Friday October 2, 2009, 12:54 pm
What a wonderful act... now to get it passed. For those of us disabled/retired in this economy keeping our pets safe and happy is difficult!

Friday October 2, 2009, 1:47 pm
I'm all over this! What a great idea *yes*

Friday October 2, 2009, 4:18 pm
Great idea

Friday October 2, 2009, 6:18 pm
Excellant! Signed and sent. Although they might be tired of all the letters I wrote them on Health care.

Friday October 2, 2009, 9:52 pm
Boy, I could sure use that this year alone with both cats.

Friday October 2, 2009, 10:33 pm
Signed and shared on FB

Saturday October 3, 2009, 12:22 am
Please, please, please, please, PLEASE pass along the word to anyone and everyone whom you can think of. It's a desperate -- and terrifyingly sad -- situation here in Los Angeles, and worsening by the month, the week, the day, even the HOUR! PLEASE support the HAPPY Act, and ask everyone else to do the same, for the sake of our beautiful, voiceless friends who are totally dependent upon US for their lives, health, and well-being.

Susie

Saturday October 3, 2009, 5:11 am
I strive for independence, own my home and am seriously mobility disabled. I live alone and without my dog who is now 14 I would not be alive.

I have had to hold my medicine and food to save money to pay for his when his actions keep me independent and not a burden on the system meaning skilled nursing care placement with what would end in Medicaid paying the bill.

He has found ulcers not visible on my lower limbs 9 times for which I had in office surgery, (the doctor had never done surgery based on a dog but he did and the dog was right) before the problem required hospitalization and a PIC line saving Medicare/Medicaid thousands.

Now he is old, and has bads legs like me. I rescued him and saved him from maternal parvo, he saved me back.

Saturday October 3, 2009, 8:05 am
This should be passed. As animals are so very important to our well being. So of course I signed.

Saturday October 3, 2009, 3:46 pm
Excellent Idea - one I am all for.
Shirley H.

Saturday October 3, 2009, 4:24 pm
This is great! BUT - I can't sign it, as I am in NZ. Can we please have THE HAPPY ACT in other countries? How to go about doing it?

Saturday October 3, 2009, 7:34 pm
EXCELLENT!!

Saturday October 3, 2009, 7:53 pm
This would be so great. it would help so much with poeple like me who take in unwanted animals and have to incurr the total cost of these animals. i have 15 cats, 4 dogs, a ferret and a cockitiel. i have to obsorb the total cost of caring for these resuced animals.

Sunday October 4, 2009, 6:14 pm
Of course I signed.

Tuesday October 6, 2009, 5:54 pm
Signed & noted..
Thank you Vic..

Monday October 12, 2009, 2:32 pm
This is a nice idea, but with the country in an economic tsunami and people dying everyday because they cannot get medical care as uninsured or underinsured along with all the financial disasters at hand as well with states in near bankruptcy calling for the disolution of many necessary social programs, I doubt that Congress will pass an act for allowance of a deduction as proposed in the HAPPY Bill. I wish it were so.