[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: FW: PAWS Political Jockeying and A Breeder's Future
- From: RihadinK9@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:44:04 EST
Dear Friends,
The American Kennel Club (AKC) is making a concerted effort to convince dog
club officers that it's "fixed" the problems with Sen. Rick Santorum's Pet
Animal Welfare Act (PAWS) and that they should drop their opposition to S1139.
Nothing could be further from the truth. There is no PAWS II. AKC's press
statements, Internet blog postings and pleas for club officers to again "trust
us to know what's best" are misleading spin and largely due to fact that PAWS
is in political trouble, due to your opposition.
AKC is still at odds with HSUS and DDAL over key changes to the bill.
Everything that AKC says is fixed is its wish list for PAWS II. It's not
anything
confirmed by or attributed in any way to Santorum, HSUS or DDAL. Incredibly,
AKC insisted PAWS was a perfect bill five months ago, with no flaws. AKC
fiercely attacked the motives and intelligence of anyone questioning this
bill's
impacts, until most people understood S1139's implications. We're now told
again to "trust us."
PAWS still breaches the retail-wholesale USDA regulatory "dealer"
distinction for home breeders, making many of them federally controlled. It
still
contains numerical values, which are subject to further change. Cat breeders
and
rescuers are also still at severe risk. The sportsmen's chief concern, the
hunting, security, breeding dog purpose federal licensing and inspection
provision is in current law, but mooted because of its wholesale only
application.
PAWS doesn't have to mention it explicitly, although it does. Just eliminating
the wholesale safehaven, as PAWS certainly does, causes it to kick in. AKC
knows this and has artfully and disingenuously sidestepped that impact in all
its carefully spun releases.
The very fact no one else showed from the subcommittee and that nothing in
writing was issued by Rick Santorum on November 8th, are the keys to PAWS's
status. The bill's crippled, if not on its deathbed, and AKC just doesn't know
it or is putting up a brave face. Having so many AKC clubs formally opposing
it helps keep it there. Back in July, Jim Holt, Nina Schaefer and others
publicly accused SAOVA of falsifying the NO PAWS list. Now they're trying to
pull
clubs off the list and keep others from joining. The _NO PAWS Honor Roll_
(http://saova.org/1139opponents.html) is a key element in defeating S1139 and
four additional AKC parent breed clubs, the North American Deutsch Kurzhaar
Club and several regional clubs were added to the list in the last week.
Please urge your club officers take the needed steps to join the Honor Roll.
From the very beginning, it's very much the big lie approach at work here.
While PAWS supporters go on at length decrying hidden "puppy mills," Internet
direct sellers and unregulated importers, there's been no factual
documentation presented that dogs from these sources on average are any more
unhealthy
or less desirable pets from those obtained from other sources. In fact, the
Internet has made dog purchasers smarter and more aware, not the opposite.
Less than 0.5 % of all dogs are currently sold over the Internet and the AKC
itself permits its own website to be used for interstate puppy sales by
anyone that registers a litter with it. No health guarantee or facility
inspection is required, just a $35 listing fee. Critical observers can't help
but be
concerned that the PAWS supporters' objectives might be financial and
competition focused, and only minimally canine welfare related.
Susan Wolf of the _North Carolina Responsible Animal Owners Alliance_
(http://www.ncraoa.com/index.htm) has carefully reviewed the oral testimony
from
last week's PAWS hearing. Dog breeders should take the time to read her
attached analysis.
Bob Kane
Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance -
Working to identify and elect supportive legislators
** NO PAWS **
_http://saova.org/1139.html_ (http://saova.org/1139.html)
_http://www.nopaws.org_ (http://www.nopaws.org/)
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not
have, nor do they deserve, either one." Benjamin Franklin.
_http://www.rihadin.com_ (http://www.rihadin.com/)
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