Próbujący ukazać grą dwóch poza, wszystko podległych lincolnowi gracza, aktorów write to your advertisement, be careful not to target any individual, such as the shelter director. Organize a meeting with other interested people and set your goals. Address the most serious problems first. Group members should be familiar with your state's anti-cruelty statutes, local animal ordinances, and the specifics of animal behavior and care. Your efforts be more productive if each member has clearly defined responsibilities. Presenting Your Case: Depending on the problems you have observed, you want to first meet with the shelter director and discuss how you might help improve the facility. If this approach fails or is not feasible, you should request a hearing before the agency that oversees the shelter: the city council, board of county commissioners, or the humane society's board of directors. Attend the hearing with group members and as other supporters as possible. Present your documentation organized way, and be specific. To maintain a high profile county politics, have several of your group's members regularly attend these public meetings. This is essential monitoring progress, and showing officials that your group is serious about reaching its goals. Getting Involved Local Politics: If there is upcoming election, you want to meet with one or more candidates. Schedule your meetings early the race and keep them short and concise. Emphasize votes first and if the candidate is sympathetic to your concerns for animals, you want to offer your group's endorsement and active support. You be a good position to influence your candidate if you have helped her or him get into office. The Humane Society of the United States has a department devoted exclusively to companion animal issues, including animal shelter operations, and send a representative to evaluate a shelter upon request of the shelter's directors or other controlling agency. For more detailed information about improving animal shelters, contact HSUS's Department of Animal Sheltering and Control, 2100 L St., NW, Washington, DC 20037; If you cannot locate the proper person, call or visit your local sheriff's office or police department to ask for help enforcing the law. Before doing check the county and state law books your local library. The state statute and county code tell you exactly what your laws prohibit a person from doing to animal. You can look up the laws easily the index of the books and should make a photocopy to take with you. most states, causing animal unnecessary suffering is illegal, as is beating animal, depriving him or her of food, and on. Once you have located the proper law enforcement officer, provide him her with a concise, written, factual statement of what you have observed, giving dates and approximate times. If you can, photograph the situation and date your photographs. You should also try to get short, factual, written statements from other witnesses. Always keep a record of whom you contact, the date of the contacts, and the content and outcome of your discussions with each of them. Never pass on a letter or document without making a copy for your file. Make it clear that you wish to pursue this case and are willing to lend your assistance, as required. If you are not able to get satisfaction from the enforcement officers, present your documented case to their supervisors, and, if necessary, to your local government officials, such as the county commissioner, and ask them to act. If you have witnessed the cruel act yourself, you can go to your local police commissioner and ask to swear out a warrant to summon the accused person to court. Sometimes expert witnesses be necessary to the case. A veterinarian, for example, can sign a statement that it is his her expert opinion that a dog suffers if swung by a chain, deprived of food, etc. Expert opinions often make or break a case, if you know a sympathetic veterinarian, you wish to seek his her assistance and tell the officer you have expert support. By keeping a factual, well documented, step-by-step record of the case, if all fails, you can always visit or call your local newspapers or television stations and try to interest reporters the story. A news story force officials to act, or scare the person causing the abuse into stopping. Other people who have seen similar acts then be encouraged to step forward. Trainers prepare a dog to fight by imposing a cruel regimen on the dog from the beginning of its life. Trainers starve dogs to make them mean, hit dogs to make them tough, and force dogs to run on treadmills for periods of time, or to endure other exhausting exercise. Pet shops use the natural appeal of puppies, kittens, and other animals to sell them at inflated price, often several hundred dollars for purebred animals. The vast majority of dogs sold