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06-15-2009, 12:21 PM
AKC Disqualification Shows Entire Nation The Danger of
Compromise, Apathy Or Agreeing To Biased Task Forces
by MARGO MILDE AND JOHN YATES
American sporting Dog Alliance
http://www.american sportingdogallia nce.org
asda@csonline. net
This report is archived at
http://eaglerock814 .proboards. com/index. cgi?action= display&board= general&thread= \44
LOS ANGELES, CA - It will be next to impossible to own a sexually intact
registered dog or cat within the City of Los Angeles, if City Council approves a
series of recommendations by the Spay/Neuter Advisory Committee in a March 30, 2009, report. These recommendations have been sent to Los Angeles City Council and to Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa in final form, the American Sporting Dog Alliance has documented. Action on the recommendations could happen at any time.
It already is illegal in Los Angeles to possess a sexually intact dog that is
registered with the Field Dog Stud Book (FDSB), and the committee's
recommendations would cancel out current exemptions for approved show, field trial, performance and breeding dogs registered with the American Kennel Club (AKC), and also rare breed and smaller registries. The recommendations also may affect dogs registered with the United Kennel Club (UKC), and cats registered with the three top feline registries. Beginning this year, the ordinance has required all dogs and cats that did not qualify for an intact exemption to be spayed or neutered at the medically unsafe age of four months.
Now, however, it is clear that even these few exemptions are intended to be
phased out, if recommendations from the committee are approved by the City
Council. The committee's recommendations also contain a series of "Catch 22's" that would make it virtually impossible for the owner of an intact dog to
maintain an exemption for competition, field trials and shows, even if the
registry itself maintains its exemption, documents show.
The unfolding situation in Los Angeles gives dramatic and clear proof that the
ultimate goal of all animal rights-inspired legislation is a step toward the
elimination of animal ownership in America. Each law, ordinance and regulation
is merely the first step toward a tightening of the noose in this incremental
approach to making America a nation without dogs, cats and other domesticated animals. Each step is designed to lead to another, until no more animals are left.
For dog owners, it means that any compromise with animal rights activists is
illogical, unwise and totally illusory. Dog owners who agree to negotiate,
participate on task forces or committees that are stacked against them,
compromise, cut deals, remain apathetic, or fail to fight hard for their rights
in the political arena, are slitting their own throats. The only alternative is
to fight back courageously against all animal rights legislation, and refuse to
quit, surrender or compromise.
That lesson applies equally to all Americans who own dogs or cats, and has
immediate meaning to Illinois, which has set up a task force to study new dog
laws, and Maine and Santa Barbara, CA, which are now in the process of having the results rammed down their throats by task forces that were designed to have strong animal rights biases.
The Los Angeles Committee also provides a clear lesson to dog owners about how task forces and committees can be taken over by nonresident animal rights extremists, who now are incorporating these committees into their nationwide strategy. The American Sporting Dog Alliance first uncovered this strategy in the City of Dallas, TX, which passed a repressive spay/neuter mandate last year based on the recommendations of a committee with official status that pointedly excluded anyone who was not an animal rights activist.
The Los Angeles Committee includes at least one person who does not live in the city: noted animal rights extremist Judie Mancuso of Laguna Beach, CA. Mancuso was a major force behind last year's failed effort to enact statewide mandatory spay/neuter legislation, and is leading efforts for legislation this year.
Mancuso also works on mandatory sterilization issues nationwide, and recently
testified in Chicago, where she claimed that these ordinances do not affect the availability of purebred dogs. The Los Angeles proposals contradict and
discredit Mancuso's statements in Chicago and elsewhere, and show clearly that her real goal is to eliminate purebred dogs.
Here are the Los Angeles Spay/Neuter Committee report's highlights pertaining to owning intact purebred dogs.
Almost all of America's dog and cat registries would be removed from the list of approved registries, because they do not have official policies to protect the health and soundness of dogs eligible for registration and used in breeding
programs, as would be required by the new recommendations.
We see this requirement as a "Catch 22" that is impossible to fulfill, because
the science of canine genetics is in its infancy and does not allow many
conditions to be predicted accurately (and thus prevented), and the Los Angeles ordinance is essentially requiring registries to be liable (including
financially liable) for the results of matings over which they have no real
control. Private breeders of high quality dogs also would object to a distant
registry taking control of their breeding decisions, if for no other reason than
the fact that registry officials would have no first-hand knowledge of the dogs
involved, their progeny or their ancestors.
Dogs registered by the American Kennel Club (AKC), which is the nation's largest registry, could not be kept sexually intact or bred in Los Angeles if these recommendations are adopted. This also would apply to dogs registered through the American Dog Breeders Association (American pit bull terriers), the Continental Kennel Club, the American Rare Breed Association, the Australian Shepherd Club of America and the Dog Registry of America, and possibly cats registered by the three major feline registries.
