Alert: AKC Launches Action Center to fight New York Crop/Dock Bill

[Rene Allegrini]

AKC has launched a new online Action Center to help fight the NY assembly bill that would prohibit ear cropping and tail docking. To view the action center, please click on the following link, or cut and paste it into your web browser http://www.akc.org/canine_legislatio...ion_center.cfm.

Canine Legislation Department
American Kennel Club
5580 Centerview Drive
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 816-3720
(919) 816-4275 FAX

[Dugganmom]

I guess i dont really understand why they are trying to pass this bill when there is so much animal abuse to deal with.....

[Rene Allegrini]

If you've watched just one espisode of Animal Planet, you will see that animal abuse is alive and well not just in New York, but all over.

The breeds affected by this ban:

http://www.akc.org/pdfs/canine_legis...reeds_0506.pdf

Another interesting article posted to another list yesterday:

http://www.caninechronicle.com/Featu...aglia_506.html

Imagine if as much effort were put into actually stopping abuse.

Are we being led ever so cautiously down the path of our own demise?

[Dugganmom]

I watch animal planet all the time and have seen the abuse...it is sad

[Dugganmom]

I am trying to start to be active but i am not sure how or where to start...you seem like a good person to ask how to start this as i read alot of your posts...i did e-mail some of the news stations here and asked why only 1 of them showed the rottweiler in idaho who saved the girls life...because if it been a vicisious attack it would have been front page news Just wondering what or how to start...thanks rene jenny

[Rene Allegrini]

So many of the posts I share come from the BSL list I am a member of. There are many informed people that share BSL from all across the country. You can also visit Jan Cooper's Rott-n-Chatter: http://www.rott-n-chatter.com/bsl_broadcasts/. I am, also, the Legislative Liasion for our club and receive ALERTS from the AKC. It's easy to start receiving them, just go to their website and click on Legislative Alert signup and you shoud start getting them in your emails.

If I can be more helpful, let me know.

[RSQRottweiler]

I don't understand what the lawmakers are actually trying to achieve. With cropping and docking, it's DONE and it's OVER with. . .there are so many things people do that have lasting negative effects on animals. For a while I managed a horse farm and saw owners of Western Pleasure show horses who would "block" their horse's tails (basically, block the nerves/numb the tail). . .the horse couldn't move its tail for a time after that, so it made them look "prettier" and "calmer" in the show ring. One horse's tail had been blocked so many times she couldn't even lift it anymore to urinate or defecate, so her tail was always nasty. Then there's all the stuff they do to gaited horses. . .soring their feet to make them "flashier" in the show ring. Terrible stuff. Absolutely unnecessary. . .not to mention CHEATING.

Forget the cropping/docking ban ideas. . .focus on actual ABUSE. . .

[Rene Allegrini]

Originally Posted by RSQRottweiler

Forget the cropping/docking ban ideas. . .focus on actual ABUSE. . .

Amen to that! And, as we all know to well, abuse abounds!