[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: ALBUQUERQUE, NM MAYOR INTRODUCES SPAY/NEUTER PLAN
- From: "Karen Paone" <kbpaone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org'" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:58:51 -0600
We've not yet seen the Mayor's proposed ordinance. He has been working
cooperatively with the Rio Grande Kennel Club for approximately 2 years. He
is attempting to address our interests - within the context of a politically
acceptable compromise.
We do know that the mayor's opponent, Councilor Sally Mayes, has proposed
extraordinarily onerous legislation designed to eradicate hobby breeders.
Her legislation includes mandatory spay and neuter for everyone except
licensed breeders or owners of intact animals. Of course, if you have such
a license, you are subject to search and seizure at the pleasure of Animal
Control Officers.
(1) Permits Required for the Following Businesses, Activities, or Animals. A
Person shall have a Permit for the following businesses, activities, or
Animals:
(A) Animal specific Permits (1) Possession of an Intact Companion Animal (2)
Possession of a Litter or ownership or possession of a pregnant Companion
Animal. (2) Operation of a Multiple Companion Animal Site.
C) Permit holders and applicants agree to allow entry and inspection of the
Permit holder's and applicant's premises by the Mayor with reasonable
notice. Upon presentation of proper identification, and at any reasonable
time, the Mayor shall be allowed to enter any Permitted Premises for the
purpose of making inspections to determine compliance with this Ordinance.
The Person in Charge of the Permitted premises shall be allowed to accompany
the Mayor on his inspection. The Mayor may conduct inspections of the
Permitted Premises without the presence of the person in charge provided
that a competent person over 18 years of age is present. The Mayor shall be
allowed to examine all records pertinent to the origin and care of any
Animals located at, or emanating from any Permitted Premises.
(D) Permit holders shall promptly produce any and all documents pertaining
to medical and ownership records for inspection upon request of the Mayor.
All required documents shall be kept for three years.
So among other things, you open your home for inspection, essentially at any
time.
Yes, I CAN (and I emphasize the "I" - I speak only for myself,) choose to
oppose everything! Having lived through opposing 20 years of proposed
health care legislation as an executive in the health care
industry;___winning some battles, but losing the war.
Rather, I choose to support those proposals which, though imperfect,
acknowledge the efforts of reputable breeders, breed clubs, obedience clubs,
and the AKC. No, they're not what I'd like. I disagree with fundamental
aspects of the proposed legislation, but I'd rather be part of the solution
than simply an obstruction to doing anything. We DO have children and
adults in Albuquerque regularly being seriously injured and permanently
disfigured by irresponsible dog owners.
Unfortunately, Canine Good Citizen legislation simply doesn't address these
folks. They don't give a rip!!
Until we have very significant dollars behind us, my choice is to support
the most rational, least oppressive, solution available. My CNMGSDC
colleagues are welcome to share their respective positions. These are mine.
Karen Paone
Paone & Associates, LLC
Phone: 505-821-9253
Fax: 505-821-9540
Cell: 505-250-4003
Email: kbpaone@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Correct me if I am wrong... but doesn't even the Mayor's version require
breeder "licensing"??? If so, I am opposed to both of them.
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
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Subject: RE: [ SHOWGSD-L ] ALBUQUERQUE, NM MAYOR INTRODUCES SPAY/NEUTER
PLAN
We may be making just a little progress. Following is the latest word as of
late last night from the Rio Grande Kennel Club.
This came from RGKC via Ruth Davis.
In a message dated 4/12/2006 9:01:18 PM Mountain Standard Time, WChrist367
writes:
The Mayor telephoned me this afternoon following his press conference and
advised me that it was time for the kennel club weigh in against Sally
Mayer's ordinance and in favor of his own. He told me that Sally was
present as he announced his ordinance and spent much of the time advising
the press that he was misdirected by "the breeders" and that her ordinance
was far superior. The Mayor said that Sally was adding the finishing
touches to her ordinance as we spoke and would plan to introduce it on
Monday, April 17, at the next council meeting. He indicated that she might
move it for a vote but indicated that Don Harris would not support this.
According to the City Charter, she is to allow two weeks for public review
of her "substitute" ordinance and then move it to a vote at the following
council meeting on 1 May. However, as we all know, Sally is prone to get
away with whatever she can, and the Mayor felt that we should have as many
RGKC members present as possible signed up to speak against it.
He said that he would also introduce his own bill on April 17, where it
would move to the committees for review. (For those of you who have not
attended the last 13 City Council meetings, the council voted to reinstate
the committee structure a couple of meetings ago. The previous council had
abandoned this as not being as accessible to the public as the general
(televised) council meetings.) I have asked our attorney, Patti Williams,
to figure out how the bill would move through committees so that as many of
us as possible could attend committee meetings. The Mayor thought that it
would be very important to have the RGKC support expressed at these
committee meetings. The Mayor pointed out that he had made every
modification in his ordinance requested by the RGKC except for eliminated
the one year moratorium on the breeding of "pit bulls," which we had
opposed.
