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If you plan to remain a a Private Breeder of quality dogs, you will be interested in the following.....
Handy
Links
ADOA asks for help fighting CA 1634
what AKC says about its lobbying effort and and what
non-doggy experts thought it said when they read it.
read both here
AKC Interview
July Editorial
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Cat Fancier's
Association
July 5th Update on CA
Bill 1634
Below is a CFA announcement to cat fanciers re
AB1634. In the attached
LG Committee Bill Analysis, CVMA was listed as being among the
Opposed. However, according to Joan Miller (CFA), the official CVMA
announcement indicated that their position went from co-sponsor to
neutral. Therefore, the Bill Analysis will probably be corrected.
CVMA's withdrawal of sponsorship is a huge step forward for our
side. AB1634 lost the only sponsor that lends credibility to its
argument. It reflects the time and efforts all the dog and cat
lovers have put in as one unit to fight this bill. You can read the
rest of the info and details on Wednesday's scheduled events from
the email we're forwarding from CFA.
The numbers of letters from organizations and individual were about
the same for Support and Oppose -- 400+ organizations and 10,000+
individuals. Many national and regional breed clubs as well as
kennel clubs and cat breed clubs registered official oppositions.
We're happy to note that the 2 regional Borzoi Clubs in California
filed official oppositions, as did the Western Borzoi Coursing Club
and Borzoi.org. We are deeply saddened and most disappointed to note
that our own parent club, Borzoi Club of America, apparently did not
register any opposition, nor did any of our breed rescue
organizations. However, we are very thankful for the hard work that
many of our fellow Borzoi breeders and owners from across the
country contributed in helping with our fight against AB1634,
despite the lack of support from our parent club.
We will do a closer analysis and break down of the bill's support
and oppose organizations and send you an update later. For now, we
all need to keep the heat up and remain focused on the Committee
hearing this coming Wednesday. Please call the 5 Senators on the
committee to remind them how strongly we remain Opposed to AB1634.
Let them know that CVMA has officially withdraw both their
Sponsorship and their Support of AB1634 - they no long think
it's "healthy for pets"! In fact, large numbers of veterinarians
feel so strongly about the Unhealthy aspects of the bill that
they formed the "California Veterinarians Against AB1634" to oppose
it. Further, the San Diego County Veterinary Medical Association is
publicly opposing this insidious bill.
Capitol and district phone & fax numbers of the State Senators are
attached in (side bar) handy link Article; ADOA asks for help
fighting CA 1634.
Thanks to:
Ken & Patti Burton
Kifka Borzoi
Kifka@Kifka.com
CFA Update -
To All Fanciers;
The California Senate Local Government Committee Consultant's
Analysis for AB 1634 has been published and is on the CFA website
(or will be asap). www.cfa.org. You
will find CFA on the oppose list as "The" Cat Fanciers'
Association. There is a major accomplishment reflected in this
document - the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) is
no longer listed as a Sponsor of the bill nor a Supporter.
... The San Diego Veterinary Medical Association is on the OPPOSE
list !!!
CFA played an important role immediately following the bill's
introduction in late February with a letter in early March to the
CVMA, emails asking veterinary contacts to persuade the CVMA to
withdraw their sponsorship and urging fanciers to contact their own
veterinarians. Many cat and dog fanciers visited their veterinarians
to make them aware and to provide materials so they could influence
the CVMA Board of Governors, the former president and the new
president. Numerous veterinarians had the courage to speak out. We
want to especially thank Dr. John Hamil, Dr. Sharon Vanderlip, Dr.
Charles Hjerpe, Dr. Karen Seibold and many others who wrote strong
letters and did so much to counter the support stance of the CVMA
leadership. We appreciate the National Animal Interest Alliance's (NAIA)
hard work to organize and promote the list of opposed veterinarians
on their website - www.naiaonline.org Many other groups helped and
it was a huge effort on the part of hundreds of individuals in the
state. Veterinarians have knowledge and credibility - we want them
on our side !!!!
The Committee Consultant's Analysis does not adequately express the
CFA reasons for opposition and there is some misinterpretation of
the bill language. Now it is important to make those calls to
Committee members offices to remind the staff of your opposition.
Contact information is on the CFA website.
Attend the hearing on July 11th at 8AM (get there very early) and
the PetPAC rally on the State Capitol grounds at 9:30 AM. The
American Kennel Club will have a lobbying meeting at 11:00 AM at the
Hyatt Hotel. Exact locations will be posted later. We must defeat
this bill for the sake of our breeds and the homeless cats on the
streets that will be ignored when people are threatened with $500
fines for "possessing" a cat not sterilized.
Joan Miller
CFA Legislative Coordinator
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