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    GATES COUNTY ANIMAL ORDINACE MEETING APRIL 4th

    I know the Links do Not Work when I COPY AND PASTE HERE,,,,But You can copy and paste the links to most of them....

    An urgent problem has arisen in Gates County. Thank you Earl Preedy of White Oak Hunt Club for sounding the alarm!
    Gates Co. Commissioners seem to have gotten worn down by a local Animal Rights wacko. They have agreed to consider changes to the Gates Co. Animal Control Ordinance. These changes have PETA fingerprints all over them. As usual, these proposed changes are (1) unnecessary, (2) would be costly to dog owners and Gates County, and (3) would allow prosecution of dog hunters for trivial matters.
    Gates County dog hunters must immediately call and visit the five (5) Gates Co. Commissioners to urge them to vote against these proposed changes to the Animal Control Ordinances. County Commissioners only want to hear from County residents.
    In a later email, I will detail the problems with these proposed changes and why PETA always tries these tactics.
    To read these proposed ordinance changes, click here and scroll down to the extreme bottom of this page and click on the file entitled “Animal Control Ordinance -2018 Draft Change.rtf” (17 page do***ent). The changes are highlighted in yellow.
    The Public Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 10:00 am in the Courtroom, Gates County Courthouse, 200 Court Street, Gatesville, NC. It will be held as part of the regular Commission meeting. The Courtroom must be full of orange hunting hats!
    There are many dog hunters in Gates County. However, the NC Sporting Dog database has few emails for our contacts in Gates County. We need your help. If you have a friend among dog hunters in Gates County and the surrounding counties, urge him to go to ncsportingdog.org and add his current email address via Mail Chimp. It is so easy! Go to our Home Page. A pop down menu will appear on the right side of the Home Page. It is totally free to add your email and name. This will help! Then encourage him to email henri@mccleesconsulting.com and tell me his club name and mailing address. I am building a Gates County Group so we can communicate efficiently between now and April 4, 2018. Hurry, please! We do not have much time and email is the only way I can disseminate the information in time for April 4th. Thanks in advance for your help.
    If you have questions about the Gates County ordinance issue, call Henri McClees (252) 671-1559 or reply to this email: henri@mccleesconsulting.com Thanks! Henri

    NC Sporting Dog Association, Inc.
    PO Box 430
    Oriental, NC 28571
    Office (252) 249-1097
    Fax (252) 249-3275
    www.ncsportingdog.org


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    In the meanwhile, if you are a Member of our coalition, thank you! Is your Club a Member? Please check with your Club leadership. If your Club has not joined or renewed for 2018, you can pay online at www.ncsportingdog.org.

    NEW HONOVER COUNTY VICTORY''''''MORE ON GATES COUNTY;;;;;BIG READ

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    Gary F Godwin
    Mar 22, 2018 - 9:24PM
    Quote Reply NEW HANOVER VICTORY;;;;;MORE ON GATES COUNTY,,,,,ALOT OF INFORMATION TO READ...
    DOG HUNTERS WIN IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC!
    On Monday night, 3/19/18, Brunswick Co. Commissioners voted to change the County’s tethering laws, and completely exempted dog hunters. Congratulations to Ray Casteen and all of the folks in the Brunswick Co. Sporting Dog Assn. They have been working to stop the momentum of this Animal Rights push for more than a year. Good job!
    The AR wacko leading the charge in Brunswick Co. was miffed, as she and her group had demanded a total ban on tethering. She claimed the change was “not enough.” (AR activists are never satisfied.)
    In Gates County, dog hunters are facing the same Animal Rights playbook. Dog hunters in many NC counties have faced similar situations, or will face these situations.

