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The Silver State Kennel Club is working with the city council to address their concerns with the ordinance.

Legislative Liaison Ken Sondej who can be reached at 4winds@viawest.net is coordinating speakers for the committee meeting.

You can also contact the AKC Government Relations Department at doglaw@akc.org for additional information. Thank you your attention to this important issue.


You could contact any of the three listed above about a breeding permit.

There is good and bad in this proposal as with any legislation. There is a lot that is not being stated because it would leave it open for abuse.

I don't think they should be breed specific on the spaying/neutering because it just leaves it too open for people to find loopholes but.... I'm sure if you get a vet's letter about waiting to do the operation due to reasonable excuses such as health and size that it would/should be acceptable - they just don't want to say that.

The 4 month deadline is set for a "standard" period, which again is really being put there so that these dogs/cats are not going into their first heat, mating, and producing unwanted puppies/kittens.

The fines shouldn't be affordable - they're set to deter people from doing something unwanted. If it was affordable - what would be the reason not to do something?

I just wish that this would have hit the pet stores harder!

I think there should be a central database for microchipping. Even if there's several companies they should all have to register into the same database - nationally. I also think the microchipping should be done by the breeders and information put on the birth certificate so that there is a paper trail. Good breeders wouldn't have a problem with that - only brokers or byb's would.

This is a beginning but it does need a lot of tweaking.

I live in Las Vegas, too, and this is just my opinion.