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Urge Congress to Back the Better CARE for Animals Act!

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Cruel roadside zoos, traveling acts, and exotic-animal auctions have violated the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) time and time again. Understaffed and underfunded, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) hasn’t taken the meaningful enforcement actions needed to protect animals. 😡

Case in point: From September 2022 to November 2023, the USDA issued 49 citations to the Mt. Hope Auction exotic-animal auction house in Ohio for violating the AWA—and nearly half of them were for repeat offenses. 😑 USDA inspectors have seen a ram dead in his pen, a deer frantically trying to free a trapped leg from an enclosure, and animals kept in extremely inadequate cages at Mt. Hope—yet the agency keeps allowing the auction house to hold events multiple times per year. 🤦

Bills introduced in the U.S. Congress could better protect animals under the AWA.

The Better CARE for Animals Act would effectively give the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the same enforcement authority as the USDA under the AWA. 💪 🦌 💚 The DOJ could help animals and penalize their abusers by suspending or taking away the abusers’ USDA licenses, removing or relocating animals, and allowing places that give animals temporary care to recover potential costs. 💰 If these bills pass, the USDA will have to fork over records and info to the DOJ about violators with multiple citations that seriously affect animals’ well-being.

What You Can Do to Help

This 🔥 legislation needs to become law—and we can all chip in to help make it a reality. Please ask your U.S. senators to cosponsor Senate Bill 2555 and your House representative to cosponsor House Bill 5041 today!

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I’m writing as your constituent to ask that you please cosponsor HR 5041––the Better CARE for Animals Act––which would improve enforcement of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a crucial law that is intended to ensure that circuses, roadside zoos, puppy mills, and other animal-exploiting businesses meet minimum federal standards.

This bill would effectively give the U.S. Department of Justice the same enforcement authority as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the AWA. For years, the USDA has been too understaffed and underfunded to meaningfully enforce the AWA, and animals continue to suffer at the hands of chronic violators.

By cosponsoring this bill, you can help ensure that one of the most important federal laws protecting animals does not go unenforced.

Thank you for your consideration of this important matter.

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Urge Congress to Back the Better CARE for Animals Act!

Bills introduced in the U.S. Congress could better protect animals under the AWA.

What You Can Do to Help

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