Belgian Malinois

How To Defeat MSN; Mandatory Spay Neuter Ordinances in Chicago!

As sporting dog enthusiasts, dog trainers, hobby breeders, or simply pet owners, we are facing an onslaught of local and national movements to restrict our private property rights pertaining to our dogs, and even our homes, in addition to our constitutional rights.

 

 

[One example among many is SB0139 heavily pushed by PETA and which deemed tail docking and ear cropping as animal torture and sought to make both a class 3 Felony unless performed by a licensed veterinarian for medical purposes only!]

 

 

Currently several City of Chicago Aldermen....

Alderman Ed Burke, Chair,

Committee on Finance

121 N. LaSalle St., Room 302,

Chicago, IL, 60602

 

eburke@cityofchicago.org
FAX: (312) 744-1955

Alderman Virginia Rugai, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 300, Chicago, IL 60602
vrugai@cityofchicago.org
FAX: 773- 238-9049

And Alderman Eugene Schulter, 121 N. LaSalle St., Room 300, Chicago, IL 60602
ward47@cityofchicago.org
FAX: 312-744-1509

have proposed a mandatory Spay/Neuter ordinance for citizens residing in the City of Chicago!

The ordinance seeks to force everyone residing in the city of Chicago with a dog over 6 months of age to have the animal sterilized, unless they qualify for an exemption. (i.e. Veterinarian Certified Medical exception, Owner of a Guard Dog Business, Licensed Breeder (with numerous fees and restrictions) etc.      

There are so many problems with this type of law.  One, it restricts the type of dog one can own, for instance, the only people who would be allowed to sell puppies are registered breeders from AKC or UKC! 

 

 

So, if you like unregistered Dutch Malinois, or Cockapoos, or Labradoodles, or just plain mutts, you’re out of luck!  In a free country and free society, everyone should be allowed to purchase, own, and sell the type of animal they choose!

 

Also, once they get their hooks in, the breeder fees, will go the way of parking meter fees, parking tickets, and other licensing fees, SKY HIGH!  And just as other municipalities adopted red-light cameras after seeing how much money other areas had ‘raised’ other cities, counties, and states will adopt similar legislation!  

 

   

[What the aldermen aren’t telling us is that there may also be a special city tax attached to the MSN legislation (like the special tax on bottled water and other products) and to each spay neuter operation!  Say, for example, if there were 5 million un-sterilized dogs in the City of Chicago, (X) times a $15.00 special tax per spay neuter operation, = $75,000,000.00!!  I’m not sure how many unaltered dogs are in the city, but you get the picture!]             

For the full list of exemptions, links to aldermanic offices, e-mail addresses and fax numbers, as well as sample letters visit the AKC page below ….  

http://www.akc.org/news/index.cfm?article_id=3760

 

 

The three aldermen previously mentioned are continuing to lobby their constituents in order to get the needed 26 votes to pass the ordinance.  Please phone, fax, and e-mail them with your opposition to this attack on pet/sport dog ownership and private property rights!

 

Although Dr. Shelly Rubin of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association and Dr. Shannon Greeley, president of the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association, have stated that they and their groups are against the ordinance and believe that spay/neuter should be the owner’s choice, the Aldermen continue to push for the ordinance and have brought in Bob Barker and an out of state Vet from California, where a similar ordinance was passed, to speak in favor of passing the ordinance in Chicago!

 

 

The rationale for passing the ordinance is skewed at best.  For instance, Alderman Burke claims that he proposed the ordinance because of the almost fatal attack of Gabriela Munoz by five ‘pit bulls’. 

http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2008/04/chicago-woman-attacked-by-five-pit.html

 

 

As horrible as the attack on Munoz was, MSN won’t stop such attacks.  What would stop random dog attacks is enforcing the current law, House Bill 4238, sponsored by State Sen. Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) and State Rep. Mike Boland (D-East Moline), which increases the criminal penalty to a Class 3 felony punishable by up to five years in prison if the owner of a vicious dog fails to keep their dog in an enclosure or fails to spay or neuter the animal and it gets loose and kills or seriously injures someone.

