[ SHOWGSD-L ] PAWS
- From: "Catherine Murch" <fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "showgsd-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:46:01 -0500
Hi;
Please read the letter from SAOVA and please contact the co-sponsors of PAWS to
voice your opposition.
Cathy
Kelstar
Dear SAOVA Friends,
Yes, it's the Holiday season, but the antis never rest. The Santorum/Gerlach
PAWS bill, S1139/HR2669, has picked up sixteen cosponsors since its November 8,
2005 hearing, ten of them last week. The vast majority of the 14 Senators and
81 Representatives supporting this devastating animal rightist bill also
supported Senator Santorum's discredited and defeated 2001 Puppy Protection Act
(PPA), or hadn't been elected to Congress at that time. See
http://www.nopaws.org/sponsors.htm
Before the PPA was rejected in 2002, it had accumulated 28 Senate and 152 House
sponsors. The PAWS bill dynamics are somewhat different, but too many
legislators are again being gullibly misled. The Humane Society of the U.S.
(HSUS) is lobbying extremely hard to expand the PAWS cosponsor list. HSUS's
recent House email (below) slanders the bill's opponents as dog fighters,
misstates the bill's impacts and implicitly threatens legislators who don't
cosponsor PAWS. It also distorts the bill's rescue impacts by claiming the bill
affects only breeders, when PAWS's "dealer" criteria is clearly more than 25
animals sold or placed in return for remuneration. Three independent and
credible legal analyses have expressed alarm at PAWS's rescuer impacts,
including one by a rescuer who is an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Lastly, the HSUS
PAWS email solicitation is silent on the bill's impact on all hunting dog
owners, the overwhelming pet owner opposition to PAWS, the one-sided nature of
the
November 8th Santorum hearing and the bill's impact on non-canine species.
Catherine Murch
fmurch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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