[ SHOWGSD-L ] FWD: Selling ALL hunting and sporting dogs down the river
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:53:30 -0400
California's SB 2110, billed erroneously as solely a prohibition against
open-field coursing with sighthounds, goes a lot, lot further than
that. Besides skating on the very thin edge of BSL for all
sighthounds, it threatens beagle, dachshund, and Basset field
trials. That gets AKC's attention--all those scent hound registrations,
and after all, those little guys don't kill anything like
those nasty sighthounds (with their much lower registrations).
But check out the following post from the Virginia Hunting Dog
Owners Association. SB 2110, if enacted, will sweep up the
all the retriever, pointer, and flushing dog trials into its net. It's
not enough for AKC to let California screw the sighthounds, but
they have to pull everyone else down with them?
In a message dated 4/26/2006 11:44:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
VHDOA@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Field trialers and hunt testers-
You need to look at this AB 2110 situation in California.
This is an extremely dangerous position for AKC to take. AKC stayed silent
on sighthound live coursing and only objected when hound trialing "which in
no
way threaten the native rabbits..." were included. That position isolates
foxhounds and their trials. In addition, it sets up retriever, flushing dog
and
pointing dog trialers, all of whom kill game birds. Is AKC going to argue
later that the other trials kill only purchased, non-native birds and
that's
O.K.? That's not true and even if it were it's certainly not OK with HSUS.
Someone needs to shake them and turn them around. If a sport/dog event is
legal
and requires a state hunting license, dammit defend it and stop parsing
definitions! AKC pulled the same stunt back in 2003-2004 on the HSUS
Sacramento
hound hunting ban, choosing to interpret its scope to competitions and
staying
silent on hunting per se. Wayne Pacelle was personally involved then and is
again.
This wouldn't happen if anyone in AKC's top management or on the Board had
any experience in sporting dogs or hunting hounds and they weren't so
blasted
busy trying to placate every animal rightist complaint. This stance
potentially cripples at least five other large test or trial sanctioning
groups.
Hunting breeds are being mishandled or sold out again and they represent
40+/-% of
all AKC registrations, even more of UKC's. It's a continuing disgrace.
Bob Kane, President
Virginia Hunting Dog Owners' Association
http://vhdoa.uplandbirddog.com/
Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance -
Working to identify and elect supportive legislators
http://saova.org/
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Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the
most oppressive. C.S.Lewis
www.rihadin.com
My Ebay site
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