Today, SB250 passed. Sen. Florez got the 21 votes needed. Sen. Fran Pavley was the last vote cast. This is the lady that the dog people helped defeat Lloyd Levine (AB1634) last year. She abstained at all of the other votes taken yesterday. Florez only got 20 votes today and then they went back to Pavley, and she said AYE. Amazing!!! "Now it's on to the Assembly," said activist and bill supporter Judie Mancuso. Florez, D-Shafter, first brought Senate Bill 250 to a vote of the Senate on Monday, where it failed 16-15, because a lot of senators missed the vote, Mancuso said. She said Florez kept the bill alive with a request for reconsideration. "You can only do it one time. It was a do or die," she said. "We brought it back today." The bill requires people to spay or neuter their dogs or obtain a license to keep an unaltered animal. People who violate certain animal control laws could lose that license. And it requires that cats allowed to roam freely be spayed or neutered. Folks, this is NOT good news for anyone, no matter where they live. If this is allowed to happen in California, it will happen everywhere else...maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week...but it will happen. You Californians had all better contact your Assemblymen and tell them not to vote for this bill..........either that, or you can say goodbye to breeding dogs, showing dogs, and eventually, owning dogs. These people don't quit................do y'all believe it yet? Peggy ============================================================================ 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/ ============================================================================