AB 1634 it FINALLY DIED

Mandatory Sterilization of animals is NOT the ANSWER. Education is.



COMPLETE BILL HISTORY
BILL NUMBER : A.B. No. 1634
AUTHOR : Levine
TOPIC : Dogs and cats: nonspayed or unneutered: civil penalties.
TYPE OF BILL :
Active
Non-Urgency
Non-Appropriations
Majority Vote Required
State-Mandated Local Program
Fiscal
Non-Tax Levy
BILL HISTORY
2008
Aug. 30 To inactive file on motion of Senator Padilla.
Aug. 22 Read third time, passage refused. (Ayes 5. Noes 27. Page 5318.)
Motion to reconsider made by Senator Padilla. Reconsideration
granted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5319.)
Aug. 13 Read second time. To third reading.
Aug. 12 Read third time, amended. To second reading.
Aug. 5 Read second time, amended, and to third reading.
Aug. 4 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate
Rule 28.8 and be amended.
July 1 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
June 30 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) .
June 18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on
L.GOV.

2007
July 11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing
to be set.
July 3 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on
L.GOV.
June 28 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on L.GOV.
June 27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on
B., P. & E.D.
June 21 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and L.GOV.
June 7 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
June 6 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 38. Page
2047.)
May 31 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Ayes 37.
Noes 30. Page 1708.).
May 21 Read second time. To third reading.
May 17 (Corrected May 16.)
May 17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (May 16).
May 16 (Corrected May 15.)
May 10 Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
May 9 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.
May 1 Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Apr. 30 Read second time and amended.
Apr. 26 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 24).
Apr. 17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
Apr. 10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
Apr. 10 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
Apr. 9 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer
to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
Mar. 26 Referred to Com. on B. & P.
Feb. 26 Read first time.
Feb. 25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
Feb. 23 Introduced. To print.


Subject: OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA BILL INFORMATION


Date and Time of Update: Mon Sep 1 5:12:23 US/Pacific 2008


Legislative action has occurred on bill(s) you have subscribed
to through the California Legislative Counsel's web site
(http://www.leginfo.ca.gov)
or the California State Senate's web site
(http://www.sen.ca.gov).

You can link to the Bill Documents page or to the specific page
of information that has been updated. If you cannot link from this
E-mail message, you can enter the URL on your Internet Browser.



HISTORY http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab _1634_bill_20080830_history.html

FROM FIREARMS TO FIDO "FEEL GOOD" LAWS MAKE THINGS WORSE

http://www.naiaonline.org/library/From_Firearms_to_Fido.htm


FROM FIREARMS TO FIDO
"Feel Good" Laws Make Things Worse

Landmark Harvard Study Confirms:
Over-Regulating Law-Abiding Citizens
Aggravates Social Problems, Creates More Scofflaws


NAIA Newsletter: October 5, 2007

PORTLAND, OR – A landmark study published last year in one of America's most respected scholarly journals provides powerful evidence that "feel-good" legislation – indiscriminate and/or unenforceable bans, as well as draconian sanctions applied to behavior that is already illegal – degrades respect for law and reduces compliance, while aggravating (or at best, failing to improve) the problems these laws were supposedly enacted to solve.

The study specifically addresses gun laws in the U.S. and worldwide. "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence," by Don B. Kates and Gary A. Mauser: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol. 30, pages 651-694. But its broader point supports a central reality that has long been recognized by the National Animal Interest Alliance: whether lawmakers target pet owners or gun owners, ill-conceived "feel-good" laws usually just make things worse. (Dr. Mauser has been a long-time supporter and a member of the NAIA.)

Researchers Kates and Mauser compared crime statistics from more than a dozen countries including Norway, Denmark, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and many others. Although their findings echoed two previous large-scale international studies, some observers found their conclusions surprising. According to Kates and Mauser, "Many people think that nations with more firearms will have more murder and that banning firearms will reduce murder and other violence – If anything it was the reverse."

Specifically, the two scholars – Kates is an American constitutional lawyer; Mauser is a Canadian academic – said that "banning guns to the general public increases people's vulnerability and fails to reduce violence because the law-abiding citizenry are victims of violent crime, not perpetrators."

Kates and Mauser's paper is online here: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate sMauseronline.pdf

"For more than a decade, experts at the NAIA and its friends and supporters have seen the identical dynamic played out with regard to animal control legislation in the U.S." said NAIA national director Patti Strand, a recognized expert on animal issues. "Too often, well-meaning American lawmakers looking for answers to animal control problems have fallen prey to attractive quick-fix solutions and feel-good laws offered by activist groups. Many such groups have considerable media savvy, and do a good job focusing media attention on their view of the issue, but they seldom have any effect on the problems they claim to address. Worse, these groups often pit lawmakers against their own constituents, painting pet owners and breeders as the problem or even the enemy – thus discouraging the sort of dialog between regulators and stakeholders that is so necessary for drafting effective laws. This process not only exacerbates the original problem, but frequently adds entirely new and unnecessary problems to the mix."

The legislative backfire gallery – laws intended to achieve an admirable goal such as reducing neighborhood nuisances, stray cats or discarded dogs but which often achieve the opposite effect – include arbitrary pet limit laws, bans against specific breeds, penalties against feeding neighborhood cats, outlawing elective veterinary procedures like debarking and declawing or charging exorbitant licensing fees for intact animals. In addition to requiring unachievable levels of enforcement, such laws tend to push responsible pet owners underground or out of ownership, neither of which is good for the community; and they also have little effect on irresponsible owners who will continue outside the licensing system.

Bans against specific breeds produce relinquishment and euthanasia of well-behaved pets of the targeted breeds, while irresponsible and criminal pet owners just switch to new breeds and continue abusing their dogs. Penalizing home owners for feeding neighborhood cats assures that more feral cats will be euthanized. Banning elective veterinary procedures often converts a household or neighborhood concern into a shelter statistic, as pet owners give up on solving problem behaviors. Charging exorbitant license fees for intact dogs and cats causes responsible breeders to cut back or opt out and thereby reduces the best source of home-raised, healthy, well-socialized puppies and kittens. Yet it won't affect breeders who don't license in the first place, the ones most likely to create castaway pets. Ironically, laws that push people and their pets out of the licensing system also hamper the principal function of licensing: that of assuring rabies vaccination compliance. And unreasonable, unenforceable animal control laws erode community support for animal control.

Although such regulations may be well-meant, the unintended consequences have striking parallels to the gun control study by Kates and Mauser. Their Harvard study said: "Banning guns to felons, violent misdemeanants, juveniles and the insane (which our laws already do) is a good idea in general, though such laws are very difficult to enforce. Disarming those who only want to defend themselves, however, is a surefire road to empowering criminals at the expense of the innocent." The result in many cases increases the crime rate rather than decreasing it, simply because, for the criminals, disarming the population increases opportunity and decreases risk.

But how does a disarmed community, becoming more vulnerable to criminal activity relate to a community that adopts burdensome licensing fees, breeding restrictions or bans on pets?

The lawmakers' missteps in each instance have common factors, both relating to the effect on the community as a whole. Because they don't distinguish between good and bad gun owners, gun bans diminish the freedom of law-abiding gun owners, while leaving the criminal gun owners as free as they were before the ban to continue their illegal activities; thus making gun-related crime – the original target – worse.

Unrealistic pet laws diminish the freedom of law-abiding pet owners, chase the best of them out of the supply chain, and leave scofflaw pet owners as free as they were before the imposition of restrictions to continue as an unlicensed or uncontrolled problem segment of the pet owner population. Just as law-abiding gun owners cause no problems, law-abiding pet owners cause none, either. Yet, both are hit with restrictions while the causes of problems in each case find new opportunities: one to commit armed crimes unopposed by any force, and the other to fill the void of puppy and kitten demand as responsible home-based breeders – dedicated breed enthusiasts in particular – cut back or quit.

The goal of some pet laws is to reduce surplus shelter animals by eliminating irresponsible breeding, but if only the most conscientious breeders with good placement practices obey the law, then the net result of the law is to reduce puppies and kittens from the best, most law abiding sources. It doesn't reduce problem pet owners who cause neighborhood problems, abuse their animals or produce dogs and cats that end up in shelters. In fact, a new black-market for puppies and kittens has developed to supply the demand that formerly was met by responsible, law-abiding breeders who've been forced out of breeding by unreasonable laws and fees. http://www.cbp.gov/xp/CustomsToday/2006/jun_jul/other/puppie s.xml

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law-abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand. Unlike the overregulated compliant breeders of the past who were dedicated to improving and preserving breeds and promoting responsible pet ownership, and belonged to associations like the American Kennel Club (AKC), the United Kennel Club (UKC), Cat Fanciers Association (CFA), The International Cat Association (TICA) and many other associations organized for service and other working dogs, the newcomers appear motivated mostly by the opportunity to make a quick buck. They lack knowledge of basic husbandry and health, and don't have good placement practices.

So along with encouraging pet relinquishment, feel-good laws guarantee that good breeding and placement practices will be replaced with poorer practices, and in the long term they assure an increase in shelter animals – one of the original target problems that the new restrictions were supposed to solve. Is it any wonder, then, that best estimates suggest that only about 30% of pets targeted by these ordinances are ever licensed, even though both human and pet populations are rising?

Instead of recognizing pet ownership as a widely held, positive community value and working with the pet owning community to create reasonable, enforceable laws, attempts to license the remaining 70% of household pets have focused on the empty threats of enforcing greater restrictions and heavier penalties. Empty, because funding for increased enforcement usually does not exist. So while this tactic may scare a few owners into grudging compliance, it also causes a corresponding loss of cooperation and support from the group that was already compliant. Following passage of draconian anti-breeder laws, shelter populations in the area rise.

Passing feel-good laws is akin to the old joke about the tavern drunk who was looking for his lost keys under the streetlight, rather than down the block where he actually lost them – because, he said, "the light was better." Passing laws that strike at easy targets (the law-abiding, responsible pet owner) does little to solve the problems of noisy, abandoned or dangerous animals, euthanasia rates, and the like. It mainly alienates the pet-loving population from animal control agencies charged with enforcement, and sets up a needless conflict between groups (i.e. state or local government vs. dog and cat enthusiasts, kennel and cat clubs) that should be allies.

The good news is that some local and state governments have understood these commonsense arguments (backed by reams of studies and statistics) and have avoided passing "feel-good" laws in favor of smart, targeted legislation that actually addresses problems and puts pet owners and animal control enforcement on the same side.

NAIA applauds this enlightened legislative approach and has, in fact, helped lawmakers in numerous jurisdictions to craft superior regulations. Across the nation, NAIA has helped replace breed-specific language with language targeting at risk behavior and irresponsible and abusive pet owners. In Oregon we helped pass a landmark dangerous dog law and in Monroe County, Florida, we worked with residents and local government to replace an unenforceable $500 intact animal fee with a $35 fee, removed arbitrary restrictions on animal limits, and made other changes that vastly increase chances for compliance and cultivate goodwill and cooperation between citizens, lawmakers and animal control officials.

Over the course of the last 16 years, NAIA has played a role, directly or indirectly, in hundreds of positive legislative outcomes. We have served on national, state and local task force bodies, on blue ribbon panels, and on animal welfare, and fish and wildlife committees aimed at improving public policy affecting animals, animal ownership and the natural environment. In many cases, NAIA and its members have succeeded in launching precedent-setting initiatives. We have helped draft model laws, created reasonable standards for dog parks, removed arbitrary limit laws, improved consumer-protection laws, backed successful trap-neuter-return programs and generally helped make animal-welfare and animal-control legislation more reasonable and effective.

Similar to the gun ban study, our research, as reflected in the NAIA Guide to Pet Friendly Ordinances, shows that to be successful, ordinances must distinguish between responsible and irresponsible pet owners. They must offer support and incentives to encourage and reward responsible pet ownership; and they must enforce reasonable penalties against irresponsible pet owners to bring them into compliance.

"Lawmakers don't have to reinvent the wheel and they certainly don't have to emulate the failed model of gun-control legislation that ends up punishing the innocent, creating more criminals, and empowering precisely the wrong people," said NAIA's Strand. "The successes of well-researched animal regulations adopted in recent years by numerous jurisdictions including Oregon and Florida mentioned above, will translate beautifully into every city and state in this country."

"We at NAIA stand ready to assist any state or local lawmaker, as we have done for the last 16 years, with expert consultation and practical information about what works and what doesn't," says Strand. "NAIA urges government officials and animal supporters to reject 'feel-good' laws in favor of proven regulatory approaches that actually 'do good' for the pets and pet owners of America."
###

Permission to reprint items found in the NAIA and NAIA Trust Newsletters or on the websites is granted with proper attribution to the author and source, including the website address for each organization. We hope you will publish this article in your club newsletter.

