[ SHOWGSD-L ] Fw: URGENT in Louisville!!!

From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 01:15:12 -0400
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
Proud member GSDCA and Sawnee Mtn Kennel Club
www.rihadin.com
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  PLEASE CROSS POST!!!

  As many of you know, the Louisville Metro Area and all of its animal
related
  organizations are in the "fight of their life." In response to two dog
  attacks last fall, Cheri Bryant Hamilton, a Metro Council member, proposed
  Breed Specific Legislation ("BSL"). The legislation was proposed
  notwithstanding a non- breed specific dangerous dog law currently on the
  books which was rarely enforced and not even understood by the current
  Director of Metro Animal Services charged with enforcing it. That
  legislation has morphed into a behemoth 100+page document seeking to
  regulate and conscript all dog and cat ownership, all farming, all equine
  activities, all hunting and virtually all related activities. The
  provisions range from requiring puppies to be liscensed at birth to
  mandatory spay-neuter, to unrealistic fencing requirements to exhorbitant
  license fees. The complete Draft 8 and the newly released Draft 9 can be
  found at Louisville-pets.com.

  This proposal if enacted and taken to its logical end would essentially
  eliminate pet ownership,the Louisville Kennel Club -Kentuckiana Cluster of
  dog shows feline activities as well as many other obedience, go to ground,
  specialty, agility, hunting, field trial, equine and other livestock
events
  in Louisville Metro. The overbreath of this ordinance is by DESIGN as it
  was essentially written by Dr. Gilles Meloche, the new Animal Services
  Director and Pam Rogers legislative liason of the Humane Society of the
  United States.("HSUS") Ms. Rogers was formerly with Fund for the Animals
  which merged with the HSUS. (See Leoweekly.com August 30,2006 Article by
  Stephen George). The ordinance is straight from the Animal Rights playbook
  and is an extension of the agenda of the HSUS director to "create a body
of
  laws to protect animals from individuals'

  These types of laws are popping up all over the country as the HSUS has 8
  full time lawyers and an annual budget of over $100 million. If this
  ordinance can pass in Louisville, KY the heart of an animal friendly state
  with a focus on hunting, fishing, farming, equine and canine events, it
can
  happen ANYWHERE. It is clear from the Leo Article and other sources that
  the current Mayor, Jerry Abramson, unequivocally supports the agenda set
  forth by Dr. Meloche and the HSUS representative. Kelly Downard is running
  for Metro Mayor in Novermber against the current mayor and HE GETS IT.
  Kelly supports and has consistantly supported fair, reasonable, non
  discriminatoty dog laws which punish the irresponsible and reward
  responsible pet owners. He does not believe in regulating farming or
  hunting and fishing as that is the perview of the Farm Bureau, the
  Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

  WE HAVE TO WIN THIS BATTLE. Please tell everyone that you know to support
  us in this endeavor. Go to akc.org or the naiaonline.org to read the
  Alerts and to send letters. Please help us by sending a donation $2,$5,$10
  to Kelly's campaign at Downard for Mayor, PO Box 7454, Louisville, KY
40257
  or on line at Downardformayor.com. We truely appreciate the support of all
  of our dog,cat, equine, farming and hunting friends and our cherished
  veterinarians. Together we can win this battle for all of us.

  Thank you for your support!

  Donna Herzig
  Louisville, Kentucky

  "You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it
  will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it
  would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
  Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the U.S.

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