 

 

Also, the law makes it a Class 2 felony, if a dog owner knowingly allowed the dog to run loose or failed to take steps to keep the animal in an enclosure, the offense is a Class 2 felony, carrying a potential prison term of three to seven years!

 

http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=2&RecNum=4942

 

Faced with lengthy felony prison terms, dog owners would insure that their dogs are not allowed to run loose and would ensure that the dogs were unable to escape their property or they would simply not own the dogs.

 

 

Yet, the existing laws are not enforced when dogs attack and harm people.  For instance, the owner of the five ‘pit bulls’ was merely issued 25 tickets(five per dog) and the dogs were euthanized!

 

      

I live in a home, not an apartment, and it is a gross violation of my personal and private property rights for the City of Chicago and it’s aldermen to mandate sterilization of my pets, restrict my choice of Kennel club, i.e. AKC, or person from whom I can purchase a dog from, among a host of other irresponsible and invasive abuses!   

 

 

It’s also presumptuous of them to believe that they can callously attack our private property rights, subject our dogs to future health problems, and continue to expect us to support them in the form of sales tax generated on the purchase of dog and pet related products!

 

 

Additionally, there are well organized movements orchestrated by animal rights extremists, who have the elimination of pet ownership as one of their major goals!  They are gaining ground daily, as they are well organized and form a united front, unlike most of our dog/pet groups.

 

 

In the state Senate, SB 139 and SB 53 did not get enough support to pass in committee. SB 139 would have made tail docking and ear cropping into felony animal cruelty offenses, and SB 53 would have imposed oppressive and illogical restrictions on people who raise dogs.

http://eaglerock814.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=30

 

 

The animal rights extremists have already won a major psychological battle, by duping pet owners and the general population into believing that spaying and neutering our animals is benign.  The fact of the matter is that Spaying and neutering dogs is anything but benign and we now have over 30 years of hard data to prove it.

 

 

As dog owners we have a responsibility to protect the health and welfare of our pets, and that includes protecting their healthy reproductive organs which regulate vital bodily functions and prevent disease, and help our pets to live healthy lives.   

 

Long-Term Health Risks and Benefits Associated with Spay /Neuter in Dogs

http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/LongTermHealthEffectsOfSpayNeuterInDogs.pdf

                                                                                                                           

Cancer risks associated with neutering.

http://cairnsattheburrow.com/neutering.html

 

 

Spay neuter 30 years of data on cancer and the risks involved

http://www.mmilani.com/commentary-200509.html

 

 

Even though the legislators have been made aware of the harmful effects of spaying and neutering and understand that it would subject our pets to ill health, and force owners to spend thousands of dollars in surgery’s and therapies, they insist on getting this law passed. 

 

 

They continue to hold last minute, rushed and hushed votes on the ordinance so that they can pass it without us even knowing that they have voted on it!     

 

 

The City of Chicago already takes in many millions of dollars in sales tax revenue generated from the sale of the pet food and products that Chicagoans purchase.  If we ban together, regardless of breed club affiliation, Kennel Club affiliation, breed preference, etc, and initiate a boycott of the major Chicago area pet chains, already reeling from the current depression, would force them to pressure the Chicago Aldermen to rescind the MSN ordinance.

The city of Schaumberg recently deactivated a multi-million dollar making red-light camera at wood-field mall, after receiving thousands of angry calls  from shoppers protesting the invasiveness of the camera and insisting that they were going to boycott the mall. 

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/feb/26/local/chi-red-lights-26-feb26

 

 

Further, a planned boycott of the annual pet expos and dog shows at the McCormick place would also force these greedy and ill-advised lawmakers to rescind the MSN legislation! 

The AKC, and other small groups have lobbyists that they have hired to represent their interests, but these groups do not represent everyone nor all of us, and the permissive language added to the ordinances protect only a small percentage of dog/pet owners!   

 

 

Over the weekend, I will be posting a link to a boycott page that will be fast, cost effective, and I believe extremely affective, as it will allow all pet owners to participate, regardless of Kennel club affiliation!

