CRUCIAL READ IMMEDIATELY RE: AB 1634 7/7


Make certain that your/our club is listed as opposing AB1634 as of the
7/3/07 amendment - sorry if you have gotten this already, but please if you
haven't,  please check this right now - time is of the essence - the meeting
is 7/11/07 at 8:00 am and many clubs are missing or worse yet, listed as
supporting, when they are in opposition.
Please Do What You Can -
Julie / Tiara




WE NEED IMMEDIATE HELP!
TO REACH EVERY CORNER OF CALIFORNIA TODAY
PLEASE CROSS POST THIS EVERY WHERE

For those of you that don't know Beth Shea, she has been in the fight from
the get go and is working on this issue in conjunction with the steering
committee for PetPAC.  Some of the problems we have seen with the analysis
are apparently much deeper than we originally suspected.  Beth's three
messages follow.  ---Tonya


From: B Shea [mailto:bshea313@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:55 PM



                              Permission is granted to cross post
    I am not a person to subscibe to lists or posts to boards so I need the
help of people who do this. Please post the following three messages TONIGHT
as far and as wide as you can with permission to cross post.

Message one
       "There turns out to be a rather major problem with the bill analyis
on AB1634 that came out on Friday. It seems somehow that a number of the
opponent organizations where not listed. I am working with PetPac to compile
an accurate list of such organizations and that list will be presented to
the committee.  If your organization is in opposition to AB1634 please take
the following steps.
1. Pull up a copy of the bill and look for your organization. Search by key
words and do multiple searches as in german then shepherd then san jose.
There are misspellings and some opponents are shown as proponents and some
clubs were listed with a "the " in front of their name. For the analysis see
<http://www.naiaonline.org/> http://www.naiaonline.org/  or the official
legislature site if you can not read pdf.
2. If you were not included in the opponents list of the bill analysis of
AB1634, or are not sure, please follow these steps.

 a. If your organization updated its letter to reflect the 7/3 amendments
and faxed or mailed it to the committee and consultants send an email to
Beth immediately at bshea313@yahoo.com stating the above info and the club's
name. Then either fax a copy of the letter to PetPac at 916 485-5594 or
email a copy to
<http://us.f344.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=barry@petpac.net>
barry@petpac.net  indicating it had been sent to the committee . We need
you to do both. Beth is producing a double checked vetted list and then
PetPac will have the documents to back it up.

b. If because of the holiday the last letter your organization sent
reflected 6/27 or prior amendments, please, draft a new letter reflecting
the 7/3 amendments and fax it to all committee members and both consultants
(see AKC site for fax numbers). Remember to include the line, "we asked to
be included in the listed opposition". Then follow the directions in above
in "a" . In the email to Beth, please list the name of the organization,
contact info and also indicate it was a newly updated letter that was faxed
and then make sure you get a copy to PetPac and on the cover sheet indicate
it is a newly updated letter.

c. If your club or business has not sent a letter on its letterhead IT IS
NOT TOO LATE. Follow the steps outlined in b. The only difference is in the
email to Beth and on the fax cover sheet indicate this is a first letter
never sent before.

 d. IF your organization's name is being used by the proponents without your
permission or is listed as a proponent in the analysis and that is a mistake
please follow the steps above but indicate that information in the email to
me.

3. If you have already sent me your club's info or faxed the letter to
PetPac do not resend it.

4. If you are an AKC club and have been contacted by them please follow
their directions but please also take the steps above. We need to be able to
provide one unified list of ALL missing organizations.
Time is of the essence on this. I thank you in advance for your help. Please
understand it is unlikely I will have  the time to respond individually to
you. Thank you. Beth"

Message two
" Saturday 7/7/07 at 7 P.M. RE the date and time of the committee hearing. I
just spoke with Kelley Moran of PetPac who is in communication with the
committee. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. The bill will be heard in the Local
Government Committee on Wednesday July 11th at 8 a.m.  Be there early. Don't
forget to also attend the rally regardless of the outcome on the bill. We
need numbers!  If you want a life that includes animals it's time to stand
up and be counted. "

Message three
" Folks I can find no better reason to send you this appeal than today's
events. Yes it is frustrating the games that are being played by the
proponents - last minute amendments on holidays, missing letters etc. I for
one certainly wonder how "accidental"  it is that so many of our letters are
MIA. The point is they want to fatigue us. They want us to go away. Well my
reaction is HELL NO! This is all the more reason that we need to stand
together and speak with one voice. I do not care if you are AKC or UKC or
USA or none of the above. We are in this fight because we want the right to
share our lives with animals. Just for the next four days let us put aside
our differences and come together behind what I believe is the strongest and
largest voice in this fight - PetPac who already has 20,000 members. They
have produced two great commercials but need money to buy airtime. This is
all the more crucial given the games of the last two days. We need to get
our message to the public. Sad to say it was not the dog fanciers who paid
for these commercials - we have them thanks to the generosity of a grant
from the cat fanciers. CAN WE DO LESS? The time has come to commit by
reaching into your pocket book.  If you can buy a new dog toy or leash or
enter a show you have money that can be going to this fight. Show me that
I'm right that dog people aren't just words and no action. We need to make
something happen. Do that now by going here and contribute
<http://petpac.net/action/contribute?page_id=MTU>
http://petpac.net/action/contribute?page_id=MTU . An army may run on its
stomach but they don't run at all without money - that is a cold hard fact.
Thank you I know you will be generous.  Beth Shea "
_____________________________________________________________________
We each must do what we can and speak from the heart with passion.
We CAN make a difference.
We can be a strong voice for ourselves and our dogs.
We need hearts and courage as strong as those of our dogs.
Thank you for your help and hard work in this fight.

Beth Shea
Please support   <http://www.saveourdogs.net/> www.saveourdogs.net

To see how well we are doing to help PetPac go here
 <http://petpac.net/action/contribute/?page_id=MTU>
http://petpac.net/action/contribute/?page_id=MTU
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
Those who expect to reap the Blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo
the fatigue of supporting it.    ~Thomas Paine
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