Do you want your dog to turn into this?
Posted on 03/20/2011 6:14:06 AM PDT by woollyone
FORT LAUDERDALE— Broward County plans to crack down on pet owners with dogs and cats that don't have their rabies vaccines or pet license tags.
Animal care officers will be doing checks door to door and at dog parks. Violators can face $135 fines but will be given a 30-day warning. Even indoor cats are required to have the rabies vaccine and license tag.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Rabies shots are good for 3 yrs... Don’t get suckered into yearly shots..
When I saw the title the first thing that I thought was, ‘revenue enhancement’.
Government at all levels is now desperate for funding. What they need to do is look at what they are spending ‘our’ tax money on, and cut where they can.
Oh, and the salaries of the people making these “visits”... wonder why all our cities are beyond broke...
Like when the cops use radar to pull over multiple cars in a zero tolerance speed zone and immediately hand out tickets without running warrant checks on the plates or drivers licenses. It's a pure revenue stop which I found out about the hard way. My wife now calls me "Easy Money."
Exactly. Most of the shots are good for three years.
We are being 'pushed' to over medicate our pets.
I order my dogs heart worm medicine (Nuheart) from Canada (on-line) and save money doing so...it is delivered from Australia.
There was a class action lawsuit and now the vaccine manufacturer may pay against your vet expenses. We got $1500. from Fort Dodge (s division of Wyeth). This only covered a portion of actual cost, but it helped.
Some vets, instead of the old between the shoulders injections, are now vaccinating a leg or tail that is more easily amputated in case of cancer. The vaccine lasts about 5 years, shots every three years reduces the chances of problems. No cat of mine is ever going to have another vaccine if I can avoid it.
If you take your animal to a vet,then the animal and you are entered into a database shared with the animal enforcement agency .Once in the system they will demand yearly license fees and vaccinations under threat of huge fines.The vets in Indiana use the law to rake in millions in yearly rabies vacinne fees.
The liberals have dreams of doing something similar with firearms and pointy sticks!
All of these licenses,vacinations,registrations, or whatever are just excuses for the government exercising ever more control over your life and taking ever more money.Any real improvement in public safety is just a coincidence.
I think the goal is to make pet(and firearms,and home) ownership a rarely exercised privilege of the wealthy and politically connected.Freedom is lost in small increments .
Just another tax, that's all.
Hundreds of millions wild animals out there, and they're going to make a significant dent in the incidence of rabies by inoculating a minuscule population of domestic pets?
Just another underhanded tax, pure and simple.
My guess its that this is motivated by a need for revenue, above all. One of the comments at the link made mention that this is a move to sell county spay, neuter, vaccination services, but that tool is still a revenue source.
In broward county you must vaccinate against rabies, but the certificate showing vaccination its not enough, as you are forced to buy the stupid tag also. The tag is the “license”/tax.
As revenues fall we can expect harsher collection methods employed. Weimar germany went through a particularly nasty phase of increased stupid taxes and collection methods during their collapse.
In proper neighborhoods, animals do not roam free unless they are, at least in my neighborhood, deer, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, hawks, buzzards, turkeys and, once in a blue moon, a fox.
I did not get my dog neutered. He's healthy and happy and gets walked or put on his run several times a day.
I don't follow him around with a plastic bag to scoop up his biological remnants since I don't walk him near anyones yard. I'm sure I could be put in the clink for that.
People get really sappy about animals.
“Attack of the Killer Shrews” ??
I have always gone at least 2 years in between rabies shots for my cats. They are strictly indoor, not foundlings and have had blood tests to verify their health status. Never had a problem with the vet, he tacitly agrees that it’s fine to space it out.
The one year and three year shots, as far as I know, are the same. It just depends on what your governing body decides to vote for.
Yes, but I expect to see people show up here to tell us that we are wrong, it is their business what we do with our own animals.
The Animal Rights lobby has come out and said they don’t want people to *own* animals. They don’t want breeding. This is behind the big push for spay/neuter. It is beyond me that the public has been so docile and gone along with this, and spouts the party line. If all goes as planned, they will not be able to get a pure bred pet from a breeder. What they don’t seem to understand is that all of the mandatory spay/neuter ordinances that have been passed recently around the country don’t affect the puppy mill/commercial breeders which are already regulated by the USDA. They affect the small hobby breeders who, usually, already follow good practices, but get tired of increasing fees and regulations and so just stop breeding an occasional litter of high quality puppies.
Idiots. Ingrid Newkirk, I’m sure is thrilled.
They can check my dog when they pry it loose from my cold dead hands.
I’ve been known to get sappy about mine, but I’m fed up with people telling me what I can and can’t do with them, as long as I’m not impinging on someone else with them.
And they may. It will be interesting to see how this kind of thing turns out.
We had a 13 lb bullmastiff and we never picked up his poo. When we walked him, he always stopped in abandoned lots or fields, so that was good. It always cracks me up to see people with their plastic baggies. They are taking something 100% natural and biodegradable and putting it in something that isn’t. I always want to ask them if they beleive in globull warming.
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