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Frenzied lobbying as spay-neuter bill heads to critical vote
July 15th, 2009, 6:00 am · 7 Comments · posted by Teri Sforza, Register staff writer
Kenny is available for adoption at the Orange County animal shelter
Pity the poor Legislative assistant! Passions on the Snip-the-Roamers bill - more popularly known as Senate Bill 250, The Pet Responsibility Act - run hot and high. Folks on both sides are begging, cajoling and commanding their like-minded cohorts to call, fax and email lawmakers to register their views, and thousands have obliged in the past week.
A critical hearing before the Assembly Appropriations Committee, originally slated for today, is now scheduled for August due to the state’s budget paralysis. Suffice to say that the hearing will focus on how much Snip-the-Roamers would cost. For more about that highly charged debate - and the highly controversial bill analysis by the California Department of Finance, see our story here.
Supporters say Snip-the-Roamers simply targets “irresponsible pet owners” by requiring that animals with a tendency to roam be spayed or neutered. It is not mandatory for all animals, they say - just for the ones that roam.
“We are almost to the finish line!” says the email plea from Judie Mancuso, the Orange County force behind the bill. “Your phone calls and letters have been great, but please don’t stop now. We still need your help to get SB 250 through this final committee. The opposition to this bill (AKC, Farm Bureau, backyard breeders) are absolutely flooding the Capitol with misinformation.”
The opposition couldn’t disagree more. “Stop what you are doing and TAKE ACTION to oppose California SB250,” says the plea from the Cat Fanciers Association. “We do not want any form of a mandated spay/neuter bill to be passed in California…..This bill would increase the costs of local animal control services; result in more abandonment of pets and cause unnecessary killing at local animal shelters. The California Department of Finance analysis states that ‘Mandatory spay and neuter provisions have failed throughout California at the local government level.’”
If approved next month, it goes on to the full state Assembly for a vote - and then to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If it fails, it dies.
Register your passions with the Assembly Appropriations Committee members, whose contact info follows:
Kevin de Leon - Chair 916-319-2045
Jim Nielsen - Vice Chair 916-319-2002
Tom Ammiano 916-319-2013
Charles Calderon 916-319-2058
Joe Coto 916-319-2023
Mike Davis 916-319-2048
Mike Duvall 916-319-2072
Felipe Fuentes 916-319-2039
Isadore Hall 916-319-2052
Diane Harkey 916-319-2073
Jeff Miller 916-319-2071
John Pérez 916-319-2046
Nancy Skinner 916-319-2014
Jose Solorio 916-319-2069
Audra Strickland 916-319-2037
Tom Torlakson 916-319-2011
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The Pet Responsibility Act SB 250 is for those who are NOT responsible pet owners, like their animals to roam unsupervised, and don’t care about others, or their pets!
If you let you pet roam without supervision, you are an animal hater (NOT lover), and as we ALL know, a spay-neutered pet lives longer, and healthier than one that is not (FACT).
Those who don’t want this bill to pass, are the same type of pet owners that are irresponsible human beings in ALL aspects of their lives! Don’t believe their irresponsible agenda!
I’m all about responsible pet ownership; this happens to include spaying and neutering! Bobby C? I have those neighbors that allow the roaming dogs–mostly ankle biters! Irritates me to NO end. Boy, if my 100lb dogs got out, those same people would be screaming at me like theres NO tomorrow. The animal control doesn’t do much when I call. They’re not interested.
Then theres the cat owners that don’t fix the feline population either. Sorry, but Im finding it’s the foreign population that’s having the effect on my ‘hood. They don’t fix animals over the boarder and they dont fix ‘em here. HATE IT cuz I find 3-4 week old kittens howling for food and scared to death. Who rescues them? Finds them homes, fixes them? Me and Im tired…really, really tired!
As a pet owner of three dogs plus cats, I’ve always tsken the responsibility of having my pets fixes. I currently have a male beagle pup that will be getting fixed in a couple of months.
Also, one nneds to realize that a pet becomes a part of your family.
They totally give love unconditionally, don’t toss them aside when times are hard.
I’ve been through hard times, but I made sure my pets had their nneds taken care of before me. I never tossed them out during hard times.
California needs to do what the state of New Mexico does. All adoptions from the pound are fixed before being released to the adioptive person. All female animals has a tattoo to veryify that they have been spayed. The cost of spay/neuter is included in the adoption fees. It’s a program that works in that it cuts down the number of unwanted animals. Get your animal fixed and help eliminate unwanted animals.
