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TEXAS VETS joined with HSUS?

> From RPOA Texas Outreach and
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
"Animal welfare, not animal 'rights'
and, yes, there is a difference."
Permission granted to crosspost.
November 19, 2010

Et tu, Brute? Texas Veterinary Medical Association joins hands with HSUS and their Texas lapdog, Texas Humane Legislation Network, on the "Pet Elimination Bill!"

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-be...-109082034.html

http://tinyurl.com/34y8oqr

"Why would any so-called 'puppymill' ever want to come to Texas ... as this video so falsely portrays?"
A la San Francisco, CA: Texas pet stores and pet sales are being banned in Texas cities as we speak. Austin and El Paso to date. Pet limits are shrinking every day as recently passed in Longview; and Dallas previously. Texas Humane Legislation Network (THLN) has an attorney member and chapters in each metropolitan area getting anti-pet legislation passed.

After supporting responsible dog and cat owners during the 2009 Texas Legislative Session, Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA) has now switched sides and is helping draft a new Humane Society of the US (HSUS) Anti-Breeder Bill in our state. (See video at url above.)

This is not a "breeder" issue. It's a "pet" issue. The bill has nothing to do with animal cruelty because the video shows a raid and seizure of dogs at a substandard breeding facility under existing laws. Raids and animal seizures occur on a regular basis in Texas and no one wants to see animals mistreated.

Wayne Pacelle, vegan HSUS president, has stated: "... I don't want to see another dog or cat born." And also "... We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals." HSUS is PETA in a suit. Wayne claims these statements are taken out of context but any way you slice it, his words are there.

We're all aware of PETA's "ABC Campaign" (Animal Birth Control) that urges: "Never buy from breeders or pet stores to work toward a 'No Birth' Nation."

SNAP (Houston and San Antonio Spay Neuter Assistance Program) slogan: "No-Birth" is the first step to "No-Kill."

We have statements from two HSUS state directors and THLN which say the goal is to get "anything" passed and they'll be back in subsequent sessions to "amend" it and tighten the noose on pet ownership.

Last legislative session, RPOA defeated a breed specific bill, a mandatory spay/neuter bill and the anti-breeding bill. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if there's no breeding and every dog and cat is sterilized in this state there'll be no pets in the future. No Pets = No Vets!

Other states fortunate enough to have the support of their state veterinary organizations against this radical agenda are Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia, Nevada with American Veterinary Medical Association opposing Missouri's Prop B. Have our Texas vets deserted us?

Contact TVMA executives below and ask them to oppose the HSUS/THLN Anti-Breeding Bill in any form. Because of the radical national HSUS legislative agenda, this bill cannot be satisfactorily amended and must be defeated! Contact your personal veterinarian and fax or email him this message.

Contacts for TVMA:
President Lori Teller, DVM
President@tvma.org[/email]
President Elect John Morton, DVM
Pres-elect@tvma.org
Board Chair Orlando Garza, DVM
Chairman@tvma.org[/email]
Council Chair Tracy Colvin, DVM
[email]CCColvin@tvma.org

Exec. Director Chris Copeland, JD ccopeland@tvma.org
Assoc. Director Devorah Jakubowsky
Djakubowsky@tvma.org
Government Relations Director Elizabeth Choate, JD
[email]Echoate@tvma.org

How can any elected official or veterinarian support a radical national "animal rights" legislative agenda to eliminate pet ownership? Go figure!

For more information on Animal Rights Activist quotes, go to www.naiaonline.org and search. For HSUS information, check out www.humanewatch.org and www.ActivistCash.com
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Author of the novel "Follow Jennifer"

Does YOUR Texas Vet support HSUS?

The Vet I handle for resigned from the TVMA when he heard about this. He said, "Horrible. I can't imagine why any of us would go along with this.'
Could there be some money involved with the situation?

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Author of the novel "Follow Jennifer"

My email to each TVMA Officials

How can TVMA condone an affiliation with HSUS/THLN when these radical Animal Rights groups want to put Veterinarians out of business by fostering ZERO DOMESTIC PETS?

MY VETERINARIAN has resigned from your sorry organization and I support his decision.

How much money changed hands for this absurd situation?
Do you plan to spay and neuter yourselves out of business?

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Author of the novel "Follow Jennifer"

good luck

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Doesnt make sense to me HSUS wants no pets period. Yet the VETs wanna back them???? YALL BETTER WAKE UP!!

