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Posted on 08/14/2006 9:33:01 AM PDT by girlangler
City of Louisville, Kentucky Proposes Strict Limitations on Hunting Dog Ownership- (08/14)
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A recently proposed municipal ordinance imposes strict limitations on hunting dog ownership within the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
The ordinance, which unnecessarily burdens hunting dog owners, modifies Section 91 of Louisville city code. Among other restrictions the ordinance prevents a dog owner from tethering a dog during the day.
The proposal also requires anyone who raises a litter of puppies to purchase a $300 animal dealer’s license. The ordinance seeks to also limit the number of dogs able to be owned by a household based upon land size. Depending on the amount of land he or she lives on, a dog owner may be confined to owning just 3 dogs.
The ordinance also imposes an outright ban on the ownership of “dangerous dogs”. The term “dangerous dog” is not well defined, and the Director of the Metro Animal Services would have broad power of interpretation to declare any dog dangerous.
Take Action! Louisville sportsmen should contact their Metro Council member and tell them to vote against this unnecessary and burdensome ordinance. Explain to them that the ordinance is especially burdensome to sportsmen who own multiple dogs or raise puppies for their own use in the field. You can contact your Louisville council member at 502-574-5000.
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If you own hunting dogs it would be wise to pay attention to what the local humane societies are trying to get passed in your area. Most of these HS are staffed with good, hardworking people doing a good job, but in many places these are run by rabnid animal rights wackos who are opposed to hunting, etc.
Also on the web site posted here you can track state and some local proposed legislation/ordinances for attempts liek this in your area.
Could you all ping any Kentucky freepers you know?
Huh? What's the politic surrounding hunting dogs? Is the target here hound hunters and hound packs? Or any bird dog too?
So what does Kentucky law do to deal with Pit bulls.
This sounds reasonable to me. Three dogs is plenty for most city lots, and sounds like the limit is dependent on lot size so you could have more dogs if you had more land. The $300 fee for a litter of puppies is a little steep, but if it discourages backyard breeding, I support it. The 'dangerous dog' part sound too vague. But otherwise, I support this.
My guess would be there are some local animal rights activists running the humane society there and they oppose using dogs for ANY kind of hunting, and have someone on the city council on their side.This is a way to end hunting with dogs there.
This was attempted in a county here in Tennessee a few years ago. The local shelter was operated by PETA card carrying ARightists. They sent a proposal to the city council and county commission trying to get them to pass an ordinance creating a fee for every pet, with the fee money going to pay an enforcement officer, one with broad powers that could confiscate your pet and property if he considered your dog "dangerous," or abused.
The hunters here saw through it and stormed the council and commission. The county ended up building its own animal shelter and quit taking orders from the other one.
Many local shelters are staffed with good, hardworking, caring folks who are just trying to do what's right. But many are also run by AR wackos. The one in Knoxville Tennesse is a good example. The president has held anti fur demonstrations in front of a furrier, etc.
I wouldn't want her to have the power to decide if my dog is "dangerous," or abused. She would automatically have the power to take my hunting dog for no other reason than she opposes hunting.
The link doesn't work for me...
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When legalized but restricted doving hunting was proposed here in Michigan a couple years ago, the PAC's and legal teams used to fight the bill were funded solely by the Michigan Humane Society........
i'm glad you support this. you'll be equally glad to hear that i don't support it. so i just cancelled you out. haha
"anyone who raises a litter of puppies to purchase a $300 animal dealer’s license."
I don't like this. If you own a fine, intelligent young female dog, it is natural for think about mating her to another good dog and raising a litter. That way, you have a good replacement when she gets old and can't hunt. She also can help you show the pup how to hunt. The other ones in the litter can be sold or given to hunt buddies.
Most dog owners with female dogs don't have her get more than one or two litters so they shouldn't be called commercial breeders and pay a big fee. Breeders usually have rural operations as the cages and all need lots of land and are too noisy for a city. Those the city can regulate.
My guess is that is the WHOLE POINT of such an ordinance -- to put an end to breeding hunting dogs there.
You will see across the country such ordinances, and they will be backed by the state Humane Society, and the Humane Society of the U.S.
Animal rights wackos think dogs are in an unnatural state when hunting, they were actually created by God to grow gardens and eat salads and stuff.
What breeds are not traced back to hunting? The most popular dogs are all hunters of some type or another!
I know that, even a poodle. Standard poodles were used for hunting in Europe.
Animal rights idiots think making a dog hunt is abusing the dog. Believe it or not, there are AR wackos that try to make their cats and dogs into vegetarians, which I consider animal abuse.
Of course these same wackos think it's wrong to kill and eat an animal -- but it's perfectly okay to kill an unborn child if it is an inconvenience to you.
I'm racking my brain and I can not think of a breed that was not originally bred for hunting. Of course, I consider retrieving hunting and herding as a hunting activity for dogs.
We all know the wackos hate it when other people are happy, so naturally they have realized that can't beat us, now they are going after the dogs. The happiest dogs are the dogs that do the work they were bred to do!
I have to admit, tho, that my lab is perfectly happy lounging on the couch....
I have to say the idea of being serenaded at night by a pack of beagles inside the city limits doesn't appeal to me. It takes nothing to get them started and nothing but the passage of time will shut them up until they decide to shutup.
This didn't start out as a generic bill. Somebody specific is creating a nuisance and annoying the neighbors. If it passed I don't think anybody would be going around and searching for puppies and I don't think one or two litters is too big a deal. The "problem neighbors" would find out who they were pretty quick.
I had friends who were running their own little home rescue operation and had about 12 BIG dogs. The township came out and got them down to five. They were completely oblivious to the barking that ensued anytime somebody came to visit. I'm pretty sure the neighbors weren't deaf.
I'm sure this has much more to do with being a good neighbor than with somebody wanting to stop hunting.
The villain here is the HS, but the REAL problem is US!
We continue to support mindless laws which restrict the rights of our fellow citizens to something which has no direct impact on us.
Guns, reptiles, dogs, knives, remote control planes, flags, Christmas decorations, crosses on the side of the roadway - a common thread runs through all of these - Americans growing intolerance of the rights of fellow citizens coupled with the unmitigated greed of the legal establishment which waxes fat on all this drivel.
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