in California. Why? Because there are NO provisions or exemptions in California permitting a dog to not be wearing it's license tag
If legislation like SB250 is allowed to pass, anytime a dog is not WEARING IT"S TAGS, EVEN IN THE RING, is a violation that will END your right to keep ANY INTACT DOG IN THE STATE.
FOREVER
This is the equivilent of losing your drivers license for a burned out brake light. FOREVER
Please ACT NOW
and get others moving too
From Laura Sanborn, working dog advocate
-- permission to cross post is granted --
California SB 250, statewide mandatory spay/neuter for dogs and cats, passed in the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 28. It now heads to the full State Senate, where it will be voted on sometime during the week of June 1.
Californians defeated the similar bill AB 1634 last year in the full Senate in large part because there was a huge number of opposition faxes and calls against it -- tens of thousands of them. So far, the response against SB 250 has been only a small fraction of that. If many more Californians do not take action to stop it, SB 250 will pass.
Under SB 250, a citizen can be permanently denied the right to ever own an intact dog or cat if any ONE of the following things happens:
- a meter reader, yard service worker, friend, neighbor, child, or anyone else leaves your door or gate open, your dog leaves your property, and is picked up as a stray
- you are walking your dog on leash and are cited for having a leash that is too long as specified in municipal code
- you are training your search-and-rescue dog, herding dog, obedience competition dog, hunting dog, agility dog, or any other dog off leash and are cited for it
- you are cited for having an unlicensed dog
- your dog is licensed but you are cited for not having a license tag on your dog's collar
- you are cited for exceeding the maximum number of dogs or cats allowed in your home as specified by your city or county code (often limited to 2 to 4)
- you are cited for your dog's barking
- you fail to notice that your dog defecated on city property and are cited for it
- you are cited for any other minor animal control violation
All of the above are violations of local ordinances and already have appropriate fines associated with them. Government-mandated forced sterilization of every dog and cat a person ever owns now and in the future is a grossly inappropriate penalty. It's the equivalent of permanently banning a person from ever registering a vehicle again because they are caught with a broken tail lamp.
There are NO exemptions in SB 250 for search-and-rescue dogs, police dogs, detection dogs, ranch or farm dogs, guide dogs, service dogs, or any other working dogs.
There are NO exemptions in SB 250 for dogs owned by responsible breeders.