Permission to cross post this.
Note: It is very interesting. Cheryl also explained these AR groups
are now also sending "puppy buyers" into these areas where laws are passed.
You think it's a good home for the puppy and when they get there they demand
your puppies. If you don't turn them over, they report you and let the
authorities come in and take the puppies and your dogs and fine you! This is
insanity!
I'm mounting a campaign here in Oregon to file a class action
lawsuit against the State for these laws as they take away both our Fourth
and Fifth Amendments Rights. I found a non-profit group, Oregonians In
Action, who fight for individual owners' rights, particularly in land
use. I'm also getting one together in our county (Columbia) because of
all the new changes plus their Land Use head, Todd Dugdale, told me I
have to get down below 10 dogs by Jan 1, file for a $960 Type II Home
Occupation permit, and pay $30 per dog per year in order to be able to
keep over 3 dogs now. And I live in unincorporated county. I asked
what
if I had more than 3 dogs, he said they could all be confiscated, and if I
did the rest (Type II etc) anything over 9 needs to be put to sleep. Plus I
would be fined $500 per day plus have to pay for all the confiscated dogs'
care at unreasonable fees if this happened. And my kennel wouldn't pass
their new rules anyway as it now requires 5 acres minimum with a heated
& airconditioned building at least 100 feet from my house and would have
to have a separate kitchen/bathing facility in it, with concrete floors with
a center drain with a separate septic system. This is for over 9 dogs and
for a commercial kennel. There is
no place for private breeders under these
draconian laws.
Mind you, I've been continually and duly licensed and
inspected as a hobby kennel here at my current address for 20 years now. But
there is no grandfathering allowed now. They have eliminated the hobby
license and only allow commercial kennels, yet HB 2470 virtually eliminates
those. Worse yet, Rep. Brad Witt has solely authored the latest
travesty, HB 2986, which outlaws all line and inbreeding, subjecting
breeders to MORE unwarranted search and seizure permissions, along with
recordkeeping requirements that make the AKC look like grade school. It
hefts huge fines if not in compliance, and can end up with confiscation of
dogs and jail time. Fun, huh? Also note that it is already on the books that
if you refuse to allow any unwarranted search by an animal control officer,
you can be arrested/jailed for up to 7 days for that -- plus have all
animals removed and immediately sold.
Hey, when did we move to Nazi
Germany? So....if anyone is interested in joining our group -- first we will
petition, then we will sue if no response -- I'm mounting a class action
campaign against the violation and removal of our Rights. It also includes
people with small hobby businesses as there is no county business license.
You now can't do garage sales more than once per annual quarter, and you
can't sell your chicken eggs or anything else out of your house, even with
commercial zoning. Contact me if you want to join up. Staying under the
radar isn't working anymore. We need to be activists to protect our
interests.
The Governor's phone number and email address, btw, is
503-378-4582, fax is 503-378-3827 and you have to go to the website to send
an email. That's at http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/contact_us.shtml
The more he hears from people who oppose it, the less likely he is to sign
it. We need him to be inundated with no's.
Cheryl
Anderson
Cherden since 1966
AKC Judge #4183