Our city council is having a hearing on this proposal in my town tonight.
Does anyone have any information on fighting this successfully??
Does anyone have any information on fighting this successfully??
This?Thank you. I am busy gathering information.
I can not find the AVMA official statement on this issue??
Jessica, a regular owner can choose not to spay her dog because she has weighed the risks of spaying and not spaying and finds that in her opinion, the risks associated with spaying her dog, are greater than not spaying. The same is true about vaccinations.
I used to pump every vaccination into my dogs, and put flea products on them, and the whole nine yards. I think that may not be the best bet when you break it down and see what is happening.
Forcing ordinary citizens to spay/neuter, meaning not breeders, -- well, what qualifies you as a breeder? How many dogs do you have to maintain to be a breeder? There is no working definition that defines breeders, bybs, and puppy mills. Sorry, but passing a law like this MIGHT make the puppy mills/commercial breeders the only people ALLOWED to have intact animals. That is what happens when you ask the government to remove rights from citizens.
The only people who will follow the law are those that are law-abiding. It will not stop there from being an overage of dogs in shelters, in fact people will turn their dogs in rather than pay for the surgery. PETA is ok with that, because they know the vast majority of those dogs will never come out of the shelters -- alive. And ultimately they do not want dogs being ruled by people, so they win.