Tell your friends to sign up for the NAIA Newsletter at www.naiaonline.org/library/newsletter.htm

Website design and all text are copyright 2006 by NAIA unless otherwise noted.
Reproduction by any means, electronic or mechanical, is forbidden unless written
request is submitted and approved. Home | Search | Subscribe to Newsletter

The Myths of Pet Overpopulation

(1)
TUFTS: FILLING EMPTY DOG POUNDS (FROM 02-06-03) http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/020603FillingEmptyPounds.htm


Pet Underpopulation: The Pet Shortage in the US by Laura Baughan
http://spanieljournal.com/33baughan.html

(2)
Dog imports raise fears of a resurgence of disease http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-21-dog-imports_N .htm
Outbreak of Drug-Resistant Salmonella at an Animal Shelter http://www.animalsheltering.org/resource_library/magazine_ar ticles/nov_dec_2004/outbreak_of_drug-resistant_salmonella.ht ml
Disease shuts animal shelter (Las Vegas) http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Feb-10-Sat-2007/ news/12517017.html

(3)
Rabies Treatment Saves One, Does Not Work for All http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267191,00.html
Human Rabies — Indiana and California, 2006 http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5615a1.htm

(4)
8 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Dog Shelters http://www.toybreeds.com/animalshelters.htm
ABC NEWS: 300,000 Imported Puppies Prompt Rabies Scare
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3765973&page=1

Legislative Update 1/16/08

Legislative Report 01-16-08

Authored by: Ken Sondej & Linda D. Witouski
Ken Sondej -
American Kennel Club Legislative Liaison - Silver State Kennel Club
Legislative Liaison - National Pet Press
Legislative Liaison - Nevada Dog Fanciers Assc.
Director Government Affairs and Legislative Advisor - Adopt A Rescue Pet
Nevada Director – Responsible Dog Owners Western States (RDOWS)
Advisor - Indiana Animal Owners Alliance
Advisor to Clubs and groups in Southern Nevada, Arizona, California

Linda Witouski -
American Kennel Club Judge
American Kennel Club Delegate - Myrtle Beach Kennel Club - SC
American Kennel Club Legislative Liaison - South Carolina & Pennsylvania
Legislative Liaison/Staff Writer - National Pet Press/TDP
Legislative Chair/BOD - Myrtle Beach Kennel Club
Legislative Chair - Yankee Miniature Pinscher Club
Legislative Chair - Miniature Pinscher Club of America, Inc.
Member: NAIA, MOF, ERPT, DSJA, DJAA, MBKC, YMPC, MPCA

Handy TOLLFREE NUMBERS - Capitol Switchboard
Here are some toll-free numbers for the Capitol Switchboard:
1-866-220-0044
1-866-340-9281
1-877-851-6437
1-888-355-3588
1-800-833-6354
1-800-450-8293
1-877-762- 8722
1-877-762-8762

FEDERAL

U.S. Senate passes Farm Bill with important Companion Animal Provision - Last Chance for Animals (AR group) applauds Senate for making pet theft a Federal Issue.

Toledo OH - Tellings appeal to the United States Supreme Court was filed 12-21-07

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/07-8545.htm

STATES - IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

ALABAMA

Athens - repeals pet license ordinance. City officials said the registration was costing the city more money than it was bringing in and that it was a duplication of services with a state health law that requires dogs to be vaccinated for rabies. 12/17/07

Colbert County - County's animal control director is asking the county's larger municipalities to consider an ordinance that would outlaw chaining dogs. Government officials in Muscle Shoals, Sheffield and Tuscumbia said they are aware of the request from county Animal Control Director Tommy Morson, but so far none of the councils has adopted the proposed ordinance. When he presented the proposal to Sheffield council members, Morson said chaining dogs to a stake or post makes the animals more territorial and aggressive. In addition to prohibiting tethering or chaining of dogs to stationary objects, the ordinance would mandate that dog pens must provide 100 square feet of space for each dog over 3 months old. If dogs are confined within a fenced-in yard, the area must have sufficient space for exercise based on a dimension of 100 square feet per dog. Fences must be constructed of chain link or similar material and be tall enough to prevent the dog from escaping and each animal must have his own dog house.

Dothan - new ordinance gives AC officers right of entry for the purpose to impound animal(s) and issue citations for violations (against Alabama State Law), defines regulations for "dangerous", "vicious" and nuisance (any animal at large not spay or neutered)" dogs, prohibits urination on private property or defecate on public property, liability for damage caused by animal(s) and care of livestock. text available upon request.

ARKANSAS

Crossett - extended discussion involving the city's existing animal ordinance as compared to a recommendation prepared by a committee working on the definition of a vicious dog, the council moved that City Attorney James Hamilton amend the existing

ordinance and prepare the committee's suggestion in ordinance form for further discussion and review by the council.

North Little Rock - new ordinance, Little Rock residents still will be allowed to have pit bulls, and new residents can move with their dogs into the city but will have to register them with Animal Services, pose for a photograph with the dog, sterilize the animal and pay an additional fee to have a dangerous breed permit. The ordinance also limits owners to two dogs per household, would apply to American pit bull terriers, Staffordshire terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and any mix of those breeds. Text is available upon request. NOTE: City of Little Rock was added to a lawsuit filed by Responsible Owners of Arkansas Dogs (ROADS) regarding breed selective legislation and banning of certain breeds

CALIFORNIA

City of Sacramento - importing adoptable dogs to meet the demand at the shelters and building a new $25 million shelter where, evidently, they are planning to eventually be the only place in town to "buy" a pet.

Kern County - During the months of May and June 2007, ten public workshops were conducted throughout Kern County to introduce possible Animal Ordinance amendments. As a result of public input received during those workshops, staff indicated that a number of changes would be included in further discussion with the Animal Control Commission Commission will further discuss this matter at its Wednesday, January 16, 2008 meeting, 6:00 p.m. at the Public Services Building, 2700 M Street, Bakersfield. It is possible that a formal recommendation on this proposal may be acted upon at the February 20, 2007 Commission meeting.

COLORADO

Carbondale - Town Council agreed Tuesday (12/11/07) after reviewing a draft of the new ordinance aimed at addressing aggressive animals, that it requires tweaking. A revised version will come back to town trustees with further clarification of the penalty for neglecting a dog and a refined definition of “vicious.” Other issues- ­ mandatory leash laws and limiting the number of dogs a single owner can have­ were also discussed. Board members agreed the revised ordinance should include rewards for responsible owners.

Edgewood - seeks to join surrounding communities in limiting the number of animals in a home. Limits are based on the number of lots you are on, as opposed to the number of acres. A 100-acre lot has the same limits as a person on a 1-acre lot.

Parachute - ordinance that would have banned pit bulls, unless their owners followed several strict requirements, died after two motions to approve it failed for lack of seconds. One motion would have added other dog breeds, such as Dobermans and Rottweilers, to the ban. DEAD 12/13/07

Parachute - Town Council approves vicious-pet ordinance regaring dangerous and potentially dangerous dogs. The ordinance would apply to all breeds of dogs and any kinds of pets. A municipal judge would determine whether an animal is potentially dangerous after a hearing. A dog designated as potentially dangerous would have to be spayed or neutered and kept indoors or in a secure pen to prevent it from escaping, according to the ordinance. A dog classified as dangerous, meaning it had violated the ordinance after being deemed potentially dangerous, would be humanely euthanized. If the dog were taken off its owner's property, it must wear a leash no longer than 4 feet. The owner would also have to display a sign on his or her property to alert people that a dangerous animal was present, and obtain a special license and tag from the town. Violators of those conditions would be subject to a municipal fine.The ordinance will take effect once the Town Council gives it final approval at its next meeting.

FLORIDA

Lake Mary - City is discussing a change in the pet limit laws

Miami-Dade County - County Commission will be holding a public hearing at 9:30am on Tuesday, 12/18, to discuss a variety of changes to the animal control ordinance including limiting the number of pets a resident may own, implementing hobby breeder licensing, requiring mandatory microchipping for dog breeders and restricting rescue organizations. Commissioners voted in a non-public hearing to defer the Chapter 5 re-write in Miami-Dade 12/18/07

Palm Beach - County commissioners are discussing proposed revisions to animal control ordinance. The majority of people agreed to a non mandatory spay/neuter program offered through vet vouchers in the entire County. (health issues and other concerns not directly related to being a breeder were cited) This would remove the breeder "tax" from the legislature altogether and make it completely voluntary. The revisions were a result of the 6 MONTH waiting list to get low cost spay/neuter from Palm Beach Animal Care and Control. UPDATE: Palm Beach County officials have taken the bite out of a controversial plan intended to force residents to spay and neuter their pets. Newest version of the rules would allow all pet owners to opt out of the requirement by paying a $75 fee. Pet owners who buy the unaltered license also would be required to certify in writing that the dog or cat will not be bred. Breeders still would be required pay for the permit - $300 a year, but the county would waive the fee in many cases.

GEORGIA

Athens-Clarke County - Commission voted to ban tethering animals to object. The new law requires all dogs and other animals to be housed in an enclosure, such as a fenced-in area with a doghouse,
and no longer allows owners to chain or tether their pets to inanimate objects like trees.
The law came in response to complaints from animal-rights activists and Athens-Clarke Animal Control officers. Commissioners Doug Lowry, George Maxwell and Harry Sims opposed it. (PASSED)

ILLINOIS

Springfield - new law went into effect Tuesday (01/01/08) to protect pets and animals from domestic violence. Under the new law, Illinois judges can include animals in orders of protection, just as they would a human being. The bill was passed unanimously in May 2007.

Farmington - City Council heard a proposed ordinance for the first time Monday (12/17/07) that would make pit bulls a dying breed in the city. The ordinance states that no 'new' pit bulls can be brought into the city and that current pit bull owners will have to apply for a special license within 60 days of the ordinance. The ordinance was read for the first time Monday and will be presented for a full vote in early 2008. The license would require proof of ownership of the pit bull, a copy of health and immunization records, a certificate of insurance for injury or damages by the dog for at least $500,000 and two photographs of the dog. The license will cost $100. Farmington is not a "home rule" city. The council will vote on the ordinance at an upcoming meeting. UPDATE: Proposed ordinance banning pit bulls in the city was not on January 7 meeting agenda. "There has been indication of potential litigation by various organizations, and the cost of a legal defense for this type of lawsuit would not be in the best interest of the citizens of Farmington," City Administrator Roger Woodcock said in a news release Thursday 12/20/07.

KANSAS

Beloit - BSL was supposedly repealed however, the city council posted a new breed ban via a newspaper posting behind the people's backs (no further info provided)

Humboldt - City Council members approved a series of sweeping new animal control ordinances that ban ownership of pit bull terriers and rottweilers within city limits. Only those who had properly registered those types of dogs with the city by Dec. 31 will be allowed to keep the animals and restricts ownership of pit bulls and rottweilers, which the city considers "inherently dangerous" and "a significant threat to the public's health, safety and welfare." Even those who have previously registered their dogs face a litany of restrictions, including: � The dogs mustt be confined indoors or in a secure pen. � Dogs are allowed outside those containnment areas only if they are restrained by a leash and muzzle. � Owners must maiintain at least $50,000 in liability insurance for bodily injury or death and have sufficient “beware of dog” signage. � Dogs must be pphotographed, and cannot be sold or have their ownership transferred to any other person within the city. � Any offspring born to a registered pit bull or rottweiler must be removed from the city within six weeks of birth. � Violators are subject to Humbooldt Municipal Court fines of up to $1,000 and a 30-day jail sentence. Passed 01/07/08

Hutchinson - city has added some teeth and a little bit of bite to its updated animal control ordinances - specifically the section on dog licensing fees. City found a good compromise in drafting the new ordinance. It allows pet owners to pay a higher fee for choosing not to spay or neuter their pets while offering a financial incentive to the owners of pets who do so. Effective Jan. 1.

Winfield - new ordinance requiring the licensing of animals whch require proof of rabies immunization. Required to either wear the registration tag, or in lieu of that, the owner may provide proof that the animal has been injected with an under-the-skin microchip ID. The number of the chip must be provided at registration time. Effective 01/01/08

Winfield - new ordinance regarding dog pens will take effect on July 1. The ordinance establishing the law reads as follows: "All dogs are to be confined to the owner's property and not allowed to run free. Confinement can be met by adequately fenced yard, and in situations where the yard is not fenced, the owner shall confine the dog to the home or an adequate outside enclosure. Such enclosure shall be constructed of chain link or other suitable materials with all four sides enclosed. The enclosure shall be of sufficient height to prevent the dog from escaping from the enclosure. The top of the enclosure shall be covered with materials to provide the dog with shade and protection from the elements. The enclosure shall be adequate square footage to provide adequate exercise for the size of the dog confined." Effective 07/01/08

Winfield - new ordinance restricting the tethering of dogs within the City of Winfield will also take effect on July 1. The ordinance reads as follows: "It shall be unlawful to keep a dog tethered in place for more than one (1) hour at a time. After a break of not less than three (3) hours off the tether, a dog may be tethered again for one (1) hour. A dog may not be tethered more than three (3) hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period." Effective 07/01/08



KENTUCKY

Frankfort - Pam Rogers of the Kentucky Humane Society commented that come the first of the year they will in fact be pushing for forfeiture bonds on any animals taken. Irregardless of events, the KHS seems to believe that 'guilty' will be the only option.

