attention USA California pet owner:

Please read and forward to all your friends and pet owners in California.  


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Subject: CA AB 1634 Needs your immediate response! An assault on pet
owners?
rights

Please forward to everyone you know - this bill CANNOT be Passed!!!

For privacy rights, the rights of the poor (who cannot afford this kind
of
requirement) and for legitimate breeders who create the pets you want
to be
the  steward of ... this bill CANNOT be Passed!!!

Where will our pets come from? Shady operations? Outside the country?
Smugglers? If you think this applies to only dogs and cats, think
again.
Give 'em an inch and they will (eventually) take a mile.
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CALIFORNIA ANIMAL OWNERS CA AB 1634 NEEDS YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE!
      (Please cross post to California Animal Owners!!!)

CA AB 1634 is an assault on pet owners? rights. It seeks to remove
from dog and cat owners the right to decide IF and WHEN they will
spay/neuter their animals. This is a direct assault on the Fourth
Amendment right to control one's property!

CA AB 1634 requires mandatory spay and neuter of every dog and cat over
the age of four months, with fines of $500 for each non-compliant
animal. There is no consideration given for the fact that some animals
may be too young to spay/neuter without serious health consequences.
There is no consideration given to the possibility that some
non-exempted pet owners may still choose to breed their animals, or
keep them intact and confined.

NAIA supports the responsible breeding of dogs and cats by breed
enthusiasts. Well bred, raised and socialized dogs and cats are
positive additions to their communities and the families who love them.
We believe that the careful breeding and maintenance of such animals
should be encouraged to assure breed preservation. Communities should
create incentives for good breeding and educational programs and low
cost neutering programs to discourage the sort of breeding that leads
to problems, NOT mandatory sterilization laws.

NAIA does not support breeding by those who are unwilling to spend the
necessary time and effort to make informed decisions, carefully place
puppies and kittens, and maintain contact with pet buyers. We think
that breeding should be done only by those who have the dedication to
do so. But even so, we strongly oppose legislation that mandates
sterilization of household pets because it removes fundamental pet
ownership rights in order to solve problems that could be solved more
effectively and reasonably, and without removing pet owners?
fundamental property rights.

Lawmakers need to realize that shelter impounds have decreased just as
rapidly in areas without coercive legislation, as they have in some of
the areas where coercive legislation has been cited as the reason for
the decrease. Mandatory spay/neuter laws are not only unnecessary, they
also create long term distrust between citizens and their government.

  In CA AB 1634, Exceptions are granted via intact permits ONLY for
animals that are: 1) purebred and registered in state or locally
approved registries, 2) trained guide dogs, service dogs or signal
dogs, 3) trained law enforcement dogs actively used in law enforcement
or rescue, or 4) unhealthy animals when the dog or cat owner provides a
letter from a veterinarian stating that it is unsafe to spay or neuter
the animal due to age, illness or poor health.

  This bill would make it illegal for the average person to own an
intact animal that did not fall into one of the four categories above.
Enforcement decisions and responsibilities are given to the local
animal control agency. Fines of $500 would apply to each animal that is
not in compliance with this law, in addition to any other fines or
penalties applied by the local authorities.

Please visit the NAIA Trust site on CapWiz to send your opinion to
your state senators, assembly members and the Governor.

At eh bottom of the Web page below, to register your opinion at the
bottom
of the page: choose your favorite "talking points" or write your own.
Put it under issue: Agriculture.

Go to:
http://capwiz.com/naiatrust/issues/alert/?alertid=9421981