Posted on 02/07/2022 4:40:15 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
House Resolution 5421, passed on party lines, and Senate bill S626 will amend the Lacy act to prohibit the transportation into or within the US of all live animals of all types. Exceptions are: 1 - farm animals 2 - cats and dogs 3 - any animal that was traded in very large numbers during the calendar year 2021. It should be noted that the pandemic greatly reduced animal shipments during 2021.
This will destroy most of the pet industry. Only those most popular 50 species of fish sold by chain stores in vast quantities will be listed. It should be noted that the common Plecostomus is the most injurious and most popular fish in the industry. Clearly the bill is not about the protection of anything other than special interests.
This law, if passed will create a white list of approved species. ALL others will be banned. The result will be loss of income of indigenous people world wide and the loss of habitats hobbyists have been protecting for 75 years.
The unintended consequences of this foolish legislation will cause the extinction of thousands of species currently protected by the pet industry. Mining, logging, and farming interests are anxious to purchase this land. Once it is no longer of economic value for its natural life it will be destroyed.
Send a message to your US Senators urging them to VOTE NO to amendments to HR4521 impacting the Lacey Act.
Father Fish
Unconstitutional.
I wouldn’t object. And that means ALL pit-bull terrier types who have not had the fighting instinct bred out of them. Enough of this “environment only” nonsense, which the apologists here don’t seem to think applies to racial groups and the inner cities.
I don't think that the state or the federal government should ban pit bulls dogs but I would definitely vote for my town to ban them. Exception would be that you own an acre of land. No neighbors nearby. The pit bull dog would be fenced in on the property. If he escapes one time, he gets taken to animal control and well be put to sleep. No exceptions.
A relative of mine raised a pit bull from a pup. And it was a nice, friendly dog...until one day it attacked and mauled the mailman.
Yes, other dogs have done that, too. But pit bulls have something bred into their DNA. It’s a shame. And it’s not the dog’s fault. But it is was it is.
You’re right. I’m always wary of animal legislation. It’s often bleeding hearts ultimately screwing everything up.
“Exotic” pet animal ping
As one who ended up in the ER from a neighbor's male pit bull, I agree. I was in my own yard beside the fence between yards when the dog came up and part way over the fence and got my hand such that the entire weight of the fifty pound dog was held by my middle, ring and little fingers. I had to rip my hand out of his mouth as if it was a shark attack. 911 was called for me and animal control came for the dog.
After ten days the dog was put back in the yard because I was the only reported injury (there was at least one other attack that I know of). It took months for my hand to heal, infection, loss of motion, some nerve damage, scarring. To this day if I'm near the fence he attacks. BTW, at the time I had two dogs of my own that were friendly to people and neighborhood children.
The reasoning for such an act is clear: This lays the groundwork for the forbidding of transportation of ALL animals, in preparation for an American Holodomor.
There is absolutely no pressing problem solved by such legislation. There can be no doubt of the nefarious motives for this sort of thing.
Based on the house and senate bill numbers,
the entire story seems to be B.S.
Rubio did introduce a bill a year ago,
but it never went anywhere.
Indeed. They are autonomous beings as the humans are. And dogs have different breeds because they were BRED for it. That includes temperament and character. PBTs are completely unreliable. And I mean ALL the breeds, not just those that include the words “pit Bull”. Many are full of PBT blood and meant for fighting and vicious “guarding”.
Strange, I never hear about Golden Retrievers from bad pet owners attacking people.....
Guns don’t break out of their enclosures and attack people and pets at random. Pit bulls do it all the time. Shoot them all on sight, I say.
Great dog. Beautiful dog. Blue eyes and Husky colorings.
Don't diss my baby.
What does this mean for pet spiders?
Be prepared to be attacked now by the PBT apologists here, who are legion. Blame the victim, and the owner, and the breeder (not for deliberately breeding these characteristics, because according to them, it has ZERO to do with genetics, but for raising them wrong for 3 months).
So sorry you went thru such.
Yeah, except why waste a perfectly good BS story when we can debate pit bulls. Thread title should be amended: "(Another pit bull debate)".
They’re supposed to be banned in my county, yet lots of people have them.
Try and shoot my dog and you will have a very bad time.
Yes. But there would probably be something out of gear...
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