anne
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 10 Aug 2005
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Location: Los Angeles, California
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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: Mandatory Spay Neuter Laws - A Failure Everywhere |
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Forwarded from another list, these are excellent, credible sources documenting the failure of MSN laws.
Linda Hartheimer
Legislative Liaison
Weimaraner Club of America
http://grayhart-weimaraners.gotpetloversonline.com/
Various sources are used. We also posted the list here
http://saveourdogs.net/experience.html
Until Best Friends decided to support California's MSN bill (AB 1634),
this study by Laura Allen of their Animal Law Coalition. Lots of good
information:
http://www.ab1634.com/Files/ARE_MSN.pdf
The nation's first MSN law was in San Mateo County CA. Here's a
report. http://nationalpetalliance.com/sanmateo.htm
King County, WA is commonly held up by supporters as an example of MSN
success. These illustrate how MSN supporters spin the data
http://fixaustin.blogspot.com/2008/01/mandatory-spayneuter-success-not.html
http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2007/09/truth-about-king-county.html
Santa Cruz County animal services budget data are here
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/Santa%20Cruz%20Budget%20Info%20with%201990_2006.p\
df
This is a multipage document, and it includes photocopies of budget
reports.
Supporters of AB 1634 frequently claim that Santa Cruz County had a
50+% reduction in shelter intakes after they imposed imposed MSN in
1995. This is not true. There is no way to take the official shelter
data published by California's Department of Health Services (CDHS),
or any subset, and generate the amazing Big Lie that AB 1634
supporters have been claiming.
Every single data point and the overall trends on this
impressive-looking chart they generated is a total fabrication.
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a40/CA-HealthyPetAct/SantaCruzStats.pdf
If you are curious how this compares to the shelter data Santa Cruz
County actually submitted to the CDHS, as required by state law, here
are the comparisons for dogs and for cats:
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/SC%20Big%20Lie%20dogs.pdf
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/SC%20Big%20Lie%20cats.pdf
Here's CDHS shelter data on Santa Cruz County, CA compared to
neighboring counties that don't have MSN. SCC's shelter stats are no
better than its neighbors and in some respects worse.
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/SC%20cat%20impounds.pdf
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/SC%20cat%20euths.pdf
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/SC%20dog%20intakes.pdf
http://www.naiaonline.org/images/SC%20dog%20euths_sm.jpg
The Santa Cruz shelter data were charted up and put on the NAIA
website, but it is data from the California Department of Health
Services annual reports, which you can find here (each year is one of
the reports)
http://theanimalcouncil.com/Reference.html
The CDHS annual reports on shelter data cannot be found on the CDHS
website. One has to request them directly from CDHS. That's how The
Animal Council and the NAIA got the reports.
The King County and Santa Cruz County false claims by MSN supporters
are not exceptions. The leaders pushing MSN frequently lie.
Laura Sanborn |
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