Uniting A POLITICALLY PROACTIVE Exotic Animal League
Uniting A POLITICALLY PROACTIVE Exotic Animal LeagueUniting A POLITICALLY PROACTIVE Exotic Animal LeagueUniting A POLITICALLY PROACTIVE Exotic Animal League
Uniting A POLITICALLY PROACTIVE Exotic Animal League
About Us
Our Story
Our Mission
Our Mission
We're a group of animal lovers who chose to share our lives with exotics. We believe in responsible ownership of all animals. Some time ago, we recognized a need for us to come together to fight misinformation surrounding exotic pets, and play a part in preserving the right to live with the exotics we love. We needed a voice in Washington, DC and learned how to effectively lobby for our rights.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
To protect the right of responsible exotic and alternative animal owners, handlers, businesses, facilities and organizations by lobbying to prevent unfair regulation, discouraging the casual acquisition of exotic animals through education, and furthering animal welfare through the responsible placement of animals in need.
Lobbying
Our Mission
Lobbying
UAPPEAL uses a federal lobbyist to help fight federal legislation. Our volunteer Board members work together with our lobbyist to fight legislation at the federal level. They have made several trips over the years to our capitol to meet with legislators on behalf of all animal owners.
What we do
At the federal level, the opinions and information provided by a national organization such as ours is highly valued and respected since federal bills usually affect everyone. Therefore, for federal bills UAPPEAL represents all our supporters by working with our federal lobbyist to present information to federal legislators and help us appoint a witness to speak at federal hearings on our behalf.
On the state level, the legislators only want to hear from those that are actually residents in the state. You, as a resident of your state, are the ones a bill directly affects, and you are the ones that the legislators have to answer to since you elected them. Therefore, when it comes to state legislation, UAPPEAL works with residents on various groups to prepare them and train them on how to represent themselves. When hearings and meetings are conducted, UAPPEAL will appoint a resident to hand our legislative packets to legislators and give testimony on our behalf.
However, just because UAPPEAL leaves it to the residents to take charge when it comes to state legislation does not mean we are not actively involved in working on state legislation. Work for the next legislative session usually begins around June when many of the state sessions have ended for the year. It includes preparing various documents to use, reporting upcoming prefiling dates and states prefiling along with any relevant bills found, and session reports detailing when sessions begin and end the next year. After sessions start, a detailed bill list and summary, state status, upcoming hearings notices, and bill updates are provided on a regular basis.
Do Your part!
Exotic animal incidents are used to pass exotic animal bans. Don't let your animals become a statistic. Keep all animals not considered domestic away from people (if not exhibiting) and have secondary containment systems for larger species as you never know the intent of another person. People have been known to climb into enclosures, reach into feeding holes, stick their hands through fences, and approach animals in public to touch them.
Help us pay for representation in Washington!
Funds donated go directly to pay our federal lobbyist.
