Make It Happen

"Fight the Real Fight"

“A VOICE FOR THE SILENT VOICES”

Making a Difference

"The seed you sow, may inspire others."

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action that’s important. You have to do the right thing...You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results. (Gandhi)

If you will not speak and act in behalf of our animal friends, who will?  ~ A Voice for the Silent Voices

Only when mandatory spaying and neutering of our pets is initiated county wide by our county commissioners or by our state legislature, the sad plight of our pet companions being euthanized at the animal shelters or dying a tragic death as a stray will not stop.

It has been my hopes that national or state organizations would take up this battle, and I do believe it is beginning to happen. But, I sincerely believe for us to see it materialize in Fayette, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming Counties, etc. it will have to be a done on a "grass root level."

The purpose of this page is to give you information where your input can be heard and that it will hopefully inspire someone out there to make mandatory spaying and neutering in their  county or state wide their personal battle. United we can win, separately, we are fighting a losing battle.

Anything you can add to  this page to assist our pet in this endeavor or if you live in WV and would like your county listed with the names of your commissioners and their phone number, please E-MAIL

"We can and must make mandatory spaying and/or neutering a reality."

Please sign the petition to help pass a FREE Spay /Neuter program that can be utilized by all tax paying State residents for Free.

The Beckley newspaper, The Register-Herald has a section for a reader to express their opinion in the section titled, "Our Readers Speak" This is excellent method to get you idea across. You do not have to sign in to express your opinion, but can click the following link: " Letters to the Editor" and do so.

If The Register-Herald does not represent your county or state, you should be able to locate your newspaper if it is on-line here: NEWSPAPER - AND WORLD WIDE 

To contact your state representative in West Virginia, click here: Welcome to the West Virginia Legislature’s website. 

The West Virginia organization "The Federation of Humane Organizations of West Virginia" (FOHO) can help get the mandatory spaying and neutering law passed statewide.

In the West Virginia University Institute for Public Affairs’ web site, if you will click "The County Commissioners’ Home Page" and then click the county on the WV map where you want to find the phone number of the commission office in that said county, it will take you to that county’s "Economic Development Home Page." Once you are on the said county’s home page, click "Government Telephone Number," and you will get the phone number of the Commission’s office.

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FAYETTE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Phone: 1-304-574-4290

Matthew Wender from Oak Hill, WV

Kenneth Eskew from Fayetteville, WV

John Lopez from Smithers, WV

RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Phone:  1-304-255-9146

John D. Humphrey, President 255-9327

John L. Aliff, Commissioner 255-9157

Pat S. Reed, Commissioner 255-9328

SUMMERS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Phone:  1-304-466-7100

Billy Lightener

Lonnie Mullens  455-4480

Jerry Berry  466-5189

WYOMING  COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
1-304-732-8000 ext.  224

Tammy Lester

Linda Carter

Becky Blankenship

Linda Lester

Jeanette Toler 

If any of this information is inaccurate or has changed, please E-Mail correction(s).

I believe the Beckley Planning Commission's idea to pass an ordinance in the city that would require pet owners to spay or neuter their pets is an excellent idea whose time has come.

I have often asked myself, why are we allowing pets to reproduce only to welcome their young into this world for a too soon tragically pending death? Why are we wasting taxpayers' money by building luxurious animal shelters which in reality are just slaughtering houses? Why don't we just "nip the bud before it sprouts" by mandating pets must be spayed and/or neutered; our expense for animal control would be less and this useless killing would stop.

Through the People's Pet Pages , one can by the Web sites of the care givers in Fayette, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties see that they are doing all they can to save these unwanted animals - but they are fighting a losing battle. They can give hope to some, but to the most of them, it is to kill them.

The solution is simple. The county commissioners in Fayette, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties need to pass the proposed ordinance. They have passed, and it is working, the smoking and leash law ordinance. We can and must do it by passing this proposed ordinance countywide.

I have read where some areas are just only mandating that all female pets have to be spayed; it makes sense.

County commissioners should "bite the bullet" and pass an ordinance that our pet companions must be either spayed and/or neutered. Friends of our animal companions must "fight the real fight" and push for this ordinance to be initiated and passed. It is the only compassionate and humane thing to do.

Sam Amato

MacArthur

(Posted in The Register-Herald, Our Readers Speak, on Friday, July 16, 2004.)

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