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April 10, 2011
DOUBLE WHAMMY IN TEXAS!
HB 1451 AND HB 2116: Both HSUS and Texas Humane Legislation Network (THLN)
anti-breeding bills are on the move. It's time to circle the wagons and
kill these bills. Bear in mind that many "animal rights" moles are reading
our messages and doing their best to ensure their passage.
RPOA welcomes Nicole Paquette, new subscriber and HSUS state representative
for Texas, to our Texas RPOA E-News! Nicole can inform her boss Vegan HSUS
President Wayne Pacelle that this is Texas, not California or Colorado.
Don't
Mess With Our Texas Pets!
It is ironic that, in this 175th Anniversary Year of Texas Independence and
the Fall of the Alamo, animal owners are having to fight another battle
defending their constitutional right to own, care for, love, and breed dogs
and cats responsibly. Texas animal owners are being criminalized with every
new city animal ordinance or state law. Pet ownership is being regulated
out of existence with pet limits, zoning regulations, high licensing fees
and permits to own any animal (as in San Antonio). Cities now want to
extend these laws to include county pet owners.
The national expansion of government has spread to pet ownership in every
state with the focus on animals confined to our property instead of
addressing loose animals on the streets. Animal owners live in fear that
animal control will come knocking on their doors and seize all their animals
for any minor ordinance violation. Complaints can be made anonymously and
amount to harassment by these very same extremists we see at the Capitol
today.
HSUS and Texas Humane Legislation Network are all shook up at the recent
media revelation that an employee of Texas Department of Licensing and
Regulation has been exposed as being a radical "animal rights" extremist
with Austin's "Emancipet" group and a THLN supporter. So they've turned up
the heat to get their bills passed before legislators and John Q. Public
learn even more.
The Committee Substitute for HB 1451 is on the Local & Consent Calendar and
will probably pass on the Floor without debate. It can be pulled from the
Consent Calendar by several representatives for Floor debate but to date we
haven't been able to accomplish this. Maybe your House representative can
help. Rep. Thompson's bill was defeated in the Senate last session and we
only need 12 senators on our side to defeat it again this time.
Just to backup Rep. Thompson's bill, another more condensed version of an
HSUS
Anti-Breeder Bill "HB 2116" is pending in House County Affairs after a
hearing was held April 7th. "Posting rules were suspended" on the same day
of the Hearing -- meaning it was a secret "public" hearing without being
posted. We're told by our lobbyist that a committee substitute is being
prepared but is not available yet. Don't you love the "transparency" in
Texas animal politics? Contact your own representative if this outrages you
as much as it does RPOA! Has HSUS "bought" our state government?
Coupled with Senator Van de Putte's bill mandating sterilization of every
dog and cat in the state and multiple seizure bills, these two anti-breeder
bills mean that there'll be very few well bred purebred dogs and cats in the
future. Mixed breeds will be phased out eventually and we can look forward
to imports from Mexico and Puerto Rico for our pets or black market sources.
We're in the countdown with only 7 more weeks left until session
adjournment. Stop today and contact your personal representative and
senator who can be found at:
http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/By phone, fax and email - all three! Faxes are best but personal phone
calls are important also. Just copy and paste for a letter or email. It's
so easy.
Tell them:
1) You OPPOSE HB 1451 and HB 2116 which are NOT "Puppymill" Bills at all.
If you own over 10 Intact Female Dogs or Cats and sell only one
puppy/kitten, you're a "Puppy/Kitty" Mill.
2) Tell them you will not support any candidate for public office who
sponsors or votes for any "animals rights" legislation. We are animal
welfare.
3) Breeders are regulated just as everyone else with the state's Animal
Cruelty Law, one of the strictest in the U.S. Raids and seizures of animals
are carried out almost weekly.
Check out the "Get Anything Passed and Come Back Later!" Flyer
And the
"Pet Owners or Guardians, That Is The Question!" Flyer
on our website:
www.rpoatexasoutreach.org . Fax them to your elected
officials.
Stay tuned because we'll be launching more coordinated initiatives
