I had The View on. They mentioned AB1634 when Mary Tyler Moore was on talking about Broadway Barks, a group that takes shelter dogs and places them in homes and foster homes. The comment was "why is this opposed" I wrote to Joy the following: Why not a manditory spay neuter? I will tell you why.To require all animals to be neutered will mean no new dogs or cats that are properly bred and raised at all. I do believe that dogs who are just pets and owned by average people should be spayed or neutered. But there are quality breeders of many breeds of dogs and cats who are producing animals of quality for pets and show. To end all reproduction of pets will end the existence of pets period. You will not be able to get another dog ever. I know most of you on the View are a dog owners, how would you like your current pets to be the last you ever see? What is needed is required education for pet ownership. What is needed is for Joe Blow to spay or neuter his pet, but for me as a breeder of German Shepherd Dogs for show and pet to be allowed to creat new dogs for the fancy and pet owning public. I sell with education and will take back any animal I create if the buyer cannot keep the pet. There are so many careful and concientous breeders who deserve to continue to breed so that you can have your pet and I can have my show dogs. If you research the actual facts about what sort of animals are destroyed at "sheilter" you will see most are ferrel cats that are producing with no human contact or intervention and that the rest are animals who were bought but never trained or have become ill with no money available to help them. Lack of training should not bring about punishment by death to the dog, but rather punishment to the person who never bothered to get educated about owning an animal. Dogs are not natural animals, they are created by humans in early society as are cats. We created them we are responsible for them. Humans should be punished for not being educated and for not considering the conquences of their animal reproducing. Mandating sterilization will not end overpopulation, it will take ligitmate breeders undground or out of the state. Law breakers will continue to break the law no matter how many laws are passed. And people of conceince will move to a safer place to continue to work for the betterment of dogs and cats. I hope this generates some feed back from the show to me. I will let you all know if this happens. In the meantime I will be dropping off the list soon to go to DC and make things happen for Mom. She will be set vacation too right before the movers take her computer. sheila --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================