NAIA is helping defend dog owners rights

[Romy]

Cross posted. Feel free to cross post to other lists and forward:

_Defense Fund for Wendy Willard, Owner of Basset Pack _
(Yahoo! Groups)

Please forward to your other lists:

The National Interest Alliance is coordinating a defense fund for Wendy
Willard whose hounds were seized by the Philadelphia Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals under questionable circumstances. An
attorney has been obtained and we are working with him to coordinate
assistance from a number of interested groups, including the Masters of
Foxhounds of Association, the National Beagle Club of America, Inc., the
Pennsylvania Federation of Dog Clubs, local hunt clubs, local dog clubs
and other interested parties.

In addition, these groups and their members will be available to provide
informational resources to bolster the defense in this case. We are
exploring further actions regarding the Philadelphia dog limit law,
their spay/neuter requirements, the possibly unconstitutional taking of
her property and the violation of her civil rights. These actions will
be costly, but we believe they are worthwhile. The NAIA Trust uses its
funds to combat overreaching legislation and to combat these types of
laws around the country.

If your club or you are able to donate to this crucial effort to correct
injustice and combat laws that take away our right to own dogs,
donations to the Defense Fund may be made on-line through PayPal or by
credit card by clicking on the following link and entering the amount to
be donated in the input box. After entering the amount of the donation,
click on the "Submit" button which takes you to the page where you can
identify yourself and provide credit card information. Please insert
"Defense" in the space on the line available for the "billing address
Line 2" so we can keep an accurate accounting of donations. The
donation link is _http://www.naiatrus_ (http://www.naiatrust.org/donation Form.htm/)

If you wish to mail a contribution, you can send it to:

NAIA Trust Legal Defense Fund
PO Box 66579
Portland Oregon 97290-6579

Please circulate this to any interested parties.

Julian Prager
NAIA Legislative Coordinator
NAIA Trust Legal Advisory Board Member

[Boemy]

They are just as bad as PETA and HSUS, just at the opposite end of the spectrum. Like PETA, they push individual issues that appeal to the average pet owner in hopes that their more radical legislation--trying to repeal puppy lemon laws so puppy millers won't be held responsible for diseased animals, for example--will slip under the radar.