    GATES COUNTY UPDATE: WE ARE WORKING TO WIN!
    The Animal Rights activists are playing their game in Gates County, using the PETA Play Book. Look at their activities in 2017-2018. Here is typical build up for radical proposed changes to the County’s Animal Control Ordinance.
    1. Create a crisis.
    a. For example, dog dies under horrendous cir***stances.
    b. Chained dog dies in heat, full sun, no water.
    2. Publicize the death of a dog, as dramatic as possible.
    a. Give the dog a name.
    b. Often publicity takes precedence over possibly saving the dog.
    c. Take photos of suffering animal, post online.
    d. Do nothing to save the dog.
    i. For example, no one gave the dog water while they took photos.
    e. Take advantage of the suffering animal while avoiding any steps to solve the problem.
    3. Avoid using existing NC laws and county ordinances, as is always possible:
    a. No one reported the crime.
    b. No one filed complaint or swore out warrant against owner under existing laws for misdemeanor animal cruelty, NCGS §14-360(a).
    c. NCGS §14-360(a): “If any person shall intentionally overdrive, overload, wound, injure, torment, kill, or deprive of necessary sustenance, or cause or procure to be overdriven, overloaded, wounded, injured, tormented, killed, or deprived of necessary sustenance, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”
    d. Existing Gates County Animal Control Ordinance Section 315.1 makes it unlawful for any person to fail to supply the animal…with a sufficient supply of food and water.
    e. There are EXISTING STATE LAWS and GATES COUNTY ORDINANCES to could have been used to solve the problem of the dog that died.
    f. Attached is our “NC Dog Laws” Chart (10-page pdf) listing citations to criminal and civil laws, statewide NC statutes, local laws, county/city ordinances, NC Administrative Code rules, and selected federal statutes. I prepared and distributed this to every member of the NC Legislature in 2017.
    4. Begin the blame game using the media, print and online, social media:
    a. TV, newspapers, online: photos, videos of suffering (now dead) animal.
    b. Repetition of lies.
    c. Lie that the Gates County Animal Control Ordinances are not adequate.
    d. Lie that Gates County Sheriff could not do anything under existing law. (Truth: no one filed any complaint to let him know to do anything.)
    e. Lie that Gates County Commissioners must do something immediately because there is a CRISIS. (Animal Rights activists created the crisis in the media using one dead dog.)
    5. Pressure County Commissioners in an election year to “DO SOMETHING.”
    6. Local politicians want to appear reasonable; eventually bend to pressure from the Animal Rights wackos. They approve action to draft changes to Ordinance.
    a. Politicians believe if they act, AR activists will be satisfied.
    b. We must remind them AR activists are never satisfied.
    7. Result is this draft including unreasonable and treacherous language.
    a. If passed, Animal Control could become dangerous for dog owners.

    REVIEW OF PROPOSAL TO CHANGE ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE
    There are serious problems in the proposed changes the Gates County Animal Control Ordinance. Read the Proposed Changes online: Click here and scroll down to the very bottom of the page. You can print the rtf do***ent (17 pages).

