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Dog ordinance ‘number limits’ are not logical or valid

Dog ‘number limit’ ordinances lead to a decrease in pet license taxes collected from non-reporting owners over the pet limits. The ‘number limit’ laws are counterproductive.

MILLS COUNTY, Iowa, 7 July 09 (NationalDogPress.com) –

Dogs and dog owners face more discrimination than ever before in American society. While local, city, county, state, and federal entities pay lip service to the dog as man’s best friend by passing tyranny dog limiting ordinances and laws, We the People as a whole community allow fear and politics to determine the parameters of dog ownership based upon emotions not logic and common sense in law making.

We the People, spend hundreds of millions of dollars on premium foods, veterinary care, toys, kennels, pet sitters, training classes, and more even while limiting the number and type of dogs an owner can house. We use dogs to aid in catching criminals, search for victims of crimes and natural disasters, help handicapped humans, and provide emotional support even while barring dogs from communities if they exceed a certain weight, certain breed to be banned, or limits to the number of dogs allowed in a home even if they are properly cared for and loved as family.

The disadvantages of dog number limits in homes are:

Dog owners in some communities face a limit on the number of pets they can own, but these limits, too, are counterproductive.

Laws that criminalize pet ownership based on numbers alone have been declared unconstitutional in some states because they do not address the need to control nuisances or provide for the health and safety of residents.

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, the state’s highest court, has declared such a law unconstitutional in that state, citing a precedent in Kadash v City of Williamsport:

“What is not an infringement upon public safety and is not a nuisance cannot be made one by legislative fiat and then prohibited….

“Even legitimate legislative goals cannot be pursued by means which stifle fundamental personal liberty when the goals can otherwise be more reasonably achieved.”

A dog or pet limit ordinance is difficult to enforce without increased presence of animal control or police agencies and often leads to a decrease in pet licensing to prevent cross-referencing of license records. If the law is enforced only upon complaint, it becomes just another law for people to circumvent and further erodes confidence in legislative bodies.

Numbers have no relationship to nuisances. A person with one dog that runs loose or barks all night is a greater nuisance than a person with a dozen dogs that are quiet, clean, and kept at home.

Limiting people to four dogs (or fewer) puts an unreasonable strain on people who raise show dogs, compete in performance trials, participate in canine rescue operations, foster dogs for service dog organizations, etc. and can lead to those responsible dog owners leaving the community.

A number limit causes dog deaths by forcing people to give up dogs they own, thus causing crowding in local shelters; denying people the opportunity to buy an additional dog from a shelter or a rescue; and adversely impacting rescue groups and foster homes that help find new homes for dogs whose owners cannot keep them.

Alternatives to number limits are:

Passage and enforcement of strict nuisance laws.
Use of an arbitrator to mediate neighborhood disputes about animals.
Use of alternative sentencing such as community service at the county animal shelter or attendance at a full obedience training course for those who violate nuisance ordinances.
Periodic programs or mailings about responsible dog ownership or city sponsorship of a Canine Good Citizen test to encourage residents to be responsible dog owners.

Animal laws are not always a result of state and federal battles. Squabbles between neighbors often erupt over animals, squabbles that often spill over into law enforcement or animal control filed complaints to local governments.

As an emotional result the local government greases the squeaky wheel complaints by citizens with even more stricter ordinances or other tacked on to the zoning code or the criminal codes to existing animal ordinances.

Dog limit ordinances are often passed out of frustration, with little consideration for the consequences or valid and factual basis to make any “positive or constructive” benefit to the community dog complaints, other than a government official “feel good” action giving We the People even more tyranny in our local animal control ordinances.

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Dean A. Ayers
Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News ©, and DogPress.org news press services.

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The Licensing of Tyranny in Dog Ownership

“The ideal animal control tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.” ~ Dean A. Ayers

By Dean A. Ayers

Lead Investigative Reporter

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4 Jun 09

The erosion of our freedom to own dogs, pets and animals, rings true of the current political climate in the USA today. We the People who own dogs, cats, pets and animals are especially struck by the public’s statements concerning agreement or apathy towards all the various government licensing to include that of our pets and animals.

Definition of Licensing and the Misconceptions:

Most people seem to believe that a dog or pet license is a freedom, when in true fact, it is a taking.

A license is a temporary, revocable permit issued by government that allows the holder to have something or to do something that is otherwise illegal. For example, in the USA the licensing of firearms has virtually removed our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Any time a license is issued, a freedom is jeopardized. By the very act of licensing dogs, the act of owning or even possessing a dog has been made illegal.

Animals are traditional property, now legally having “Intrinsic Value:”

Animals are human-kind’s most ancient and traditional property. Before ever we settled down to a plot of land and threw seeds in the soil, we numbered animals as our most valuable possessions. Wealth has always been associated with the number of animals that a person owned, and kept.