Louisville - After poring over significant testimony, highlighted by a strong consensus that unaltered dogs are not necessarily more aggressive than altered dogs, the subcommittee, in consultation with Metro Animal Services Director Gilles Meloche, agreed on a number of changes. Among key changes: the revised ordinance still refers to dangerous and potentially dangerous dogs, but removes unaltered dogs from that category. It would allow the MAS director to impose fines on a sliding scale based on income; currently fines are fixed. It would remove restrictions on leash length for all but dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs, which would be limited to four-foot leashes, and it removes the word “permit” from the ordinance. Downard said that was an important change because permit, unlike the word license, implies that people don’t actually own their dogs. The changes would also become less stringent on people whose licensed dogs get loose; currently those dogs are impounded, but under the proposed changes, the dogs would be returned on the first incident, followed by possible fines for repeat violations. Changes passed committee 12/19/07. Two lawsuits are still pending.

Louisville - UPDATE: Progress in Louisville. Due to behind-the-scenes work by some of LKC's most dedicated members, the animal ordinance was changed. The changes, though they do not solve all the problems with the ordinance, do improve it vastly. For example: Unaltered dogs are no longer automatically "at risk." Permits for unaltered dogs have been removed; now all dogs are licensed. Invisible fences are legal for unaltered dogs, and dogs may not be impounded for not having a license on the first offense. The LKC's lawsuit against the city is still moving forward, and their top-rated constitutional attorney believes they have a very good chance of winning. This will set a precedent that can be used to dissuade other cities from passing restrictive laws as in the Louisville 2006 disaster.

Warren County - citizens' group has been working for more than a year on a countywide animal control ordinance plans to present its work to Warren Fiscal Court in February. Amending the standards enumerated then included requirements for regular food and water, adequate shelter, shade and living space, and regular veterinary care. The draft ordinance doesn't limit the number of animals that anyone can own, however, should someone have a large number of animals (no number mentioned) capable of breeding, they would need a $100 kennel license and an inspection. Enforcement of the proposed ordinance would be driven by complaints

LOUISIANA

Kinder - Police Chief Gary Pelican has asked the town council to consider a ban on pit pulls

MAINE

Augusta - LD2010 (HP1394) LR 2754 - "An Act To Ensure Ethical and Humane Dog Breeding in the State" - bill seeks to enact measures designed to address the inhumane breeding standards of so-called "puppy mills" in the State. This bill would outlaw the most egregious dog breeding practices and would establish a Maine humane dog breeding standard. No action in Senate text available upon request

MICHIGAN

Lansing - lawmakers recently passed legislation that will significantly strengthen penalties for the most severe cases of animal neglect. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a statement praising this action. The new law, which will go into effect on April 1, will increase penalties based on the number of animals neglected and the accused's conviction record. For example, someone who is charged with animal cruelty in the neglect of between four and nine animals who has a previous conviction for the charge will face up to two years in prison. Under the new law, those who are charged with abusing 10 or more animals, or who have more than two prior animal cruelty convictions, could face up to four years in prison.

Hillsdale - updated animal control ordinance is in the works and the public could see a draft as early as next month. Outdated in terms of fee structures, policies and practices, statutory changes and multiple issues involving the sheriff’s department’s responsibility for picking up and housing stray dogs. The proposed ordinance language continues to undergo revisions and corrections. Possible first reading at first meeting Jan. 8, with a public hearing Jan. 22.

Van Buren Township - new pet ordinance draft will be presented to the Township Safety Committee to change their pet ordinance that will include how many pets a household can have and a possible breed ban. When the proposed pet ordinance was originally discussed last October (at a Planning Commission meeting) a pit bull rescue group was specifically mentioned at the meeting, due to a complaint by a neighbor. At that time, township representatives claimed that this was NOT a breed-specific issue, and that they were not looking to add any breed-specific language to the new pet ordinance. Coincidentally, what was NOT brought up at this meeting - was that the newly proposed pet limit would prevent a local pit bull rescuer from being allowed to obtain a kennel license - simply because the rescuer's property is located within 100 yards of a school, and also located next to a bus stop.

MINNESOTA

St. Paul - proposed legislation by Rep. John Lesch, DFL-St. Paul, intends to outlaw five dog breeds from the state - Pit Bulls, Akitas, Rottweilers, Chow Chows, and wolf hybrids

Minneapolis - proposal to expand the definition of dangerous or potentially dangerous animals and to add restrictions on owners of such animals is headed to the City Council for a vote. Although most restrictions mention animals generally, it's aimed mainly at dogs. The amended proposal still makes it harder for some felons to keep a dog that weighs more than 20 pounds or one that's considered dangerous if mistreated. But an amendment limited that to people convicted of violent felonies within the previous 10 years. An unlicensed dog could be seized in some circumstances. Still remaining to be worked out before an expected Jan. 18 council vote is whether a dog is dangerous merely if the person keeping it has items or drugs intended to be used to train the animal for dogfighting

Proctor - proposed ordinance to limit the number of dogs (3). A "kennel license" would be required for more than six (6) dogs. text available upon request

MISSOURI

Independence - group of residents are pushing for a ban on pit bulls

Palmyra - City Council approved beefing up the city's vicious dog ordinance and will require is that any vicious dogs within the city limits as of Dec. 20 be registered with the Palmyra Police Department. That registration must include accurate color photographs and must be done by Jan. 31. The other part of the ordinance bans any more vicious dogs from being brought into the city limits. Any puppies born to the animals grandfathered in must be moved out within eight weeks of birth. Ordinance defines a vicious dog as one that "without provocation" has bitten or attempted to bite someone, or one that has placed an individual in fear of injury or killed another domestic animal. Passed 12/18/07

NEBRASKA

South Sioux City - council members passed the second reading of an ordinance that would "put a leash" on dangerous dogs in their town. If the ordinance passes a third, and final, reading, the new ordinance would require owners of dangerous dogs to muzzle their pets in public. Those owners would also have to pay a $65 registration fee, put up warning signs on their property, and obtain $250,000 in liability insurance. Council members made one important change. They amended a section, which previously included two classifications... potentially dangerous dogs, and dangerous dogs. The only dog automatically classified as "dangerous" were pit bulls. Only those owners would have been required to obtain the $250,000 in insurance. Council voted to remove the "dangerous dogs" classification. Now, "dangerous dogs" aren't separated by breed, but by action. A "dangerous dog" is defined as one that has bitten or attacked someone, has severely injured or killed another domestic animal, or has been trained for dog fighting.

NEVADA

Lyon County - proposed ordinance amendment prohibits acts regarding animal cruelty - ordinance of the code to prohibit certain acts and conditions related to animals. Proposed the amended ordinance, which adds five paragraphs regarding treatment of animals to Title 7, Chapter 1 (Animals and Animal Services), subchapter 5 (prohibited acts and conditions). Paragraphs (M-Q) deal with fighting of animals (instigated or baited), injury and overwork, enclosures and restraints

North Las Vegas - Ordinance No 2417; An ordinance of the City of North Las Vegas repealing Title 6 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code regulating animals and replacing the same with a new Title 6, also relating to animals including new and revised provisions governing the licensing, vaccination, running at large and impoundment of animals as well as regulations concerning exotic and vicious animals, animal cruelty and animal care faculties and providing for other matters properly related thereto: Passed and Adopted 01/02/08

North Las Vegas - Ordinance No 2418; An ordinance of the City of North Las Vegas amending Title 6 of the North Las Vegas Municipal Code by adding a new chapter (Chapter 16) mandating that all dogs and cats be spayed or neutered except in certain limited circumstances and providing for other matters properly related thereto. Passed and Adopted 01/02/08

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Concord - HB 666-FN - AN ACT establishing a license fee for the sale of animal vaccines text available upon request

Concord - HB1502 - AN ACT relative to disposal of used (vaccination) needles text available upon request

Concord - SB375 - AN ACT allowing veterinarians to inform town and city clerks about dogs that have been euthanized. text available upon request

NEW JERSEY

Trenton - A449 - Permits the rabies inoculation of dogs at pounds or shelters under the direction of certain veterinarians text available upon request.

Trenton - A902 - An Act concerning the chaining or tethering of animals, and amending R.S.4:22-17 and R.S.4:22-26 Establishes animal cruelty offenses pertaining to chaining or other restraint of animals text available upon request

Trenton - A899 - An Act concerning animal cruelty offenses, creating a new chapter of and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, and amending and repealing various sections of statutory law. Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses text available upon request

Trenton - A928 - An Act concerning attack animals and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes text available upon request.

Trenton - A1173 - Requires dogs licensed out of state that are brought into NJ to be licensed in NJ within 60 days, and raises penalties for violations of law requiring licensing of dogs and of kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds text available upon request

Trenton - A1414 - An Act concerning instruction on humane treatment of animals, supplementing chapter 35 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes and repealing N.J.S. 18A:35-4.1. Requires public schools to include instruction on humane treatment of animals as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. text available upon request

Trenton - A1418 - Prohibits use of certain underwriting guidelines by insurers pertaining to guide dogs, service dogs, or hearing assistance dogs harbored on the insured property text available upon request.

Trenton - A1568 - Requires all cats and dogs released from shelters and pounds be sterilized with certain exceptions; increases certain dog-related fees; dedicates increases to Animal Population Control Fund; establishes new eligibility criteria for State spaying and neutering program text available upon request.

Trenton - A1591 - Prohibits certain breeding and sales practices; requires persons selling cats or dogs to provide certain information; and provides penalties text available upon request

Trenton - A1828 - Prohibits sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation no text available

Trenton - S234 - An Act concerning the "Law Against Discrimination" and revising various sections of the statutory law text available upon request

Trenton - S358 - An Act concerning animal cruelty offenses, creating a new chapter of and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, and amending and repealing various sections of statutory law. Recodifies offenses against animals under State criminal code; increases degree of crime for certain offenses text available upon request

Trenton - S363 - Prohibits sale of any dog by kennel, pet shop or other retail establishment without name, address and phone number of person providing dog thereto; establishes $500 fine for each violation. text available upon request

Trenton - S617 - An Act concerning animal cruelty offenses, creating a new chapter of and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, and amending and repealing various sections of statutory law. text available upon request.

NEW MEXICO

Valencia County - County Commission, without public comment, passed a ordinance, in the schedule of fees - 9.0.08 licensing fees: sterilized dog or cat $5....intact dog or cat $25 per animal per year in addition to an intact animal permit fee. 9.0.12 Intact Animal Permits: The fee for persons wishing to maintain an unsterilized animal shall be $100 per animal for each intact animal they choose to keep. Permits shall be good for one year from the date of issue and the fee shall be in addition to any license fee or applicable impoundment fee. Intact animal permits shall be revoked, and the animal required to be sterilized at the expense of the Owner/Guardian, if the animal is found to be running at large, at any time, within the county's jurisdiction, or it is known that the animal has been bred or allowed to breed. In addition to the use of the term "owner/guardian" throughout the ordinance - nothing regarding the above has been mentioned at the Animal Shelter Advisory Board meetings.

NEW YORK

Albany - A1741 (2007) - Authorizes district attorney to petition for posting of security when animal is impounded as result of abuse (reintroduced in 2008) text available upon request

Albany - A1990 (2007) - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the confinement of companion animals in vehicles in extreme temperatures (reintroduced in 2008) text available upon request

Albany - A2610 (2007) - AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to establishing a cause of action in tort for the wrongful injury to or death of a companion animal (reintroduced in 2008) text available upon request

Albany - A6553 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the tethering of dogs text available upon request

Albany - A8032 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the licensing of dogs and to repeal certain provisions of chapter 115 of the laws of 1894, relating to the better protection of lost and strayed animals and for securing the rights of owners thereof, relating to licensing of dogs in certain cities text available upon request

Albany - A8502 - AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of dogs born on puppy farms by pet dealers text available upon request

Albany - A9345 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to companion animal hoarding text available upon request

Albany - S0865 (2007) - Authorizes district attorney to petition for posting of security when animal is impounded as result of abuse (reintroduced in 2008) text available upon request

Albany - S1282 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the confinement of companion animals in vehicles in extreme temperatures text available upon request

Albany - S2052 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the tethering of dogs text available upon request

Albany - S3526 - AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to establishing a cause of action in tort for the wrongful injury to or death of a companion animal text available upon request

Albany - S6427 - AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to companion animal hoarding text available upon request

Albany - City Council will review a proposal Thursday that addresses prolonged barking, imposes a lease law, and requires cages, fences or other constraints for animals identified as violent. The council will review the concept this week and possibly make changes. The proposal will change the way people will be required to handle their own dogs, and owners of the two singled out breeds, Dobermans and pit bulls, may complain about the measure.

