If your cat isn’t in after dark, or if you leave food out for it you could be fined $500. How will they tell it’s your cat? Hmmmm, seeing that Eastern WA is in favor of NAIS the conclusion is obvious. If they can order you to keep your pet in, order you to have your dog spayed or neutered by 4 months of age, than they can order you to chip it.

Look who’s behind these laws–the anti-society Society. This is a creeping malaise. The spread of apathy is leading to a totalitarian state of affairs. Keep my barn cats in? Neuter and spay my rare-breed, landrace farm dogs? Ya, right after I willingly hand over my arms and invite the U$DA over for target practice on my herd–NOT! Not now, not ever.

1000’s of pet owners will be impacted by legislation like this. Where are they? Where is the outrage? Where–other than right here reading this–are the people who value freedom, personal rights and common sense? I shudder to think what the future will be like.

We hold them, sometimes much as 30 days to no avail.

There are too many dogs and cats. Sifting it out, and making people take a little care for their breeding of animals will not inflate the problem of unwanted pets in this state, but rather would make it more feasible to take care of the ones you have.

This microchipping system doesn’t do any harm and it prevents pet owners from just letting loose animals who will end up at our shelter. It also will prevent backyard breeding and other practices…did you know that 80% of our dogs in the shelter are Pitt Bulls? They are overbred.

There has to be an answer.

I don’t like Big Brother either and I don’t like him sniffing down my back as a dog owner, but there just isn’t much else we can do to stop these pets from roaming freely.

Maybe if someone knows if their dog gets out, it will be found by a shelter and they will be fined, they will put up a better fence, or try a little harder to keep the little fellow inside!

Do you know how many owners just don’t come get their dogs once they realize they are in shelters? They think, oh well, Buddy will now cost me fifty dollars in fines and neuter fees to rescue, so I won’t go get him. Let him become someone else’s problem…but Buddy doesn’t get adopted. Instead, he pleads to the bars to open, so he can go home…and he pines for his owners, with his little heart breaking, daily, till nobody adopts him and then he is finally put to sleep.

There are 15,000+ Buddies in our shelter every year and they are left there for various reasons. Unwanted, owner turn-ins, wandering, stray…

Maybe this is JUST what we need.

Breeders are breeding, without reason, backyard dogs…I know someone breeding a poodle to a labrador right now to get labradoodles. Neither dog is papered. Neither dog owner has a clue about pregnancy care. What can I do? I can’t!

Breeders doing it for monetary gain will have to keep the puppy mills out of circulation …YAYYYYYYYY …this isn’t a bad thing! This is a good one!

Try to see it from the ligislation’s point of view instead of becoming defensive.

If you’re such good dog owners, as you say (and I am sure you all are), then you have nothing to worry about, now do you?

[I notice you attempt to publish as “Anonymous” instead of giving your name. If you really believe what you are saying then why do you attempt to hide your identity? I suggest you go read this post about the USDA Terrorist - you are not quite as anonymous as you would like to think. On the web your every move is tagged and tracked. Let’s keep it from being that way in the physical world. As to your comments, they are typical fascist/socialist big government Nanny State blather: “You know better than us so you’re going to control us for our own good and punish good people in order to get the bad people.” It doesn’t work and is just an excuse for totalitarianism. The reality is you are ignorant and trying to force your ignorance on others. -WJ]

“Thank you for being pro-active!! Please know that both SAOVA and NCRAOA are monitoring the NAIS situation. While NAIS at this time is voluntary, we are watching carefully for signs of bills being introduced that will make it mandatory. I have agreed to join nonais.org to monitor and report back to our Board of Directors.

The PAWS fiasco was beaten down by persistence. It is not a done deal yet — there is still a very small chance they will attempt to railroad it through the lame duck session in November. The PAWS opposition came from hundreds of very small groups that came together in a central spot and made their opposition known to all who would listen. No Nais has this in place. We have to be prepared to stand on the street corner and tell anyone who will listen. Apathy is rampant among non informed folks, and most don’t want to get involved, as it won’t directly affect them — that’s where they are wrong….

NAIS will be a huge fight, and I appreciate the people who are already out there ready to fight. Be assured that the situation is being watched, and we will join you soon. Meanwhile our group is under siege by counties attempting to pass bad animal ordinances, and those require our immediate attention. They must be stopped at the local level. NAIS is a bad concept, and the support will be there when it needs to be defeated.

In the interim, I will pass along information to the pet-law, NC pet law, and NCRAOA Board.

Thank you for contacting us!

Natalie Rowntree
NCRAOA Board of Directors”

NAIS has been added to their alert page, including a variety of articles. To visit their website go to:

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Maybe we could, also, go to the link in my comment #17, and see if there is an association in our area that is fighting PAWS. We could help each other.

Natalie, thanks again for your quick action on this issue. May nothing but good come from all our efforts.

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It is a goldmine of dog and cat associations, and information on politicians, etc.

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The person who posted, Karen, says PAWS is dead. She says, “Take it from a retired career lobbyist, this was an amazing achievement!”

What can we learn from her about stopping NAIS? I have just started this search, but wanted to post this as soon as possible. Maybe someone who reads this was involved in the PAWS battle and can give us insight. Karen gives a website, which I will check out. These same people should be interested in helping us stop NAIS, as they also have “animals”.

If this was posted here before, I missed it.