Support bill that prevents communities from discriminating against any breed of dog in Missouri! No breed specific legislation!

Missouri: SB 886 Regulates the Dog, Not the Breed
Sponsor(s): Senator Jolie Justus
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Please email our letter to your state senator and members of the Missouri State Senate Economic Development, Tourism and Local Government Committee to express your support for this bill.
Sponsored by Senator Jolie Justus, SB 886 would allow any [...]

annie

I pet Annie for about 10 minutes today! I opened one side of her cage and reached in to pet her. She has a little cat cube and I reached inside, SLOWLY, and eventually made it to her paw. She let me pet under her chin (of course no cat could refuse that!), her face, [...]

Wally

This is Wally, he was found as a stray in Kansas City, Missouri. Someone put a puppy collar on him and never took it off. As her grew, his skin grew around it and the collar became embedded. He required surgery to remove the collar. He is doing much better now [...]

Feral Cat

Surprisingly her cage was clean still. I gave her baby food off a spoon this time and got my hand really close to her. I saw her smell my hand while she was eating off the spoon. Then, I tried something I wasn’t sure of. I put some baby food on my finger and she [...]

feral cat

I talked to a friend of mine who volunteers at the shelter with me about what I could do to show the cat I was not a threat. She reminded me of something I already do with my own cats, blink at them. Slowly blinking at them shows them that you are not a threat [...]

feral cat

I noticed that after I would leave the room, I could hear the cat moving around and shredding the newspaper that I put in the bottom of it’s cage. I was curious to see what it was doing so I videotaped it. I saw it playing a bit and trying to get out. It was [...]

Feral Cat

This cat is not happy here at all–and she is really, really messy. She is knocking over her food and water bowls on a regular basis. Any box I put in there for her to sleep in, she knocks over. She is pulling things into her cage from outside, like the blankets I put over [...]

I don’t know what gender the cat is but I do know it is terrified. I let it out of the trap and let it roam around the room–which was NOT a good idea! The cat was running full speed into the window, trying to escape. I was trying to corner it, but it jumped [...]