[ SHOWGSD-L ] [IWS] SAOVA Update on PAWS
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- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:28:01 EDT
> > Subject: [IWS] SAOVA Update on PAWS
> >
> > **PLEASE FORWARD & CROSS POST WIDELY**
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > This message is being sent to the officers and
> > directors of the AKC
> > clubs not shown opposed to Sen. Rick Santorum's
> > S1139, "Pet Animal
> > Welfare Act of 2005" (PAWS)
> > http://saova.org/1139opponents.html In
> > addition to the twenty-six parent breed clubs listed
> > there, the
> > Doberman Pincher Club of America, Staffordshire
> > Terrier Club of
> > America and others are shortly expected to formally
> > implement
> > decisions to oppose PAWS.
> >
> > What do these clubs fear from S1139-HR2669? Should
> > you also oppose
> > these bills? The reasons for opposing PAWS are
> > numerous, but
> > everyone's principal, overriding concern is that
> > PAWS abandons a
> > court-tested, functioning USDA mechanism for federal
> > pet seller
> > licensing based on either wholesale or retail sales
> > for a badly
> > designed new regulatory system using numbers of pets
> > sold or litters
> > bred. Moreover, the bill fails to achieve the animal
> > welfare
> > objectives claimed for it, while it seriously harms
> > many hobby dog
> > breeders and sellers, shuts down rescuers and
> > devastates pedigreed
> > cat breeders.
> >
> > There's a huge amount of information about the PAWS
> > on the Internet.
> > Much of it has been generated by the AKC and is
> > misleading or
> > incorrect. For a clearer picture of this very
> > destructive
> > legislation, see
> >
> > http://www.ncraoa.com/alerts.html
> > http://www.dfow.org/paws.htm
> > http://saova.org/1139.html
> >
> > S1139 (PAWS)
> > Senator Santorum has a PAWS hearing planned for
> > September, perhaps
> > before the AKC delegates meeting. Such a early date
> > would give Jim
> > Holt the opportunity to announce to the delegates
> > that all S1139's
> > problems were solved, regardless of the hearing's
> > outcome. PAWS
> > opponents will attempt to testify in any Senate
> > committee hearing to
> > express their policy concerns regarding the
> > abandoning a working,
> > legally tested USDA system for one based on numbers
> > of dogs whelped
> > and sold, with its many current and likely future
> > conflicts, for so
> > little overall gain in animal welfare. See Coleman
> >
> http://www.ncraoa.com/PDF/UpdatesFromTheAnimalCouncil.pdf
> > and
> > Helsdon http://www.dfow.org/hcontents.htm. The more
> > that S1139 is
> > studied, the more problems with it surface.
> >
> > PAWS Supporters
> > PETA, ASPCA and In Defense of Animals (IDA), a PETA
> > type in-your-
> > face radical animal rights group, along with the
> > AKC, HSUS and DDAL
> > have officially announced support for PAWS.
> >
> > AKC continues its defense of PAWS directly and
> > through surrogate's
> > editorials in Dog News. It has turned up the volume
> > and frequency of
> > its public relations campaign's releases,
> > instituting daily "PAWS
> > FACTS" and sending employees to dog shows and
> > meetings to defend its
> > position. The "FACTS" are so inaccurate and
> > misleading that they've
> > spawned "No, Not Truly" responses
> > http://www.dfow.org/akcpawsfact.htm.
> >
> > The registry has chosen to fiercely challenge anyone
> > opposing PAWS,
> > labeling detractors as "hayseeds," uninformed,
> > shrill and "having an
> > agenda." AKC personnel have publicly accused me of
> > falsifying the
> > opposed list and Jim Holt appeared to question the
> > intelligence of
> > the "Spaniel Club" this month in CA. As the AKC's
> > management and
> > directors continue to dig themselves deeper and
> > deeper into this
> > hole, many are wondering where the registry
> > perceives the incentive
> > for this type of warfare on the fancy. Damaging
> > competing
> > registries, a modest registration increase, or
> > decreased loss,
> > coupled with serving as USDA's contract inspector
> > and perhaps
> > separate, HSUS supported legislation involving
> > mandated microchip
> > use and AKC registration are all suspects.
> >
> > I believe that I've seen a preview of AKC's PAWS
> > hearing comments.
> >
> > 1) There's an uncontrolled flood of imported dogs,
> > many of which are
> > diseased and/or genetically inferior.
> > 2) The AKC member clubs opposed to PAWS represent
> > the more popular
> > breeds, which by their nature are most often bred
> > and sold by less
> > reputable individuals. Some of these people aren't
> > federally
> > regulated and should be.
> > 3) The AKC national breed clubs listed (26) only
> > amount to a small
> > fraction of the breeds represented by the AKC.
> > 26/156 is less than
> > 17%.
> > 4) The AKC knows what's best for America's dog
> > owners.
> >
> > Please join the other AKC clubs and the wide-ranging
> > pet owner
> > interests in opposing PAWS. It's still our AKC, our
> > fancy and our
> > dogs. Ignore Jim Holt's "It's not your father's AKC"
> > speech at the
> > June Delegates Meeting.
> >
> > When a club officer sends an opposition statement to
> > Congress via
> > the preaddressed email located at
> > http://saova.org/1139.html, the
> > club's name is immediately listed as opposing PAWS,
> > with over 220
> > other pet owner groups. I'll also accept any other
> > written
> > verification of meaningful legislative opposition.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Please forward and cross post widely.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Bob Kane
> > Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance -
> > Working to identify and elect supportive legislators
> > ** Oppose S1139/HR2669 (PAWS) **
>
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