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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  This is my take...the officials do not know the people of the state even care about these animals and so they do nothing...this is the first shot to make the lives more livable for these animals.
I know people keep saying the laws are on the books ...yada yada yada but I have to ask why are they being ignored? Why is nothing changing for these living conditions of these animals. I have been watching this for over 10 years...at least I see this as a wake up call for the state of Misery...sorry Missouri.
I will also say USDA reqquirements SUCK and something has to be done to end this acceptable way of forcing animals to live and the excessive breeding. I would love to know how many of them are AKC dogs?
How much $$$ is being thrown at lobbyists so nothing changes. With this amount of breeders this is big business for the state and it helps their tax base. |
If this serves as a wake up call for Missourians, so much the better. But you make my point when you say the laws on the books are being ignored. I have no confidence in a new law being treated any differently.
I think all this effort could just as equally be applied to pressuring county prosecutors to enforce the laws. That road is going to have to be traveled at some point anyway if this thing goes through so why not spend the money and effort to do it now?
I would like to see legislative efforts targeted at tweaking the anti-cruelty laws to separate the laws governing companion animals from the standards for farm animals. Not that i think that the farm animal issue isn't horrible, but separating the two into different categories would at least dilute the strength of those opposing these efforts.
Here in Mississippi the recent felony animal cruelty bill was defeated in large part to farm groups. If these folks can be separated from millers, the millers lose clout. In the meantime, rather than worrying about lobbyists and such, why not go after them with the tools at hand? How many more dogs will suffer waiting for this initiative? It would be more effective to get a few hundred signatures from every county and present them to the county government at a public meeting IMO. If only a few counties could be moved to act, it could have a snowball effect.