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Welcome To The Pet Advocate's Town Hall A place especially for the serious advocate |
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Welcome To The Pet Advocate's Town Hall A place especially for the serious advocate |
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Florida If you are a Florida resident here are some good things to know If you are interested in initiating badly needed changes please contact MikeyDeWeim@ZBirdBrain.com (Please note: I am NOT an attorney, I am just a victim of Florida's inadequate dog laws ) |
The story below was the inspiration for our Florida web page.
This woman contacted me and asked for some information so I sent her some of the
Florida links posted on the previous page.
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I found your web site and you seem very
knowledgeable on a subject I am up against. I adopted a puppy of 3
mos. old from the humane shelter on xxxxxxx. Because he had a tag
and they said they had given him his shots I assumed rabies was one
of these.
He is now 9 mos. old and found a baby raccoon
in our back yard. The raccoon scratched him on the nose-no blood,
no breaking skin. To be on the safe side I contacted the humane
center to make sure he was vaccinated. They said no to rabies
because he was only 3 mos. old. They had me call Animal control who
came into my home and seized my puppy for a 6 MONTHS Quarantine! I
am trying to fight this as I am from XX and spoke to my vet there.
He said 2 weeks is the max for quarantine and the dog was seized 10
days after the scratch. Do you have any knowledge that will help
me. My whole family is crying endlessly over our dog.
Please call if you can help.
xxx-xxx-xxxx
or email @ xxxxxxxxx
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This person originally adopted the dog from a County facility but she did not have her copy of the paperwork due to a fire. I sent her links to the state and county regulations. She discovered that according to the County regulations in order for the dog to have a tag there had to be a rabies certificate with a number on it that corresponded with the tag Animal Control had issued. She spoke with the Director of Animal Control and the rest of the story is below |
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Deb,
Thank you for all your help. The information you gave me led me
to the head of the Animal Control center, who, after some
persuading, got my dog out! I picked him up yesterday. I
appreciate everything you have researched, we are so happy to have
him back.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Sincerely,
xxxxxxx
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When she first contacted Animal Control she was told that the puppy was not vaccinated for rabies prior to the adoption because he was not old enough, he was only three months old. The law says that all dogs 4 months of age or older must be vaccinated, it does NOT say that a three month old puppy cannot be vaccinated. Apparently the puppy had been vaccinated when he was three months old and his tag was issued at that time. A devoted human who cared enough to research that information saved her family from six months of grief and saved their beloved dog from six months of isolation / impoundment / quarantine. |
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Perhaps it might be a good idea to know who you are dealing with. Who helped to fund your legislator's campaign? Is your legislator a major pharmaceutical company stock holder?
You can review campaign contributions at Open Secrets
and Follow The Money
You can review financial disclosures at Open Secrets just look up a candidate. Look under "Other Data" in the links panel on the left. Near the bottom you will find a link for "Personal Finances"
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Questions or comments? e-mail MikeyDeWeim