    GATES COUNTY ORDINANCE: ANALYSIS and QUESTIONS
    201.9 Inhumane Conditions (definition) Definition of inhumane conditions of pen expanded to include grass 12 inches or higher.
    This is vague and ambiguous language.
    If one fast growing weed grows to 12 inches among the lower growing grass within the kennel, are you are in violation?
    Example: You mow the grass in the kennels before you go on vacation; you have someone feed and water your dogs while you take the family on vacation; and you return to find that one or two fast growing weeds are 12 inches tall in the kennel and growing among the lower growing grass. You could be cited for a violation.
    Vague language: It does NOT say that all the grass in the kennel has to be 12 inches or higher for you to be in violation.
    201.11 Owner/keeper (definition)
    This definition is unclear, vague, and therefore poorly drafted.
    What type of “reporting” is meant?
    201.15 Proper Enclosure (TOTALLY NEW SECTION)
    Who decides what constitutes “adequate movement and room for exercise”?
    Is the measurement for “movement” different than the measurement for “room for exercise”?
    Who makes decisions about how many animals are a reasonable number to be housed in a particular sized enclosure?
    How can a citizen know he is in compliance of this Ordinance? How does he build an enclosure to comply with a subjective standard?
    i. Answer, he cannot know he is in compliance.
    ii. Answer, he cannot build to comply with a subjective standard.
    Are there objective standards to be employed regarding reasonable sizes of enclosures for certain numbers of animals? If so, where are these written objective standards to be found? Are they available to the public?
    Objective standards and equal application of these standards to every citizen is a fundamental necessity. (See the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.)
    If an Animal Rights activist becomes the Animal Control Officer who inspects my dog pen, he could decide anything he wants to do IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIVE STANDARDS to be applied to everyone equally and fairly.
    201.16 Proper Shelter
    New language inserted: “large enough to allow adequate movement”. What does this mean? Who decides what is large enough? Who decides what “adequate movement” is?
    New language inserted: “a solid floor that sits above the ground”. This means that a shelter can no longer be situated on the earth.
    i. Why is it wrong for a shelter being located on the earth? Who decided that?
    1. The owner of the animal should decide this issue.
    ii. This proposal reveals a cultural bias against rural living standards and the rural standards of caring for animals.
    iii. This language is clearly designed to make dog kennels COST PROHIBITIVE for many citizens.
    iv. This language reveals a cultural bias against rural culture, traditions, and heritage.
    v. This language discriminates against lower income property owners.
    New language inserted to require the shelter protect from “heat and/or direct” sun.
    i. What level of “heat” is meant by this language? This is vague and subjective. What exact temperature is too hot?
    ii. Does this mean the shelter must be air conditioned?
    iii. When did it become mandatory for animals to live in air conditioning?
    iv. Does this prohibition against direct sun mean no ray of sunlight can hit the dog at any time during daylight hours? This language is vague and ambiguous.
    New language inserted to require, “The entry opening should not be the entire side of the shelter.”
    i. This seems clearly designed to ban barrels from being used as dog shelters, regardless of how cheap, easy to clean, and efficient barrels are for large numbers of dogs.
    ii. Any amount of hay, cedar shavings, or other materials used inside the barrels does not cure the prohibition of this language.
    iii. This prohibition discriminated against lower income property owners.
    New language inserted to state, “Barns and farm shelters are excluded from being required to have a floor that sits above the ground,” tends to support the intention to prohibit the thrifty and easy to clean barrels.
    i. It is part of the larger plan of Animal Rights activists to make it increasingly difficult to LEGALLY own and breed dogs.
    ii. This is an example of how callous they are to the needs of dog hunters who have limited budgets.
    iii. Many dog hunters of modest financial means care passionately about their sport, and pass on their heritage to their sons and grandsons. They proudly keep their grandsons “off the streets and in the woods” with the disciplines of caring for dogs and hunting.
    iv. This proposal is an attempt to make it illegal for dog owners to shelter their animals without risking violations from Animal Control.
    v. The long term result would be repeated violations and ultimate seizure of hunting dogs.
    313.2 Animals Running at Large
    There has been a New Section added to the existing “Animals Running At Large” Section 313.
    Section 313.2 is TOTALLY NEW: “It shall be unlawful for any person owning or controlling any animal to allow the animal to create a nuisance or public danger by running at large. Each person owning or controlling an animal, including fowl, shall be responsible for taking whatever measure are reasonably necessary for keeping the animal on the owner’s premises or under the owner’s control when off his premises.
    “This section shall not be interpreted as restricting person owning specially trained hunting/working dogs, which can be controlled by voice commands, from actually using their dogs for hunting/working in the presence of and under the voice control of the owner or an agent of the owner.”
    i. The issue of control by voice command is not a sufficient or workable definition when applied to a pack of hunting dogs.
    1. This voice command definition might be sufficient for a field trial of shepherds herding sheep or police dog demonstrations.
    2. This voice command definition might be sufficient for a single hunting dog in a field trial, such as a pointer or retriever.
    3. Voice commands and actual presence of the owner is a fiction when a pack of deer dogs or bear dogs is loosed at the beginning of a hunt.
    4. These hunting dogs travel long distances, and do not necessarily stay together at all times.
    5. Dog hunters keep track of their dogs. They take many precautions and take responsibility for the locations of their dogs at all times.
    6. Dog hunters desire to keep track of their dogs is the reason why Garmin GPS Dog Tracking Systems have been so successful. (The 2 founders of Garmin products started out as engineers in the 1980’s working for Magnavox and King Radio. In 2005, they were worth $1.5 billion and $940 million, respectively.)
    ii. A pack of hunting dogs cannot be continuously “in the presence of and under the voice control of” owners or handlers.
    iii. The proposed language is unworkable for dog hunters.
    iv. Animal Rights activists know the proposed language is unworkable. This is a typical tactic for Animal Rights activists who want dog hunters to get in trouble eventually.
    v. They want to seduce us into believing we have an “exemption” when we have no workable exemption whatsoever.
    316.3 Prohibition against Tethering of Dogs.
    This tethering prohibition assumes that ALL tethering is cruel under ALL cir***stances. This is another biased tenet of the Animal Rights philosophy.
    i. The language seems to require the owner to attend upon the tethered dog at all times. This is unreasonable and irrational.
    1. Must the owner stand outside all the time?
    ii. Terrible examples of abuse tend to make lawmakers more susceptible to the passage of bad laws. AR activists seek worst-case scenarios for this reason.
    iii. Real life examples show that tethering can be the safest and best way to secure dogs at certain ages, during training, and with dogs of certain temperaments and traits.
    There are cir***stances when a tether is the safest method by which to secure certain dogs.
    i. Example: A dog that climbs up and out of the kennel fence.
    ii. Example: A dog that digs out under a fence.
    iii. Temporary periods of training.
    The tethering prohibition in Section 316.3 purports to contain an exemption for hunting dogs as follows: “The prohibition regarding when and where dogs may run loose shall not apply to hunting dogs when they are being used for lawful hunting purpose (sic).”
    i. What does this exemption mean? What is “lawful hunting purpose”? Does this include overnight stays in advance of and during a field trial?
    ii. At field trials, tethering is necessary to keep order among individual dogs.
    iii. If passed as written, no field trial could be held in Gates County.
    316.4 Standards for chain/tethering a dog.
    The language about standards is existing language, albeit unclear.
    The tether must be designed to be attached to a harness.
    If a harness is not used, could the owner be cited for a violation?
    What does the addition of the word “unless” add to the meaning? Unless what is deemed necessary by the ACO?

