Greetings!

Hi Everyone!

We are new to Vox and would like to introduce ourselves to your group.

International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is an animal rights organization that utilizes law and education to serve animals. We also promote the importance of spaying/neuter companion animals and the adoption option from local humane socities to reduce the numbers of loving and healthy animals killed in shelters each year simply "to make room".

We would like to invite you to our website (http://www.isaronline.org) to learn more about ISAR and our programs.

Since this is a group focusing on the legal side of things, we would also like to make mention of our monograph titled, "Harming Companion Animals: Liability and Damages". Many lawyers and State Representatives are requesting and making use of this booklet to fight for animal rights.

If anyone is interested in receiving a complimentary copy of Harming Companion Animals: Liability and Damages, simply contact us and let us know where you've heard about us.

Please stop by our Vox page and say hello!

Also, you may find below an excerpt of the introduction to "Harming":

Too often, especially with the advent of the Internet, advice is sought from International Society for Animal Rights from the custodians of companion animals about harm done to them by veterinarians through misdiagnosis, prescribing the wrong medicine, operating unnecessarily or not when they should, and committing every other kind of malpractice imaginable. We also receive heartbreaking reports of intentional acts of cruelty perpetrated against companion animals: dogs shot by neighbors, cats stoned by teenagers, horses maimed by sadists.

The media exposure now being given to the harm being visited upon companion animals causes nightmares for their custodians, who live in fear their animals may be the next victims.

Given what is now known about the emotional aspects of the human-animal bond, and how the millions of companion animal caretakers experience that bond, it’s not surprising that when harm is caused the custodian seeks some kind of recourse.

Often a complaint is made to prosecutors, the licensing authorities, or the Better Business Bureau. Sometimes newspaper announcements are placed, reporting what the wrongdoer did, or failed to do. Mostly, however, the reaction of choice is a lawsuit—usually not to recover damages for their own sake, but to expose the wrongdoer’s conduct, to prevent him from harming any animals in the future, and/or to punish him financially... http://www.isaronline.org/harming_animals.html