Now animal ownership, use, and the ancient, honorable practice of animal husbandry are under global attack by dog laws, and animal ID laws globally. It was initiated by the animal “rights” movement, and adapted by local, state, and federal governments throughout the world.

A Dog’s life has ‘intrinsic value,’ New York judge finds:

Finding that a dog “is somewhere between a person and personal property,” a New York trial court said a pet owner whose dog died following unauthorized surgery may seek damages beyond the purchase price of the animal. “[A dog] is not an inanimate thing that just receives affection; it also returns it,” the court wrote, citing Corso v. Crawford, 97 Misc. 2d 530 (N.Y., Queens County Civ. Ct. 1979).

Doing Away with Dog Ownership:

All the dog legislation, animal control laws, dog ownership licensing, animal breeder licensing and animal ID programs will effectively do away with all but the largest commercial breeders and providers. When the small traditional owner and holder have been the basis for our animals and economy world-wide, it soon will end with all animals owned being controlled through licensing of many types and behaviors, as well as the food we all eat for life will be controlled by the seed products being copyrighted thru large commercial concerns like Monsanto. For those of us who have traditionally grown our own food, raised animals or owned animals personally as pets or for various other reasons, we will be locked out of life by “licenses” of the various types of animals, premises, or property owners who will be locked up literally, also known as “Jail” or animal shelters, etc when they “fail” to maintain their license of same.

To Legislate Animals and Control or Not to Legislate, that is the Question:

Generally, people concerned about retaining their freedom and liberty in America are usually not in favor of “any” legislation of any kind that increases “stress” upon the freedom’s of “We the People” no matter what the case or cause.

BUT….. after “reviewing” the “Who’s Who” list of the “animal rights” organizations that are jumping up and down, screaming “unfair” I AM going to continue to explain and complain about this subject. For one thing, ASPCA, HSUS, and PETA like groups, are the first “wasted” manipulators that will “AXE” your Freedoms to even merely “OWN” a pet. But wait, their perversion of animal law does not stop there. Consider the animal control laws backed by discovering the “INSANE” perverted dog “propaganda” information these people are allegedly spewing regarding alleged cruelty of animals by dog owners, for simply “keeping their pets” safe, in a “proper” kennel inside, or properly tethering their dogs outside their home, or the questionable manipulation on just being able to tie your dog or animal out to pee in the grass (for a little while) or even exercise your dog on a proper guide line”, etc. The dog law perversion never stops.

Not to mention the lies that HSUS, the ASPCA, or PETA allegedly put out, in just about every category of dog ownership “reasonable care for animals and pets” to be lied about by HSUS and PETA and then manipulated by their licensing and legislation lies to allegedly make We the People the criminals, for simply “loving” our dogs, pets and animals in our own home.

In actuality, We the People ARE the “REALISTS” with “common sense” and “family values” that include our Legal and God Given “rights, per the Bill of Rights to be free from intrusion on our own private property with our dogs, pets and animals. My family happens to be my “animals.”

We the People are now headed immediately for a bleak (Pet-less - My Words) future that Dwight David Eisenhower warned the world about in his inaugural address, the “military, industrial complex”.

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

Dog Gone It, on a “Positive and Constructive” Note:

One reason a dog can be such a comfort such as when you’re feeling blue or worried about tyranny legislation upon our animals, and ourselves, is that our dogs don’t try to find out why. Some of these dog laws or animal control regulations appear to be “overwhelming” and appear “impossible to defeat.”

Fortunately, I never have had enough intelligence to know, that I could not stop the impossible. I know “not” the meaning of defeat. This is the belief We as People, who own dogs, pets, and animals, need to retain, believe in, and “ACT” upon.

I Do Know This:

I DO KNOW, the Love of my dogs, and their “Intrinsic Value” to my life and theirs, there for, I shall not forsake them, even unto a bad law or “perverted” animal activist organization’s efforts to defeat my love, admiration, and “Intrinsic value” in the ownership of my family of dogs and animals. With only ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable, even to defeat the impossible perversion of animal control laws facing us all nation wide.

Dog and Pet Owners Remember This:

Look at a stone cutter (loving dog owners) hammering away at his/her rock (tyranny & the animal control legislation oppressor), hitting the stone perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack even showing in the rock (dog laws). Yet at the hundred-and-first blow the rock will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Let’s get “busy” through “action” and “ACT” with authority of a dog owner, in charge of our freedom and liberty to crack this stone of tyranny upon our animals, and all the controlling tyranny of us all. And that action with authority of preserving our freedom “includes” our family of dogs, pets, and animals. Period.

Article Source Link on “Intrinsic” Value of a Dog:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dog’s+life+has+’intrinsic+value,’+New+York+judge+finds.-a018875469

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About the Author - Dean A. Ayers
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News © and DogPress.org news press services.

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