Cold blooded animals have a heartbeat too.
A rainy day on the bike:
Cost: 3 hours of discomfort
wearing full leathers in a televised council meeting:
Cost: minor discrimination
Having a quiver in my voice while telling my piece:
Cost: A little dignity and pride
Wearing a Blackmetal Tee and basically calling the Mayor a Nazi in front of the entire council:
Priceless.
My first time ever participating in any real form of municipal politics happened today and it had a little effect on the outcome if not at least postponing what is to come.
I stood before the council to tell Mayor Kelly and the rest of the council my disgust regarding By Law A-300.
Most of you are familiar with it already so I'm just going to touch on my opinions of the proposals.
If you are not, click here
-Of the motion passed last year in HRM to require Dog owners to register their pets a mere 17% (very rough estimate) have complied. They estimate approx. 42 000 dogs and about 6 000 of those have been processed. The enforcement of this by law had an estimated cost of $900 000 to $1 million at the very least.
-Adding the same requirements on cats which number about 6 times the population of dogs, this motion will not be able to be carried out without massive overspending even when the results of these measures will not solve the issues that they are trying to amend.
-Imposing a fee to register animals and mandatory spay and neutering means that many negligent cat owners will simply abandon their animals thus adding to the feral cat population. Rounding up and destroying the animals is inhuman and not an acceptable or even affordable solution.
-Cat problems are minor nuisances compared to claims made against dog owners. Nowhere in HRM's history will you find a claim of life-threatening injury or death caused by an unprovoked attack from a cat.
-Funding Kennels to collect and destroy apparent feral and/or homeless cats is akin to the Concentration camps of Nazi Germany. It is not animal control, it's murder.
-Punish negligent cat owners, not mischievous cats from loving owners.
-This By Law as been named "Respecting animals" but please explain to me how singling out harmless species with no history or records of dangerous behaviour and destroying them is respecting their rights as living beings.
-The motion to prohibit many species of reptiles including [but not limited to] common pet choices as green iguanas and ball pythons as well as every species of boa constrictor is a blatant disregard of our right to choose a pet as well as the animals right to life.
-As the "parent" or "guardian" of these adopted and rescued animals I consider them a part of my family as many dog and cat owners can attest to. To make it legal to confiscate my pet and destroy it if I refuse to volunteer that fate in 90 days is sickening.
-Turtles and Tortoises are exempt even though they are illegal for sale in the province since aquatic reptiles are known to carry Salmonella and other harmful bacterium on the coating of their bodies.
Raw poultry can carry this as well therefore I would like to see a motion passed so that all frozen turkeys should have to be registered, tattooed and removed from HRM because they are deemed a threat to the population.
-This by-law is not a positive move and I am firmly against it. To deal with feral cats, funding needs to go towards TNR (Trap Neuter Release) Programs and subsidizing Spaying awareness to bring down the cost of fixing animals. I will not have my taxes funding a motion to take my pets away from me and have them killed. I will appeal fines, and serve jail time to protect my animals and people will have no choice but to realize that this by law is NOT in the best interest of the people and nor is it a solution.
Cold blooded animals have a heartbeat too.
Cost: 3 hours of discomfort
wearing full leathers in a televised council meeting:
Cost: minor discrimination
Having a quiver in my voice while telling my piece:
Cost: A little dignity and pride
Wearing a Blackmetal Tee and basically calling the Mayor a Nazi in front of the entire council:
Priceless.
My first time ever participating in any real form of municipal politics happened today and it had a little effect on the outcome if not at least postponing what is to come.
I stood before the council to tell Mayor Kelly and the rest of the council my disgust regarding By Law A-300.
Most of you are familiar with it already so I'm just going to touch on my opinions of the proposals.
If you are not, click here
-Of the motion passed last year in HRM to require Dog owners to register their pets a mere 17% (very rough estimate) have complied. They estimate approx. 42 000 dogs and about 6 000 of those have been processed. The enforcement of this by law had an estimated cost of $900 000 to $1 million at the very least.
-Adding the same requirements on cats which number about 6 times the population of dogs, this motion will not be able to be carried out without massive overspending even when the results of these measures will not solve the issues that they are trying to amend.
-Imposing a fee to register animals and mandatory spay and neutering means that many negligent cat owners will simply abandon their animals thus adding to the feral cat population. Rounding up and destroying the animals is inhuman and not an acceptable or even affordable solution.
-Cat problems are minor nuisances compared to claims made against dog owners. Nowhere in HRM's history will you find a claim of life-threatening injury or death caused by an unprovoked attack from a cat.
-Funding Kennels to collect and destroy apparent feral and/or homeless cats is akin to the Concentration camps of Nazi Germany. It is not animal control, it's murder.
-Punish negligent cat owners, not mischievous cats from loving owners.
-This By Law as been named "Respecting animals" but please explain to me how singling out harmless species with no history or records of dangerous behaviour and destroying them is respecting their rights as living beings.
-The motion to prohibit many species of reptiles including [but not limited to] common pet choices as green iguanas and ball pythons as well as every species of boa constrictor is a blatant disregard of our right to choose a pet as well as the animals right to life.
-As the "parent" or "guardian" of these adopted and rescued animals I consider them a part of my family as many dog and cat owners can attest to. To make it legal to confiscate my pet and destroy it if I refuse to volunteer that fate in 90 days is sickening.
-Turtles and Tortoises are exempt even though they are illegal for sale in the province since aquatic reptiles are known to carry Salmonella and other harmful bacterium on the coating of their bodies.
Raw poultry can carry this as well therefore I would like to see a motion passed so that all frozen turkeys should have to be registered, tattooed and removed from HRM because they are deemed a threat to the population.
-This by-law is not a positive move and I am firmly against it. To deal with feral cats, funding needs to go towards TNR (Trap Neuter Release) Programs and subsidizing Spaying awareness to bring down the cost of fixing animals. I will not have my taxes funding a motion to take my pets away from me and have them killed. I will appeal fines, and serve jail time to protect my animals and people will have no choice but to realize that this by law is NOT in the best interest of the people and nor is it a solution.
Cold blooded animals have a heartbeat too.