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used.) <br />o Lesson 4 – I can learn to be safe around dogs and cats and train my pets <br />with kindness. Use videos and large photographs to demonstrate dog <br />body language. <br />o Lesson 5 – I can make a responsible decision about providing for a pet for <br />its entire life. <br />o Lesson 6 – I can be an advocate for animals. They show video “A Very <br />Important Place” about the Orange County Animal Shelter and featuring <br />Animal Services and shelter staff. Kids make posters. <br />o Lesson 7 – Celebration Assembly. Announce Speuter Bowl Essay Contest <br />winner and runners up; students take the Kids4Kindness Pledge. <br />Next steps – <br />• Next steps: Funding, new and improved website, program expansion. <br /> <br />b. Action for Board <br /> <br />Education is a critical component of the county’s Strategic Pet Overpopulation Plan. <br />Must have strategic partners to implement humane education programs. <br /> <br />ASAB should consider support for strategic partnership with Kids4Kindness: <br /> <br />1. Inform BOCC of the important work Kids4Kindness is doing in Orange County <br />Schools. ASAB tell BOCC how important work doing is. <br />2. Ask BOCC to consider sending a letter to the Orange County School Board about <br />adopting this program formally as a critical component of the county’s holistic <br />program to address pet overpopulation for the benefit of animal welfare and <br />Orange County taxpayers. <br />3. Encourage Kids4Kindness to apply for a grant through the county’s outside <br />agency funding process. <br /> <br /> <br />5. ASAB Affairs <br /> <br />a. Potentially Dangerous Dog Appeal Hearing <br /> <br />ASAB member Susan Elmore reported on the results of the one hearing that was held <br />since the last ASAB meeting. The Appeals Committee overturned the designation <br />because it didn’t meet the standard under the statute of approaching the victim in “a <br />vicious or terrorizing manner in an apparent attitude of attack.” <br /> <br />b. ASAB Animal Advocate Vacancy <br /> <br />Due to a mistake on the County’s application paperwork, the ASAB recommended an <br />individual who had not applied for the position and did not actually possess the