Call and Fax your Representative at the numbers provided on the attached PDF PIJAC flyer.
Be sure to contact the local office of your own Representative by phone, and if you can, make a personal visit. Our congressional representatives are now on recess, and will return to their work at the Capitol next week. Let your Representatives' local offices know NOW that you want them to KILL HR 669. If the local staff hear from enough constituents that they want a bill killed, they will let their Representatives know that their constituents hate this bill.
3. Distribute this email, NAIA's link, and PIJAC's PDF flyer widely to everyone you know who loves animals and wants to keep them in our lives. In particular, send it to any pet lists you are on. This bill will impact almost all non-native animals. Ask them to contact the representatives and ask them to KILL HR 669.
You can see PIJAC's earlier alert on HR 669 here:
<http://www.pijac.org/files/public/US_HR_669.pdf>
You can see the full text of the bill here: <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h669ih.tx t.pdf>
4. If you have a website or belong to a discussion list, post this Alert and the PDF attachment. Ask your friends to do the same.
A NOTE ALL ANIMAL OWNERS, AND ESPECIALLY TO BIRD OWNERS
Does the Pennsylvania Proposed Ban of the Nanday Conure of 2008 ring a bell for anyone?
For those bird owners who fought so hard and so well for the Nanday in Pennsylvania in 2008 - that was just target practice.
HR 669 IS THE ANIMAL PROHIBITIONIST NUCLEAR OPTION - STOP IT NOW.
Get your phones, emails, and faxes working and get our troops marching again. We need every one of you to help again, and we need the help of everyone you know. It doesn't matter if they own a bird, a dog, a cat, a turtle, a hamster, a fish, a snake, a tiger, a monkey, or any other animal. We are all affected by this bill. Don't let the animal prohibitionists force their agenda on the rest of us.
Thanks,
Genny Wall
Attorney at Law
Legislative VP, AFA, NAIA
Laurella Desborough
Legislative Chair, ASA, NAIA
American Federation of Aviculture
Avicultural Society of America, For bird breeding, restoration and education. Founded 1927
NAIA | National Animal Interest Alliance
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With great thanks to Marshall Meyers of PIJAC for providing their materials and for working on behalf of all of us.
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