Mother Dog and Nine Puppies sent from Taiwan to LA

On June 2, one animal rescue group was on hand to welcome a special shipment they had arranged to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport.  Nine puppies and their mother landed in a plane from Taiwan.  The young family had been trapped in a drainage ditch and nearly lost their lives.

 

The rate of abuse to dogs in Taiwan is rampant and beyond rational understanding.  It is commonplace for dogs to be tortured with hot oil on their faces and backs or to be caught in metal traps and left to bleed to death.  And like the dogs that arrived at LAX, many are dropped into deep ditches so they cannot get out and eventually die of starvation.

 

So when A Dog’s Life Rescue (ADLR) was contacted by Animal Rescue Team TAIWAN, they knew they couldn’t turn the four-legged family away.  The group quickly made all the necessary arrangements to put the dogs on a plane the next day.

 

More at link:

 

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/group-rescues-mother-dog-and-puppies-from-taiwan/

San Francisco proposed pet fish ban

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."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/BA661JTO52.DTL#ixzz1PN25TX9z

40 Pets Stolen From L.A. Animal Shelter

From Today's Los Angeles Times:

 

Crazytown

40 Pets Have Vanished From L.A.'s North Central Animal Shelter: 'They Were the Young, Cute Ones'

This is some fishy corrupt-city-worker business, according to today's Los Angeles Times, which compares the mysterious vanishing of 64 "dogs, cats and other animals" from the city's six animal shelters over the last year -- and 39 from the North Central Shelter alone -- to recent city-department scandals like bribery within the Department of Building and Safety and a traffic-officer-made porn. (Really.)

If the missing critters (aww) were your average lot of mangy old mutts, that'd be one thing. But Brenda Barnette, general manager of the Animal Services Department, has noticed a pattern in the type of pets who tend to disappear:

"They were the young ones, the cute ones," Barnette said. "They were ones that would have been likely to have been sold or be a nice gift for someone." The majority of the unaccounted-for animals were dogs, Barnette said.

What's being implied here, obviously, is that shelter workers might be selling the cutest of the caged beasts on the cute-beast black market for cash.

And in the future, save yourself some cash and corruption charges and just adopt straight from the shelter. Quick -- before city workers steal all the best ones.

(More at link)

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/06/40_pets_have_vanished_from_los_angeles_north_central_animal_shelter.php#more

http://tinyurl.com/3unhvlh

CFoDC Notice of Annual Meeting

California Federation of Dog Clubs

 

Notice of Annual Meeting

 

Held in conjunction with the Contra Costa County Kennel Club Dog Show

 

"WOOFSTOCK" cluster

 

Saturday, June 11

 

4:00 pm (After BIS judging)

 

Director's Patio

 

Solano County Fairgrounds

 

MAP:

http://www.scfair.com/facilities/groundsmap.pdf

 

The Director's Patio is in the upper left hand corner.  (Judge's hospitality is in the pink area just above the Patio.)  BIS is usually held on Lawn 2.

 

Saturday is "tye-dye" day at the Woofstock cluster.

 

 

 

CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF DOG

CLUBS ANNUAL MEETING

JUNE 11, 2011

 

President’s Report

Secretary’s Report (minutes of the 2010 annual meeting)

Treasurer’s Report

Old Business:

       

New Business:

        Bills we are tracking/acting on

                (Geneva provide latest info on bills)

        Breed ID Workshop

        Introduction of new board member(s)

        Appreciation for past board members

       

 

Adjournment

 

Santa Clara County says "No" to BSL

County says no to mandatory spay/neuter of pit bulls, other dogs

May 11, 2011
 By Lindsay Weaver

Pit bulls and other large dogs residing in unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County won't be subject to a mandatory spay and neutering ordinance after the county board of supervisors Tuesday pulled back the leash on a strict ordinance proposed last August. 

The board accepted the report by county staff and an independent advisory committee that decided the feasibility and challenges of enacting a mandatory spay/neuter ordinance for pit bull-like dogs would not "achieve the desired public safety outcome," according to the staff report. 

Instead, the board agreed at Tuesday's meeting to change some of the language used in an ordinance that will expand the free and low-cost spay/neuter program and explore starting a pilot program at elementary schools to inform students on how to act around dogs to decrease dog bites. 

Spay/neutering laws are in place in San Francisco, Gilroy, San Bernadino, Lancaster, Manteca, and Sonoma County.

More at link:

http://www.morganhilltimes.com/news/275649-county-says-no-to-mandatory-spayneuter-of-pit-bulls-other-dogs

Los Angeles proposal to ban sales of commercially bred animals

LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz is proposing a ban on the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits (and even chickens!) in Los Angeles. He presented this as a ban on pets from "puppy mills". Koretz wants to ban the sales of pets in pet stores, and encourage shelter adoptions.

Here's the link to the video:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8115919

Koretz's  Hollywood area now has a ban on sales of pets in pet stores, no surprise to see it surface now that he is on the LA City Council. Koretz was also a state assemblyman and has termed out, but potentially could run again for a state office. This could be even worse news if/when he decides to take it statewide.

The floor for being considered "commercial" is being lowered every day. There is already a requirement that anyone in the State of California who sells two puppies in a year must apply for a seller's permit and collect state sales tax. Think that means that you might be considered "commercial"? Could be!

LA county just passed title 10 amendments that apply to ALL BREEDERS (some of the requirements in fact apply to all pet owners) with a distinction made for those who own more than 50 intact animals. (They are subject to higher fees and frequent inspections.) Hobbyists must apply for a breeder's permit, and are limited to ONE litter per year. More activity than that, and the hobbyist must apply for an "animal facility" license. Meaning, you are now officially and technically regarded as "commercial" in the eyes of the government, if you breed more than one litter per year.

Pretty ingenious, eh? With almost everyone under the umbrella of "commercial" and unable to sell their puppies/kittens, there's no need to explicitly ban breeding. The puppies and kittens can't be sold legally in a retail outlet. When shelter intakes continue unabated, they'll then progress to a ban on all sales, ~period~!

How long will it be for a ban on sales of any pet unless it is obtained from a 501C3 rescue or a shelter? This is exactly what Koretz's goal seems to be.

Maybe THEN more of the dog hobbyists in the Los Angeles area might start to
sit up and take notice. The apathy is astounding!!! If people don't start protesting now, they are going to be unable to continue to keep intact pets (or breed their dog if they so choose) in just a few short years. 

There was a great opportunity to meet the LA Animal Control director in January at the Brenda Barnette "meet and greet", but only a handful of dog people bothered to show up. And it wasn't even a show weekend!

The pet-store-protesting animal rights fanatics were there in force and stayed for the entire time; so WHO do you think is going to have more influence on the DACC? 

Ban on puppy mill sales proposed in Los Angeles | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

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A Los Angeles councilman introduced a motion Friday that could prohibit the sale and purchase of pets bred in puppy and kitten mills. Councilman Paul Koretz, who represents an area that includes West L.A., Hollywood and Encino, said he introduced...

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