[ SHOWGSD-L ] UPDATES FROM THE ANIMAL COUNCIL, 4/4/06
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UPDATES FROM THE ANIMAL COUNCIL
April 4, 2006
(Last publication date 4/3/06
Appropriate forwarding encouraged.)
Preserving Our Right To Own And Breed Animals Is Your Responsibility
IN THIS ISSUE:
* CA SB 1578, LOWENTHAL, TETHERING CRIME, PASSES COMMITTEE
* CA AB 2110, HANCOCK, COURSING CRIME, PASSES COMMITTEE
THE ANIMAL COUNCIL'S web site at http://www.theanimalcouncil.com is
updated frequently with California bill information supplementing
advocacy information through the Updates. The Current Legislative
Material page has additional details on local and other significant
matters.*
BRIEFLY NOTED
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ordinance requiring sterilization of all dogs over
4 months unless exempt for medical reasons, law enforcement or
service status or an approved "competition" dog qualifying for a $60
revocable unaltered dog licensed, microchipping of all dogs over 4
months, sales, transfer and release from impound provisions and
expected to be heard on April 18 before the Board of Supervisors is
now available* on the Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control
site, http://animalcontrol.co.la.ca.us
RHODE ISLAND HOUSE BILL 7906* introduced March 21 as the "Rhode
Island Permit Program for Cats" would codify in state law similar
provisions to recently enacted ordinances in Warwick and Pawtucket.
H 7906 would require altering all cats over 6 months without a
revocable unaltered permit for $100 per year (funds allocated to
spay/neuter account) and registration and regulation of feral cat
caretakers. Cat breeding would be subject to an additional breeding
permit for $100 per year, revocable and subject to conditions and
restrictions. It also imposes a fifty cents per dog license surcharge
for deposit in each town's spay/neuter account.
NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE now publishes an electronic
newsletter. Subscribe at http:// www.naiaonline.org/newsletter.htm
*****
SENATE BILL 1578 by Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-27) of Long Beach and
Assembly Member Paul Koretz (D-42) of West Hollywood to create a
new "wobbler" crime, chargeable as either an infraction or
misdemeanor, for dog tethering to anything stationary or beyond
a "reasonable time" not to exceed 3 hours in a 24-hour period,
amended on March 27, passed out of the Senate Committee on Business
and Professions with the minimum 3 Aye votes and a common sense No
vote by Dr. Sam Aanestad R-4 of Grass Valley. SB 1578 is this term's
project of the California Animal Association, a joint venture of
activist groups headed by Nicole Pacquette of the Animal Protection
Institute with lobbyist attorney Ignacio Hernandez. Proponents,
including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the
Sacramento Council of Dog Clubs, focus entirely on the ills of
permanent "chaining" and would make a criminal of anyone who attached
a dog to a stationary object, ignoring the range of situations
falling between including the hapless citizen who tethers his dog for
a few minutes outside Starbucks.
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL 2110 by former Berkeley Mayor, now Assembly
Member Loni Hancock (D-14) to create a new Penal Code Section 597.4
to criminalize "open coursing" as animal cruelty as a misdemeanor
offense passed out of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety today
with the minimum 4 votes obtained by temporarily appointing Hancock
to the Democratic vacancy on the committee to vote her own bill out.
Voting NO were Republicans Vice Chair Jay La Suer of San Diego and
Todd Spitzer of Orange County and Democrat Rebecca Cohn of San Jose.
AB 2110 was also amended again to narrow the definition of coursing
in an effort to remove opposition by the California Farm Bureau.
Language is not yet available, and an inaccurate version had been
printed for the Committee. Proponents, led by Humane Society of the
United States President Wayne Pacelle, argued that open field
coursing is a cruel "bloodsport" akin to dog- and cock-fighting and
should be a crime of animal cruelty. Opponents led by Mark Hennelly,
a lobbyist with the California Waterfowl Association and Whippet
fancier Michael Keating, argued that open field coursing is lawful
hunting activity that plays a necessary role in evaluation and
preservation of hunting instincts in the Sighthound breeds and if at
all, would be appropriately addressed in the Fish and Game Code under
the jurisdiction of the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.
Hennelly disputed the slanderous speculation that gambling is
involved and other factual misrepresentations. More than 60
individuals passed through the opposition lineup and just over 20 in
the support line.
Author Hancock's inability to answer Vice Chair La Suer's question of
whether a hunting license is required underscored the conflicting
realities and ignored the significant fiscal issue of undermining
funding of the 200 Fish and Game wardens available to enforce Fish
and Game law in California. Hunting licenses are required for open
field coursing, subject to all applicable law and regulation.
AB 2110 resulted from KGO-TV's Dan Noyes' iTeam investigative report
of open coursing, originally aired on the 11 O'clock news on Sunday,
February 5. Noyes, owner of a rescue Greyhound, interviewed
unsuspecting Sighthound fanciers at an open coursing event and then
called for a ban on what KGO termed a "blood sport" and attracting
attention of activists. Today's hearing opened with another airing
of this, and the hearing was covered on tonight's 6:30 p.m.
newscast. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=4054999
Opponents also played a video on the historical use of dogs in
hunting. Whether AB 2110 is a bill about hunting or about cruelty
will ultimately determine its course as it moves on, next to
Appropriations.
*****
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