Town of Westerlo, NY - was prevented from enacting a series of very restrictive codes concerning dogs & cats. Among other things 3 dogs & cats in any combination would be considered a kennel. A local couple gathered 500 + signatures against the 7 page document. At a Town Hall meeting the proposed codes were declared a dead issue. The local Judge sealed the issue by declaring it as killed.

NORTH CAROLINA

Henderson County - County Board of Commissioners approved a new noise ordinance that will go into effect Jan. 1. Under the new ordinance, deputies will issue civil citations, impound barking dogs at the county shelter, and even arrest those responsible for violations. The ordinance says that barking dog will be impounded at the county animal shelter for the second or subsequent violations until the following business day for the shelter. The animal must be reclaimed within five days and fees include a reclaim fee plus an additional fee of $3 per day for each day the animal is at the shelter Effective 1/01/08

Henderson County - proposed ordinance would have required pet owners to have their animals spayed or neutered if the animal violated other animal control rules such as running at large or continual barking. That meant the law would be complaint-driven; animal control officers wouldn't be patrolling the county looking for unfixed animals. Commissioners held a public hearing on the proposed ordinance earlier this month, plenty of people turned out to criticize the law as too harsh and unenforceable. Commissioners refused to pass the ordinance and ordered a rewrite. 12/19/07

Lincoln - County Commissioners are trying to pass an ordinance that will limit the number of dogs per acre to ten. The new law will only allow families to have one dog for every 0 .1 acre of land, all because of a complaint a neighbor made about an animal rescue facility located in a patch of farmland near her home. Defeated 12/17/07

OHIO

Columbus - HB366 - To amend sections 955.11 and 955.221 of the Revised Code to remove pit bulls from the definition of "vicious dog" in state law and to authorize the adoption of local ordinances or resolutions that define "dangerous dog" and "vicious dog" more broadly than state law defines those terms . text available upon request

Sandusky - City Commissioners decided to be specifically non-specific when it comes to dangerous dog laws. Commissioners voted 6-1 in favor of a new animal ordinance that does not include breed-specific language targeting pit bull dogs. Passed 12/11/07

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City - state Rep. Paul Wesselhoft confirmed this week he would again author legislation to prevent attacks by vicious dogs. He plans to write a proposal which is “non-breed specific.” and modeled after similar legislation which passed in Texas. His new proposal could make a dog’s “first-bite” a felony. Wesselhoft will introduce his bill when state lawmakers return to the Capitol in February for the 2008 legislative session

Dribble - A woman received two tickets after her goats were caught mating and relieving themselves on her own yard. City law said it is illegal for any two animals to have sex in public within Dibble city limits. It's also against law for them to relieve themselves in public even if the animal is fenced in on private land.

Midwest City - after twenty years on the "books" the city is now enforcing an unconstitutional breed specific ordinance. City is trying to remove two Bull Terriers. Midwest City is a "home-rule charter city," which allows it to pass ordinances that may not be in accordance with state law which currently prohibits cities from enacting breed-specific dog bans. . text available upon request

OREGON

Milton-Freewater - City Council proposed amendments to city animal ordinances are meant to strengthen enforcement authority against negligent owners of vicious dogs, code enforcement officer Angie McColley also retooled policy that essentially would ban keeping "livestock" within city limits. City Manager said the "livestock" section likely would be eliminated, keeping the language pertaining to dangerous dogs. Under the new proposal a section defining "potentially dangerous dogs." In the event that a dog commits a vicious act, the owner would be given a final chance to continue keeping the animal. The owner would be required to pay registration fees, have the dog micro-chipped, spay or neuter the dog and create a photo identification of the dog and its owner. It also would mandate the owner secure the animal in a six-sided enclosure and demonstrate proof of having liability insurance for no less than $100,000.

PENNSYLVANIA

Harrisburg - HB1065 - Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of cruelty to animals. The bill also would disallow use of tow chains for tethers, mandate the tether be one that does not become entangled and is a minimum length. text available upon request

Harrisburg - proposed revision of the Pennsylvania Animal Cruelty law makes it illegal for anyone to own or possess a dog or puppy with a docked tail, unless the person can prove that the tail was docked by a licensed veterinarian or has filed an affidavit of proof with a county treasurer that the procedure was done before the law goes into effect. This draft legislation will be presented to the Dog Law Advisory Board this week, prior to being published in The Pennsylvania Bulletin and submitted to the state Legislature. The proposed law also would apply to nonresidents of Pennsylvania who are passing through the state, or who participate in field trials, dog shows, performance events or hunting here. Several sporting breeds routinely have their tails docked, following breed standards designed to prevent severe tail injuries while hunting, including Brittanys, German Shorthaired pointers, cocker spaniels, various breeds of terriers and several others. Many other breeds that customarily have their tails docked are as diverse as Australian Shepherds, Miniature Pinschers and Rottweilers. Animal cruelty statutes carry criminal penalties, and in Pennsylvania are enforced by Humane Society officers, county animal control officers and police officers. The proposed legislation also grants power to state dog wardens to enforce all animal cruelty statutes.

Harrisburg - Gov. Rendell will unveil expansive legislation next month designed to crack down on bad kennel operators and improve housing conditions and health care for dogs living in the state's 2,600 commercial kennels. A draft copy of the proposals, which include changes to existing statutes and regulations, was provided to the Inquirer by an administration source. Animal welfare advocates say among the most important proposals is one that would mandate the revocation of a license held by an owner convicted of animal cruelty within the last 10 years. Now the Secretary of Agriculture has the discretion to allow those convicted of animal abuse to continue to operate. Another provision would require dogs receive annual veterinary care and bar kennel operators from giving their own rabies shots.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Beaufort - City Council passed a ban on dog-tethering this week gives animal control officers discretion in determining whether pets are being treated cruelly, but a county councilman said the city was duped by animal-rights advocates who hid part of the issue. The ordinance eliminated the three- and six-hour limits and simply states, "No animal ... shall be tethered as a primary means of stationary confinement." The new language allows officers to use "circumstantial evidence" to determine if a dog has been chained for a long time. Councilman Bill McBride kept the item off the agenda of the Community Services and Public Safety Committee, which he chairs, saying tethering dogs is not always cruel. The issue must be discussed in the committee before going before the full council.

Charleston - County Council decided Thursday (12/13/07) to let the Charleston Animal Society charge owners if they want their impounded pets back without being spayed or neutered. It would cost $200 initially to retrieve an animal intact and then $1,000 if the pet is impounded a second time within a calendar year. County Council voted 7-0 to initially approve modifying its laws for stray animals so the local shelter can charge fees for impounded pets returned without having the surgery. The fines would apply for any impounded cat or dog. Pet owners would still have the cheaper option of simply having their animal sterilized, which the Charleston Animal Society said typically costs $40 to $70.

Florence - to begin open discussions regarding "cruelty" laws (Tuesday 01-08-08)

Richland County - new proposal to try and protect the public from dangerous dogs. One of the changes may be a restriction on the number of dogs that a person can own. A discussion will take place at the Development and Services Committee meeting on January 29th.

TENNESSEE

Dyersburg - proposed pit bull ban was sent to the public safety committee and FAILED due to lack of support!! On a motion by Walker, however, the council agreed to call a public hearing to receive citizens input regarding the dog ordinance. FAILED 12/05/07

Johnson - City researching possible pit bull ban with or without a grandfather clause. City Commission will have the final say on the matter. There is no time table yet for discussion.

Knox County - Knoxville - State Senator Burchett not able to enact statewide BSL, still wants local MSN. He wants individual county commissions to pass legislation that would make clinics like Ms. Price's required for pit bulls. He admits there's much opposition to breed-specific animal control.

Mount Juliet - an official is pushing for stronger laws governing dangerous dogs in the wake of an attack that left two dogs dead. The Wilson County town is among several Nashville-area communities that have looked to strengthen animal control laws in hopes of curtailing attacks as more humans and pets have moved in.

Somerville - Update on Pit Bull ban - City administrator Yaun brought to the board's attention the pit bull ordinance the board passed recently. A problem has been discovered with requiring owners of the dogs to have $100,000 insurance. Yaun told the committee that at this point, the owners have not been able to find anyone who would write the policy. He said he has talked to several companies locally and they are not interested in writing the policy. Yaun was asked to do some more checking and if they can't find insurance, they may have to revisit the ordinance

TEXAS

Austin - HB1411 - new state law that prohibits unreasonable restraints for dogs during the late night hours and during extreme weather should help deter animal cruelty. Owners cannot leave a dog outside and unattended by the use of a restraint that unreasonably limits the dog's movement between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The law further states that in the event of extreme weather including outdoor temperatures that reach below 32 degrees, or a hurricane, tropical storm or tornado warning issued for the jurisdiction by the National Weather Service, a dog cannot be left outside and restrained by a restraint that "unreasonably limits the dog's movement."

Austin - City Council could soon hear proposed changes to the laws for dangerous dogs in the community, all in an effort to make owners of dangerous dogs follow the law more closely. Animal Advisory Commission is considering ways to make dangerous dog owners follow the law at their next meeting.

Copperas Cove - proposed ordinance prohibits animals and public sporting and recreational events, make molesting animals unlawful and restrict fishing in the city's park ponds to pole and line only. Other additions require locks on fenced yards, pens and kennels and require signage for all yards with an unattended dog and include definition of the term "dangerous animal" expanded to include any unprovoked attack on a person or animal causing bodily injury.

Dickinson - City Council decided to postpone enacting an ordinance banning the chaining of dogs, so it could review the language of the law. Council would likely discuss the matter during a work session as soon as late February or March.

San Antonio - City leaders embraced proposed changes to the Chapter 5 ordinance today, voting to accept the newly restructured laws. The changes include incentives for sterilization and responsible pet ownership including: � A restructuring of the licensse process that includes the use of permanent micro-chips in lieu of traditional metal tags that are easily lost. � A strengthening of the Dangerous Dog portionn of the ordinnance and the creation of a new Vicious Dog category. � Stifferr penalties for those convicted of animal cruelty mirroring tougher state laws. • The creation of permits for excess animals, litters of puuppies or kittens, unsterilized dogs and cat colonies. � Limits and restriction regardiing methods an animal can be tethered or tied up. A similar state law went into affect Sept. 1. � A Trap Neuter Return policy that allows resiidents to care for feral cats in their neighborhoods. The revisited ordinance DOES NOT include mandatory sterilization for all pets. Instead, sterilization will be required for animals that have been declared dangerous, pets that have been impounded more than once and cats that are housed exclusively outdoors. Residents who own cats or dogs they wish to keep them intact can purchase a permit to do so or keep their animals indoors. Many of the proposed requirements actually allow for exceptions based on special circumstances. Examples include excess animal permits, intact animal permits and medical exceptions for animals unable to be sterilized. In addition, there is an appeals process in place for any citizen denied a permit by the department. The dangerous/vicious portion of the ordinance will go into affect immediately. The litter permit, excess animal permit as well as revised permits for pet shop and grooming businesses go into effect March 1, 2008, with implementation of the intact animal permit delayed until Jan. 1, 2009. This will allow for the augmentation of local spay/neuter resources.

