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Originally Posted by gemy  I've been really thinking about this. It is one of the huge benefits of civil even if it is impassioned dialogue.
Bear with me for a moment. It is perhaps another tale to tell of the Emperor's new clothes.
1.) This new regulation is purportedly designed to "catch" those awful puppy millers who sell direct to the public on the internet. Ummmmm
2). How will APHIS actually know that someone is selling direct to the public on the internet without a license?
3). In otherwords how do they police it? Will they just wait until a complaint or two or three hundred is made? And then try to track this "person"/entity down.
4) People who are reputable will try to abide by the regulations, people who are not .. Well they just won't abide and find ways n means around it.
Sadly Jillie it is much easier to go "after" folks who are registered ie licensed then those that are not. After all they are on 'your books" so to speak.
What you can do is EDUCATE, then EDUCATE again. Responsible small hobby breeders do have a role to play, that yes is done, one on one, or even here on this forum, for current and future members to read. But we have failed to organize, and gather up $$$ to advertise through print, through TV, through intelligently using the media.
How to we get out a consistent, coherent, message that will move people, that will last in their memory?
I do have some ideas. But where to share them?
I am very concerned that HSUS and PETA and the AFL are pushing this agenda/law/regulation.
I have grave concerns about their true agenda. |
Talking about where to take your ideas, in your area don't you have a legislator or two who you can personally meet and take your ideas to? When managed care hit us, I personally feared much about it and knew we'd have many hard legislative battles to fight, so I befriended 2 state congressmen, 2 U. S. Senators and one darn fine lawyer in the State of Texas Attorney General's office. These men and two woman and many of their fine staffers all helped me unbelievably over the years when managed care laws hit us unfairly in some area or an insurance investigator took license with his role and began intimidation. I would ask the insurer's actions be investigated for intimidation and bad faith and send letters to one and all above and then some telling of our plight with an insurance company or misuse of the rules. When I had trouble, the State of Texas knew it. We got legislation changed/rewritten, just my rep and I. Not because of my influence but because it was right and I had other clinics I networked with who joined in with me sometimes. A small but active force can get help. When others abandoned me at times, I alone visited BC/BS of Texas Medical Director and later we became sort of friends. Our clinic didn't fold and we used the often "bad" managed care rules often to obtain rather large penalty payments of over $12,000.00 -$26,000.00 when we were treated shabbily by an insurer. So just because big government seems overwhelming, a single person can get much done when their cause is right and they never give up.