STILL NO AMENDMENTS

Here we are, a week after Senator Florez announced he had made several amendments to the bill to satisfy prior commitments. In fact, he was prepared to hand them to the B&P Committee. But since they would not consider them, he put them away. No one has seen them; many have called his office and requested them. But there is no response.

And SB250 remains as bad a before; only we are smarter now. Remember when Levine and Boks were telling us MSN was just a "tool" to get to the bad people? We heard that again in B&P Committee last week. But now that Animal Services is using animal control and LAPD manpower to conduct raids in the nice part of town, we know that it is not tool. It is a hammer to get the people who are not part of the problem, who almost all have altered, licensed dogs. But some don't keep their tags on their dogs and some actually take them off leash to throw a frisbee or a ball. Thank goodness Senator Florez is on the job to allow every animal control group in the state to take a page out of the Los Angeles book.

And the interesting thing is that the California Animal Control Directors Association is not supporting this bill. They know that impounds will increase; they know that euthanasia will increase. And they know the irresponsible people will turn in one dog and go get another.

Meanwhile we wait for the amendments and continue to get our letters in. Remember organization letters in by tomorrow afternoon. If you are worried they will not get there, send a copy of your organization letter to CDOC at 818-332-9690. We even bought a new fax machine today just to keep up with the volume of letters. Letters to the Committee members can go all week but should be there by Monday.

CDOC will be meeting with Committee Member on Monday and Tuesday.

LETTERS ARE COMING IN

The CDOC fax machine is running constantly and we assume/hope we are getting just a small percentage of the Club letters that are opposing SB250. Please remember that Wednesday is the deadline so you want to get them in by then.

Dog owners in Ventura got busy on Sunday and signed hundreds of letters opposing SB250. Of course, under SB250 everyone at the dog show was in violation of this new law making them subject to mandatory spay and neuter.

And horse owners are starting to get into the Act as well.

This week you need to focus on members of appropriations. After that committee, if this continues to move forward, you will need to again focus on your Assembly Member.