VIRGINIA

Richmond - HB5 Gas chambers; prohibits use thereof for euthanizing companion animals text available upon request

Richmond - HB40 Gas chambers; prohibits use thereof for animal euthanasia Disposal of animals by means of decompression chamber or gas chamber prohibited. No animal shall be euthanized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by means of a high altitude decompression chamber or a gas chamber. text available upon request

Richmond - HB 158: Dumping trash, companion animals, etc., on highway, right-of-way or private property; penalty text available upon request

Richmond - HB207 - Animal pounds, local; clarifies definition text available upon request

Richmond - HB217 Tethering of animals; makes certain acts associated therewith Class 3 misdemeanor text available upon request

Richmond - HB457 Veterinarian & animal licensure; repeals requirement to provide treasurer with rabies vaccination information text available upon request

Richmond - HB537 - Rabies vaccination certificates; exempts records sent to local treasurers from public access text available upon request

Richmond - HB538 - Commercial dog breeding operations. Bill would define as a 'commercial breeder' anyone who "any person who breeds dogs as companion animals and who maintains 20 or more unsterilized adult females for the purpose of commercial breeding during any 12-month period." Commercial breeders would be limited to 50 dogs max, would have to be licensed and inspected, keep specific records, facilities would have to meet certain fire safety standards and there would be other restrictions. text available upon request

Richmond - HB655 - Dangerous dogs; judicial discretion. No dog that has bitten, attacked, or inflicted injury on a person shall be found to be a dangerous dog if the court determines, based on the evidence before it, that the dog is not otherwise dangerous or a threat to the community. text available upon request

Richmond - HB656 - Animal protection and fighting - Broadens Virginia's anti-dog fighting law to cover any animal. It adds a interesting 'surety bond' provision text available upon request

Richmond - HB673 Animal welfare standards. Bill changes a number of definitions in § 3.1-796.66 text available upon request

Richmond - HB690 - Commercial breeding of companion animals basically would require USDA dealers to also get a license from their localities. text available upon request

Richmond - HB691 - Animal control officers; inspection of breeding facilities text available upon request

Richmond - HB999 - Bond for abandoned or cruelly treated animals text available upon request

Richmond - HB1232 - Failure of dealer or pet shop to provide adequate care; overbreeding; penalty text available upon request

Richmond - HB1289 - Use of gas chambers for animal euthanasia prohibited. No animal shall be euthanized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter by means of a high altitude decompression chamber or a gas chamber text available upon request

Richmond - HB1331 - Bill completely revises and reorganizes Title 3.1 of the Code of Virginia which, contains the Virginia Comprehensive Animal Laws text available upon request

Richmond - HJ163 - Establishes a joint subcommittee of the Senate and House of Delegates to "study issues relating to companion animals." The findings (whereas's) at the start include an estimate of 2,784,880 companion animals in VA, that some owners abuse and neglect their animals, that shelters euthanized close to 100,000 out of 230,000 entering animals in 2006, and that violent dogs and dogfighting are addressed in laws text available upon request

Richmond - SB26 - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act; adds organized dogfighting as qualifying offense text available upon request

Richmond - SB498 - A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-796.77 of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibiting the use of gas chambers text available upon request

Richmond - SB592 - A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 3.1-796.113, 3.1-796.122, 3.1-796.124 and 18.2-403.2 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal § 3.1-796.125 of the Code of Virginia, relating to animal protection; penalty. Animal protection and fighting; penalty text available upon request

WASHINGTON

Grays Harbor County - proposed barking ordinance text available upon request

Tacoma - City council will discuss changes to the city's animal control ordinance on dangerous dogs and problem pet owners. . Expand the definition of dangerous and potentially dangerous dogs. Unlike some jurisdictions, the rules don't address a particular breed of dog, but list the types of behavior that could cause a dog to be labeled dangerous. They include an unprovoked attack that inflicts "severe injury" or kills a person; an unprovoked attack that kills or injures a domestic animal badly enough that it's euthanized; and keeping a dog for the purpose of fighting. . Requires euthanasia or removal from the city for all dangerous dogs. . Prohibits bringing a dog to Tacoma that has been declared dangerous or potentially dangerous in another jurisdiction. . Creates the designation "problem pet owner." A person who commits three or more animal control violations in a 24-month period could be declared a problem pet owner and forced to surrender all of their animals. . Makes it a civil infraction to sell or give away puppies or kittens born to an unlicensed animal. Owners would be required to include the mother's license number in any published advertisements of puppies or kittens. . Enacts a complete ban on roosters in the city limits, a response to complaints about noise. Hens are allowed. . Make it a violation to improperly license a pet (to license an unaltered animal as an altered pet.) . Make it a crime to create or use counterfeit license tags. . Make it a violation to leave animal waste on public or private property, unless authorized. . Make anyone younger than 18 ineligible to license pets.

WISCONSIN

Madison - SB208 and AB567 - twin bills currently under consideration by the Wisconsin state legislature which are being touted as "puppy mill" legislation - unfortunately, they have gathered considerable support based on that alone. But if you actually read the text, it becomes apparent that they aren't just interested in achieving state oversight of large commercial breeders. Bill also contains a lemon law that applies to everyone in the state of Wisconsin who sells even one puppy - whether they consider themselves a "breeder" or not. If a person sells a pup with a genetic defect or that is sick or injured, the buyer only needs the say of a vet of their choosing and the seller is automatically guilty of a crime, owes the buyer and their vet three times the price of the pup in reimbursement and medical expenses and the state collects a $3,000 fine. If there are two pups within a year, the fine skyrockets to $10,000 for the second infraction plus prison time! Try to fight this in court and the seller could owe the buyer and their vet six times the price of the pup, plus lawyer fees. No proof required. No judge. No trial by jury. The breeder is not protected from false charges. text available upon request

Madison - Wisconsin Humane Society Is calling for further legislation to "stop puppy mills" and wants "guardianship" for all dogs. No formal legislation has been introduced to date.

OTHER COUNTRIES OF INTEREST

Korea

Seoul - Owners of all pet dogs will have to register with the regional government from next year. They will be also required to attach an identification tag to their pet's neck.

Switzerland

Zurich - government wants to make all dog owners in Switzerland liable for damage caused by their pets - regardless of breed. Under a draft law, to be discussed by parliament at a later stage, dog owners would also have to take out mandatory insurance. Bans on dangerous dogs have been imposed or are under discussion in several cantons, but so far there have been no specific nationwide laws on the issue.

United Arab Emirates

Dubai - Sixteen breeds of dogs face seizure by Dubai Municipality inspectors if they are found loitering in public places without a leash and a mask. The municipality had issued a notice on November 28 branding as dangerous breeds like Doberman, Rottweiler, Husky, Tosa, Bull Terrier, American Pitt Bull Terrier, American Bull Dog, Miniature Bull Terrier, Argentinean Mastiff, Shar Pei, Old English Bull Dog etc as dangerous. The civic body stated that these dogs were prohibited in residential areas, public places, markets and shopping centers from January 1. The notice cautioned that the municipality would seize the dogs after the lapse of the grace period. The notice had sparked protests from canine lovers. Hisham Fahmi, head of the Veterinary Services Section in Dubai Municipality, said, “These dogs are not allowed in residential apartments. The order has been passed as we were getting a lot of complaints from the people residing in the residential apartments. People going for prayers had complained that these dogs were creating a lot of menace and dirt. Also, there were many cases of dog bites in areas like Jumeirah, Al Barsha, Umm Suqeim and Deira,” he said. “If someone in a particular apartment complains about a dog menace, we would be confiscating the dog immediately. The rule has come into effect yesterday. Also, if a dog is taken in a public park or any public place, it should have a mask and a leash. The dog collar should have its registration number and the dog should have been vaccinated. The municipality would be strict if these regulations are not maintained,” he added. The official pointed out that people in the villas could keep one dog. “Though we would not be visiting all the apartments for checks right now, complaint would be handled in a strict manner,” added Fahmi.

Do You Know the Real PETA and Humane Society of the United- States?

http://www.centennialsharpeiclub.org/

Do You Know the Real PETA and
Humane Society of the United States?

An Editorial by Alice Fix

You will not often see negative articles in our newsletters, but every now and again we are forced to make a stand, and to speak out about what we know is for the better good for all involved. This is one such instance. We can no longer stand back and watch to see what will happen. I think that it is past time to publicly expose the real agenda of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and their cohorts in crime, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and the animal rights agenda.
For many years we have all enjoyed the companionship of our dogs and other animals. We have been busy playing with them, taking care of them, finding fun things that we could do with them, and generally just having a great time with all the animals that live in our houses. While we have been enjoying the love and fun that our animals provide to us, there have been groups out there organizing on a grand scale trying to get our rights to own those animals taken away. Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Make no mistake about it. These people have organized on a large scale to infiltrate many major city councils and governments in the country to spread their propaganda. Their agenda is easily defined and simple. Their main objective is to take away your right to own animals. They do not want you to have the companionship of any animal, whether that is a dog, cat, horse, mouse, frog, fish or any other animal that you can think of. They are pooling their resources to get this accomplished, and have millions of dollars in there war chest for this effort.
This is a statement made by Ingrid Newkirk, the President of PETA:
I don't use the word “pet.” I think it's speciesist language. I prefer “companion animal.” For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance.
— The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.
It is interesting that Ms. Newkirk used the word “speciesist”. Allwords.com defines that word as follows:
The discrimination against, and exploitation of, animals by humans in the belief that humans are superior to all other species of animals and can therefore justify putting them to their own use.
One of the animal rights mantras is that all animals are created to be equal to all humans, and should have the same rights as humans.
Just in case it still isn't clear to you what their agenda is, here are a few more quotes from Ingrid Newkirk:
One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
— The Chicago Daily Herald, 3/1/90
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
— Newsday, 2/21/88
Who is Ingrid Newkirk, and why should we care what she has to say about anything? In the 1970s, Newkirk worked for Montgomery County (Maryland), and then for the District of Columbia, as an animal protection officer and deputy sheriff, before becoming DC's first female Poundmaster in 1978. She co-founded PETA in 1980 with established animal-rights activist Alex Pacheco. (1) PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but in my opinion, there is nothing ethical in what they do.
Ms. Newkirk has very close ties with several groups identified by the FBI as known terrorists groups, such as Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The animal rights groups are very well organized, and when you check closely, you will see many of the same names sitting on the boards of these radical groups. They are intertwined and closely linked through their finances, and the work that they do.
PETA operates on an annual budget of $ 29,000,000. Most of this is from donations made by ordinary citizens that don't know the real work of PETA. Many people think that they are out to save the lives of animals after seeing all of their ads on TV and in the newspapers. That is why millions are donated to them each year.
In Virginia, the home state of PETA, in 2004, PETA adopted out 361 animals, and euthanized 2,278, according to their records. (2) Those figures aren't good. That means that they euthanized 86.3% of their animals and only adopted out 13.7%. These figures come directly from PETA's Annual Report and from their 2004 Tax Return. It doesn't seem like they used that $29 million for the betterment of the majority of the animals that they came in contact with. So where is the money going? It is being spent for publicity to raise more money for one thing. It is also being used for legislative purposes. They have placed key people in city governments all over the country to try to influence legislation to take your pet ownership rights away. And they are having a lot of success with it.
You need to understand the basic difference between the “animal welfare” groups and “animal rights groups. Although the names might sound like they have the same objectives, there is a big difference. Animal welfare groups are working to see that all animals are treated humanely. Animal rights groups are working to see that all ownership of animals comes to an end.
As I said, PETA has close ties with many other organizations. One of those organizations is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). People donate millions to the HSUS each year, thinking that their money is going to save the lives of millions of animals. Nothing could be further from the truth. The HSUS does not own a single animal shelter anywhere in the country. Although many shelters have the words Humane Society in their names, they are not associated in any way with the HSUS. The HSUS does not sponsor any spay or neuter clinic anywhere in the country. They do donate a very small percent of the annual budget to a few local humane societies, around $2 million annually, which just happens to be less than the amount that they spend in travel each year. Their major money is sent on fund raising and legislative activity. In 2005 they spent $28 million for public mailings, $6 million in vegan education, $10 million in legislative campaigns and litigation. Their income for that year was close to $125 million.
The HSUS was founded in 1954 as an animal welfare organization. But in the early 1980's, just about the same time as PETA was founded, they began to change to an animal rights organization. In the 1990's the personnel began to change to better fit with their new purpose, and today many of the personnel at HSUS have ties to PETA, including the current President, Wayne Pacelle.
This is an interested quote from Wayne Pacelle:
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
— Animal People News (May 1, 1993) (3)
When you combine other statements that he has made, with the above statement, in my opinion the meaning of this statement is that if we could spay and neuter all animals, we could eliminate pet ownership within one generation. “One generation and out” would mean to me that they are gone and are eliminated in only one generation.
Quietly sitting back and maybe not being aware, we are now allowing the HSUS to make presentations at our local schools, with the definite purpose to education our children about how bad pet ownership is, to indoctrinate children to the thought that animals should be free and not kept as pets. They are doing this in the same way that they have infiltrated city councils and local governments all across the country, quietly and matter-of-factly.
Shortly after taking office, Pacelle announced a merger with the Fund For Animals which have assets of over $20 million, and the Doris Day Animal League. The combined group estimated its 2005 budget at “over $95 million” and also announced the formation of a new “political organization,” which will “allow for a more substantial investment of resources in political and lobbying activities.”(4)
So that is where we find ourselves today. With the HSUS and PETA combined annual budgets of over $124 million for political and lobbying efforts to take away our rights to own animals. And that figure does not include the many splinter organizations that have been formed from these two major organizations. We are in an uphill battle now, and it will be the fight of our lives to keep our rights to own pets.
They are going at it from many different angles. One way is to get Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) passed. The banning of Pit-Bulls all over the country is a good example. That has caught on like wildfires. The animal rights groups have said if they can just get one breed banned, then it will be easy to add others to it at a later date, until eventually all breeds are banned. Another way that they are going about it is to have a mandatory spay and neuter law in place. Just think about it, if all domestic animals are spayed and neutered, when they die, there will be no more domestic animals. Those same words have been said by Wayne Pacelle, the President of the HSUS. They have a very well thought out and planned agenda, and they are counting on the ignorance of the American people to get their agenda accomplished. Well guess what: Ignorance can be overcome by education. The American people may be ignorant about the facts, but they are not stupid. They can be educated. We were ignorant before 9-11, and look what effect that had. It caused all Americans to become educated and unite and fight to prevent that from happening again. The difference here is that we are being attacked from within our own country. We are under strong attack by the animal rights groups, and I hope that we don't just stand by and allow it to happen.
The animal rights groups are publicly stating that we need to get laws passed so that they can close down all the puppy mills and commercial breeding facilities that have their animals living in inhumane conditions. Just about everyone would agree with the idea that animals should be treated humanely. But that is just the vehicle that they are using to try to do away with all animal ownership, period. And that is not a statement that they are being all that public about.
You can become active in this fight by telling your friends and neighbors what is going on. You can be an instrument of education. You can also fight this kind of legislation when it is presented in your area. Go to the City Council meetings and make your voice heard. Write letters to the state and federal government officials to offer your services to be on any animal related committee. In short get the word out to any and all of your friends that own pets. Let them know what is going on. If enough people stop funding the animal rights organizations, we can put them out of business. There is not much that they can do without operating funds.
The next time you think about making a donation to any of these organizations, you had better think long and hard about whether you really want your money being spent to take away your rights.
PETA
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
FARM SANCTUARY
FUND FOR ANIMALS
DORIS DAY ANIMAL LEAGUE
EARTH SAVE
GREENPEACE
PHYSICIANS FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE
ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT (ALF)
FRIENDS OF ANIMALS
IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS
Right now the HSUS has started their “First Strike Campaign.” I find that an interesting choice of names. At visualthesaurus.com they define first strike as follows:
First strike: An attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective.
Most people think that attack is on inhumane treatment of animals. They still don't know it is an attack to take your animals away from you. Last year over 10 million people donated money to the HSUS because of their massive spending on advertising. Most of those 10 million people had no idea what their money was actually going to support.
Better places to donate your money that will fight for your rights to own animals are listed below. These groups are working hard to protect your right to own animals, and to expose the true agenda to much of the animal legislation going on all over the country.
NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE
http://www.naiaonline.org/
SPORTSMEN'S AND ANIMAL OWNERS' VOTING ALLIANCE
http://saova.org/
AMERICAN DOG OWNERS ASSOCIATION
http://www.adoa.org/index.cfm
US SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE
http://www.ussportsmen.org/
You can either make your donations work for you or against you. That decision is yours to make.
Footnotes for Reference:

