Los Angeles County Department of Animal
Care and Control Draft
of Amendments to Title 10 (Animal Care). Read carefully. A
meeting is scheduled for March 4, 2010 with Director Marcia
Mayeda, Animal Care Counsel, Supervisor Anotonovich
Representative and members of SCKBA. Click
Here for DACC Title 10 Amendments Draft
On September 29, 2009, L.A. county decided that they were going
to ban people who have been living on their property, properly
licensed and permitted, from continuing to engage in their
livelihood of boarding, training and breeding dogs and cats, and
also to decrease their property values by possibly hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
As I wrote earlier, the kennel owners activated, and the result
was that 28 days later, the L.A. County Planning Commission
completely dismissed the proposed ordinance. The many attending
kennel owners noted grumpy frowning faces on the supporters of
the ordinance and felt gratified that their logical and polite
arguments convinced the commissioners what a farce the ordinance
was.
At that point, the kennel owners realized that those who,
because of their agenda and philosophy, wanted to disallow the
breeding of dogs or cats would not stop at this. Indeed, a
letter received by one of the kennel owner group showed that
that agenda was still being worked full force.
The next obvious step was to organize and legitimize the kennel
owners, not only in L.A. county, but also moving on to all the
Incorporated cities of L.A. county, the biggest one being L.A.
City itself. On November 12, 2009, a meeting was held in Canyon
Country, (near Santa Clarita, Ca) where the group met and
immediately went to work appointing an interim organizational
Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. Before an hour was up, an
incorporating committee, a legal committee, a kennel contact
committee, a fundraising committee and a website committee with
chairs and members were formed. Every person attending
volunteered to either chair or be a committee member on one or
more committees. Discussed were various means to contact
community politicians, media and raise public awareness.
It was decided that the organization would be named the Southern
California Kennel and Breeders Association, that the concept
would center around the freedom and right to own and breed dogs
and cats as a business or personally. There is an open
invitation for other groups in southern California to join in a
coalition with SCKBA, aimed at halting the progression of those
using the political arena for their own extremist agendas.
While not all who have joined this organization were able to
attend the meeting, the group has new members joining daily and
the energy is building to become an activist group for positive
growth.
