Very SCARY: HSUS Orchestrating BREEDER BUST
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Very SCARY: HSUS Orchestrating BREEDER BUST
Submitted by wardbull on April 21, 2010 - 12:14amThe following alert has just now been posted to the DFOW website:
www.dfow.net
BREEDERS RED ALERT AUGUST 18, 2009
URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT
DFOW has just been notified by a very credible source that between now and just after legislators go back into session floor periods (September 15,2009), the Humane Society of the United States will be orchestrating a breeder bust.
If you have been listed in a breeder directory, have shown your dogs or have advertised a litter in any publication in the last nine years you must be on your guard at all times. Do not allow anyone into your home without a search warrant. In the State of Wisconsin , Animal Control officers and
HSUS do not have police powers. They must be accompanied by law enforcement (although some law enforcement officers are also animal control officers)with a search warrant in order to enter your premises. If HSUS is working in conjunction with law enforcement and there is a search warrant, you must
cooperate. DO NOT SIGN OVER ANY OF YOUR DOGS if threatened. Do not believe those that state that the charges against you will be lessened if you sign over your dogs. Video tape the entire proceedings. If you are detained asking questions while a search is going on, have another individual available to video tape or photograph the proceedings. Ask for proof of identification. Get names and license plate numbers for those coming onto your property.
Some breeders have had to get special permits in order to have more than the arbitrary number of allowed animals in their community and have had to waive their constitutional rights in order to get those permits. If you are in this situation, you must contact a lawyer and find out what your rights are TODAY.
If animal control or law enforcement come to your door, walk out of=2 0your door and shut it behind you. Do not allow them to enter your home you go out to them unless they have a search warrant. Please read the article What to do when animal control comes knockinhttp://www.dpca. org/BreedEd/ when_animal_ control_comes. htm for more details.
If anything seems amiss, make notes of dates and times, take names, get witness names, what they did, take photos, and keep a log of suspicious activities.
We often hear fanciers state that this issue will never affect me when it comes to breeder licensing legislation. There have been at least 4 situations that have already happened in OUR STATE since the beginning of the year and breeder licensing requirements have not yet been passed into law.
The orchestrated bust that we were warned about today could very well be targeted at any one of us.
You must protect yourself against false accusations. Thi s is a very serious situation. If you truly believe in preserving the future of your chosen breed or breeds, you must do everything in your power to protect those
breeds and their heritage. Insist on the preservation of your
constitutional rights.
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Cross posting is allowed.
Tracey Johnston
DFOW Vice President
Sherry E Wallis
Houston , Tx
Akita Club of America
sherry@sherob. com
www.sherob.com
A few more things
From the Murder Hollow Bassets incident in Philadelphia, PA. If you don't know about this, please google it and check out the articles or I'll get the link and post later.
In this raid, which follows Wards post very closely, the dogs that were confiscated disappeared forever into the so called "rescue" network. Some of them are believed to have died.
The owner was approached without a warrent initially by PSPCA. She did not admit them. If she had removed her dogs from the property immediately, she and they would have been safe.
So, if you have the slightest hint of interest, take the opportunity fast. If you don't have that opportunity, do anything you can to avoid surrendering dogs, including accepting charges against yourself. You can fight the charges. Once the dogs are gone, they're gone.
There is, as far as I can tell, an unholy alliance between the animal control operations and shelters, and the rescue for profit operations (I know bulldogs have a problem with these; I've had first hand experience). These operations are taking popular breeds, of which ours qualifies, out of the shelters and reselling them at nice prices.
So, a final comment. Expect a bulldog breeder to be a target. Our dogs are valuable. They can make money by raiding us.
And please, please, stand up and fight. We are letting this happen to us without a whimper in way too many cases.
I heard AKC was going to start extensive kennel "checks''
has anyone heard of that? If you are already licensed by the state and inspected by them what does the AKC have to do with the kennel, I thought they just were interested in the paperwork?