Do you have pets? Please read this...

[Rincinerate]

Our family recently purchased two Lineolated Parakeets. Earlier today, the breeder contacted us to let us know of a bill that has been proposed that, if passed, would threaten their lives.

I've attached his message below.

HR669 has been proposed! This is one of the most dangerous Animal Rights bills ever to be introduced. THIS WILL BAN ALL NON-NATIVE ANIMALS AS PETS in the US: all birds, almost all reptiles, small mammals like hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, etc, all aquarium fish, and more. It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL that you contact the Representatives and tell them that you OPPOSE HR669!

Directions on how to oppose HR669 is on Youtube here:

YouTube - Pets in Peril (politicians gone wild) HR669

YouTube - Pets in Peril (politicians gone wild) HR669

Everyone that keeps a pet that is not a dog or cat needs your help. We need all the support we can get to send a very clear message.

Go to www.capwiz.com/naiatrust/ and click on the first alert about HR669. This is a very QUICK AND EASY way to get a letter emailed to the representatives NOW. The hearing is set for next Thursday, April 23rd so hurry! Don't rely on someone else to do this!

Please spread the word!! Thanks,
Jason J. Crean
Science Education & Zoo Consultant
www.beaksbirdhouse.com

Thanks for reading. Please help!
NO HR 669

[DennyCrane]

Here's a tracking site to follow the progress of the bill:
H.R. 669: Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act (GovTrack.us)

And here's the full content of the bill itself:
GovTrack: H.R. 669: Text of Legislation, Introduced in House

[Speedde423]

If they're bred I don't think you'd have a problem, unless you later wanted to buy birds or other animals that were wild caught.

Originally Posted by http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-669

(f) Animals Owned Lawfully Prior to Prohibition of Importation- This Act and regulations issued under this Act shall not interfere with the ability of any person to possess an individual animal of any species if such individual animal was legally owned by the person before the risk assessment is begun pursuant to subsection (e)(3), even if such species is later prohibited from being imported under the regulations issued under this Act.

And in the US Code that the section refers to

Originally Posted by http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000042----000-.html

(4) Nothing in this subsection shall restrict the importation of dead natural-history specimens for museums or for scientific collections, or the importation of domesticated canaries, parrots (including all other species of psittacine birds), or such other cage birds as the Secretary of the Interior may designate.

Although I don't see how this bill is needed when the US Code seems to have much of what this bill is intended for.

[BLAZE86]

Parakeets sure.. homicidal chimpanzee that learned everything it knows from mainly watching TV, no ty..

[Jumpmaster]

Originally Posted by BLAZE86

Parakeets sure.. homicidal chimpanzee that learned everything it knows from mainly watching TV, no ty..

We are going to hell in a hand basket.
First its Chimpanzees gone wild then we have welfare mom's giving birth to eight babies at a time. That my friends is a litter.
Save the parakeets.

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