas Animal Health Commission in Austin, Texas, and are currently accouterment assessments in Liberty County, just arctic of Galveston, one of the hardest-hit areas.

In accession to its accepted efforts afterward Hurricane Ike, the ASPCA broadcast $50,000 to the afterward agencies afterward Hurricane Gustav, as able-bodied as deploying staffing and equipment, to abetment abominable abundance organizations on the ground. Agencies accepting emergency grants afterward Hurricane Gustav included:

 

Wild Animal Orphanage, San Antonio, Texas, for carriage assistance; Louisiana SPCA, New Orleans, for aliment and food provided for apartment animals as able-bodied as pets of evacuees in the surrounding community; Greater Birmingham Humane Society, Birmingham, Alabama, for agreement and abetment with acquisition and alteration supplies; Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana for crates and food to backpack animals and restock; Animal Rescue New Orleans for recovery, and abode and aliment administration to lower parishes; Humane Society of Louisiana, New Orleans, for abetment and assessments throughout Southeast Louisiana; Denham Springs Animal Shelter, Denham Springs, Louisiana, for accretion and abode accident repair.
The ASPCA’s Disaster Response Team includes a veterinarian, veterinary technicians, adversity responders and apartment professionals. The ASPCA aggregation currently deployed is at the appeal of the Texas State Animal Resource Team (TXSART), which is accurate by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association. Rotating teams of ASPCA will be deployed as bare throughout the appraisal and accretion period.

Other agencies besides the ASPCA that are lending abutment to TXSART cover American Humane Association, Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Noah’s Wish, Society of Animal Welfare Administrators, United Animal Nations, and abundant bounded and bounded groups.

The ASPCA's Disaster Response Team was created in September 2005 as a apparatus to abetment with the accomplishment of animals in crisis during a disaster. As the charge grew above the country, the ASPCA responded by deploying the teams civic if requested by the agency accepting jurisdiction.
About the ASPCA®

Founded in 1866, the ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®) was the aboriginal accommodating alignment accustomed in the Americas, and today has added than one actor supporters throughout North America. A 501 [c [3 not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA’s mission is to accommodate able agency for the blockage of animality to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides bounded and civic administration in animal-assisted therapy, abominable behavior, abominable adulteration control, anti-cruelty, accommodating education, aldermanic services, and apartment outreach. The New York City address houses a full-service, accepted abominable hospital, acceptance center, and adaptable berth beat program. The Humane Law Enforcement administration enforces New York’s abominable animality laws and is featured on the absoluteness television alternation “Animal Precinct” on Animal Planet. For added information, amuse appointment www.aspca.org.