[ SHOWGSD-L ] AR Movement, won't happen to you?
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:04:20 -0400
It will never happen here
http://sanityshome.blogspot.com/2008/04/it-will-never-happen-here.html
Just like my title line says, I'm saying it again.All most all of you have
been insisting this would never happen here. Not in this country. No way,
not possible. HA! Will you continue to argue about which dog treat is the
best to use for teaching a dog to come while the AR movement under the new
guise of animal protection is more and more rapidly passing laws to forbid
your interaction with any and ALL animals?
Better start learning to just LOVE tofu. Me? I'm thinking I'll just have
to learn the best ways to trap and kill squirrels.
I do have a couple of recipes for squirrel that, while I have never tried
them, I was told were quite tasty.
Before you read the material that was sent to me, I think you should read
the following quotes and have them fresh in your mind as you continue your
reading.
"In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit,
including pets," Tom Regan, emeritus professor of philosophy at North
Carolina State University and author of "Empty Cages" - speaking at
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, March 3, 2004
"It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of
animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be
ending the concept of pet ownership." Elliot Katz, President "In Defense of
Animals," Spring 1997
"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of
livestock produced through selective breeding. . One generation and out. We
have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations
of human selective breeding." Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP of Humane Society of
the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Animal People,
May, 1993
"Our goal is to make [the public think of] breeding [dogs and cats] like
drunk driving and smoking." Kim Sturla, former director of the Peninsula
Humane Society and Western Director of Fund for Animals, stated during Kill
the Crisis, not the Animals campaign and workshops, 1991
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture." JP Goodwin,
employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at Coalition to Abolish
the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion
group in 1996
Now I think, if you are still reading, that you are in the proper frame of
mind to read what I am sharing with you. Please pass the below information
on to as many people as you can possibly reach.
___VERY IMPORTANT YOU MUST READ_____
Very few people seem to be worried about their dogs and livelihood,
perhaps because these laws haven't hit close to their home area as yet. My
town borders the town of Union, IL.
These were farm areas experiencing extreme growth in the past few years.
New sub division home owners complained about the farm smell and animals.
Now in the paper I read the words....Union will have no more farm or other
dangerous animals.
Since when are farm animals dangerous? I guess they are. Now I see empty
spaces where once there were cows, chickens, pigs, etc. A farmer had his
ducks taken away because of noise. They died in the care of animal control.
Farms up for sale.
Will my town be next? It's scary, very scary. What is our world coming to?
I shudder to think.
Carol Nielsen Huntley, IL.
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Permission given to cross post.
This article is written by Joyce Miller of Dallas, Texas.
Be sure to read the last line a second time.
Right now, animal rights people have fanned out across the country to make
what got tabled in California happen city by city, town by town, state by
state. The approach is to local animal services organization; the agenda is
new animal laws that will have a startling effect on our ability to enjoy
our dogs.
The AR volunteers work within the animal services in city after city, town
after town, to get a proposed law put together that is extreme to say the
least, and they can do all of this within animal services without worrying
about open meeting laws. After all, the AR people are simply volunteers
helping the staff. By the time a community gets any inkling that these laws
are about to hit the stage, it's just about too late to stop them.
At the most, people try to get some of the most severe terms relaxed.
Right now, there is a law proposed in Florida to make collecting animal
semen illegal.
Now that I have your attention, let me share with you what is currently
being recommended in Dallas, what Animal Services and the City Council are
assuming will be law by the end of the month, and to date, nothing in the
local newspapers, the local news programs, or even a copy of the actual
proposed law.
Unlike San Antonio, the previous last city to fall to these tactics, the
AKC kennel club registered in Dallas, the Texas Kennel Club, has hired an
animal lawyer to help them fight this legislation. But to date, without any
news coverage, very few residents know what is about to happen and how it
will affect their enjoyment of their dogs.
