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RALEEF - the Responsible Animal
Legislative Educational Effort Federation
The German Shepherd Dog Club of America has decided it is
time to stop being reactive to bad, anti-dog, anti-breeder
legislation. Our legislative committee has been renamed, and is now
known as RALEEF - the Responsible Animal Legislative Educational
Effort Federation. The purpose and duty of RALEEF is to educate
members of the Parent Club about the benefits or threats of
legislation and organizations that could affect our dogs or our
sport. RALEEF will also assist members in responding to both good
and bad legislation and ordinances as an entity, rather than as
individuals. This is, obviously, an education oriented committee,
and it has already started work.
RALEEF is going to attempt to bring together similar
groups/committees from other Parent Clubs, so that we can work
together in a united way to combat the Animal Rights Organizations,
who are so well organized. It is time to join together and fight. We
all know the breeds commonly named in Breed Specific Legislation,
and we hope the Parent Clubs for those breeds will be the first to
join us. Also, because as the AROs gain more and more influence with
legislators nationwide, other breeds will also be affected, we hope
all Parent clubs will form similar committees and work with us.
Your parent club will hear from RALEEF in the near future.
I am only a member of the RALEEF committee, not its chairperson. I
am writing to you unofficially and privately, to give you a "heads
up" about this effort and to ask you to start taking action now,
laying the groundwork, so to speak, so that when your club hears
from us, it will be able to act quickly. If you as an individual are
concerned about anti-dog, anti-breeder legislation, please start
talking to your parent club members soon. Official contact is likely
to be made through your AKC delegate. In the meantime, if you
require further information on RALEEF, please feel free to contact
me, either by phone at 804-560-1086, or email at
pmick@erols.com.
Not everyone to whom I have sent this message is a member of an AKC
recognized breed club. Not everyone is in a breed that has been the
subject of Breed Specific Legislation. Nevertheless, as time passes,
more and more laws and ordinances that are unfriendly (to say the
least) towards all dogs are being proposed. Almost all of these laws
are instigated and supported by Animal Rights Organizations. There
is at this time no unity to speak of between various breed clubs and
State Federations to stand together and fight. RALEEF means to bring
us all together in a united effort to do so.
Please let me know if you (and your club) are interested. We of
RALEEF have great plans, and we would like to work with other parent
clubs in accomplishing this goal.
Peggy Mickelson
pmick@erols.com
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