Please Help Chicago Dog Owners

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Please Help Chicago Dog Owners

by JOHN YATES
American Sporting Dog Alliance
http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org
asda@csonline.net

CHICAGO – Dog and cat owners in the windy city need your help to fight a devastating ordinance that would force them to spay or neuter their pets, invade the privacy of their lives and seriously harm fanciers of purebred companion animals. This issue is expected to come to a head before City Council in early September.

The American Sporting Dog Alliance is giving our full support to a newly forming group of Chicagoland pet owners, who are fighting to save their dogs and cats from a well-financed campaign spearheaded by radical animal rights groups. They need the support of individual dog owners, and also clubs, groups and organizations that want to put their name on a rapidly growing list of opponents to the legislation (see below).

The Chicagoland group also will play a vital role in the near future, as this kind of dog-unfriendly legislation is being planned for the entire metropolitan area.

Statewide legislation attacking the right of dog ownership also is being ramrodded in the Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin legislature, and we will be on the frontlines of these battles, too.

We are asking dog owners and club officers to contact our local organizers to coordinate with and support the newly forming Chicago group. They are Karen Perry (ouilmette4@sbcglobal.net), Margo Milde (mrm1206@yahoo.com) and Michele Smith (msmith@cmscrescue.com). Your support of the American Sporting Dog Alliance also will help us to continue our mission of research, outreach, news reporting, networking and coordinating with local people to fight legislation that attacks the traditional relationship between dogs and people.

For individuals, your personal participation is crucial. Also, please contact your friends and members and officers of any clubs or organizations you belong to that can help. These include dog clubs, sportsmen’s clubs, farmers’ groups and firearms rights organizations. Hunters, farmers and firearms enthusiasts know that these kinds of laws stem from animal rights groups that also want to eliminate hunting, raising animals for food and the right to keep and bear arms.

It is very important for dog owners to volunteer their assistance before City Council meets again in early September. This ordinance can be stopped if strong opposition arises from every neighborhood in Chicago, and from all segments of the dog community.

Here is a list of organizations that are actively opposing the proposed Chicago ordinance. Please seriously consider adding your organization’s name to this list.

American College of Theriogenologists
American Sporting Dog Alliance
Chicago Veterinary Medical Association
Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association
National Animal Interest Alliance
Agility Ability Club of Illinois
Alabama Canine Coalition, Inc.
American Bouvier Rescue League
American Brittany Club
American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club
American Miniature Schnauzer Club
American Rottweiler Club
American Shetland Sheepdog Association
American Sporting Dog Alliance
Austin Kennel Club, The
Barbary Coast bull Terrier Club
Basenji Club of America
Basenji Club of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc., The
BC Dog Training Club
Bluewater Bouvier Club of Michigan
Bull Terrier Club of America
California Federation of Dog Clubs
California Handlers' Advanced Obedience School
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of Greater Chicago
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club, USA, Inc., The
Chicago Miniature Schnauzer Club
Chicago Miniature Schnauzer Club Rescue
Chicago/Suburban Cairn Terrier Club
Chicagoland Bichon Frise Club, Inc.
Chicagoland Old English Sheepdog Club
Chinese Shar Pei Club of America
Coalition of Animal Husbandry and Ethical ADvocates (C-AHEAD)
Collie Rescue of Greater IL
Doberman Pinscher Club of America
Dog Federation of Wisconsin
El Paso German Shepherd Dog Club, The
Englsih Springer Spaniel Field Trial Association
Eugene Kennel Club, The
Fanciers Cocker Spaniel Club of So. Wisconsin
Feline Friends Internationale Club
Flat-coated Retriever Club of Illinois
For Your Canine Sports Club
Four Lakes German Shorthaired Pointer Club
Fox Terrier Club of Chicago
Fox Valley Dog Training Club, Inc
German Shepherd Dog Club of West Ky
German Shepherd Dog Club of Austin
German Shepherd Rescue, Inc.
German Shorthaired Pointer Club of America
Giant Schnauzer Club of America
Great Lakes Irish Setter Rescue
Great Lakes Leonberger Club
Great Lakes All Terrier Association
Great Lakes Toy Club
Harmony House for Cats
Heart of America Samoyed Club
Illini German Shepherd Dog Club, Inc.
Illinois Cocker Rescue
Illinois Doberman Rescue Plus
International Kennel Club (IKC)
Indian Creek Schutzhund Club
Indian Nations Basenji Club
International Havana Brown Socity
Irish Setter Club of Southern California
Irish Terrier Club of Chicago
Kennel Club of Yorkville
Kerry Blue Terrier Club of Chicago
Lincoln State Cat Club
Lincoln State Longhair Fanciers
Lincoln State Shorthair Society
Little Fort Kennel Club
Los Padres Obedience Club, The
Medallion Rottweiler Club
Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club
Midwest Akita Rescue Society
Missouri Federation of Animal Owners
Moraine Tracking Club
National Pitbull Terrier Association
Norfolk and Norwich Terrier Club
Northeastern Illinois Bouvier des Flandres Club
Nothern California Samoyed Fanciers
Northern IL Samoyed Assistance, Inc
North Shore Dog Training Club
Oregon Trail Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club, Inc., The
Papillon Club of America
Pfanciers United for Fun
Pomeranian Club of Michigan, Inc
Pyles of Smiles Samoyed Rescue, Inc.
Rand Park Dog Training Club
Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States
Responsible Dog Owners Alliance
Rip Curl Weight Pullers
Rockford-Freeport Illinois Kennel Club
Samoyed Club of America
San Diego Dog Fanciers
Santa Maria/San Luis Bay GSD
SAOVA
Scottish Terrier Club of Chicago
Scott County Kennel Club
Shoreline German Shepherd Club
Siberian Husky Club of Greater Chicago
Silver State Kennel Club
Soft Coated Wheaten Terrrier Club of America, The
Southern California Alaskan Malamute Club
Southern California Den Dogs
Southern California Dog Obedience Council
Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of America
Topline German Shepherd Dog Club
Trinity Valley Weimaraner Club
Turbo Kees Foundation, Keeshond Rescue
Turkish Angora Fanciers, International
United National Weight Pull Association
United Schutzhund clubs of America
United States Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Others
Western Boston Terrier Club, The
West Highland White Terrier Club of SE Texas
West Highland White Terrier Club of America
We the People Pets
Wisconsin Association of Field Trial Clubs
Wisconsin English Springer Spaniel Association


The American Sporting Dog Alliance represents owners, breeders and professionals who work with breeds of dogs that are used for hunting. We welcome people who work with other breeds, too, as legislative issues affect all of us. We are a grassroots movement working to protect the rights of dog owners, and to assure that the traditional relationships between dogs and humans maintains its rightful place in American society and life.

The American Sporting Dog Alliance also needs your help so that we can continue to work to protect the rights of dog owners. Your membership, participation and support are truly essential to the success of our mission. We are funded solely by the donations of our members, and maintain strict independence.

Please visit us on the web at http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org. Our email is ASDA@csonline.net. Complete directions to join by mail or online are found at the bottom left of each page.

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