02/02/2013
ACTION NEEDED TODAY! ***IMPORTANT MESSAGE****
ACTION NEEDED TODAY!
Hunting with dogs is under attack by the SPCA and the HSUS. SB 1280 passed the Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday by a vote of 8-7! If you don’t believe that this is your fight check out this website: http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/hound_hunting/
If you don’t fight back on behalf of the fox preserves now, you will be pleading for help when they come after you!!!
We need thousands of you, your friends and family to act now! ****We only have until Monday morning to kill SB1280 in the Virginia Senate.**** Get everyone you know to make the following calls and send emails (email list at the end). Leave a message on their voice mail!!
1. Call Governor McDonnell’s office at (804) 786-2211 and ask the Governor to oppose this bill and to order DGIF staff to provide the Senate members their draft recommendations on improving the Fox Preserves by Monday morning at noon!
2. Call your Senator (click here to find their name and phone number http://virginiageneralassembly.gov/membersAndSession.php?secid=1&activesec=0 #!hb=1&mainContentTabs=0 ) ask them to vote against passage of SB1280 or have it referred back to the Agriculture Committee.
3. Call these Senators and thank them for their vote against SB1280 in Senate Agriculture Committee and ask that they work to kill this bill on the floor of the Senate on Monday! Hanger (Chairman), (804) 698-7524 email: [email protected] Watkins, (804) 698-7510 email: [email protected] Puckett, (804) 698-7538 email:[email protected] Ruff, (804) 698-7515 email: [email protected] Obenshain, (804) 698-7526 email: [email protected] Stanley, (804) 698-7520 email: [email protected] Black, (804) 698-7513 email: [email protected] Senator Stephen H. Martin (R) - Senate District 11 (804) 698-7511 email: [email protected] Senator Martin went way out of his way to come to the committee to help us!
4. Call as many of these Senators as you can and ask for their vote against SB1280 on the floor of the Senate on Monday!
CALL OVER THE WEEKEND IF NOONE ANWSERS LEAVE A MESSAGE.
****We only have until Monday morning to kill SB1280 in the Virginia Senate.**** — with United-Fox Pen and 45 others.
Hound hunters use packs of dogs, sometimes 40 or more, to chase bears, bobcats, cougars, deer, or other animals until they try to climb a tree, or until the dogs catch them and tear them apart. The hunting dogs themselves are frequently injured or killed during the hunt.
