California wants to cut Pharaoh's nuts off-your dog too!!! - Page 1

This is a very important post-I signed the petition....

OT-California SB 250 by angusmom on 25 February 2009 - 23:02	angusmom Posts: 775 Joined: Sat Jan 06, 2007 06:37 pm
California is at it again. Senate Bill 250 would mandate sterilization for dogs and cats that do not receive an "unaltered license". obviously, theres a bit more to this bill. go to www.petpac.net to read more about it and sign the petition to say NO.

Don't let them walk all over us and our dogs.

Michele and Pharaoh

HEY!
Don't know what happened but the first half of my post didn't show??

I think that many of us have been lulled into a false sense of security as this mandatory spay/neuter craze has been beaten back numerous times here in linatic fringe California.  That is one of the ways they finally get things rammed through by outlasting the oppositions (that would be all of us).

I hate to be pessimistic, but, they may just do it this time and then the domino theory takes over.  Arizona or Oregon or Washington would be next.

Michele

AAARGH!  Sacramento County tried this a few years ago and I knew the idea wasn't going to go away.  Dang it.

I can understand the intent behind this bill and its predecessors--loads and loads of homeless dogs in shelters and whole litters being dumped--but they can't just legislate the problem away!  If you think about it, the people who will spay/neuter their dogs to come into compliance with the law or pay an outrageous license fee to keep them intact are already the kind of responsible people who aren't loading the shelters with unwanted animals anyway.  This is one of those good intentions that, when implemented, is going to have totally unintended consequences.  All this is going to do is make more people decide to keep their dogs under the radar and not license them at all.  

If you live here in California, please sign the petition against this bill and call or write your legislators to express your opposition.  But please do one more thing:  Protest the age at which they require the dogs to be altered.  I refused to neuter my boy until he was a year old.  And my vet is also against spaying/neutering puppies until they're at least six months old!  If this idiotic bill is going to pass, and it very well may, then they at least need to modify it so owners who won't alter puppies (but may have every intention of doing so later) aren't penalized. 

Just my 2 cents...

I did not read the bill, I dont have the time to right now, but if there is some way that you can keep your dog intact by paying a fee, then I actually like this.

Because IMO,  if you dont want to pay the money to keep your dog intact, then you dont need to breed.

I have said for years that something needs to happen to keep these back yard breeders from creating dogs that will end up in the shelter.

Then again, this is my opinion, since I live in a state that backyard breeders thrive in...

I do disagree with the people who say it is cruel to neuter/spay your pet early in life, or the people who say " I cant neuter my male, because I would not like that."

People like that are the reason we have problems in the U.S. with over population of animals.

You better look at this bill, even if you like it. NO more taking your dog on quick outing and running in and leaving your dog in the car. The law does not give a temputure guage for the weather, only NO LEAVING them in a car. I would suggest kennels band together and have thier own shows, every dog is a show winner!

Gee, maybe I will show Pharaoh in AKC.....maybe if no one shows up in his class, we would win.  Then, I would have a ribbon to prove he is a show dog.

Michele

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