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Compromise, Apathy Or Agreeing To Biased Task Forces
by MARGO MILDE AND JOHN YATES
American sporting Dog Alliance
http://www.american sportingdogallia nce.org
asda@csonline. net
This report is archived at
http://eaglerock814 .proboards. com/index. cgi?action= display&board= general&thread= \44
LOS ANGELES, CA - It will be next to impossible to own a sexually intact
registered dog or cat within the City of Los Angeles, if City Council approves a
series of recommendations by the Spay/Neuter Advisory Committee in a March 30, 2009, report. These recommendations have been sent to Los Angeles City Council and to Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa in final form, the American Sporting Dog Alliance has documented. Action on the recommendations could happen at any time.
It already is illegal in Los Angeles to possess a sexually intact dog that is
registered with the Field Dog Stud Book (FDSB), and the committee's
recommendations would cancel out current exemptions for approved show, field trial, performance and breeding dogs registered with the American Kennel Club (AKC), and also rare breed and smaller registries. The recommendations also may affect dogs registered with the United Kennel Club (UKC), and cats registered with the three top feline registries. Beginning this year, the ordinance has required all dogs and cats that did not qualify for an intact exemption to be spayed or neutered at the medically unsafe age of four months.
Now, however, it is clear that even these few exemptions are intended to be
phased out, if recommendations from the committee are approved by the City
Council. The committee's recommendations also contain a series of "Catch 22's" that would make it virtually impossible for the owner of an intact dog to
maintain an exemption for competition, field trials and shows, even if the
registry itself maintains its exemption, documents show.
The unfolding situation in Los Angeles gives dramatic and clear proof that the
ultimate goal of all animal rights-inspired legislation is a step toward the
elimination of animal ownership in America. Each law, ordinance and regulation
is merely the first step toward a tightening of the noose in this incremental
approach to making America a nation without dogs, cats and other domesticated animals. Each step is designed to lead to another, until no more animals are left.
For dog owners, it means that any compromise with animal rights activists is
illogical, unwise and totally illusory. Dog owners who agree to negotiate,
participate on task forces or committees that are stacked against them,
compromise, cut deals, remain apathetic, or fail to fight hard for their rights
in the political arena, are slitting their own throats. The only alternative is
to fight back courageously against all animal rights legislation, and refuse to
quit, surrender or compromise.
That lesson applies equally to all Americans who own dogs or cats, and has
immediate meaning to Illinois, which has set up a task force to study new dog
laws, and Maine and Santa Barbara, CA, which are now in the process of having the results rammed down their throats by task forces that were designed to have strong animal rights biases.
The Los Angeles Committee also provides a clear lesson to dog owners about how task forces and committees can be taken over by nonresident animal rights extremists, who now are incorporating these committees into their nationwide strategy. The American Sporting Dog Alliance first uncovered this strategy in the City of Dallas, TX, which passed a repressive spay/neuter mandate last year based on the recommendations of a committee with official status that pointedly excluded anyone who was not an animal rights activist.
The Los Angeles Committee includes at least one person who does not live in the city: noted animal rights extremist Judie Mancuso of Laguna Beach, CA. Mancuso was a major force behind last year's failed effort to enact statewide mandatory spay/neuter legislation, and is leading efforts for legislation this year.
Mancuso also works on mandatory sterilization issues nationwide, and recently
testified in Chicago, where she claimed that these ordinances do not affect the availability of purebred dogs. The Los Angeles proposals contradict and
discredit Mancuso's statements in Chicago and elsewhere, and show clearly that her real goal is to eliminate purebred dogs.
Here are the Los Angeles Spay/Neuter Committee report's highlights pertaining to owning intact purebred dogs.
Almost all of America's dog and cat registries would be removed from the list of approved registries, because they do not have official policies to protect the health and soundness of dogs eligible for registration and used in breeding
programs, as would be required by the new recommendations.
We see this requirement as a "Catch 22" that is impossible to fulfill, because
the science of canine genetics is in its infancy and does not allow many
conditions to be predicted accurately (and thus prevented), and the Los Angeles ordinance is essentially requiring registries to be liable (including
financially liable) for the results of matings over which they have no real
control. Private breeders of high quality dogs also would object to a distant
registry taking control of their breeding decisions, if for no other reason than
the fact that registry officials would have no first-hand knowledge of the dogs
involved, their progeny or their ancestors.
Dogs registered by the American Kennel Club (AKC), which is the nation's largest registry, could not be kept sexually intact or bred in Los Angeles if these recommendations are adopted. This also would apply to dogs registered through the American Dog Breeders Association (American pit bull terriers), the Continental Kennel Club, the American Rare Breed Association, the Australian Shepherd Club of America and the Dog Registry of America, and possibly cats registered by the three major feline registries.
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