    Above are problems I find in these proposed changes to the Gates County Animal Control Ordinances. Probably, you can find more problems. They are typical of Animal Rights scheming. An AR attack can happen anywhere.

    HOW DO WE FIGHT BACK? This 7-Step Method Works!
    1. Analysis is the first step in fighting back. Understand the enemy’s position.
    2. Organize your forces. Mobilize dog hunters in every Commissioner’s district. Work quickly to spread the word about the Public Hearing. Get others to contact the Commissioner personally.
    3. Contact the decision makers. Three of the five Gates Co. Commissioners are up for reelection in 2018. It is no coincidence the AR activists chose an election year to push for these radical changes.
    4. Count your votes BEFORE THE MEETING. You need to know how each Commissioner intends to vote before the Public Hearing on 4/4/18. Press each Commissioner to commit to voting against the proposal. Work on any undecided votes. Keep working until you have a majority: at least three of the five votes. Be sure all your votes will be present on 4/4/18.
    5. Attend the 4/4/18 meeting, with planned speakers ready to express your concerns. Fill the Courtroom with ORANGE HUNTING HATS.
    6. Thank the Commissioners for supporting their constituents.
    Hopefully, you have made a friend. Remember your friend when you receive a fund-raising invitation.
    7. Do not become complacent. Watch your County Commissioners. If you do not have a close friendship with a Commissioner, have one or more of your Club members take turns attending Commission meetings to report relevant actions to the Club. Stay informed! The AR activists stay in contact, and they will return.

    PRIMARY ELECTIONS - MAY 8; GENERAL ELECTIONS - NOVEMBER 6, 2018
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    Thank you in advance for your continuing support. We appreciate you! Your support enables us to help you. If you have questions, call Henri on her mobile (252) 671-1559. Best always, Joe & Henri McClees, Lobbyists

    NC Sporting Dog Association, Inc.
    PO Box 430
    Oriental, NC 28571-0430
    Office (252) 249-1097
    Fax (252) 249-3275
    www.ncsportingdog.org