1. Pet limits. Dallas has never had limits on the number of pets a
resident may own. As with most communities, there are plenty of laws on the
books that can handle households that have too many pets that are creating a
neighborhood nuisance or constituting cruelty to animals. Under the proposed
new laws, the limit will be either five or six pets (no one seems able to
get a consistent reading on the number). That is dogs, cats or combination
in a single family home.
2. Mandatory spay neuter by four months of age. Owner of unspayed or
unneutered dogs and cats over 4 months of age commits an offense if the
owner does not have a Breeder Permit issued annually for each individual
animal. (Only dog and cat show breeders qualify for this permit). Owner
cannot have a say in their dog being put under anesthesia, being made a
perennial puppy by losing the hormones needed for balanced growth of body
and mind, etc.
3. Breeder permits/licenses (and the only article that has mentioned
anything about this law was a quote by the acting director of animal
services, a man who has won an award of some kind of merit from PeTA: in
that article, this man stated that he would not allow any breeder permits in
residential neighborhoods). So what will a breeder license look like in
Dallas if the law is passed without changes. It appears that there will be:
A. Breeder permit/license to keep an intact dog or cat. Breeders can apply
to Animal Services for a breeder permit/license. Such applications must be
approved by the director of Animal Services.
B. Each dog or cat approved for a permit must be registered with a
national registry (approved by the animal services director) AND whose owner
is a member of a purebred dog or cat club (also approved by the animal
services director). The club must have a code of ethics restricting breeding
dogs and cats with genetic defects and life threatening health problems for
approval.
C.The breeder permit will be $500 annually for EACH intact animal; the
animal's license will be an additional fee.
D. This permit will not be available to any other pet owner. And as
mentioned above, it is unlikely that the current Animal Services
administration will allow any of these permits/licenses in residential
neighborhoods. This means that sports people, performance people, SAR
people, hunting people will have to have their animals neutered.
E. Anyone who gets a breeder permit agrees that Animal Services has the
right to send in someone to make unannounced inspections of their premises
at any time and the breeders must admit them.
F.. No one else can legally breed animals in Dallas.
4. No tethering of any dogs if the owner is not present.
5. Confined dogs must have crates or runs or pens that meet confinement
requirements of 150 feet pen size per dog
6. Foster Care Providers must obtain a form from the director to apply for
a permit (notarized by the legal owner and one occupant of the dwelling
unit) to keep up to 10 dogs, cats or any combination which authorizes
unannounced inspections of premises and this permit must be approved by the
director.
When I first read these proposed ideas, I thought that they were making
them so outrageous so they would have wiggle room in order to reduce things
like the permit fee for breeders etc. But given the fact that hearings are
going into their second week (only on Wednesdays), there has been no media
coverage, and proponents are saying that they expect these to be law by the
end of the month, I suspect that the final law could be quite close to what
is outlined above.
The first that I heard about it was in March, and I heard about it from
two people who are very involved with the kennel club and with getting
people to attend hearings. No cost assessments/analyses have been done.
Animal Services is currently underfunded, and the mayor has made it clear
that there will be no increase in their funding for these laws.
So, here we are discussing different ways of training, recognizing the
work that goes into having an obedience or agility champion, knowing what
the dogs need maturity to participate in any serious sport or work, and all
the while, across the country, more and more of these laws are becoming law
with little or no fanfare.
Here in Dallas, the proponents are saying that this will solve the problem
of loose dogs breeding randomly, but the only people that will be caught up
are the residential breeders whose dogs never run loose and never breed
randomly. With the requirement that a breeder belong to a breed club
approved by animal services, this is also meant to do away with mixed
breeds.
Do, please, check out what may be happening in your city or town, and be
ready to fight for your right to decide when and if your dog will be
neutered, the right of careful breeders to breed to their breed standards,
etc. Dallas breeders and animal lovers are making a valiant effort, and they
are grateful for the help of the Texas Kennel Club, but this is very, very
serious. And it sounds like it will come to a city or town near you.
Joyce Miller of Dallas, Texas
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Ginger Cleary - Rome, GA www.rihadin.com
"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves." --Edward R. Murrow
GA Director RDOE
Member GSDCA
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