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People have many concerns about HR 3501 and in this most recent installment of On a Loose Lead, Bill address these issues and more.
The right to own the pet of your choice as your personal property is under attack. Taking this right away, through the term “Guardianship” is what PetPAC calls the Hidden Agenda of animal rights extremists, and we have responded with the National Pet Owners Bill of Rights.
Last year, Assembly Members were misled in voting for AB 1634. Now they are being misled in voting for SB 250. As one member said, “This is the euthanasia bill that just doesn’t die”.
Assembly Bill 241, authored by Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, and sponsored by HSUS, sets a cap on dog breeders of fifty intact dogs. It sounds logical. Many breeders can’t even fathom why anyone would want to own fifty dogs. Many claim that would be a so-called puppy mill. So why would PetPAC oppose such a bill?
PetPAC research showed two years ago that when MSN is put in place, pet owners facing huge fines and surgical fees disavow ownership of their pets, remand them back to shelters to be killed. Los Angeles kill rate went up 31% last year, after MSN. Thus more animals get killed.
PetPAC, representing over 65,000 pet owners remains opposed to Senate Bill 250, Florez as amended., Regardless of statements by the author and proponents, SB 250 will result in tragic unintended consequences.
The American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have both come out opposing mandatory spay and neuter.
PetPAC research along with the Governor’s Dept of Finance research, under a similar mandatory surgical sterilization bill showed that when faced with these penalties, fees, and surgical costs, many pet owners will refuse to pay, remand their animals to shelters, or disavow ownership, which results in more impounds, more unpaid costs and more killing of animals.
Senate Bill 250 has been amended. The bottom line is: regardless of assertions to the contrary by Senator Dean Florez, SB 250 is still a mandatory spay and neuter bill.
Senate Bill 250, the latest brain child of Senator Dean Florez, is a new effort to force all dogs and cats to be surgically sterilized.
Mel Tucker is the epitome of a hunter. Big guy, broad shoulders and direct. Mel trains and hunts with his Labrador Retrievers. When the thirty or forty PetPAC supporters gathered to oppose a proposed mandatory spay and neuter ordinance in the city of Manteca last night, Mel and his wife were there.
“No person may own, keep, or harbor an unaltered and unspayed dog (or cat) in violation of this section.” This sentence is the gist of newly introduced California Senate Bill 250-Florez, D-Shafter.
