Develop capacity for effective enforcement of New Mexico’s laws against animal cruelty, to include: hosting animal cruelty/animal fighting hotlines and providing technical support to the public and agencies on cases–more than 2,000 cases were handled in 2010; working with N.M. Attorney General to enhance the New Mexico Animal Cruelty Task Force; underwriting law enforcement training on animal fighting/animal cruelty investigations and a broad range of topics pertaining to animal control and sheltering; issuing and publicizing rewards for information in cruelty cases; and continuing public outreach on animal cruelty issues.
Plan, fundraise for and implement comprehensive statewide program services to address the most immediate needs of wild, feral and domestic horses and other equines in New Mexico. Program components will include emergency feed assistance, subsidized humane euthanasia and disposal, subsidized gelding services, equine re-homing, pursuit of equine policy improvements, promotion of equine stewardship, training law enforcement agencies on handing equine issues, and developing statewide volunteer network for equines.
Provide comprehensive input to the Animal Sheltering Board on all aspects of animal sheltering, including shelter and euthanasia standards. Continue outreach across New Mexico about new euthanasia licensing laws, governing agencies, procedures, technicians and instructors.
Maintain and promote CARE network of safe havens across
New Mexico for animals of domestic violence victims.
Work with communities to create effective spay-neuter programs, publicize a directory of spay-neuter resources available statewide and promote New Mexico’s spay-neuter license plate.
Distribute Kind News newspapers to thousands of New Mexico school children, make age-appropriate presentations on animal care/safety and cruelty in schools, community centers, colleges and universities, and promote and distribute humane alternatives to classroom dissection ofanimals.
Using a New Mexico Department of Public Safety report on tethering dogs and Animal Protection of New Mexico’s Train. Don’t Chain.® campaign, develop and implement a comprehensive plan to improve the quality of life for New Mexico’s dogs by: advocating for stronger local ordinances that address chaining in effective ways; creating a pilot program to ensure success; teaching people that dogs are social beings who should not be isolated on chains; developing a series of public service announcements; making behavioral training resources available; and helping people identify viable alternatives, such as fencing and housing solutions.
Continue building support to permanently retire from invasive research the chimpanzees at Alamogordo Primate Facility.
Work with state and federal agencies to promote humane solutions to problems caused by beavers by educating agencies and the public about the many benefits of flow devices and coexisting with beavers.
Implement comprehensive Cougar Smart New Mexico outreach program on how the public can stay safe when living and recreating in New Mexico’s “cougar country” by emphasizing coexistence, education and awareness.
Using the best available science and public support for coexistence with wildlife, influence policy-makers to change regulations harmful to wild species.
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