The Mayor also requested that we contact the city councillors in our
districts and express our opposition to Sally's bill as well as our support
for his ordinance. The legislative committee as well as the RGKC Board does
support the Mayor's ordinance, much as we dislike the breed specific
moratorium. His ordinance does allow for continuation of the Hobby
Breeder's permit and also makes provision for the possession of intact dogs,
so long as they are registered with a national organization, such as the
AKC. Once his bill has been introduced, it should be available for your
review on the City web site. (This is also where you can determine who your
City Council representative is--at cabq.gov.)
So the battle which we have long anticipated is at hand. I would like as
many of our members (and relatives and friends) as possible to attend the
next two City Council meetings (April 17 and May 1.) Also, please get busy
and contact your councilors but phone, e-mail or in person. This is
critical. Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions. See you
on Monday night!
I am asking Ruth Davis to forward this message to the entire RGKC
membership.
Bill Christensen, President, RGKC
Karen
Paone & Associates, LLC
Phone: 505-821-9253
Fax: 505-821-9540
Cell: 505-250-4003
Email: kbpaone@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] ALBUQUERQUE, NM MAYOR INTRODUCES SPAY/NEUTER PLAN
ALBUQUERQUE, NM MAYOR INTRODUCES SPAY/NEUTER PLAN
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_local_state_government/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19
859_4618620,00.html
Mayor introduces spay, neuter plan
By Erik Siemers
Tribune Reporter
April 13, 2006
The four puppies inside a hand-held carrier make a noise so tiny it's more
oink than bark.
AT A GLANCE
. Key points of Mayor Martin Chavez's ordinance:
. Pet owners must have their animals spayed or neutered and
microchipped by Dec. 31, 2007.
. Penalties would start at $100 for the first offense, $250 for the
second and $500 for the third and subsequent offenses.
. Pet owners who have a hobby breeder permit or veterinarian's notice
that spaying or neutering would harm the animal would be exempt. Also exempt
would be animals in the city for less than two weeks.
. The city would offer spay and neuter services for low-income
families.
Source: Mayor Martin Chavez
Few could deny that these Australian shepherd-mix puppies from the city's
West Side Animal Care Center are cute.
But their existence - part of an eight-puppy litter from a still-unspayed
mother - symbolizes a problem city leaders are trying to fight.
With the puppies on display Wednesday, Mayor Martin Chavez introduced his
Spay Neuter Albuquerque Pets Ordinance, or SNAP, that would make spaying,
neutering and microchipping mandatory for most pet owners.
The mayor is on a mission to make Albuquerque a so-called "live exit city"
by 2009, meaning shelters would not have to euthanize adoptable animals.
The city euthanizes an average of 1,000 dogs and cats a month, Chavez said.
"It (the ordinance) goes to the heart of the overpopulation problem in the
city of Albuquerque," Chavez said. "We've got to stop killing the animals."
Chavez hopes the ordinance will be introduced during Monday's City Council
meeting, though as of Wednesday he had yet to approach councilors about
carrying the bill.
Meanwhile, Councilor Sally Mayer on Monday plans to introduce her own
ordinance that would be tougher in some respects than Chavez's.
Mayer is opposed to Chavez's plan because it would not restrict breeders.
But her measure has attracted criticism of its own, mainly from hobby
breeders worried it would restrict them.
Mayer's ordinance, among other things, would:
Limit breeders to having permits for four unspayed or unneutered animals,
referred to as "intact animals."
Limit each female dog or cat to one litter a year. Previously, there were no
limitations.
Require owners to spay and neuter pets starting six months after the bill's
passage.
"We have a supply and demand problem. We've got to cut the supply," Mayer
said. "We shouldn't let anybody's hobby overrun our animal shelters."
Mayer's Humane and Ethical Animal Regulations and Treatment Ordinance, or
HEART, would vastly rewrite the city's pet policies. It would regulate pet
stores and expand the definition of animal cruelty.
Where Chavez's bill would exempt hobby breeders from having to spay or
neuter their animals, Mayer's would limit how many "intact" animals a
breeder could have.
Bill Green, a member of the Rio Grande Kennel Club and a delegate to the
American Kennel Club, said Mayer's limitations would punish responsible
breeders.
"The problem arises mostly from uncontrolled breeding of free roaming strays
along with irresponsible breeding operations, many of which are outside the
city, outside the county, outside the state and, increasingly, outside the
country," Green said.
Green couldn't comment on Chavez's proposal because he had yet to see it.
Chavez's $473 million general fund budget proposal submitted last week adds
$2.1 million in animal care money. That would pay for 27 new positions, new
adoption centers at Coronado and Cottonwood malls and two spay and neuter
vans.
Supporters say his plan is a start.
"It begins reducing the number of animals coming in," said Vickie Fischer, a
member of Kennel Kompadres, a fund-raising arm of the city's animal care
centers. "You have to increase demand and decrease the supply."
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Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
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most oppressive. C.S.Lewis
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