This is a interesting new approach... a bill to protect rather than take away our rights. S Permission to cross post! Proposed Pro-Animal Ownership Legislation Sun Feb 1, 20091:26 pm(PST) Representative Roy Ragland, Chair of the Agriculture, Forestry, and Economic Development committee of the Arkansas State House of Representatives has introduced a bill to protect the rights of animal owners and prohibit any state, city, county, or private organization from requiring animal owners to register in any animal identification system. The bill has been referred to the committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Economic Development. PLEASE let these legislators know we support this legislation that could provide valuable protection for the rights of all animal owners in the state of Arkansas by contacting the committee members (I have included their email addresses or phone numbers below). I also have included a link to the full bill and some extracted sections of the bill. HSUS is AGAINST this bill (of course - the bill will protect our rights to own animals, so they don't want it to pass.) HB 1046, Freedom to Farm Act http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1046.pdf -- Stormy Hope carpoc.org GSDCA Member And more clubs ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================