Animal control laws and officers challenge your right to dog ownership

Animal laws that limit the number of animals allowed in a household or vaguely define a “bad smell” in the pet owner’s home are intended to make it easier to prosecute individuals.

By Dean A. Ayers

Lead Investigative Reporter

NationalDogPress ©

4 Oct. 09

Many dog owners in recent years have faced the unthinkable; a knock at their door that has heralded the arrival of an Animal Control officer with a complaint about your dog(s). In some cases that visit has been concluded satisfactorily to both the dog owner and the animal control officer; in others it has meant the heartache of either seizure of the owner’s dog(s) and/or facing stiff fines for various reasons in an abuse, neglect, or number limit citation.

With animal ownership laws now undergoing radical evolving changes throughout the country, the result is now a ‘perverted’ evolving animal “activist” produced animal care and control law now being used. Animal rights ‘extremists' some of which are in fact, animal control officers, and others working in animal  rights group legislation lobbies are the new means for dog owner 'harassment.' The constant upgrade of these radical ‘animal controlling’ laws drastically increases the ‘real’ possibility of a visit to your door on your own private property from Animal Control Authorities becoming ever more of a specter to haunt you and also every dog owner in the nation.

Specifically targeted by legislation ‘activists’ are creating the laws that 'limit' the number of dogs, cats, pets, and animals allowed in a household (by an unsubstantiated arbitrary pet ‘limit’ number) which is intended to make it easier to prosecute individuals who are thought to have "too many," according to this arbitrary standard put into the animal law.  Even more sinister is that these ‘activist’ pushed animal laws are also applied even to those people who are not in violation of health, nuisance and humane laws.

These dog or animal "number limit" laws are now being joined by various other anti-pet ownership restrictive laws, such as mandatory breeder permits and licensing requirements (being pursued for example at this time in Iowa legislation) for even a single one time litter of any dog and the owner is now faced with major state intrusive inspections for a kennel or breeder license for having more than 3 pets in the home, or having a single litter of puppies. All of this being “PAINTED” as the need to stop alleged puppy mills, which of course in most instances is “bull”. Other totally vague animal control laws that can threaten responsible dog owners who are not in any kind of notable breeding or kenneling business are those ‘activist’ lobbied animal laws that allow the animal control officer to ‘define’ the offense of “BAD SMELL” in the home as a violation in animal control care and control laws.  Many good and loving pet owners whose dogs are well cared for and kept as their extended family members are suddenly in violation of an animal control officers “definition of “BAD SMELL” in the home, based upon the pets living in their homes, rather than caged outside alone and exposed to the climate, like a beast.

Why, there are many people, who object to a ‘single turd’ in a field that can be smelled downwind from 3 miles away, and object to that smell as a “BAD SMELL” under animal law or other people who are obsessed, compelled or driven to use massive amounts of dangerous cleaning products (by the liter or gallon) in a home (that are dangerous to the health of the animals and humans alike)to kill any and all ‘bad’ smells; so take into account an ‘activist’ animal control officer, who is this described ‘clean freak’ inspecting pet owner homes, using this vague and intrusive animal law as a criminal, abusive, or neglectful animal law violation according to their ‘definition of a ‘BAD SMELL’ in the pet owners home.

This vague and intrusive ‘unbalanced’ definition of tyranny control in the animal law begs for fees, fines, confiscations, seizures, and ultimate adoption or euthanasia of properly maintained pet owner animals in their home. Tyranny at its core to allow an ‘activist’ animal control officer to ‘harass’ and ‘intimidate’ virtually any pet owner in their jurisdiction, based solely upon a “BAD SMELL?” Please! These ‘activist’ animal laws have completely gone over the edge of the cliff in dealing in ‘reality’ and ‘common sense’.

'Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom' National Organization Incorporated (Nonprofit) is actively opposing all restrictive legislation limiting the responsible pet ownership of all dogs, cats, and other pets. Unfortunately some 'perverted' anti-pet ownership laws have still made their way onto the books. Just take a look at the 94 + page anti-pet ordinance of Louisville, KY by its Metro council, or the tyranny animal control laws with a three strike violation rule, taking away any right to owning any pet or animal in Omaha, Nebraska, or the 3-strike violation rule in Mills County, Iowa if your little 'fluffy' is caught off your private property 3 times. Your little "Fluffy" will be declared a "dangerous dog" according to their animal care and control ordinance for the county. How’s that for success in animal control laws stopping animal crimes in the midst of a rural county? These ‘activist’ based and promoted animal tyranny laws are occurring all across the nation as we speak. Ever more intrusive and controlling by the day.

For all dog owners, do we need reminded that it is important to promote the need for responsible freedom in the care and ownership of your dog(s) and pets in order to prevent tyranny from overcoming common sense in dog ownership matters? Or is it going to take a ‘knock at your door’ and an unlawful dog confiscation without any ‘due process’ for the dog owner to open your eyes to the truth in animal law "tyranny" now days?

Breeding even a single dog litter is now the ‘target’ of license laws

There is great value to society in the historic preservation of all our pet ownership of our chosen dog breeds as extended members of our family, and in the selective, planned breeding of our pets, for desirable and predictable traits in our chosen and favored dog breeds as well.

Claims that the organized dog fancy or local backyard hobby dog breeders contributes to the problem of homeless dogs in shelters cannot be supported by any alleged evidence from any Animal Rights activist groups, such as PETA, ELF, ALF, HSUS, ASPCA or any local humane society through facts that are real, not manufactured like liberal propaganda.

Above all else, dog owners, backyard dog hobbyists and dog fanciers must all become aware of the animal control laws in their own locale, and must also be aware of their 'rights' if faced with that ‘intrusive’ visit from an Animal Control Officer or Law Enforcement Officer regarding your pets and animals, and their ability to ‘harass’ you with vague and ‘interpretive’ definitions of the animal laws.

It is necessary for all dog and pet owners  to be familiar with all animal identification regulations for your dogs in your locale, as the future to continued further 'restrictive' local, county, state, or federal animal care, control, or identification regulations are potentially, only a 'stroke of the pen' away from being amended to include identification of many non-farm related pets and animals to be further controlled and cared for by government laws, due to any potential future transmission of a communicable animal disease in dogs or other pets or animals that may arise.

At that time, you and your dogs, and animals will then have to deal with Federal, State, and local animal control regulations on your private property, called a premises. Not only will you have a real possibility of 'animal control' showing up with restrictive regulations and ordinances of your dogs and your ownership freedom, but you will also have to deal with the 'dog-ma' of inspector police from the USDA animal and agriculture authorities or your state controlled 'dog-cops' checking your animals on your private property premises as well.

ALWAYS, Always, always, educate yourself and learn your animal control laws for your area and 'stand your ground' in knowing your 'rights' in responsible dog ownership. Always insure you have a name, and contact number for an Attorney at Law that is familiar with ‘Animal Law” in order to represent you and your dogs, not if, but when, the ‘activists’ in animal control come knocking at your door.

Remember when it comes to freely owning your dogs, pets and animals in an area frequented by Animal Rights Activists or Animal Control, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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