 

 

We will be educating and asking all of our friends, family members, and neighbors to help us all to preserve our rights, to pass the word among their peers, and to participate in the boycotts!

 

 

If we stand united, we can defeat this and other restrictive ordinances!

 

 

Best Regards,

 

 

Kelvin

 

 

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Belgian Malinois Watchdog/Pet for sale.

Name:  Chulo          Weight:  70 Lbs          Color:  Fawn         

Sex: Male                 Price:  $2,800.00

Chulo, which is spanish for 'pretty boy'.  His mother XENA is out of a line of Dutch Police dog champions, and his father Basco: Ph1 (Met Lof; with honors) is a Certified Police dog and dutch import!  I own both parents and they live in my home.

He is about 70 pounds, an excellent swimmer and retriever, already house potty trained, and an awesome watchdog!  Yet, he is social and can be introduced to people.

Chulo swimming in the River.  He is a lot further out than he looks as the camera is on zoom and there is a steep hill above him where I took the picture!

Chulo is a super strong swimmer and outswims water dogs!  With a little work he'd be great as an agility sport type dog, or for leaping competitions!

If you are interested in Chulo click comments below and leave your contact information, including a phone number.

Kelvin   

Congratulations to President Barack Obama!

I just voted.  I voted for the next president of the United States Barack Obama!  It may seem presumptuous, but there really is no way, short of them stealing the election, for John McCain and the Republicans to win!

The economy can be rescued, and one of the first things that must be done is to stop the bleeding.  Once this war in Iraq is stopped, the troups are returned home, and Bush/Cheney - Halliburton -  and the Republican Party are sent packing we will realize an instant 12 Billion dollar a month savings!

Obama wants to bring all the troups home within 16 months, and McCain wants to stay indefinitely, while Halliburton continues to profit, at the expense of the American public and our American troups!

Don't let anyone tell  you that it doesn't matter who you vote for, because it does more now than ever!  The more that I learn about Barack Obama, the more I like  him!  If you haven't voted for Barack Obama yet, GET OUT AND VOTE for Obama!

http://www.barackobama.com/issues

You can find or verify your polling location by looking up your most recent registration address at VoteForChange.com.

Look up your polling location.

If you are tired of the current Republican Party rule, but are a Republican and can't bring yourself to do the right thing - Vote for Obama -  then do the next best thing........... stay at homeand don't vote!  LOL

Seriously though, at least if you're republican and don't vote you will be showing your disapproval of the Bush administration and their destroying the economy!

Gob Bless President Barack and First Lady Michele Obama and their Family

and

God Bless America!

Kelvin

Chicago's Proposed Mandatory Sterilization Ordinance Way Off Track!

Three Aldermen, Alderman Ed Burke, Alderman Virginia Rugai, and Alderman Eugene Schulter have proposed a mandatory Spay/Neuter ordinance for the city of Chicago.  As a responsible dog owner (and or rarely hobby-breeder) I am opposed to this legislation and extremely concerned about many facets of it.  

Contrary to popular belief, spaying and neutering dogs isn't harmless, especially when done before maturity!  It reduces vigor, stunts growth, and causes premature aging, obesity (lack of testosterone and estrogen), incontinence (sooner or later), especially, in females, and prostate cancer in males!

http://cairnsattheburrow.com/neutering.html

http://www.showdogsupersite.com/kenlclub/breedvet/neutr.html

  

Personally, I own Belgian Malinois out of Dutch Police dog stock.  My dogs have over 100 years of breeding for police work behind them, and have produced four working police dogs, two bomb dogs, and several drug dogs!  My property is enclosed within a rot Iron fence that requires a key to enter and exit and my dogs are always either secured on my private property, or on lead when off the premises. 

  

Dog owners should be held criminally accountable for their dogs’ actions when their dogs are allowed to escape their property and attack people, and I support stiff criminal penalties for such irresponsible dog owners! 

In

San Francisco, 

California, Marjorie Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder, later reduced to involuntary manslaughter, after her two Presa Canarios mauled Diane Whipple to death in 2001!  Both dogs were put to sleep. 

