I wonder what would happen if someone showed up at their meeting with a service dog...:yikes:
Whenever I see this stuff it makes me want to cry and just scares the crap out of me.
A note to you all, I've been fighting exotic animal bans for years, because that is exactly where it starts. People's mindsets for exotic animals in captivity is really similar to the general public with pit bulls.
This is the strategy:
Ban alligators, tigers, and monkeys because nobody should ever need to have one, they're dangerous... (public nods)
Ban smaller exotic cats, like caracals, servals, hybrid wild animals (I have fought against laws that were written in such a way as to make a mule illegal) prairie dogs had monkey pox at one point, so of course they are dangerous too! (public says, "well, er, if you say so. I don't have any of those as pets so ok.)
Ban all snakes over 12 feet, because they could constrict someone or escape and eat your cats.
(publics says, "sure! the only people who own those are strippers and weird freaks anyway)
Ban all reptiles because they
can carry salmonella, which
can be fatal for small children. Also wolves and wolf hybrids because they are "dangerous"
Ban dangerous dog breeds, you know, bullies, boxers, anything that looks mean with a spiky collar......
Do you all see how it gets to dogs? Do you see how it's so very important to stand up for the rights of everyone, and not just the pits, not just the rotttweilers, it needs to be the wolf hybrids and wolves, the bobcats and pythons, the prairie dogs and the tigers.
It is against the law to abuse an animal already, so the occasional horror story about someone finding a 6 foot alligator in someone's bathtub already falls under that, and they get prosecuted every time. There are plenty of people out there with acres and acres fenced off with enclosures and security fencing zoos would be jealous of, where the cats and bears etc. get to live really cushy comfy lives that you never, ever hear about because those people will never ever be in the media.
Animal owners need to really unite, to stand together as a whole whether we like pit bulls, or siberian tigers, grizzly bears, or golden retrievers. It doesn't matter. Everybody is under attack here.