Save Money, Save Lives! Support AB 1634, the CA Healthy Pets Act.

SAVE OUR DOGS - Fight AB 1634!!

Save Our Dogs is a grassroots effort to save working dogs from AB 1634, the mandatory spay/neuter bill. We strongly support their efforts and their goal and hope you will join with us to prevent this bill from passing.

The real problem in California animal shelters is not too many puppies. It is too many adult dogs who are abandoned. Mandatory spay/neuter won't make owners take responsibility for their dogs, so where is the benefit?

Mandatory s/n doesn't work, hurts working dogs and small consciencious breeders - and PETA will use it as a stepping stone to eliminate all pets. Not to mention that spay/neuter at only 4 months old - required by this bill - has serious health consequences for puppies.

Also, to produce useful working dogs, breeders must selectively breed dogs with the best demonstrated working abilities that are generally not apparent until dogs are about 1-2 years old or older. So under this bill, working abilities will gradually diminish over successive generations until they fall below the level required to do their jobs - eventually making the working dog extinct.

This bill would not even have been proposed if California dog owners had stood up against SB 861 when it was being debated not long ago. But few of you joined that fight and SB 861 passed (allowing mandatory s/n by breed). It seems that nearly all dog owners expect somebody else to take up the charge and defend their rights. If ALL OF US do not fight it, then we will be a party to the damage that will ensue.

For complete information on this bill and how to help, please visit Save Our Dogs. Thanks for your support!!

"Not to mention that spay/neuter at only 4 months old - required by this bill - has serious health consequences for puppies."

First of all, it's 6 months, not 4 months.

Straight from the bill text: "If an owner of a cat or dog provides a letter from a California licensed veterinarian stating that it is the medical judgment of the veterinarian that the cat or dog should not be spayed or neutered prior to the age of nine months, the owner shall not be in violation of this chapter. No earlier than 30 days after the cat or dog has reached nine months of age, the veterinarian may provide a letter to the owner extending the date for spaying or
neutering the cat or dog to 12 months of age.

The owner of a cat or dog provides a letter to the local jurisdiction or its authorized local animal control agency from a California licensed veterinarian stating that due to age, poor health, or illness, it is unsafe to spay or neuter the cat or dog."


"The real problem in California animal shelters is not too many puppies. It is too many adult dogs who are abandoned."

All of the adult dogs who are abandoned were once puppies. Am I the only person who sees the connection there?

"Also, to produce useful working dogs, breeders must selectively breed dogs with the best demonstrated working abilities that are generally not apparent until dogs are about 1-2 years old or older. So under this bill, working abilities will gradually diminish over successive generations until they fall below the level required to do their jobs - eventually making the working dog extinct."

Again, straight from the bill text: "Article 3. Permits.

(3) The owner is a legitimate breeder of mixed breed or purebred
working dogs, or is supplying mixed breed or purebred dogs for
training as working dogs to law enforcement, fire agencies, or
legitimate professional or volunteer private sector working dog
organizations.

(4) The dog is being actively used by law enforcement, fire
agencies, or legitimate professional or volunteer private sector
working dog organizations for law enforcement, fire service, search
and rescue, or medical service activities, or is being raised,
groomed, socialized, or otherwise prepared for duties for any of
these purposes.

(4) A person in possession of a cat or dog to be used for any of
the purposes set forth in the federal Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C.
Sec. 2131 et seq.) shall be exempt from the provisions of Section
122336.1, provided the person is licensed by or registered with
the United States Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to the
provisions of the Animal Welfare Act."

if peta is behind this I will refuse to support their efforts from this point forward.
this bill is reperhensable

The real issue isn't pet's with their natural genitalia, but rather the issue is with humans.

Draconian laws, forcing the mutilation of animals is not the solution, and most likely it will never work (various reasons: un-enforceable, requires an un-attainable universiality).

Humans are the stewards in this case, so to speak, and humans need to be responsible, and/or held accountable.

Anything else is doomed to failure, un-necessary surgeries (and all the risks and expenses that those imply) and a host of other issues (bureaucratic nightmares, enforcement nightmares, etc...).

Animal mutilation is not the only answer, we can do better than this...