CC 2015-02-24_06a Proclamation - Spay DayOF
WHEREAS, pets provide companion~hip to 68% of households in the United States; and
WHEREAS, nearly 3 million healthy and adoptable cats and dogs are put down in animal
shelters each year due to a lack of critical resources and public awareness; and
WHEREAS, spaying and neutering has been shown to dramatically reduce the
overpopulation of pets; and
WHEREAS, programs exist to assist with the cost of spaying or neutering pets; and
WHEREAS, veterinarians, national and local animal protection organizations, and private
citizens worked together to ensure the spaying or neutering of more than 68,000 pets
throughout the world in 2014; and
WHEREAS, veterinarians, national and local animal protection organizations, and private
citizens have joined together again to advocate the spaying and neutering of pets on
"World Spay Day 2015".
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Jim Hill, Mayor of the
City of Arroyo Grande, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby
proclaim February 24, 2015 as "World Spay Day" and encourage the
citizens of Arroyo Grande to have their own pets spayed or neutered
or by sponsoring the spaying or neutering of another person's pet.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
Seal of the City of Arroyo Grande to be affixed this 241h day of February
2015.
JIM HILL, MAYOR
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