Triangle Bird Club

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:50:02 -0600

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:06:15 -0600

Meeting, Thursday Dec. 14, 2006

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:23:08 -0600

Christmas Party & Elections

Hello Everyone,

Our next meeting is Thursday, Dec. 14th, 2006. It will be our Club Christmas Party and also our election meeting. Our meetings are held at the Church of the Living God located at 5770 Concord Road in Beaumont, Texas. The Church of the Living God is located directly behind the Target Store on the Eastex Freeway in Beaumont. As always the dinner portion of our meeting tries to start at 7:00 P.M. with the business portion of the meeting starting at 7:30 P.M.

If you wish to participate in the gift exchange, please bring a wrapped gift in the amount of approximately $10.00. We will draw numbers for the gifts..

As always guests are more than welcome, the more the merrier!

Hugs,
Dorothy Crocker

Cafepress Shop

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:06:52 -0600

Hello Everyone,

Please check out our new Cafepress Shop! The Shop button is to the left side of the screen just below the Home and Booking Module Buttons...

There are some really neat items to check out with Christmas coming up!!

Hugs,
Dorothy Crocker

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What does the Triangle Bird Club do?

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:10:00 -0500

I've introduced myself before. I'll do it again for those of you who didn't read the post. My name is Dimi. I live in Port Arthur. My family and I have around 80 birds - mostly Canaries in which we breed.

In browsing the site, I was wondering exactly what it is the Triangle Bird Club does. Under "Club Information," I have found what you guys stand for but I'd like to know what actions you take to support your beliefs. Maybe that would be something goodÂ to add to this site. I'm interested in becoming a paying member of the club but before this is done I'd like to know what the money goes towards. Rescues, etc.? Thanks!

What's an action alert?

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:40:00 -0500

Do you know what anÂ Action Alert is?

When someone like kbheaton posts an action alert on our website, do you know what that means?

She just posted one yesterday.

It's titled:

NAIA National Animal Interest Alliance

But what is an Action Alert?
It means that the people the we have voted for and put into political leadership are now making decision. Are the making the decisions we thought they would? Are the fulfilling the agenda they promissed?

Activism for animal rights doesn't end at the ballot box. It's a process that we should all should take part steadily, over a long period of time.

An Action Alert is a call to activity, a request for a unified voice to our political leadership.

As a group of bird loving individuals, we don't have to agree on the Iraqi war, what's going on in Bosnia, or North Korea.

But I bet we can agree that smuggling drugged and endangered birds into America to be sold at high prices it too high a price to pay for our common love. Do you think that destroying whole rain forests overseas is too high a price to pay for cheaper oil or lumber? These are just far fetched examples drawn off the top of my head, but what I want to know is, when kbheaton, or anyone elseÂ with keen political insight, posts an action alert, what is it he or she is asking us to do.Â What habit can we form that integrates into our already busy and hectic lives that will really make a difference in the grand scheme of things?

Let's open a dialogue about how we can serve our common interest with a singular voice.

Let's all learn together what it means to respond to an Action Alert. Let's learn together how we as a group can serve to remind our political leaders what our goals and desires for the futrure of the planet are.

I hope to stir some interest here in forming a unified Â voice supportive of our common interest in the welfare of birds and animals of all kinds.

Any takers? Is this a challenge we're up to? Hope to see some comments in the message boards.Â

My letter to my reps

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:27:45 -0500

My letter to Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn:

As your constituent, I urge you to oppose SB1139/HB2669.Â

PAWS would require regulation of all bird breeders who sell any bird directly to a member of the public. Birds are included under PAWS due to the result of the passage of the Helms Amendment (2002) to the Animal Welfare Act, (AWA). This amendment excluded birds used for research from regulation under the AWA, but did not exclude birds for sale as pets.

