We need to address the issues of responsible dog ownership, impounds and euthanasia in shelters and owners right to ensure proposed solutions actually make a difference, minimize unintended consequences and leave us with good public policy and enforceable laws that do not target responsible owners not damage the long term health of dogs.
Concerned Dog Owners of California supports responsible dog ownership, including voluntary spay/neuter where appropriate. We support legislation that is based on the actions of dogs and/or owners (deed) rather than aimed a broad categories of the dog owning public. We believe in situations where dogs are not owned by responsible people spay/neuter legislation is appropriate.
CDOC believes the issues related to the impounding and euthanizing of dogs and cats are different and these differences cannot be effectively addressed in the same legislation. Therefore we oppose legislation that deals with dogs and cats as one issue.
CDOC supports research that studies the root causes of dogs being placed in shelters and utilization of that research to develop solutions to address the actual problems regarding shelter populations.
CDOC supports enforcement of existing licensing, leash, and confinement laws.
CDOC supports the development of statewide spay and neuter funds and mobile spay/neuter vans to be made available to those municipal shelters that provide timely and accurate information to the Department of Health Services.
CDOC supports the permanent identification of dogs in order to comply with the new federal regulations requiring that animals be evacuated with their owners in emergency situations. We support those registries that are 24/7, nationwide, include a one-time fee, and register both microchips and tattoos.
CDOC supports licensing discounts as an incentive for people to spay or neuter their dogs when appropriate without establishing licensing differentials that are quantitatively disproportionate.
CDOC supports licensing fees that are applied reasonably to all dog owners and are not restrictive or punitive in nature.
CDOC supports the investigation of puppy mills and puppy brokers who do not follow the legitimate "codes of ethics" as published by a recognized registry or breed specific club when breeding and/or selling puppies. Anyone who breeds or sells puppies should be responsible for any dog produced from the time it is whelped until the end of that animal's life.
CDOC opposes public and private animal shelter facilities that import dogs from outside the State of California while there are adoptable dogs thorughout the state.
CDOC believes the issues related to the impounding and euthanizing of dogs and cats are different and these differences cannot be effectively addressed in the same legislation. Therefore we oppose legislation that deals with dogs and cats as one issue.
CDOC supports research that studies the root causes of dogs being placed in shelters and utilization of that research to develop solutions to address the actual problems regarding shelter populations.
CDOC supports enforcement of existing licensing, leash, and confinement laws.
CDOC supports the development of statewide spay and neuter funds and mobile spay/neuter vans to be made available to those municipal shelters that provide timely and accurate information to the Department of Health Services.
CDOC supports the permanent identification of dogs in order to comply with the new federal regulations requiring that animals be evacuated with their owners in emergency situations. We support those registries that are 24/7, nationwide, include a one-time fee, and register both microchips and tattoos.
CDOC supports licensing discounts as an incentive for people to spay or neuter their dogs when appropriate without establishing licensing differentials that are quantitatively disproportionate.
CDOC supports licensing fees that are applied reasonably to all dog owners and are not restrictive or punitive in nature.
CDOC supports the investigation of puppy mills and puppy brokers who do not follow the legitimate "codes of ethics" as published by a recognized registry or breed specific club when breeding and/or selling puppies. Anyone who breeds or sells puppies should be responsible for any dog produced from the time it is whelped until the end of that animal's life.
CDOC opposes public and private animal shelter facilities that import dogs from outside the State of California while there are adoptable dogs thorughout the state.