 

With severe criminal charges being the consequence of irresponsible dog owners' dogs, escaping their property and, attacking people, dog owners would be more careful and responsible with their pets, and would not allow them to escape, or they would simply not own them. 

http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2008/03/san-francisco-dog-mauling-case-back-in.html

Furthermore, although (dog) aggression decreases with sterilization, it increases exponentially when dogs are allowed to free-roam and form packs!  And even sterile dogs that are allowed to free roam, or that escape from their owners, will attack people (usually small children and people over 50) when they form a pack of two or more!

 

Also, the rise in pet homelessness and overpopulated animal shelters is not due to a lack of dogs being spayed, as there are no true feral dog populations in the City of Chicago, but due to the depressed economy, and millions of people loosing their homes to foreclosure and moving into apartments that don't allow pets!

http://www.foreclosuredataonline.com/blog/mortgage-foreclosure/pets-are-victims-of-the-mortgage-foreclosure-crisis-too/

  

Some people like Cockapoos, Labradoodles or just plain mutts and should have the right to own them if they choose too.  And, while I understand that Bob Barker is a well liked public persona, you should also know that he has been linked to several radical animal rights groups, like PETA, that don’t think anyone has a right to own domesticated animals nor eat any type of meat, and who have been linked to the arson near Mayor Daley’s summer home, and threats towards the mayor and his family!     

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/24/AR2008052401674.html

http://forums.ukcdogs.com/showthread.php?threadid=221326

 

Dog and pet owners in the City of Chicago contribute many millions of dollars to the local economy and government every year, in sales taxes generated when we buy dog/pet food and products!  Consequently, the more people who own dogs the more tax revenue is generated for the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois when these pet owners spend money on pet related products and food! 

  

I also believe that this proposed ordinance has more to do with desperation and some of the aldermen at city hall trying to come up with any means they can to plug the 420 million dollar budget deficit, than it has to do with public safety or overpopulation and euthanasia of unwanted and abandoned pets!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-city-budget-15aug15,0,5083166.

  

In these tough economic times, these aldermen/lawmakers should be trying to increase pet ownership, thereby increasing tax revenue, rather than starting down a path of fewer dogs in the city and fewer owners purchasing pet products!

  

Further, if this ordinance is passed, I will also be asking all pet organizations, and exhibitors to cancel and boycott the annual events at McCormick Place, as I feel that it is preposterous for any government agency (which benefits from tax revenue generated by the sale of pet products – the sales of which are based on the pet population) to mandate sterilization and continue to expect to earn tax revenue from the affected pet owners!     

  

Additionally, this ordinance is also disturbing because it infringes on private property rights, and the rights of homeowners to own and keep intact dogs if they see fit!  If it is enacted in Chicago, it could very well spread to other cities,  counties and states, and could very well grow to include all domesticated animals, over-restrictive pet count limists, etc.

 

The proposed mandatory sterilization ordinance is far too intrusive and invasive and infringes on both real property rights and private property rights; as our dogs are our own private property!  I am notifying my bank that if the mandatory sterilization law passes, I will sell my home (or walk away from it if it doesn't sell), and move out of the City of Chicago and to a more dog and dog owner friendly city, and leave my City of Chicago tax burden (along with the tax burdens and losses from other fleeing residents) for remaining residents to bare!

 

Not only am I opposed to this mandatory sterilization ordinance, but so are the majority of Veterinarians, and also the AKC.  Help get this proposed ordinance defeated!  Visit the AKC link below for contact information for the three aldermen and Fax them letting them know that you oppose this ordinance!

http://www.akc.org/news/index.cfm?article_id=3553

 

Also call and fax  your alderman and let him know that  you oppose this obtrusive ordinance.  If you don't know who your alderman is, and or need their contact information you can locate him or her by going to the link below.

http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/alderman/find.html

Government Overpaying on 'Green' (Dogs) Malinois from Overseas!

SFC Missile, originally uploaded by David948.

Every year, the government imports hundreds of 'green' or untrained dogs from Europe as candidates for it's patrol, drug and bomb-sniffing dog training programs, at a price tag of about $4,535 each, which is much more than American breeders charge for the same 'green' dogs!  