1) http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/456
2) http://www.nokillnow.comPetaDVACreporting.pdf
3) http://www.animalscam.com/quotes.cfm
4) http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/13 6
This article will first appear in the March, 2007 issue (Volume V Issue 2) of the Rocky Mountain Wrinkle, the newsletter of the Centennial Chinese Shar-Pei Club, Inc. Any reference to this article must give full credit to Rocky Mountain Wrinkle, and the Centennial Chinese Shar-Pei Club, Inc.
Permission must be granted to use any articles from our newsletters, and we must get a credit line for any article that is granted permission to use, with a link to our website. Anyone wishing to reprint any of our articles should contact Alice at Alleydoll3@aol.com for written permission.

Quotes From The Animal Rights Movement

http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/animal.php

by John Hawkins
The animal rights movement portrays itself simply as a group of people who are concerned with the mistreatment of animals. That's an easy position to sell in America where a large portion of population has pets. However, there is an undercurrent of violence, extremist positions, and even anti-human views that runs through the animal rights movement. People who are giving their money to these groups need to understand that it may be used for a lot more than simply protecting "fuzzy bunnies" and "puppies." Read these quotes and you'll learn a little more about the animal rights movement than what some of these groups tell you in their commercials.....
The Agenda
My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture. -- J.P. Goodwin while executive director of the Coalition Against the Fur Trade (As quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group).
It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be ending the concept of pet ownership. -- Elliot Katz, President, In Defense of Animals, "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997.
Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step ... In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals as 'pets.' -- New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p.20.
I don�t use the word "pet." I think it�s speciesist language. I prefer "companion animal." For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship � enjoyment at a distance -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President, quoted in The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding -- Wayne Pacelle - Former National Director of Fund for Animals.
Animal Experimentation
Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it. -- Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA (Vogue, September, 1989).
To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off. -- Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman.
On the consequences of stopping animal research: "Don't get the diseases in the first place, schmo." -- PETA's David Mathews (USA Today, July 27, 1994).
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. -- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd. edition, 1990.
Human Worth Vs. Animal Worth
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect. -- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, The Humane Society (The Associated Press, Jan. 15, 1989).
We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals. -- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, The Humane Society (Washingtonian Magazine, February 1990).
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President, The Washington Post, November 13, 1983.
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways. -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President (in The Washington Times August 29, 1999).
There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals. -- Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President (in The Washington Times August 29, 1999).
We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child -- Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA, (New York Times, January 14, 1989).
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. -- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd edition, 1990.
There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be. Maybe it's not wrong at all. -- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement.
Your dog can show you when he or she wants to go for a walk and equally for nonviolent sexual contact, your dog or whatever else it is can show you whether he or she wants to engage in a certain kind of contact -- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement.
We need a drastic decrease in human population if we ever hope to create a just and equitable world for animals -- Freeman Wickland, Animal Liberation League, and editor of "No Compromise" in "No Compromise", September 1996.
Murder And Mayhem
In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors. -- Tim Daley, British Animal Liberation Front Leader (BBC interview, 1987).
Fire is a tool. Nothing does the amount of damage that fire can. Arson works. Make sure that all buildings or vehicles are free of creatures before lighting one single match. Arson should only be used when it can be guaranteed that the fire will not spread to the sheds the animals are in. -- (In the ALF publication "The Final Nail", under section entitled "Smashing the Furriers").
It would be really great if all these fast-food outlets, slaughter houses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow -- Peta Spokesperson Bruce Friedrich.
If the feed barn, and processing barns are away from the animals, and downwind, then they could be burned down. Otherwise mink releases are the only way to go. -- J.P. Goodwin while executive director of the Coalition Against the Fur Trade (As quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group).
We are capable of dealing with anyone. No one has died yet but that time will come. -- Keith Mann of ALF, as quoted in the Evening Standard [London, Dec. 8, 1998). Mann was sentenced in 1994 to 14 years in prison for leading a gang which, in 1991, attacked almost 700 businesses in Manchester, UK.
Andrew Cunanan, because he got Versace to stop doing fur. -- PETA's David Mathews reply to Genre magazine's request for "Men We Love".
Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause. -- Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA.
I would be overjoyed when the first scientist is killed by a liberation activist. -- Vivien Smith of ALF (USA Today, September 3, 1991).

QUOTES FROM LEADERS OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

://www.naiaonline.org/articles/archives/animalrightsquote.ht m
QUOTES FROM LEADERS OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Pets and Pet Ownership versus Guardianship

"In a perfect world, animals would be free to live their lives to the fullest: raising their young, enjoying their native environments, and following their natural instincts. However, domesticated dogs and cats cannot survive "free" in our concrete jungles, so we must take as good care of them as possible. People with the time, money, love, and patience to make a lifetime commitment to an animal can make an enormous difference by adopting from shelters or rescuing animals from a perilous life on the street. But it is also important to stop manufacturing "pets," thereby perpetuating a class of animals forced to rely on humans to survive." PETA pamphlet, Companion Animals: Pets or Prisoners?

“I don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals…To this day I don’t feel bonded to any non-human animal. I like them and I pet them and I’m kind to them, but there’s no special bond between me and other animals.” Wayne Pacelle quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 251.

"In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets," Tom Regan, emeritus professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University and author of "Empty Cages" - speaking at University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, March 3, 2004

"Our goal: to convince people to rescue and adopt instead of buying or selling animals, to disavow the language and concept of animal ownership." Eliot Katz, President In Defense of Animals, In Defense of Animals website, 2001

"I don't use the word "pet." I think it's speciesist language. I prefer "companion animal." For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship enjoyment at a distance." Ingrid Newkirk, PETA vice-president, quoted in The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.

"It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be ending the concept of pet ownership." Elliot Katz, President "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997

"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us? Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.

"Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step... In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals as 'pets.'" New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.

"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles--from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it." John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.

"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.

"As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves." PeTA's Statement on Companion Animals.

"In a perfect world, all other than human animals would be free of human interference, and dogs and cats would be part of the ecological scheme." PeTA's Statement on Companion Animals.

"You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV," Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990.

Animal Agriculture and Breeding Purebred Dogs and Pedigreed Cats

"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. . One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP of Humane Society of the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Animal People, May, 1993

When asked if he envisioned a future without pets, “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.” Wayne Pacelle quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 266.

"[A]s the surplus of cats and dogs {artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship--enjoyment at a distance." Ingrid Newkirk, "Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights", Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.

"[Animal] Fancies provide an escape from the real world, a sense of purpose in a lot of purposeless lives, a chance to play God by breeding animals, and a chance to play celebrity by showing them." Phil Maggitti, The Animals' Agenda, December 1991.

"Breeders must be eliminated! As long as there is a surplus of companion animals in the concentration camps referred to as "shelters", and they are killing them because they are homeless, one should not be allowed to produce more for their own amusement and profit. If you know of a breeder in the Los Angeles area, whether commercial or private, legal or illegal, let us know and we will post their name, location, phone number so people can write them letters telling them 'Don't Breed or Buy, While Others DIE.'" "Breeders! Let's get rid of them too!" Campaign on Animal Defense League's website, September 2, 2003.

"I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, New Yorker magazine, April 23, 2003

"Our goal is to make [the public think of] breeding [dogs and cats] like drunk driving and smoking." Kim Sturla, former director of the Peninsula Humane Society and Western Director of Fund for Animals, stated during Kill the Crisis, not the Animals campaign and workshops, 1991

"The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind," Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Animals, May/June 1993

"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture." JP Goodwin, employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group in 1996.

Animal Equality and Anti-Humanity

"Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York: New York Review of Books, 1990), p. 19.

"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as quoted in Chip Brown, "She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes," Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.

“Deep down, I truly hope that oppression, torture and murder return to each uncaring human tenfold! I hope that fathers accidentally shoot their sons on hunting excursions, while carnivores suffer heart attacks that kill them slowly. Every women ensconced in fur should endure a rape so vicious that it scars them forever. While every man entrenched in fur should suffer an anal raping so horrific that they become disemboweled. Every rodeo cowboy and matador should be gored to death, while circus abusers are trampled by elephants and mauled by tigers. And, lastly, may irony shine its esoteric head in the form of animal researchers catching debilitating diseases and painfully withering away because research dollars that could have been used to treat them was wasted on the barbaric, unscientific practice of vivisection.” Gary Yourofsky in an interview on The Abolitionist –Online, 2005

"Humans are exploiters and destroyers, self-appointed world autocrats around whom the universe seems to revolve." Sydney Singer, director, the Good Shepherd Foundation, "The Neediest of All Animals," The Animals Agenda, Vol. 10, No. 5 (June 1990), p. 50.

"If you haven't given voluntary human extinction much thought before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem strange. But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species ... Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental." "Les U. Knight" (pseudonym), "Voluntary Human Extinction," Wild Earth, Vol. 1, No. 2, (Summer 1991), p. 72.

"We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others." Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA, New York Times, January 14, 1989.

"If enough people are determined to stand up to an issue, you know what? It's gonna get solved. Saying that human concerns outweigh animal concerns is just more bullshit." Chris DeRose, Last Chance for Animals: SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth." Michael W. Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President, Humane Society of the United States, as quoted in Robert James Bidinotto"

"Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong." Peter Singer, as quoted in Josephine Donovan "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1990, p. 357.

"The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration." Michael W. Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President, The Humane Society of the United States, The Inhumane Society, New York, 1990

"Back to the Pleistocene!" --Earth First! slogan, as quoted by Virginia I. Postrel, "The Green Road to Serfdom," Reason, April 1990, p. 24.

"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything." Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Chip Brown, "She's a Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes," Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.

"What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient." Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights," In Defense of Animals, Peter Singer, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985), p. 23.

Audience member: "If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog." Tom Regan, "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs," speech given at University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 27, 1989.

"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986

"If it were a child and a dog I wouldn't know for sure... I might choose the human baby or I might choose the dog." Susan Rich, outreach coordinator, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), on the Steve Kane Show, WIOD-AM radio, Miami, Florida, February 23, 1989.

