ADLA is a statewide leader in Spaying and Neutering Companion Animals and Outdoor Cats. Since 1991 the Spay Neuter Hotline has been making statewide referrals to low cost and no cost Spay Neuter services.
ADLA’s Spay Neuter Hotline provides Trap, Neuter, Return for outdoor cats, which is the only viable solution to their exponential reproduction. ADLA TNR’s 15,000 cats per year and over 100, 000 cats in Maricopa County since 2009.
ADLA is working raise awareness concerning captive dolphin programs to prevent their establishment elsewhere, and to eliminate this practice here in Arizona.
ADLA has monitored the Arizona State Legislature for decades and has worked on legislation affecting animals, including farm animals and wildlife, and citizens’ initiative rights. Over the past three years ADLA and its legislative coalition partners helped to successfully stop legislation that would have removed farm animals from protection under our state animal cruelty laws.
ADLA was one of the groups that defeated Proposition 109, a constitutional ‘right to hunt’ ballot referendum that would have given sole authority over wildlife policy to the state legislature, and could have gutted initiative rights on wildlife issues, nullifying the ban on traps and poisons on public lands.
ADLA was a member of a coalition that defeated a ballot measure that would have severely limited the citizen initiative process. Voters defeated this deceptive measure by a landslide margin of 66% – 34%.
ADLA was a leader in passage of Proposition 204, The Humane Treatment for Farm Animals Act, which bans gestation and veal crates in Arizona. Prop 204 prohibits the cruel and inhumane practice of confining calves and pigs in crates so small they cannot even turn around and extend their limbs. In the 2006 landslide election, Arizona voters passed Prop 204 by a 62% to 38% margin.
ADLA monitors and has challenged abuses in the greyhound racing industry at tracks and labs. In 2002, ADLA members led the animal protection community’s opposition to Proposition 201, successfully defeating the racetrack-back initiative that would have resulted in an increase in the cruel sport of greyhound racing in Arizona. ADLA and other groups supported legislation that successfully ended live greyhound racing in Arizona in 2016.
ADLA volunteers have helped with the reintroduction of Black-tailed prairie dogs in Southern Arizona, and helped relocate an entire Gunnison’s prairie dog colony when urban development threatened to destroy its habitat. A total of 179 animals were spared death by poison.
ADLA was a member group of a citizens’ ballot measure that banned the cruel bloodsport of cockfighting in Arizona in 1998.
ADLA scrutinizes laboratories, zoos, circuses and other facilities regulated by the Animal Welfare Act to help insure compliance with the law.
ADLA monitors the Arizona Game and Fish Department and challenges unsound wildlife management practices.
ADLA investigated the illegal sale of dogs to a laboratory which resulted in administrative prosecution of the dealer by the USDA.