[ SHOWGSD-L ] Fwd: ALERT! Tacoma City Council to consider BSL

From: RihadinK9@xxxxxxx
To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:36:53 EDT
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>  
> The Tacoma City Council's  Public Safety & Human Services Committee is  
> meeting at 3:30  pm on Wednesday, November 16, to consider changes to  
> Tacoma's  dangerous dog ordinance.  This comes after numerous  
>  complaints lodged by Tacoma residents over the last 60 days, according   
> to Mr. Randy Lewis, Staff Director for the Commitee.
>  
> Mr. Lewis, with whom I just spoke, is a thoughtful and helpful  man.   
> He has received several phone calls about the meeting,  and has been  
> educated by several callers about breed type, and  the folly of BSL.
>  
> The Committee is looking to get input  from animal behaviorists at this  
> meeting.  Mr. Lewis told me  that there is no push to pass anything  
> soon, and that this first  meeting is a start of a process to simply  
> examine the current  ordinances.  The Committee, which consists of four  
> people,  did ask for a copy of the Everett ordinance, which contains  
>  BSL.
>  
> We need to make a favorable impression on the  Council Members by  
> showing them our support for reasonable  dangerous dog ordinances, and  
> the folly of adopting something  that is an emotional, irrational  
> response to events, like  BSL.
>  
> We need to do this in a polite, rational, courteous  manner.
>  
> Here is a link to the committee's website:   
> http://www.cityoftacoma.org/default.asp?main=/54CouncilCommittee/  
> default.asp
>  
> We should get as many fanciers to  the meeting as we can who can make a  
> favorable, positive  impression on the Council members who will be in  
>  attendance.  We want them to understand that we are engaged in the   
> process of making sure that there is responsible, effective  dangerous  
> dog legislation, and that BSL is irrational and  unproductive.
>  
> Jeff Helsdon
> Legislative  Director
> Doberman Pinscher Club of America

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.
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