Please sign our Petition Against Illegal Use of Shock Collars on Animals!
Posted By Nancy Houser on August 30, 2009
To: U.S. Congress
Signing this petition will state your position “against” using shock collars for domestic dogs or any animal without adequate training and written proof of responsibility by private pet owners, breeders and brokers. This EXCLUDES collars with vibration or tone-only settings, which can be used as a “neutral stimulus”; training tools by professional trainers; anti-theft; GPS location and tracking; military; police; and service training.
Signing this petition will state that you are wanting to prevent any untrained pet owners, breeders,or brokers from using shock and electronic collars for behavioral modifications, obedience training, pet containment, or negative/positive punishment. If proven guilty, this act will be used as a form of animal abuse and prosecuted by law accordingly.
We hope that you will join Way Cool Dogs in making this stand for our pets and abused dogs.
Sincerely,
Location: http://petol.org/12221R #petol
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We have entered this petition in The Humane Society Legislative Fund contest, so if you have a good idea for a animal law, please click here.
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we need to LOVE and protect our animals…not hurt and abuse them. they bring a tremondous amount of love and joy into our lives.
from June:
I signed the petition..I have a little Bichon x and I adopted her from a client who was in and out of mental hospitals but this poor thing spent 1 1/2 years with a shock collar, her throat is scared to the this day…because she likes to talk…my ball is under the couch, the water bowl is empty, the cat just stuck his tongue out at me, I thought I saw a chipmunk, and yes I do need to tell you repeatedly until all is ok in my world…good thing the little mental case lives with me…she informs me of all goings on in the universe
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A new neighbor moved in next door to my mother in the burbs and within 3 mos called the police on her and a few other dog owners making complaints. My mom got one of those shock collars and hates it. The dogs she has is a mini poodle and terrier and are indoor dogs. They should be allowed to be yappy since they don’t go outside often except for relieving themselves only. It’s very sad, heartbreaking and now has my mother in fear of the police knocking at her door ready to charge her for noise? I say allow dogs to be themselves and take pride in their ‘guarding’ home turfs.
I have seen dogs come into the vet clinics with holes in their throats from bad shock collars that shorted out and irresponsible owners that did not know what they were doing. No dog deserves that. Training and education for behavior control should always from first and the owners should wear one and feel what their dog feels at least once. Thats how they train with tasers in law enforcement. Every officer gets tased at least once. Why not shock collars?
I personally can’t stand shock collars and think the users need to spend some time in them…just in case they don’t see the big deal.
I recently posted an article talking about contest that the Humane Society Legislative Fund is running where people can submit ideas for new pet laws and possibly win a trip to Washington where they can fight for it.
Outlawing shock collars would be a great law to pass.
These are torture for the animal in every sense of the world. They must be banned.