October, 2008
E-Veterinarian News
WE ARE VERY,
VERY CLOSE BUT
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!
PLEASE, DON'T
LET THE SPAY/NEUTER PROJECT FAIL!
We are less than one month away from reaching our goal of
pre-selling 1,000 Spay/Neuter license plates (Tag #88) in an effort to
assist low-income pet owners. The number of applicants reported by the
Alabama Department of Motor Vehicles reached 742 through the month of
August. We do not know how well we did in September nor how well things
are going in October. We MUST NOT leave the remaining time to
chance! If our efforts fail in this regard, we will have lost a great
opportunity to help bring the crisis of unwanted pets under control. If every member of the
Association would participate in this effort, we would more than surpass
our goal. You can also consider offering to reimburse your staff if any of
them would like to participate. A number of our members have opted to do
this and it has been well received by staff members.
efforts! Please, sign up to get your specialized plate today!
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CE DATES AVAILABLE
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AVMA In The News
FDA Launches New Public-access Database of
Animal Drug Approvals
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Dr. Gail Golab, Becomes First
U.S. Veterinarian Credentialed In Animal Welfare
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Message
from President
Newman
Dear Fellow
Veterinarians:
To promote and support sound
legislation is a constant. There has been a problem with the lack of
efforts in the past but we are catching up. Paying attention to the
legislature is well in hand but so is developing collaborations with
associated groups and developing a legislative day tentatively to be held
in the spring. Selling the spay/neuter tag is a legislative
issue because the legislature has to approve such a sale.
What
you should know is that the legislature pays attention to such
efforts.
If we are unable to sell one thousand tags, the
legislature will realize we are without political pull thus relegating our
political opinions to the proverbial
trash
heap.
2009 ALVMA Animal Hall of Fame
Call for Nominations
Do you know
an animal worthy of nomination into the 2009 AL.V.M.A. Animal Hall of Fame? If so, please
contact Dr. Jan Strother as soon as possible so that we may get this
special animal into the nomination process! The cut off date for
nominations is
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