PAWS Pet Animal Welfare Statute

Introduction to Project PAWS the single most important battle in the history of hobby breeders!

PAWS IS BORN AKC Board Chairman Menaker and Board member Gladstone help Santorum craft amendments to AWA which then morphs into PAWS.

READ The Actual PAWS Statute $500 in gross income makes you a dealer, subject to home inspections, open financial records.

Senator Santorum's Speech To Congress The basis for AKC's CEO misrepresenting PAWS to the fancy.

PAWS and LAWS A hard look at what Santorum says, the money angle, what this may mean to IRS... 

June 2005 AKC Chairman's Report, "if enacted into law, PAWS will not have a detrimental impact on the fancy's ability to breed dogs for the show ring or performance events, or to provide dogs as pets to carefully selected buyers."

Picked The Wrong Horse AKC, HSUS, and Santorum know less about horses than they do about dog owners.

AKC Joins HSUS on PAWS The ultimate treachery.  Why AKC fought the PPA but did everything to pass PAWS!

AKC War Games reveal AKC, DDAL & HSUS fighting hobby dog breeders and for Animal Rights, PAWS, CA 1634, chronology by TheDogPress

Big Bad Wolf Top handler arrested, over 300 abused dogs rescued from AKC inspected kennel.  AKC Chairman Suggests PAWS Would Have Prevented Wolf?

Exception To The Exemption Editorial on TheDogPress re Commercial Breeders, aka puppy mills.

The PAWS "Breeder" Exemption. Was the whole PAWS battle just a charade to make a billion-dollar USDA inspection deal palatable?  Is that why the AKC Chairman testified in support of the PAWS bill?

AKC's Presentation by Jim Holt soft-soaps the proposed PAWS amendment.

PAWS Co-Sponsors - What NOT to Write FAX numbers and why you should FAX, not email.

USDA Precision & Interpretation, Hobby/Show breeders need to take a very serious look at PAWS and fight it with all their might.

Reply to Senator Burr, a model letter for everyone who has faced such a sad lack of representation.

PETA Conspiracy Where did PETA got its initial funding, encyclopedia inclusion, etc.?

PAWS Standoff  The fat lady ain't singing yet but she's taking a deep breath.  DPCA's got them backing up!

Congressional Standoff re; PAWS Good news from Bob Kane of SAOVA

PAWS (Pet Animal Welfare Act of 2005) is totally dead says Bob Kane of SAOVA

DFOW Flyer AKC Given To Delegates Well what next?!  This is the flyer given out the first day and for which the lady was almost arrested!!!  9/15/05

AKC/HSUS Seek USDA Inspection Deal? Whispers of a "deal" between USDA and (take your pick) AKC or HSUS based on outsourcing theory. Exclusive Interviews! 

AKC Spin Or Education - YOU Decide quotes from AKC officials about what they think PAWS says.

PAWS Proposed Amendments Santorum Says - If you sell a dog not born or raised on your property - you are a dealer.  If you have NO LITTERS but you sell any animal for $501.00, you are a dealer.

Argument For Puppy Mills  If PAWS succeeds, we'll all know where to buy a puppy, the papers are full of them, blatant millers, multiple ads, multiple breeds, same phone number -  and where is the AKC? dateline August 17, 2005

Cass Sunstein, new Regulatory Czar

Avowed radical supporter of Animal Rights, he has control of the internet, and all public "information". 

History Of Animal Rights Where did it start?  And more importantly - why?  What does 1968 Russia have to do with 1970s anti-establishment movement?

Delegates Force AKC Board Turnover, by keeping term limits.

AKC President Trips With Santorum!  Two Leaders, AKC President Sprung & Senator Santorum campaign.

Rick Santorum's $29,000 visit to the AKC Board about more effective strategic planning or Buying PAWS