Is it any wonder that dog breeders and owners are getting nervous?

Bills like this one are popping up all over the place. PUPS, the federal dog law, makes this law look like baby steps. It's sad how there are a few people in this world who want to end our ability to own pets in upcoming generations.

http://www.akc.org/news/blocks/print_article.cfm?article_id=4574

 

"Massachusetts House Bill 422, which seeks to severely restrict the rights of animal owners who are alleged to have committed, but have not been convicted of, acts of animal cruelty"

Goes against everything the American Consitution stands for, innocent until proven guilty. This bill is so Stalinist in that the charge of commiting a crime against the state makes one a criminal just by being charged as one. Why waste time with due process when the few know what is best over the many.

All this is just leading to more state control over the people.

 

Utter stupidity guilty regardless of any evidence!!

 

And yet, this kind of legislation is that which is being proposed in every state in the union. There are some states that wanted to prohibit *driving a car through their state if the dog had a docked tail* if the person was unable to prove the tail had been docked by a vet. Very few owners have that kind of documentation, unless they also bred the dog. If that law had passed in Pennsylvania, then I would have had to drive to south central New York along the coast, through Delaware, and backtrack several hundred miles until I reached my destination. (Who drives that far, you ask? Someone who wants to take several dogs to a dog show and then pick up a white collie puppy, that's who!) Then there was Oklahoma, which did not want to allow dogs from other states to be sold in their state--to the point of wanting to forbid travel of "outside" dogs through their state. How about all of the states that want to do background checks and get the fingerprints of anyone who is required to have a kennel license--which in some states is required of people with as few as three intact females over six months of age, where the dogs are bred and raised in the person's home? Oh, and did I mention that a licensed kennel is required to submit to unannounced inspections during business hours and that most hobby/show breeders (the ones with so few dogs) work for a living?

It's not just the dog fancy: the whole country has gone mad. Mention breeding of any kind and suddenly you are a "mill" and are breaking the law and abusing animals. Just ask John Dollarhite and his wife (rabbits), Denisa Mallot (horses), and Wendy Willard (Murder Hollow Bassets). All very scary stuff. So, when people say that the animal rights movement is doing great things for animals and "there is no danger of anyone ever preventing dogs from being bred," you might get the hint that those people are, quite simply, wrong!

 

OK enough I say give Dogs the Vote