Georgia Legal Professionals for Animals, Inc. (GLPA) is a non-profit corporation comprised of professionals who espouse an ethical and moral precept which maintains that animals are sentient beings, with a capacity for pain and suffering and an intrinsic right to their own lives.
GLPA supports education, outreach and animal welfare initiatives designed to promote increased awareness of the humane and just treatment of animals, with a particular legal emphasis on the following:
- To support and promote laws, regulations and court decisions which positively benefit the lives of wild, exotic, farm and companion animals in the State of Georgia, and to oppose existing or proposed legislation negatively impacting animal welfare;
- To advocate for the effective enforcement and prosecution of Georgia laws designed to protect wild, exotic, farm and companion animals, and in particular, to advocate felony prosecutions when applicable and appropriate, and to facilitate educational opportunities for those involved with such enforcement and prosecution; and
- To support the strengthening of spay/neuter initiatives designed to address companion animal overpopulation in the State of Georgia.
* Tricky is up for adoption. If interested, please email us through our Contact Us page.