Oregen Dog Owners ALERT!! - Page 1

Oregon
 
Oregon House Bill 2470 would:
 

• Prohibit anyone from owning, possessing, controlling or having charge of more than 25 sexually intact dogs over the age of four months. This requirement would destroy the life work of many dedicated hobby breeders, and drive almost every professional handler, trainer and boarding kennel operator out of business.

 

• Require anyone who owns, possesses, controls or has charge of 10 or more sexually intact dogs over four months of age to follow standards of care designed for commercial breeding kennels. These include removing a dog from its kennel twice a day for two hours of exercise.

 

• Define anyone who raises three litters of puppies a year, or sells more than 20 dogs or puppies a year, as a pet dealer. Kennel owners who are classified as pet dealers (which includes the majority of serious hobbyists) must provide veterinary examinations of every dog or puppy that is sold. In addition, the legislation provides a series of complex documentation and disclosures to buyers for every dog or puppy that is sold.

 

• Create a “lemon law” offering complex legal protections to anyone who buys a dog or puppy, for 30 days after the sale, if the dog is diagnosed with a disease, illness or condition that a veterinarian certifies is likely to have been contacted before the sale. Hereditary conditions (which are not defined) are covered for two years after the sale. The guarantees include replacing the dog, refunding money, and paying for the costs of veterinary care, legal fees or burial.

 

• Require records to be kept on every dog for at least one year, posting notices about the rights of the buyer, and providing the buyer with a written statement of his or her rights.

 

• And provide criminal charges of a Class B Misdemeanor, which carries penalties of fines up to $2,500 and imprisonment for up to six months.

 
Here is a link to the text of HB 2470: http://landru.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measures/hb2400.dir/hb2470.intro.html.
 
HB 2470 is sponsored by Representatives Paul Holvey and Sara Gelser, and Senators Peter Courtney and Vicki Walker. It is cosponsored by Reps. Peter Buckley, Jean Cowan, Larry Galizio, Garrard (not listed on website, first name not available), Greg Matthews, Mike Schaufler and Brad Witt, and Sen. Floyd Prozanski.
 
The American Sporting Dog Alliance is urging all Oregon dog owners to contact sponsors and cosponsors of HB 2470 and ask them to withdraw the bill and/or withdraw their support of it. We also are asking Oregonians to contact their own senators and representatives to voice strong opposition

 HB 2852, JUST introduced by Vicki Berger, would require that all pit bull owners in the state of Oregon maintain one million dollars of liability insurance.

Contact information for bill author Rep. Vicki Berger:

Representative Vicki Berger
Party: R District: 20
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1420
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE., H-479, Salem, OR, 97301
Interim Address: 805 Kingwood Dr. NW, Salem, OR, 97304
Email: rep.vickiberger@state.or.us
Website: http://www.leg.state.or.us/berger

http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measures/hb2800.dir/hb2852.intro.html

Gee, I bet someone is happy.  Wonder if Vicki has anything to gain by this? Do you think?

Anyone person who owns 25 sexually intact Dogs for breeding is in my mind a puppy mill
That amount of dogs is ridiculous to the extreme for one household, and is a breeding establishment on the same lines as a puppy mill they must come out on a conveyer belt
Good thing places like that are kept a check on and hopefully stopped
Steve

Mystere

YOU ARE A SOCIALIST - GO MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.........

WE HAVE ENOUGHT LAWS IN THIS COUNTRY ALREADY.

WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE OF YOU OR YOUR STUPID LAWS!

 You know nothing of my politics, because, unlike the trailer trash on this forum, I don't spout it, or my religion, all over a dog forum.  

 We have enough idiots in this country, too, as you so charmingly and "intelligently" illustrate.