"If an animal researcher said, "Its a dog or a child,' a liberator will defend the dog every time." "Screaming Wolf" (pseudonym), A Declaration of War: Killing People to Save Animals and the Environment (Grass Valley, California: Patrick Henry Press, 1991), p. 14.

"What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members." Gary Yourofsky, Humane Education Director, PETA, The Toledo Blade, June 24, 2001

[Expressing opposition to use of bug sprays] "Only a few of the million you kill would have bitten you." Dr. Michael Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President of Humane Society of the US (HSUS), Returning to Eden, Fox publication

"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder, president and former national director, Readers Digest, June 1990

Biomedical Research

"To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off." Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman

"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me." Chris DeRose, director, Last Chance for Animals, as quoted in Elizabeth Venant and David Treadwell, "Biting Back," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1990, p. E12.

"I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them." Dr. Neal Barnard, president, Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine(PCRM), The Daily Californian (February 9, 1989) quoting Bernard's address to an audience at International House (Berkeley).

"An [animal] experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books, 1990), p. 85.

"Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], 'we'd be against it.'" --Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Fred Barnes, "Politics," Vogue, September 1989, p. 542.

"I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York: New York Review of Books, 1990), p. 85.

"There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York: New York Review of Books, 1990), p. 85

"I would not knowingly have an animal hurt for me, or my children, or anything else." Cleveland Armory, founder, Fund for Animals (Larry King Show, October 29, 1987).

"In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals)." Peter Singer, in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1990, Volume 3,), p. 46.

"If it [abolition of animal research] means there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it. We have no basic right not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to." Tom Regan, as quoted in David T. Hardy, "America's New Extremists: What You Need to Know About the Animal Rights Movement." (Washington, DC: Washington Legal Foundation, 1990), p. 8.

"If natural healing is not possible, given the energy of the environment, it may be right for that being to change form. Some people call this death." --Sydney Singer, director, Good Shepherd Foundation, The Earth Religion (Grass Valley, California: ABACE Publications, 1991), p. 52.

"Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse." Rudolph Bahro, Building the Green Movement, trans. Mary Tyler (London: GMP, 1986) p. 203.

" Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Washington Post, May 30, 1989

"If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog," Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PeTA), Washington Post, Nov. 13, 1983.

"Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition." Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, 1983

"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Washington Magazine, August 1986

Opposition to Hunting and Fishing


“The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.” Wayne Pacelle, CEO, Humane Society of the US (HSUS), London Times, December 26, 2004

"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would." Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Associated Press, Dec 30, 1991

"Until your daddy learns that it's not "fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!'' PETA flyer quoted in the Asbury Park Press, September 23, 2005

"Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting." Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, (Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle, October 8, 1991

"We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States ... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state. Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Full Cry Magazine, October 1, 1990.

“The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.” Wayne Pacelle, quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 265.

Opposition to Meat Eating

"Meat stinks!" People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals slogan, as quoted in Joe Vansickle, "Playing Catch-Up," Beef, March 1991, p. 34.

"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use . It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable." Neal Barnard, President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and PeTA's Medical Advisor, PETA, PCRM press release, "Physicians Advise Feds to Go After 'Big Meat' Next", September 23, 1999.

"There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt." Bruce Friedrich, PETA Director of Vegan Outreach, PETA news release, June 23, 2003.

"Everyone who agrees unnecessary animal suffering should be ended must eat no animal food products." David J. Cantor, Farm Sanctuary Investigator: Letter to the Editor, Kansas City Star, complaining about a reporter who refused to give up eating meat, December 11, 2000

“The good news, and what is really going to help immensely, is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) just passed their vegan policy. They are seen as the mothering organization for the SPCAs, shelters and animal control agencies. And the fact that they have adopted a vegan policy may just be the major breakthrough to bring others along. All HSUS expos, trainings, conferences will be vegan. “ Kim Sturla, in SATYA Magazine, Nov-Dec 2004 (http://www.satyamag.com/nov04/sturla.html)

"Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant." Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Charles Griswold, Jr., "Q&A," Washington City Paper, December 20, 1985, p. 44.

"If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." Neal Barnard, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), and PeTA's Medical Advisor,The Buffalo News, December 1, 1995

"Serving a burger to your family today, knowing what we know, constitutes child abuse. You might as well give them weed killer." Toni Vernelli European Campaign Director, PETA, PETA Europe news release, "Meat Expo Declared A 'Danger Zone' By Vegetarians: PETA Targets Smithfield 2000" November 27, 2000

"My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism." Henry Spira, director, Animal Rights International, as quoted in Barnaby J. Feder, "Pressuring Purdue," New York Times Magazine, November 26, 1989, p. 192.

"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse." Neal Barnard, Medical Advisor, PETA, from Bernard's book, Food For Life

"If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten." Gary Francione, speech, University of Minnesota Law School, November 6, 1991.

"Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken." Dan Matthews, Director of Media Relations, PETA: The New Yorker, April 14, 2003

On Free Press

"We are complete press sluts." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's president and founder, The New Yorker, April 14, 2003

"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's president and founder, USA Today, September 3, 1991

Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights

"The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights." Gary Francione, The Animals' Voice, Vol. 4, No. 2 (undated), pp. 54-55.

"Humane care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage." Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the US, in 1988 Newsweek interview

“Yes, abolition is the ideal.” Kim Sturla, in SATYA Magazine Oct 2006 (http://www.satyamag.com/oct06/sturla.html)

"I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives." Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), speech at Loyola University, October 24, 1988.

"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved." Gary Francione and Tom Regan, "A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda, January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.

"I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'." Gary Yourofsky, founder, Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), PeTA's national lecturer, quoted in "As Threats of Violence Escalate, Primate Researchers stand Firm", Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, DC, November 12, 1999
"The major success of this decade [the 1980s] has been the reapplication of the concept of rights in the human population to nonhuman species." John Kullberg, president, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as quoted in Charles Oliver, "Liberation Zoology," Reason, 22, No. 2 (June 1990), p. 24.

"As long as humans have rights and non-humans do not, as is the case in the welfarist framework, then non-humans will virtually always lose when their interests conflict with human interests. Thus welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved." Francione & Regan, "A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," Animals' Agenda, Jan.-Feb., 1992

"...the animal rights movement is not concerned about species extinction. An elephant is no more or less important than a cow, just as a dolphin is no more important than a tuna...In fact, many animal rights advocates would argue that it is better for the chimpanzee to become extinct than to be exploited continually in laboratories, zoos and circuses." Barbara Biel, The Animals' Agenda, Vol 15 #3.

"It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals." Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer

"We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Insight on the News. July 17, 2000

"We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii.

On Forming Political Alliances

"We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture." Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, at the Animal Rights 2002" Convention, July 1, 2002.

"Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues." Paul Watson, Founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, NY Times, March 16, 2004

"If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States." Norm Phelps, Program Director, Fund for Animals: "Animal Rights 2002" convention, July 2, 2002.

Criminal Acts and Terrorism

"We are not terrorists, but we are a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win." Dr. Steven Best, speaking at International Animal Rights Gathering 2005. The Telegram (UK) July 17, 2005.

“Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week….since violence is an essential part of activism, even if an abuser of animals perished during a fire or other form of direct action, I would unequivocally support that, too. Gary Yourofsky, in an article he wrote, quoted in “Animal Rights Extremism Meets Academia” by Jacob Laskin, April 19, 2007.

"Here's a little model I'm going to show you here. I didn't have any incense, but -- this is a crude incendiary device. It is a simple plastic jug, which you fill with gasoline and oil. You put in a sponge, which is soaked also in flammable liquid -- I couldn't find an incense stick, but this represents that. You put the incense stick in here, light it, place it -- underneath the 'weapon of mass destruction,' light the incense stick - sandalwood works nice -- and you destroy the profits that are brought about through animal and earth abuse. That's about -- two dollars. " Rodney Coronado, animal rights felon for the 1992 Michigan State University fireboming, and recipient of PeTA funds, speaking at "National conference on Organized Resistance, American University, Washington DC, January 26, 2003. Note: Coronado pled guilty to the charges stemming from the 1992 MSU arson case but even so, PeTA donated $45,200 to the Coronado Support Committee in 1995. During the previous year, while Coronado was still on the loose and living underground, PeTA granted a loan (not yet repaid) to Coronado's father for $25,000.

"If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution." Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for Animal Defense League, Penn & Teller Bullsh*t, April 1, 2004

"It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Letter to activists posted on Yahoo, March 17, 2003

"So-called activists who talk to the police disgust me, and I think one of the major reasons the animal liberation movement has not made more significant gains is because many activists do not understand the evolutionary nature of this movement. We're fighting a major war, defending animals and our very planet from human greed and destruction. There is no room for collaborators." David Barbarash, Spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) No Compromise, the journal of the Animal Liberation Front

“There are about 2,000 people prepared at any one time to take action for us ... The children [of targeted scientists and executives] are enjoying a lifestyle built on the blood and abuse of innocent animals. Why should they be allowed to close the door on that and sit down and watch TV and enjoy themselves when animals are suffering and dying because of the actions of the family breadwinner? They are a justifiable target for protest.” Robin Webb, ALF leader, Sunday Herald ( Scotland) Sept. 19, 2004

"KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach." Bruce Friedrich, PETA Director quoted in August 19, 2003 PeTA press release announcing PeTA's intent to dispatch activists to Louisville, KFC's headquarters, to interact with the community, churches, institutions, neighbors of KFC's president, and CEO, etc., in order to get KFC to submit to PeTA's demands.

"When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in." Rodney Coronado, LA Weekly, August 29, 2003.

"It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front -- sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing." Jerry Vlasak, PCRM spokesman and Director of ADL, speaking at the Animal Rights 2004 convention (July 8-11).

"Getting arrested is fun." Dan Mathews, PeTA's director of international campaigns quoted in Orange County Weekly (CA), July 25 - 31, 2003.

"In England we do have some problems with legislation that prevents us from buying certain products, but over here you don't have the same excuse. You've heard [Black Panther leader] Mr. [Bobby] Seale: you're allowed to bear arms. Why are you here now listening to me? You can go out and get animal liberation! Robin Webb, British Animal Rights Terrorist, speaking at a Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective." Jerry Vlasak, The Observer, July 25, 2004

"Whether or not the public regards . . . direct action as fringe or as extremist or terroristic or whatever label they want to put on it, doesn't really matter to us because the public at large is apathetic and is going to sit on its ass regardless of whether it agrees with us or not," Kevin Kjonaas, National Director, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA); spokesperson, Animal Defense League; New York organizer, Viva! USA; quoted in Animal rights advocates clash with U. Minnesota researchers. Dylan Thomas, Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, November 11, 2002.

"Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon in the 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and beneficiary of PeTA funds, "Conference on Organized Resistance," American University, January 26, 2003

“"I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many ... I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives." Jerry Vlasak, Animal Rights 2003 Convention, June, 2003

"Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting." Craig Rosenbraugh, radical animal rights spokesperson for terrorism and a recipient of PeTA funds, in Open letter to activists, published on the Independent Media Center website, March 17, 2003

"Today's terrorist is tomorrow's freedom fighter." Kevin Kjonaas, National Director and spokesperson, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA) Animal Rights 2002 Convention, June 30, 2002

"[Grocers who sell veal] have no idea what's coming . If they have me arrested, that's good for me, [and] bad for them. We have 75,000 members of our club who aren't going to like it". Dee Crenshaw, Organizer. Farm Sanctuary, Alexandria (LA) Daily Town Talk, March 18, 2001

"Sometimes breaking the law, and sometimes pushing the boundaries of what's told to us is . what is right and wrong, doesn't matter. And it comes down to questioning what is effective and what is not effective." Kevin Kjonaas, Spokesperson and National Director for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA), speaking at "Animal Rights 2002" convention, June 30, 2002

"I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's president and founder, The New York Daily News, December 7, 1997

"If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too." Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer

"Bank executives have had their yachts sunk behind their houses. Cars have been blown up; windows have been smashed; offices have been stormed. We're tired of yelling at buildings -- no one cares. We're tired of yelling at executives while they're in those buildings, and allowing them to go home and forget about us who are out there that afternoon -- we're going to their homes. We're doing what's effective. We're shutting this company down." Lauren James, Organizer, "Conference on Organized Resistance," American University, January 26, 2003

"I am convinced that we can shut down a lot of these animal abuse industries whether the public agrees with it or not. And whether these industries are shut down by violent or non-violent acts in the end, to me, doesn't really matter. David Barbarash, Spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) No Compromise, BBC Documentary, "Beastly Business" (October 1, 2000)

"We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers." Craig Rosenbraugh, recipient of PETA funds, Spokesperson for Earth Liberation Front (ELF) statement, August 1, 1999

