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Title: TX RPOA - San Francisco calls for pet sales ban! Post by: uglydog on June 16, 2011, 02:40:57 pm California is working on stopping all pet sales, including freaking goldfish- People had better get involved, its going to far, and if you sit back thinking it won't happen to you, Guess you really did not give a damn in the first place.
[TX_RPOA_E-News] San Francisco calls for pet sales ban - once again! « on: Today at 02:08:50 PM »TX-RPOA E-News >From RPOA Texas Outreach and Responsible Pet Owners Alliance "Animal welfare, not animal 'rights' and, yes, there is a difference." Crossposting is encouraged. Thursday, June 16, 2011 Texas Action Alert! Please forward or fax this article below to Governor Rick Perry's office and ask him to VETO HB 1451, the misnamed Puppy and Kitty Mill Bill! Texas does not want to be like California. Fox News is covering this story. Our pets are members of our families and these extremists strive 24/7/365 to end that relationship. If the governor doesn't veto HB 1451 by Sunday, it automatically becomes law and he can't put the genie back in the bottle. Gov. Perry will "own" this bill forever. NO PETS = NO VETS = NO PET SUPPLIES = NO SALES TAXES FOR TEXAS! Animal advisory boards in ALL major Texas cities have been hijacked by animal "rights" extremists - not animal "welfarists." El Paso and Austin have effectively banned pet shop dog and cat sales already and San Antonio extremists have tried to do so for years. Their radical animal "rights" agenda is to spay/neuter every dog and cat in the state and make Breeder Licenses/Permits impossible to obtain as in HB 1451. There is no such thing as a "responsible breeder" to them. Rep. David Simpson called HB 1451 the "dog gestapo bill." Make no mistake, HB 1451 is aimed at American Kennel Club show/hobby breeders. Please contact Governor Rick Perry every day in every way! Ask him to "VETO HB 1451! Go to http://governor.state.tx.us/contact/ and click on "Registering Opinion" and send your opposition email. Copy and paste anything you wish from this alert. Telephone: Opinion Hotline [for Texas Callers] (800) 843-5789 Second Citizens Opinion Hotline [for Texas Callers] (800) 252-9600 Opinion Hotline for Out-of-state Callers: (512) 463-1782 Office of Governor Main Switchboard [8:00 a.m. To 5:00 p.m. CST] (512) 463-2000 Office of Governor Fax: (512) 463-1849 Alternate Fax: (512) 463-1843 __________________________ San Francisco Chronicle June 15, 2011 SF Animal Control Commission Seeks Ban on Goldfish San Francisco's ever-active Animal Control and Welfare Commission has renewed its push for a pet sale ban in the city - only this time, it even covers goldfish. The idea is to put the squeeze on puppy and kitten mills that supply pet stores, and to discourage "impulse buys" of hamsters and other small pets that often wind up being dumped at shelters. But goldfish, guppies and tropical fish? "Most fish in aquariums are either mass bred" under inhumane conditions "or taken from the wild," commission member Philip Gerrie said. That leads to "devastation of tropical fish from places like Southeast Asia," he said. The proposed ban, which the commission just adopted after a year of study, was expanded to cover animal breeders as well as pet stores. As you might expect, it has local merchants like Ocean Aquarium owner Justin Hau dumbfounded. "The city is taking more and more control," Hau said. "They are very stupid." Commission President Sally Stephens, who opposed the ban because it would include small animal-breeding operations, says it's up to the Board of Supervisors to make the final call. "All this is, is a recommendation," Stephens said. Sometimes the supes act on the commission's recommendations, such as when they approved a ban on declawing cats. And sometimes they don't, such as when the animal panel suggested introducing birth control pills into birdseed to solve the city's pigeon problem. Supervisor Eric Mar, who introduced a measure Tuesday to keep big pet store chains out of the Richmond District, was noncommittal about the commission's latest proposal, saying only that the board needed to "look carefully." On the other hand, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd wasted no time predicting that "this is another Animal Welfare idea that will end up in the dustbin of history and go absolutely nowhere." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/BA661JTO52.DTL#ixzz1PRhTfkBX ................................................................. Subscribe to this announcement only email list to stay informed regarding all Texas animal issues by emailing: TX_RPOA_E-News-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Donate with PayPal or mail in: www.rpoatexasoutreach.org Title: Re: TX RPOA - San Francisco calls for pet sales ban! Post by: jls41 on June 16, 2011, 03:50:05 pm Governor Perry has until Sunday to VETO HB 1451. If he does not, he doesn't even have to sign it and it will still become law effective September 1, 2011!!! I hope that each of us can look at ourselves in the mirror next week and say that we did everything we could have done to try stop it!!
Title: Re: TX RPOA - San Francisco calls for pet sales ban! Post by: uglydog on June 16, 2011, 05:04:49 pm Quote Governor Perry has until Sunday to VETO HB 1451. If he does not, he doesn't even have to sign it and it will still become law effective September 1, 2011!!! I hope that each of us can look at ourselves in the mirror next week and say that we did everything we could have done to try stop it!! X2 |