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Please consider going to this link and finding out more about legislative action occurring which will ultimately affect our rights as dog/pet owners. Even if you cannot donate for the cause(s), contacting your local assemblyman/senator can help (easy links to do this at the site).

"Mandatory" is a powerful word.

Concerned Dog Owners of California

Concerned Dog Owners of California
CDOC was formed not just to defeat AB1634, but because we recognized that there are significant issues relative to responsible dog ownership, euthanasia of healthy adoptable dogs and owners rights that need to be addressed by a moderate group which really wants to solve problems.
We need to address these issues to make certain that proposed solutions actually make a difference. minimize unintended consequences and leave us with good public policy and enforceable laws that do not target responsible owners.
Platform of Concerned Dog Owners of California
Concerned Dog Owners of California supports responsible dog ownership, including voluntary spay/neuter where appropriate. We support legislation that is based on the actions of dogs and/or owners (deed) rather than aimed a broad categories of the dog owning public. We believe in situations where dogs are not owned by responsible people spay/neuter legislation is appropriate.
CDOC believes the issues related to the impounding and euthanizing of dogs and cats are different and these differences cannot be effectively addressed in the same legislation. Therefore we oppose legislation that deals with dogs and cats as one issue.
CDOC supports research that studies the root causes of dogs being placed in shelters and utilization of that research to develop solutions to address the actual problems regarding shelter populations.
CDOC believes we need to recognize we do not have a dog overpopulation problem but a dog distribution problem.
CDOC supports enforcement of existing licensing, leash, and confinement laws.
CDOC supports the development of statewide spay and neuter funds and mobile spay/neuter vans to be made available to those municipal shelters that provide timely and accurate information to the Department of Health Services.
CDOC supports the permanent identification of dogs in order to comply with the new federal regulations requiring that animals be evacuated with their owners in emergency situations. We support those registries that are 24/7, nationwide, include a one-time fee, and register both microchips and tattoos.
CDOC supports licensing discounts as an incentive for people to spay or neuter their dogs when appropriate without establishing licensing differentials that are quantitatively disproportionate.
CDOC supports licensing fees that are applied reasonably to all dog owners and are not restrictive or punitive in nature.
CDOC supports the investigation of puppy mills and puppy brokers who do not follow the legitimate "codes of ethics" as published by a recognized registry or breed specific club when breeding and/or selling puppies. Anyone who breeds or sells puppies should be responsible for any dog produced from the time it is whelped until the end of that animal's life.
CDOC opposes public and private animal shelter facilities that import dogs from outside the State of California while there are adoptable dogs throughout the state.