"A burning building doesn't help melt people's hearts, but times change and tactics, I'm sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Interview in ALF quarterly Bite Back, February, 2003

"Why should any one of us feel that 'it shouldn't be me taking that brick and chucking it through that window? Why shouldn't I be going to that fur farm down the road and opening up those cages?' It's not hard; it doesn't take a rocket scientist. You don't need a 4-year degree to call in a bomb hoax. These are easy things, and they're things that save animals: And so I want all of you in this room to, A) Question not just what is right and wrong, but what is effective, And B) why can't all of us be doing it? I think the animal rights movement is strong - that's my opinion. [But] it's time to start flexing our muscles." Kevin Kjonaas, Spokesperson and National Director, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA) "Animal Rights 2002" convention, June 30, 2002

"In light of the events on September 11, my country has told me that I should not cooperate with terrorists. I therefore am refusing to cooperate with members of Congress who are some of the most extreme terrorists in history." Craig Rosebraugh, animal rights radical, spokesperson for animal and earth related crimes and recipient of PETA funds, statement following Rosebraugh's subpoena to testify before a Congressional subcommittee on eco-terrorism, November 1, 2001

"The employees. are not good people, and do not deserve to enjoy the Holiday season. Let's make this one so stressful, they won't be able to balance their hot cider between shaking hands." E-mail message from (SHAC) Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty dated December 15, 2002

"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we're going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows ... I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation ... I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows. ... Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." Bruce Friedrich, PeTA's director of Vegan Outreach, Animal Rights Conference, 2001

"Huntingdon Life Sciences is going to close. You can't close it with those evil riot police there, but they're not always here! It's not always daylight ... Come here when it's dark, when there's no moon, with people you can trust! There are individuals in there who need you to do that! But when you get them out, don't leave the equipment or the building standing either! Smash it! Smash it! Smash it once and for all!" Robin Webb, British Animal Rights Terrorist, speaking at a Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) rally, East Millstone, New Jersey, outside a medical research facility, December 1, 2002

"I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon for the 1992 firebombing of Michigan State University research facility (57 months in federal prison, 3 years probation), speaking at the "Conference on Organized Resistance," American University, January 26, 2003.

"Believe me, you don't have to worry about prison. I've been there -- it's a doggle. You can put your feet up and recharge your batteries, and go back out there when you're released and start all over again. You can go to education to read up. I mean someone, someone actually read up on electronics while they were in prison, and went out and started doing electronic incendiary devices. Use your time inside to teach yourself!" Robin Webb, British Spokesperson for Animal Rights Terrorism, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"We're a new breed of activism. We're not your parents' Humane Society. We're not Friends of Animals. We're not EarthSave. We're not Greenpeace. We come with a new philosophy. We hold the radical line. We will not compromise! We will not apologize, and we will not relent! ... Vivisection is not an abstract concept. It's a deed, done by individuals, who have weaknesses, who have breaking points, and who have home addresses!" Kevin Kjonaas, animal extremist and National Leader-spokesperson for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA, (SHAC-USA) rally, East Millstone, New Jersey, outside a medical research facility, December 1, 2002

"Although fish and chip shops haven't been targeted before so far as I can remember, they would be considered legitimate targets." Robin Webb, UK Spokesperson for animal rights terrorism, The UK Guardian December 12, 2001

"Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere," Greg Avery, SHAC, BBC Online, October 5, 2004
"The $10,000 microscope was destroyed in about 10 seconds with a steel wrecking bar we purchased ... for less than $5. We consider that a pretty good return on our investment." ALF memo about destruction of lab at U. of Oregon Oct. 1986

If a car being blown up in a driveway or animals being liberated from a lab scares them, then I would say that fear pales by comparison to the fear that the animals have every day. The kind of true violence that these animals endure at the hands of people at Huntingdon leaves me with little sympathy. Kevin Kjonaas, National Director and spokesperson, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA, (SHAC USA); spokesperson, Animal Defense League; New York organizer, Viva! USA; as quoted in A harsh animal-rights campaign targets NJ firm, workers. Chris Mondics, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 14, 2002.

"Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon for 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and PeTA funds beneficiary, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA

"As a direct-action warrior, it made a lot of sense to me to attack institutions in the fur trade . we need to destroy them by any means necessary." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon of 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and beneficiary of PeTA funds, "Conference on Organized Resistance," American University, January 26, 2003

"Last night in San Diego a bunch of townhouses were burned down, and reporters from two corporate TV stations just asked me, 'What good does that do your movement?'... If that hadn't happened, you wouldn't be here tonight. People willing to risk their lives to protect the environment by destroying buildings built on the habitat of endangered species make people take notice... Fire is a very sacred power, one of the key elements of our planet...We use fire to cleanse ourselves, and when we address buildings and institutions that have no other purpose but to destroy life, fire is the only way to stop them. When people ask if someday someone might get hurt by one of our actions, I ask them why they don't get so concerned about the people who are killing animals for a living. That is what the terrorism in this society is. Destroying property to protect life is the most sacred thing we can do." Rod Coronado, Earth Liberationist, convicted arsonist in 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and beneficiary of PeTA funds, speaking "Revolution Summer" in Hillcrest, CA (a suburb of San Diego), August 1, 2003, the day a $50 million fire credited to the Earth Liberation Front torched an apartment construction project, Zenger's Newsmagazine, 2003.

" [behind every corporation] there are people who have homes and liability and privacy issues." Kevin Kjonaas, (SHAC) Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty leader and spokesperson, quoted in the Mercury News, San Jose, California, May 10, 2003

"We have a 100 per cent success rate. Whoever we choose to target is finished." Heather James, SHAC co-leader , London Evening Standard, March 29, 2004

"I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down." Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, National Animal Rights Convention June 27, 1997

"Property destruction is a legitimate political tool called economic sabotage, and it's meant to attack businesses and corporations." David Barbarash, Spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), NPR radio show, "The Connection" January 7, 2002

"It doesn't matter if there are people in there. They're irrelevant! It doesn't matter about the police. They're irrelevant! It doesn't matter about the high fences. They're irrelevant! It doesn't matter about the doors. They're irrelevant! It doesn't matter about the locks. They're irrelevant! What matters is our brothers and sisters in there. Smash everything when the cops aren't here! Get them out!" ."We'll sweep the police aside. We'll sweep the government aside. We'll sweep Huntingdon Life Sciences aside, and we'll raze this evil place right to the ground!" Robin Webb, British Animal Rights Terrorist, Speaking at Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, (SHAC) rally, East Millstone, New Jersey, outside a medical research facility, December 1, 2002

"If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion…There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these [apartheid and slavery] other struggles.… A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective." Jerry Vlasak, in response to indictments of 11 ALF/ELF arsonists. AP, January 20, 2006.

"It's time for the animal rights movement to take this [fur] industry and drive the final nail into the coffin by whatever means it takes. If that means being outside the executives houses, if that means blockading their doors, whatever it takes." John 'J.P.' Goodwin, Humane Society of the US Campaign Director, former executive director of the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, in speech at the World Congress for Animals, June 20, 1996

"Physically shut down financial centers . Using any means necessary, shut down the national networks of NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. Not just occupations but actually engage in strategies and tactics which knock the networks off the air . Spread the battle to the ... very heads of government and U.S. corporations ... "When you see the loss of 9 billion [animal] lives each year, it's inappropriate to hold a sign or pass out a petition. It's appropriate to go out and burn down the factory farm." Joshua Harper, recipient of PETA funds, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 18, 2001

"Damaging the enemy financially is fair game." Alex Pacheco, animal rights radical, PeTA co-founder and one of its original 3 board members, Washington City Paper, December 18, 1987

"Animal liberation, of which the anti-vivisection movement is a part, animal liberation is not a campaign. It is not a struggle. It is a war! It is an all-out bloody war, in which the countless hundreds of millions of casualties have, so far, all been on one side. How can we allow that to continue?" Robin Webb, British spokesperson for animal rights terrorism, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's president and founder, New York Daily News, December 7, 1997

"A lot of people think that -- Oh my god, that's going too far, you know. People can support bringing animals out of labs, but they can't support arson. Well, I'm sorry. I'm not here to, to please people. I'm not here to win the support of people. I'm here to represent my animal relations who are suffering this very second. And I don't care what anybody says about what I do to achieve their freedom." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon for 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and PeTA beneficiary, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"[I see] a spark of hope in every broken window, every torched police car." Joshua Harper, recipient of PeTA funds,The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 18, 2001

"Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates." Jerry Vlasak, Animal Defense League, Internet post to AR Views list, June 21, 1996

"Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA founder and president, The Chronicle of Higher Education November 12, 1999

"I would be overjoyed when the first scientist is killed by a liberation activist." Vivien Smith, Former ALF Spokesperson, USA Today, September 3, 1991

"Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, US News and World Report, April 8, 2002

"Setting fire to the feed truck falls within the work they [the ALF] do. It was most likely done in an effort to cause the most damage possible to the farm without hurting anyone or any animals. What these farmers do to chickens is terrorism -- what we do is not." David Barbarash, Associated Press story filed after the arson of a poultry truck in Indiana caused $100,000 in damage, July 3, 2000

"Getting together three or four friends of mine, we came back a week later to that farm, we broke into the main laboratory, we trashed every single piece of equipment, we stole documents and lists of fur farms across the nation. And we started a fire in an experimental fur farm, an experimental feed building, where they manufactured the experimental diets which were the focus of research at this farm. And that fire destroyed all the equipment, and in the ensuing raid, the raid that happened caused enough damage that six months later that lab was forced to shut down. That was five people, folks -- once again maybe like twelve hundred dollars, a couple weeks of planning, five people. But that wasn't the end. I knew I had to continue, and for the next -- oh gosh, a little over a year -- we took out, one by one, every recipient of what's called the Mink Farmers Research Foundation. It's a foundation whose sole purpose is to aid research to benefit the fur farm industry." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon for 1992 Michigan State University firebombing and PeTA funds beneficiary, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

" I openly hope that it [hoof-and-mouth disease] comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment. Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA founder and president, ABC News interview April 2, 2001

"We have found that civil disobedience and direct action has been powerful in generating massive attention in our communities ... and has been very effective in traumatizing our targets." JP Goodwin, Committee to Abolish the Fur Trade, National Animal Rights Convention '97, June 27, 1997, now employed by the Humane Society of the United States

"I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong," Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Montgomery County, Md. Journal, Feb. 16, 1988

"More than anything we applied arson, and effectively we destroyed -- um, let's see -- the Northwest Fur Breeders Cooperative in Edmonds, Washington, which we hit a week later after OSU. We hit Washington State University's Eastern Washington experimental fur farm. We did get seven coyotes out of there, six mink, and ten mice . We burned down a fur farm that was on the market to be sold, in Oregon also. We went to the Michigan State University's experimental fur farm program and destroyed thirty-two years of research, by using fire once again, and rescued two mink from there." Rodney Coronado, convicted felon for 1992 firebombing of a research facility at Michigan State University, at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November 30, 2002

"In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors." Tim Daley, British Animal Liberation Front Leader, BBC interview, 1987

The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in- America - A MUST READ

The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America (Paperback)
by Nathan J. Winograd (Author)

http://www.nathanwinograd.com/

http://nathanw inograd.podbean.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Myt h-Overpopulation-Revolution-America/dp/0979074304/ref=pd_bbs _sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196272894&sr=8-

Special Dogster left for the bridge

Barking in with the some sad news. We're not sad for Seva but for her pack and their loss and our own feelings of loss.

Seva is timeless and everywhere. We will always carry her in our hearts.

We lost Seva today to the Rainbow Bridge. Seva was Dog Of the Week on Dogster and a favorite page of many for her gorgeous photos and devilish wit.

Francis DETH #004


http://www.dogster.com/forums/We_Miss_You_Memorial s_and_Su pport/thread/444097


http://www.dogster.com/dogs/178271



Hug s to Seva's Mom, Dad and young devilish brother Finlay.


TAG A PHOTO with
Seva
to show your love to her pack.

All about ME!

I'm out in print. You too can have a copy at home.

The Howell Book of Dogs: The Definitive Reference to 300 Breeds and Varieties (Hardcover) by Liz Palika (Author)
Photo taken by Mary Arango.

Browntrout Dachshunds 2008 Wirebound Hardcover Weekly Engagement
Calendar
http://www.browntrout.com/calendars/product.asp? MGID=1272&IID=8248
Pictured for second week of January (6-12). Another beach photo by Mary Arango.

Avonside Publishing 2008 Wall Calendar
http://www.avonsidepublishing.co.uk/22273-5.html
Photo by Pam Marks.

Word is I will be in two Calendars in 2009 confirmed.
Browntrout for the Love of Dachshunds Deluxe Wall Calendar for June.
Browntrout Dachshunds 2009 Wirebound Hardcover Weekly Engagement
Calendar