[ SHOWGSD-L ] fwd: Success! Parker, CO BSL Voted Down!
- From: RihadinK9@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:01:27 EST
Success! And a nice surprise.
By a unanimous vote, the Parker Town Council decided to scrap the
BSL ordinance. A combination of residents, experts, vets, and dog
fanciers, came together and gave great and factual testimony. The
hysterical folks were pretty much non-existent.
Many thanks to those who came out and spoke. It was a lot of
work...I know I pretty much had to drop everything in order to work
towars defeating this thing in my own backyard. Now I have a lot of
catchup! But it was worth it.
I spoke of how BSL in more of a historical context. BSL was the
brainchild of militant AR's such as PeTA types, i.e. one breed at a
time, and how AR's have been lobbying for it all over the country.
Other speakers talked about temperment, facts versus fiction, etc.
Thanksfully reason won out this evening.
Hopefully it will help put the breaks on this stuff in other
Colorado communities.
HOWEVER,
as an alternative, the Town is forming a citizen committee of
volunteers to come up with ways to strengthen dog laws. This has me
a little concerned because Parker's existing ordinances are already
vague and already very strict...albeit not well enforced. Sometimes
being a model city is NOT a good thing.
If things get even more Draconian, then this could have the same
consequences as BSL, just in a different way: making pet ownership
increasingly more difficult. As if you should need permission from
some bureaucrat anyway! Agh!
So stay tuned. At least the AR's and hysterics were defeated on
this turf...for now anyway.
Nick Van Duren
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
"One of the greatest delusions of the world is the HOPE that the EVILS of
this world are to be CURED BY LEGISLATION." Thomas B. Reed 1886
http://www.rihadin.com
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