[ SHOWGSD-L ] another letter to the maimi-dade government
- From: sheila lieberman <dgshwpromo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: the list <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:29:48 -0800 (PST)
I am a board member of the German Shepherd Dog Club of Greater Miami. At our
meeting tomorrow evening I will be discussing the final details for our
upcoming dog shows, which bring in people from all over the country who need
hotel rooms and supplies for themselves and their dogs.
We have not had our shows in Dade for 2 years. We have used Broward parks
due to our working with the Ft Lauderdale German Shepherd Dog Club and the cost
of space in Dade parks. I will be asking our club to plan to not use Dade
parks again in the near future as this county is unfriendly to dogs, dog
breeders of conscience and to my friends and colleagues who breed as Hobby
Breeders.
Further, I will seek to leave Dade as soon as my husband's job allows us to.
I cannot restart my own breeding program here. I currently have four pet
German Shepherds, I had hoped to show and breed them, but I will not bother
with such laws as make it so unfriendly a place to even own dogs.
Beyond my volunteer work with the Clubs, I also work as a dog trainer and
behaviorist. I will be advising my clients that they should not seek to enter
the sport of dog showing, breeding, or other dog related activity here in Dade,
as this county does not understand the difference between bad owners who do not
engage in training of any sort and likely break many other laws on a daily
basis and committed owners of any breed or breeds of dog who take the time and
effort to make sure that their dogs behave in a civil and polite manner.
The dog is never at fault, dogs do only what we as the human and the control
factor allow. Any person who allows their dog to do as it pleases and makes no
effort to control or contain their dog, regardless of breed, is both anti
social and putting their neighbors at risk. I have been bitten by dogs of all
shapes and sizes in my efforts to teach people how to manage their dogs. The
one breed I have worked with over and over both here and in the DC area that
has never attempted to bite me is the Pit Bull breeds.
As someone who faces dogs with no training more often than not, if there were
indeed a breed that was completely bad, I would have contacted local new
organizations with my stories by now. But the truth is, people make dogs good
or bad. People of good conscience and with a desire to improve any one breed
of dogs should not be punished for caring about what our dogs will look like
tomorrow, they should not be punished for providing quality pets to the local
population. People who really do care that there are pet dogs of good breeding
and sound health will leave the county, in droves, and those who did not obey
the law before will not do so now just because there are more laws they can
ignore. And so the county's problem will get worse and not better. Many
breeders also resuce dogs, they are the very people who will leave this region
and move to where their efforts are appreciated.
The really sad thing about this movement across the country to stop good
people with more laws, is that it does not work. People who care will move to
where they can do as they see fit for the benefit of all who seek them out for
quality dogs. And those with no regard for the law will continue to speed, use
illegal drugs, assault others, keep unregistered handguns, and breed dogs with
not regard for the dogs, or the people who buy these animals.
There are too many facts that point against stronger regulation of dog
breeders and breeds of dog, yet the only "facts" anyone listens to come from
groups that want all human contact with animals stopped forever. Humans would
not have what we have today, including the computer you are reading this on,
were it not for the dog and the cow and the civilization that came from the
help these animals provided. Check your prehistoric history!
Please do some research, ask breeders of good reputation and vets who deal
with dogs everyday, where the problems lie. Then try enforcing the simple
leash law and see just how quickly all the problems with dogs vanish before
your eyes.
Sincerely,
Sheila Lieberman
member German Shepherd Dog Club of America
Corresponding secretary GSDC of Greater Maimi
show secretary GSDC of Ft Lauderdale
member Association of Pet Dog Trainers
305-772-3647
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