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VA Senate voting to ban fox and coyote pens today

Please help fight VA SB1280 outlawing fox and coyote pens


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ACTION NEEDED TODAY!
Hunting with dogs is under attack by the ASPCA and the HSUS. SB 1280 passed
the Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday by a vote of 8-7! If you don’t
believe that this is your fight check out this website:
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/hound_hunting/
“"Hound hunters use packs of dogs, sometimes 40 or more, to chase bears,
bobcats, cougars, deer, or other animals until they try to climb a tree, or
until the dogs catch them and tear them apart. The hunting dogs themselves
are frequently injured or killed during the hunt. Hunters usually fit the
dogs' collars with GPS or radio telemetry devices so that they don't even
have to keep up with the chase —they can relax while the dogs do the work.
With dogs after them, bears and cougars may not meekly scamper up a tree,
but may fight back. A single swipe from a bear can wound or kill a dog..."
” And on it goes.… If you don’t fight back on behalf of the fox preserves now, you will be
pleading for help when they come after you!!!
We need thousands of you, your friends and family to act now! We only have
until Monday morning to kill SB1280 in the Virginia Senate. Get everyone you
know to make the following calls and send emails (email list at the end).
You can Call day or night and leave a message on their voice mail!!
1. Call Governor McDonnell’s
office at (804) 786-2211 and ask the Governor to oppose this bill and to
order DGIF staff to provide the Senate members their draft recommendations
on improving the Fox Preserves by Monday morning at noon!
2. Call your Senator (click here to find their name and phone number
http://virginiageneralassembly.gov/...mp;activesec=0#!hb=1&mainContentTabs=0
) ask them to vote against passage of SB1280 or have it referred back to the Agriculture Committee.
3. Call these Senators and thank them for their vote against SB1280 in Senate Agriculture Committee and ask that they
work to kill this bill on the floor of the Senate on Monday!
Hanger
(Chairman), (804) 698-7524 email: district24@senate.virginia.gov[/email]
Watkins, (804) 698-7510 email: district10@senate.virginia.gov
Puckett, (804) 698-7538
email:district38@senate.virginia.gov
Ruff, (804) 698-7515
email: district15@senate.virginia.gov[/email]
Obenshain, (804) 698-7526 email:
[email]district26@senate.virginia.gov
Stanley, (804) 698-7520 email:
district20@senate.virginia.gov
Black, (804) 698-7513 email: district13@senate.virginia.gov
Senator Stephen H. Martin (R) -
Senate District 11 (804) 698-7511 email:
[email]district11@senate.virginia.gov Senator Martin went way out of his way to come to the committee to help us!
4. Call as many of these Senators as you can and ask for their vote against SB1280 on the floor of the Senate on Monday!
Additional Senate Members to contact (Click or Control
+Click to get email
and phone information) Harry B. Blevins Charles W.
Carrico, Sr. Charles J.
Colgan R. Creigh Deeds John S. Edwards Thomas A.
Garrett Emmett W. Hanger,
Jr. Mark R. Herring L. Louise Lucas Stephen H.
Martin Ryan T. McDougle
Jeffrey L. McWaters John C. Miller Stephen D. Newman
Thomas K. Norment, Jr.
Ralph S. Northam Mark D. Obenshain J. Chapman
Petersen Phillip P. Puckett
Bryce E. Reeves Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Ralph K.
Smith Walter A. Stosch Jill
Holtzman Vogel Frank W.
Wagner



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SB1280: Fox and coyote enclosures; Class 3 misdemeanor for purpose of hunting or killing with dogs.
SB1280S1SB1280

SENATE BILL NO. 1280
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
on January 31, 2013)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Marsden)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 29.1-525.2, relating to fox and coyote enclosures; penalty.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 29.1-525.2 as follows:
§ 29.1-525.2. Fox and coyote enclosures; penalty.
A. It is unlawful to:
1. Stage or participate in any competition where any fox or coyote is pursued by dogs and the fox or coyote is in an enclosure.
2. Give or accept any prize, money, compensation, ranking, or other award relating to the participation in any competition where a fox or coyote are pursued by a dog or dogs within an enclosure.
3. Be inside an enclosure in which a dog or dogs have been released other than for the purpose of assuring compliance with permit conditions, retrieving dogs, or attending to the welfare of the dogs, the fox, or the coyote within the enclosure.
B. This section shall not be construed to limit any federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation pertaining to animal cruelty or neglect.
C. No more than one dog per five acres of enclosure shall be allowed in an enclosure at one time.
D. For the purposes of this section:
"Competition" means a judged event in which a dog or dogs pursue any fox or coyote within an enclosure and the relative ability of a dog or dogs to pursue a fox or coyote is judged or ranked in any manner.
"Enclosure" includes a fence or other barrier that is used to prevent or impede the natural egress by any fox or coyote.
E. Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor for a first offense, a Class 2 misdemeanor for a second offense, and a Class 1 misdemeanor for a third or subsequent offense. This subsection shall not be construed as limiting the Department's enforcement authority of available penalties under other sections of this Code.
F. This section shall not be construed as limiting the Department's or Board's authority to impose more restrictive requirements or to limit the number of permits issued.
Explanation
For a plain English description of this bill, comments, voting, tagging, etc., return to the main page for SB1280.
This is the actual text of the bill—the legislation itself. Generally this is amending existing law, proposing the addition or removal of words from laws that are already on the books, but sometimes it’s proposing an entirely new law.
Words that are highlighted in yellow are proposed additions to the existing law, and words that are crossed out in red are proposed to be removed from the existing law.
The numbers with the § symbol before them are references to existing laws, and if you click on them they’ll take you to that part of the law on the state’s website.
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