Registered: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 19

ATTENTION NORTH CAROLINA HOUNDSMEN!!!

You need to get on the phone to your state senator and state representative tonight. Tomorrow in the NC senate SB 460 will be voted on. This bill if passed will adversely affect private dog ownership and breeding of purebred hounds. We raise and train sporting dogs – treeing walker coonhounds. Under the proposed legislation, we may be required to be licensed and subject to inspection and the proposed new laws governing “commercial” breeders. If you do any breeding and raise any puppies, or if you have a stud dog, this is a law that you do not want to see passed.

First, you should take a minute to read SB 460. Here’s a link to the bill that will be on the senate floor in Raleigh, NC on Tuesday, June 30th:

http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/...F/SFN0460v1.pdf

Unfortunately, tonight we are ill-prepared to tell you all of the bad things that can result at the passing of this proposed legislation. There have been many articles written in the hound magazines during the last few months about anti-tetering laws, breeding stock dogs that have been “abducted” by animal welfare groups and neutered, then returned to their owners with the spay/neutered bills to be paid. It’s crazy stuff. Follow this link to look at some discussion about similar laws being passed in another state.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec....527fc907e7324aa

Join us tonight and find out who your NC house representative is as well as your NC state senator, then contact them tonight. Call them!!! Their numbers are available online. Here’s another link to follow to find out who represents you in Raleigh and how to contact them:

http://www.ncleg.net/GIS/RandR07/Home.html

This legislation, has been proposed at the urging of animal welfare groups who are extremists, such as PETA. They have successfully gotten laws passed in other states across the country that were adverse to people like us. We would be forced, under these laws, to obtain a license and be subject to inspection in order to breed and raise sporting/hunting dogs. The goals, as we understand them to be, of the animal welfare groups, is to do away with private dog ownership and to stop breeding of purebred dogs. It is eye-opening once the full impact of these laws has been realized and many localities (small towns in Texas are an example that we’ve read about) have been sorry too late. These laws have enabled such groups to go in to seize (within the law) breeding stock (stud dogs and brood females), take them to have them neutured at the expense of the owners - thus halting the breeding operation. The language in SB460 is so broad, that we’re afraid that it encompasses houndmen and any of us who own and breed sporting dogs for hunting. There's no guarantee that it wouldn't. Based on what we've been reading, sporting dogs such as hounds (labs, retrievers, beagles,hounds, etc) are a main target of the animal welfare groups. The animal welfare groups wish to bring all of that to a halt. Had it not been for the alert sent to us by the NRA over the weekend, we'd have been ignorant about the pending legislation in Raleigh tomorrow! We are saddened to learn that our state senator, Don East, is a co-sponsor on SB460.

So get on the phone tonight and let your voice be heard!

Pete and Tina Barber

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Pete Barber
Yadkin River Coonhounds
Home of Dual Grand Champion Yadkin River Deacon
www.petesyadkinrivercoonhounds.com

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