The legislative intent of the Animal Welfare Act was to regulate commercial pet animal breeders who use middlemen to distribute the animals, not to insert the federal government into the regulation of retail sellers and small-scale animal breeders. PAWS expands regulation on breeders of pet animals to those who sell directly to the public, whether they are hobbyists trying to improve and maintain breeds, or small businesses operating out of private homes. The federal government has an important role to play in regulating large scale wholesale breeders, which, according to the USDA, is the high risk area. The decision to regulate small-scale breeders and sellers of pets who sell directly to the public should be made by state and local agencies and even by pet registeries, but not by the federal government.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Kathleen Heaton

NAIA Action Alert re: PAWS

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:03:57 -0500

NAIA Action Alert re: PAWS

NAIA National Animal Interest Alliance
Legislative Alerts and Updates
ACTION ALERT

SB1139/HB2669 Pet Animal Welfare Statute of 2005 PAWS bill would license and inspect private homes of breeders!

Please take a moment to contact your US Senator and US Representative with your views on PAWS, the Pet Animal Welfare Statute of 2005.

Â Â Â Take Action NowÂ
Â Â Â Enter Your ZIP Code:
http://capwiz.com/naiatrust/issues/alert/?alertid=7719986&type=CO
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S1139/H2669, also known as PAWS, has been introduced in the US Congress. If passed as written, PAWS will revise the federal Animal Welfare Act by adding
home breeders as planned targets of regulation and inspection, a U-turn from the AWA’s original intent to require licensing and inspection only of wholesale
breeders, dealers, and transporters.

The stated intent of the bill is to amend the Animal Welfare Act to strengthen the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the pet industry. However,
because it reclassifies many home breeders as dealers, PAWS requires many small-scale breeders raising animals in their homes to be inspected and licensed by the
USDA. Many hobby and show dog organizations oppose PAWS because they believe that the bill is detrimental to dog breeders. Cat fanciers say that PAWS
would create serious problems for most cat breeders who have in-home facilities. Home breeders of other pet species also worry that language in the bill will affect
them as well.

PAWS defines a dealer as someone who, during any calendar year, sells more than 25 dogs or cats at wholesale or to the public or whelps more than 6 litters of
dogs or cats, and requires them to be federally licensed and inspected. Breeders and sellers are exempt if they sell fewer than 26 dogs and cats, whelp fewer than
seven litters and sell only animals bred and raised on their premises, or receive a gross income less than $500 from other animal sales.

Codifying language that defines home breeders as dealers is contrary to the original purpose of the AWA and will burden USDA with additional expenses in a time
when budgets are tight. Codifying numbers as a threshold for determining who is commercial and who is not is also problematic; many home breeders who fit the
numbers definition are hobbyists, not commercial operators, and, once numbers are considered a legitimate determinant of commercial intent, numbers can be
changed downward to define even more home breeders as dealers.

For more information, please read the NAIA Trust statement about PAWS on the home page of the www.naiatrust.org website.

Proposed Pet Animal Welfare Statute of 2005 (PAWS) legislation

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:32:19 -0500

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF AVICULTURE
PAWS Update

The proposed Pet Animal Welfare Statute of 2005 (PAWS) legislation is a matter of concern to the American Federation of Aviculture and its members.

There is language in PAWS that is disturbing and could have consequences to aviculture.

AFA is investigating the Congressional intent of the language to see if opportunities exist to revise the language to reflect the true intent of the bill's sponsors.

In the absence of an AFA Legislative Vice President at this time, we have solicited Gary Lilienthal (AFA General Counsel) to inquire into the matter. Mr. Lilienthal
has agreed to do so and will report back as soon as possible recommending a course of action. In the meantime, we are actively evaluating candidates to the fill the
role of AFA Legislative Vice President.

Upon receipt of the report from Mr. Lilienthal, we will recommend an appropriate course of action for our members. Check back on this website
www.afabirds.org/paws.shtml frequently for updates.

To view the full text of the bill, click the links below:

· SENATE BILL (S.B.) 1139
http://www.afabirds.org/pdf/SB1138fulltext.pdf
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· HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL (H.R.) 2669 http://www.afabirds.org/pdf/HR2669fulltext.pdf
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Source: http://www.afabirds.org/paws.shtml