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>From RPOA Texas Outreach and
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
"Animal welfare, not animal 'rights'
and, yes, there is a difference."
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July 9, 2010
Action Alert for El Paso, Texas!
El Paso City Council will be voting Tuesday, July 13th, [Item 15]
regarding
the following:
a.. PUBLIC HEALTH:
An Ordinance amending Title 7 (Animals), Chapter 7.04 (Definitions),
regarding the established fees in the Title; Chapter 7.12 (Dogs and Cats),
Section 7.12.020 (Registration and Microchips Required - Application -
Procedure - Fees - City-sponsored Rabies Vaccination and Registration
Clinics), relating to the fees charged for spayed, neutered, unspayed and
unneutered dogs and cats; Chapter 7.24 (Livestock and Animal Breeding),
Section 7.24.060 (Animal Establishments - Shows and Exhibitions - Permit
Required - Recordkeeping) to add modified registration for dogs and cats
under four months of age; and Section 7.24.080 (Animal Litter Permit) to
require that a litter permit number be displayed in any advertisement to
sell or transfer puppies and kittens; and to create Section 7.24.085 (Sale
of Certain Puppies and Kittens Prohibited), to prohibit the sale of animals
younger than eight weeks of age; the penalty being as provided in Section
7.04.080 of the El Paso City Code. (All Districts)
[Public Health, Michael Hill, (915) 771-5702]
Please contact city officials below and ask them to table this vote due to
very short notice. This proposal will not solve any animal problems. Ask
them if they really want to be identified as supporting a radical national
"animal rights" agenda to end all breeding and ownership of pets. It's
time
to draw a line in the sand. Ask: "Which side are you on?"
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El Paso City Hall is closed today (all Fridays) and there's no way to get
the exact ordinance text from anyone nor request updated statistics
regarding animal control.
A Litter Permit requirement went into effect January 1, 2006. (New
proposal: requirement in newspaper ads.) How many Litter Permits have been
sold?
In 2006 Mandatory Microchips of dogs, cats and ferrets by 4 months of age
and Canvassing Neighborhoods (going door-to-door) also passed.
Through an RPOA Open Records Request dated May 2009, only 7 Litter Permits
were sold, No Door-To-Door Canvassing occurred, and the Microchips Sold
were
only an "estimate" of 20,000 chips.
There is an alarming new trend to end all pet "sales" in the US beginning
with pet stores. Austin and San Antonio have both passed Traders and
Sellers Permits. Austin has another new proposal in the wings.
San Francisco (CA) City Council is considering a ban on all pet sales at
pet
stores, including dogs, cats, birds and smaller animals. The handwriting
is
on the wall. This is what happens when "animal rights" activists rule!
Animal Rights means no pets left.
Article contains more information:
_http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/24162086/detail.html_
(http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/24162086/detail.html)
Public Health Director Proposes Changes To Animal Ordinance
Monica Balderrama-KFOX News Reporter
EL PASO, Texas -- Some pet owners know the expense that goes into owning a
cat or dog. That expense may go up even more if the city
makes changes to the animal ordinance.
The proposed changes are geared toward lowering the pet overpopulation in
the El Paso area. All three changes have to do with
spaying and neutering.
"We have them registered once a year, but having four dogs, it does get
pretty expensive," said Bernadette Duran.
Duran says she knows having pets is a huge responsibility. And it could
become an even more expensive responsibility as Public
Health Director Mike Hill introduces three proposed changes to the animal
ordinance.
The first change is raising the annual animal registration fee from $10 to
$32 per year. But, if the animal is spayed or neutered,
the owner would receive a discount back to $10.
"I think that will be good to get people to get all their pets neutered and
spayed. There's too many pets that aren't," said Duran.
Another proposed change would require a pet owner or breeder to buy a
litter
permit and list that number when you advertise puppies
or kittens for sale. The cost of that permit is approximately $75 per
litter, or face a citation.
Hill said there's a huge pet overpopulation issue and he's trying to make
people more responsible pet owners.
"Understand that if they keep reproducing all these puppies and kittens,
there are only so many homes for them and the rest have to
be killed, and that's not a good thing to do to them," said Hill.
The third change is to work to make sure pet stores are only selling
animals
that are spayed or neutered.
City council is expected to vote on the amendments next week.
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