Please forward to all your friends, groups, businesses/parties that may have an interest in animals!
A new team group will help resume the fight for animal owners’ rights! PETPAC blazed the trail for animal owners along with other groups and recommends that former PETPAC members can revive their membership by joining the new expanded team! California Dog Federation based in Central California will work directly with us and is helping to fight back SB917 [which claims selling/giving away an animal is criminal, but not if one is a non profit group.] We will also have the benefit of working with the USSPCO, Inc., a non profit animal welfare group.
We expect in the near future that the emails will be sent out initially by PetPAC. Or contact the team by seeing email contact at end of post!
We do not believe that “non profits” should exempt themselves re abuse or selling for that matter… We say this because: first, exemptions for ‘other groups’ can easily be eliminated; second, the claimed acts of selling or giving away are not “abuse”; third, no shelters or rescues should be exempted specifically, as the Penal Code sections on abuse apply to anyone or group having charge of an animal. This does not seem to be understood by the average pet owner. We will be working with rural land owners, livestock owners, 4H people, and farmers and ranchers.
We have watched animal owners unite with PETPAC in the past. It needs to continue and expand, and we can do it with your help and support. As we know, PIJAC mostly works on issues in Washington D.C., often focusing on battling H$U$ Federal Legislation. We have found that locally PIJAC has limited impact as they mostly represent retail pet enterprises such as petstores. While helpful, it doesn’t necessarily help animal owners in general, although we support pet stores as a viable economic enterprise.
Locally in California, splintered groups take action repeatedly, but they are limited in numbers. We will utilize our own team people to organize the “circle-the-wagons” method of defense– meaning the team will be comprised of animal related owners, businesses, and more.
WE ARE AND WILL BE THE “GO TO GROUP” for rectifying Animal Rights Gone Wild!! Very few have really tried to do this before, due to the massive $$$ of H$U$. But since Humane Watch started, we have seen the numbers rise who Don’t Like ANIMAL EXTREMIST LAWS AND TACTICS pushed by H$U$.
Let’s face facts: Animal extremists laws attack us, our businesses, our animal related hobbies, animal related jobs, and that requires opposition. We can no longer afford to limit ourselves to just dogs/cats, but need to expand to include animals in general, and animal related businesses. We are working to join also with other national registries and animal federations focused upon owners of animals+animal related business, wishing to preserve and defend their ownership rights under the law.
In today’s economy, businesses are being shut out, shut down, forced out due to the ever-changing rules and regulations involving “animal rights.” When animal extremists take to the legislature, we can be sure it is likely not in the animal owner’s favor, nor will it be helpful economically. It will likely cost us more, impinge on our rights, limit our ability to make a living, hurt our ability to keep our businesses going strong, and in general, it will cast blame on many of us that own, show, raise or have any animal related business at all.
Less pets and animals, less animal-related shows+exhibits, means less money spent on them. Less spending means less income. Less income means less power. Loss of power means you get little and nothing. None of this is new.
Yet many of us sit by idly while our rights are trampled by animal extremists, and some of us don’t even realize it’s happening. We are here to tell you– it has already happened. It must stop. NOW. Example: Pre-forfeiture seizure is only in 3 states we believe-CA Idaho and Colorado. We think “seizure” should not exist UNLESS there are ABSOLUTE EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES which are completely life threatening, and then only as to the actual animals whose lives are threatened. Further, we believe that no animals which are UNaffected should be seized AT ALL. Clearly this forfeiture nonsense was predicated upon the CA law for CPS (child protective services) and should not be applied to animals, which are NOT children.
We are attempting to set it up so that animal owners who support us will also be entitled to a determined amount of legal consultation-help on animal related issues at low cost, by those familiar with such issues, who are on the OWNERS’ side!
Our team will be different. Right now– we have experts that can testify including, but not limited to, seasoned vets, dog trainers, service dog handlers, those familiar with animal husbandry practices, necropsy testing, behaviorists, various breeders; reptile, rabbits, poultry, equine, livestock and exotic bird hobbyists+farmers+ranchers with excellent working knowledge, animal technicians, etc. and we have access to certified California Humane Officers who do not work for the government, they are all considered experts in at least one or more different disciplines, and can competently testify in administrative and court hearings.
We have people from a specifically chosen branch of the California Dog Federation, Central CA, with decades of experience in dealing with local community government and grassroots advocacy — and YES, we have those who have worked in animal rescue and rehabilitation as well. We work with more than several attorneys with both civil and criminal defense experience, including animal related cases, high profile litigation in CA courts, including State and Federal; paralegals that can help with legal administration, we have people that know legal research; we can access video production efforts and marketing. While none of this is without some cost, much of the legal time will be at a sliding scale, (meaning discounted) because it is important that animal owners be protected. There is likely no other team in California with the ability to not only litigate, but to also help protect and defend owners by knowing and using best practice methods involving animals.
Staying the course requires dedication, perseverence and passion. We have team members currently litigating issues involving illegal seizure, allegations of animal abuse (felony and misdemeanor), dog bite incidents, allegations of non proven contractual issues, and more. Plus the Federal lawsuit and other federal court actions. We are registered in all CA Federal District Courts [Eastern, Northern, Southern] including Bankruptcy, and Colorado District Court. Except for Los Angeles, as we don’t expect to litigate directly in AR land. Our members have helped other attorneys in different counties and states. We get calls from different sources because of the diverse nature of the group.
We just got a new member, retired social worker, from Hawaii, who will update us on the Hawaii “no sales of UN-altered animal” law…
We don’t just ‘talk the talk’….we walk the walk.
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JOIN US TODAY! animalteam77@gmail NO SPAM please