TVMA officials have NO CLUE!

To believe TVMA can influence HSUS/THLN in any way is BOGUS. All these AR people do is just get a foot in the door & keep tightening the noose. Naive to believe you can work "with" HSUS/THLN.
WHEN YOU LIE DOWN WITH DOGS YOU'LL EVENTUALLY GET FLEAS.
Here's a response I received from my emails. By the way, the MEMBERS of TVMA were not given a chance to vote on this. It was evidently done behind closed doors.


--- On Sat, 11/20/10, Elizabeth Choate <echoate@tvma.org> wrote:

From: Elizabeth Choate <echoate@tvma.org>
Subject: Re: HSUS Affiliation
To: "sky yearwood" <skybluplotts@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:51 AM

The reason that TVMA has been working with the Texas Humane Legislative Network on compromise legislation is precisely to address the concerns that you are expressing in your email. Veterinarians want to make sure that a radical animal rights agenda is not pursued and potentially passed through legislation at the state level.

Like it or not, there has been a huge public outcry for the regulation of commercial breeders. Standing on the sidelines and saying that no form of regulation is acceptable could lead to the passage of a bill that is totally unacceptable to everyone except HSUS.



TVMA believes animals that are sold as pets require a basic standard of care for their own well being and to ensure, as much as possible, that they possess the temperament and good health necessary to become successful companion animals. The good news is that most facilities meet or exceed this level of care. Unfortunately, as you are acutely aware, there are also substandard facilities that fail to meet any basic standard of care.



The TVMA Board of Directors, Legislative Committee and Animal Welfare Committee felt that it was important for veterinarians to play a role in writing any legislation concerning animal welfare issues because veterinarians, unlike many animal rights activists, truly understand the science behind animal health and welfare. With this concern in mind, they instructed the TVMA government relations department to work with the bill’s author and other stakeholders, like the Texas Humane Legislation Network, to help ensure that whatever piece of legislation is filed is in the best interest of animals and stops the bad actors while protecting reputable breeders.



Throughout the process TVMA has fought for, and will continue to fight for, individual freedom and the ability to breed animals. TVMA will not support a bill that places absolute restrictions on the number of animals that can be bred. Veterinarians will not support legislation that regulates individuals who have less than 11 breeding females. TVMA will notstand for a bill that places cumbersome excessive regulations on the breeders. Any bill must mirror the USDA regulations already on the books which currently only apply to wholesalers and not individuals who sell animals to the general public.



Texas veterinarians intend to stand with pet owners and breeders to help look out for their interests and this is why we have been negotiating with THLN and others. We welcome your input into the process. If you have suggestions as to what should and should not be acceptable please provide us with your insights.



Elizabeth Choate, JD

Director of Government Relations/ General Counsel

Texas Veterinary Medical Association

8104 Exchange Drive

Austin, TX 78754

Office 512-452-4224

Cell 512-354-5518

fax 512-452-6633

email echoate@tvma.org

web www.tvma.org

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SKY
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Author of the novel "Follow Jennifer"

Unsatisfactory TVMA Response

Obviously TVMA officials are not aware of the way HSUS/THLN operates. Can you say "LOBBYISTS?". Can you say "PROPAGANDA?"
Can you say 'MISLEADING MEDIA ADVERTISING?"
How much $ changed hands to "sucker" TVMA into this bogus situation?
There are already anti-cruelty laws on the books if someone would bother to look them up & use them.

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Author of the novel "Follow Jennifer"

"Throughout the process TVMA has fought for, and will continue to fight for, individual freedom and the ability to breed animals."

Blatant lie. Individual freedom is the right to choose when and if you take your own dog to the vet for a check up. Individuals do not even have to take their own children to doctors. - Though that, too, will be changing soon I fear and you are helping.



TVMA will not support a bill that places absolute restrictions on the number of animals that can be bred. Veterinarians will not support legislation that regulates individuals who have less than 11 breeding females.

What's the difference?



TVMA will notstand for a bill that places cumbersome excessive regulations on the breeders.

You already have.



Any bill must mirror the USDA regulations already on the books which currently only apply to wholesalers and not individuals who sell animals to the general public.

Why? If they only mandate the minimum standard of care then why are pet owners exempt? Veterinarians do not have the right to dictate what others do with their own animals. In fact, there exists countless examples where veterinarians have been wrong and have caused harm.