Government spending critics, like Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste, U.S. breeders, and finally congress are outraged at the overspending at the expense of the American taxpayer!   

In fact, the IG; Inspector General for Homeland Security found that from April 2006 to June 2007 the Customs and Border Protection division had spent $1.46 million on 322 untrained dogs, yet found that the spending was comparable to what other Government agencies were spending on their dogs!

Most of the heads of the Government agencies justify the expense and spending on the dogs.  The director of the Customs and Border Protection's Canine Enforcement Training Center in Front Royal, Va.; Lee Titus, said that "90% of the dogs come from overseas because Europe has a long history of breeding dogs with the proper temperament for security duties, while U.S. breeders breed mostly pets or pretty show dogs." 

And Ed Donovan, the Secret Service spokesman said that they use European dogs because "bloodlines from Europe make the dogs very desirable for us."

Yes, while it's true that Europeans in general and, the Dutch in particular [being the the number one breeders, trainers and exporters of Police and Military service dogs in the world] tend to breed dogs that are more protective and higher drive than Americans in general, there are numerous American breeders who breed dogs, Malinois, from European and Dutch working bloodlines!

My dog Basco, Ph1 (Met Lof - with honors) is Dutch and received his Police Dog Certificate with honors from Holland!  He produces working dog temperaments when bred to a variety of females, and has produced working Police Service dogs, and High scoring Protection sport competition dogs!

And my female, XENA, while born in the U.S. is from a long line of Dutch Police dogs and Dutch National Police dog Champions!  So, while Basco and XENA puppies are born here in the U.S. they are still European and Dutch genetically, and representative of what the Dutch produce on average!

[Also, at 12 years old and going strong, both dogs have what I like to call longevity genes which they pass on to their progeny.  In essence, dogs and puppies out of families or lines of dogs with long life spans cost less when the price of the dog is averaged over the years that the dogs live!]  

Several years ago, after learning that dog dealers had purchased some of my dogs and resold them to the government at a substantial profit, I called the DOD's department of procurement and told the person in charge that I knew for a fact that they had bought dogs from dealers - middle men that they could have gotten directly from me at cheaper prices!  

She told me that the Government doesn't buy dogs directly but that one has to apply to be a contractor and agree to supply x number of dogs per year for their training program.  She also told me that they already had all of the contractors that they needed and wouldn't be accepting any new contractors for consideration for several years!

In the age of so called open and 'Free Markets', most of the markets in our Capitalist system are in fact closed!  It's a huge problem that many people still don't realize.  Our country does more manufacturing business with China, a communist society, than it does with American companies!

Also, one of the reasons that Holland is so successful at providing and producing Police dogs is because their system isn't Capitalist, with just a few people or businesses making most of the money, but Socialist, with a large group of participants; Civilian members of the Royal Dutch Police Dog Association, breeding, raising and training the dogs, and everyone involved sharing in the rewards and profits!  

Michelle Denson, a Belgian Malinois breeder from Ocala, Fla., says that there are "plenty of American breeders who breed these kinds of dogs and they don't charge this exorbitant amount of money."

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., says that while "Using canines is smart security, paying $4,000 for an untrained European canine seems excessive, a waste of taxpayer money and does not support the breeders we have right here at home."

This, the government's manipulation of our capitalist system in the way that they award contracts, reward companies for off-shoring, allow companies to hire H-1B Visa workers (at lower pay) without requiring them to hire or consider Americans first, and by largely excluding American breeders from participating in and selling dogs to the Government, to name a few, is part of the reason that we are in a recession and fastly approaching a depression right now!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-05-22-securitydogs_n.htm

Amazing, Most Viewed Animal Video!

This video really is Amazing!  It's about a pride of lions attacking a heard of Water Buffalo in Africa.

Another amazing thing about this video is that it was captured by a novice on a Safari vacation with a $300.00 camera.  What he captured, has never been captured before on video, not even by National Geographic or Nature both companies with highly trained staff, deep pockets, and professional scientists and animal scouts, etc.

So, without giving away the plot, here is the video.

Click the arrow in the center of the photo screen to play the video.