HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamation 02- Pet Care Week October 20-26 2002
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PROCLAMATION
PET CARE WEEK
October 20-26, 2002
WHEREAS, the Bozeman City Commission supports events that promote the
peace, tranquility, health, and safety of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission recognizes the problems that are caused by an
overpopulation of dogs and cats, that include running at large,
depredation of livestock and of wildlife, the danger of bites and
attacks to citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission recognizes that pet overpopulation leads to the
cost of housing unwanted and homeless dogs and cats, and leads to
the ethical question: should healthy adoptable dogs and cats be
destroyed at public expense and approval; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission recognizes that a result of such pet over-
population is casual treatment, abuse, neglect, and cruelty that can
influence behaviors that can possibly spread to other violence,
against children, within families and in the wider community; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission recognizes that education and spaying and
neutering pets to reduce their population are some of the solutions
to the above problems.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Steven R. Kirchhoff, Mayor of the City of Bozeman, do hereby
proclaim the week of October 20-26, 2002 as
"Pet Care Week"
in support of the events of that week, co-hosted by the City Commission in conjunction
with the Montana Spay/Neuter Task Force, that include visits and educational events to be
launched in schools, publicized throughout the Gallatin Valley, and culminating in a free,
demonstration spay/neuter clinic at the Gallatin Valley Fairgrounds especially for pet
owners who need such services.
SEAL IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Great Seal of the City of
Bozeman, in the State of Montana, to be affixed
at Bozeman, Montana, this 13th day of May in
the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Two.
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STEVEN R. KIRCH F
Mayor
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