Canyon News — This is one of those typical tricks whereby the nomenclature sounds so good but have nothing to do with the act. In this case the law is called the Healthy Pets Act. It has little to do with anything other than government mandated pet population control. It’s supporters are mostly animal nutballs, municipal beancounters and probably a few puppy farms.
California taxpayers and animal activists alike had something to be happy about on June 7th after the State Assembly passed the California Healthy Pets Act (AB 1634) by a vote of 41-38. The act was first introduced to the State Assembly by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine (D) on February 27, 2007. It requires that most pets be spayed or neutered by the age of four months, keeping them healthy and saving California taxpayers a good amount of money.
Funny how we grant our pets more humane treatment than we do ourselves. Good breeding, sterilization, euthanasia, population control, cruelty statutes, balanced diet==etc. Good thing they can’t be trained to do simple assembly line work, or hold a gun, things would change then.
22–Thanks for the link. Yea, it does sound like the bill goes too far. No reason not to allow breeding with a cheap license/fee with higher fees later if needed. Has someone cornered the market on pets, or want to establish another black market for personal profit, or just tired of the barking and shit not picked up?
Everyone stand and cheer…. Finally… yes it’s a good thing. It should cut down on SPCA and Dog Pound residents and indiscriminate breeding. Maybe it will help to hold those breeders of dogs that attack liable. Maybe we will be able to purchase “well” and “breed standard” animals in the future. It’s more then just the obvious financial benefits to the residents of California, it’s a muted form of protecting animals and humans, especially from those that see animals as “disposable” or as a way to “make money”. Few true breeders produce animals for money, it’s for the love of the breed. In short, this bill should sort the wheat from the chaf and get rid of the chav.
Bravo to California….
Have any of you given any thought to how this will effect the production of working dogs? I’m thinking of those dogs that serve as seeing eye dogs and working dogs for law enforcement.
If it makes the supply pool for those dogs more expensive, then I’m sure not for it.