LOL look at the picture - “Scissors go WHERE?!”
I went to a shelter in 2005 got a 3 month old mixed breed. They told me he was a stray running the streets. Why did this happen? Because his mother/father had unwanted puppies after running loose. Fact he was a unwanted puppy either dumped/or put out when he was about 3 months old to wander the streets in a bad area. The shelter had so many of these puppies they were not given names only numbers and although mine found a good home I walked the cages and I saw the problem this high kill shelter faced. No it was not a small city shelter in San Clemente with a steady influx of high income familes with big yards living in Talaga, it had streets you woulldn’t want to park on with houses that had bars on the windows and people walking around looking like they couldn’t feed their families much less a new puppy. What is the answer? Maybe give this people a good reason not to let their dogs run loose and produce puppies. One pet breeder blog I told my story to told me the answer is to tell the shelter’s directors to send the puppies to other areas. Well that is a good idea but I really don’t think it is going to happen at a high kill shelter in a bad area of LA that has no money and few options. Sorry but I am going to take my hard earned cash and go to Sacramento in Aug. when this bill is voted on for funding (why do you think the bill is 2 steps away from passing). I want to be sure responsible people know that this bill is geared for the average mixed breed puppy who ends up in the shelter with little to no chance of a good life because of irresponsible owners who let their dogs run and breed puppies. Yes the breeders are not for the bill. Yes the feral cat feeders are against the bill. Too bad for them.I am 110% for the bill because when go to Yes on SB250 and the lady starts talking about the puppies coming in and being euthanized because no one wants them I can really relate, I saw the problem in 2005 and all the people I have talked to at the dog adoption events in LA tell me
“if you thought it was bad then you should see it now” sad.
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Go to SB 250 Pet Responsibility Act and watch the first video that comes up telling about the unwanted puppies coming into the animal shelter because of the dogs running loose producing puppies and then write down that you don’t think the spay neuter law will help the problem and that everyone deserves the right to have a unaltered dog. Wake up people and look at the problem I have one of those unwanted puppies and I saw the problem back in 2005 when it wasn’t even as bad as it is now. Also I just completed a online vet assistant class and the vet teaching it a vet from Canada who had been a vet for over twenty years was emphatic on how unaltered dogs get more tumors both male and female in later years and altered dogs are much healthier and make better pets advising people to get their dogs altered as soon as possible. Most dog parks state “do not bring in unaltered dogs” it is not a bad thing to do to a dog it really makes better sense. and most places have low cost spay neuter clinics. Yes Orange County is pricey but it is worth a trip to another area for the result. Even Best Friends Society (Dogtown people) in Kanup Utah has days where spay/neuter is done free if they are for it it can’t be bad . SB 250 is for the unwanted shelter puppy problem clearly it needs a positive vote and I think it will get one.
This is for TrueAgendas Dr. Jeff Grognet a vet in Canada who also teaches online vet assistant classes and has been a practing vet for over 20 years writes in his online vet classes this info. regarding unaltered dogs
“Diseases Suffered by Non-spayed and non-neutered pets.
Female dogs left intact have about a 50% chance of developing mammary tumors. The hormanal fluctions during estrus prompts the development of the mammary glands and this makes them susceptible to the development of growths. About 40% of thse breast growths are malignant, meaning they an spread to other areas of the body> Bt spaying dogs before their first heat, the chance of tumors drops to a negligible level.
Intact males have their own health problems. Many develop prostate infections that can be ver difficult to treat. About 50% of intact males form tumors in their testicles. Though few of thee are malignant the treatment is still castration. Some owners feel their senior dogs are too old for neutering. I assure them that there is no age limit for this procedure as long as the dog is otherwise healty.
Sterlization is the answer to stopping unwanted pregnancies and curtailing these medical ailments.
Males can be neutered or castrated and the latter term applies to the male only. Castrated males cannonat get females pregnant, they do not wander in search of females in heat, and they do not fight with other males. I recomment preforming these surgies when my pattients are six months of age when the adult teeth have erupted. This is before the females come into heat and before the males develop annoying behaviors.” Pg 4 Chapter 4 Online Vet Assistant Lesson Course Content 1997-21009 by Jeff Grognet
intact males have their own health problems