Connecticut Action Alert!
Two bills before the Connecticut General Assembly need your immediate attention. The first bill contains a provision that would protect Monk Parakeets from being captured or killed. This provision is attached to a bill that would modify the control of dogs. Please ask your legislators to vote yes on H.B. 5804, “An Act Concerning Euthanizing Dogs and Department of Agriculture Hearings.” Because of the protections it provides for Monk Parakeets, the bill will prevent utility companies from trying to eradicate these parrots.
The second bill would allow bow-hunting on private land on Sundays, and extend the hunting season by an additional 20 days a year. Hunting in the state needs to be eliminated, not extended. Please ask your legislators to vote no on S.B. 605, “An Act Concerning Limited Sunday Hunting.”
A list of your local state legislators can be found in the blue pages in the front of your phone book. If you have Internet access you can find your legislator by going to: http://www.cga.ct.gov/maps/townlist.asp
Please feel free to call Daniel Hammer or Laurel Lundstrom at the Friends of Animals office, (203) 656-1522, if you would like some additional assistance contacting your legislators. Kindly also share with us any response you receive from your legislator.
Update on Connecticut Alert
This important update is on status of two bills before the Connecticut General Assembly, “An Act Concerning Monk Parakeets” and “An Act Concerning Limited Sunday Hunting.”
The first bill, which would protect Monk Parakeets from being captured or killed, could be in trouble if it is not approved by the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee. H.B. 5804, “An Act Concerning Monk Parakeets and Hearings Prior to the Euthanization of Dogs,” has been given the designation File No. 404. On March 20, the General Assembly’s Environment Committee unanimously approved the bill, however, on April 11 the bill was sent to the Judiciary Committee.
Please contact the Judiciary Committee Co-Chairs Rep. Mike Lawlor (MLawlor99@juno.com) and Senator Andrew McDonald (Mcdonald@senatedems.ct.gov) and urge them to quickly vote yes on File 404 so it can be voted on the House floor. Please pass this urgent message along, especially to East Haven residents living in Rep. Lawlor’s District, and Stamford and Darien residents living in Senator McDonald’s District. Also, contact your own state legislators to support this bill.
Also on April 11, the second bill, which would allow bow-hunting on private land on Sunday, was passed by the Senate. S.B. 605, “An Act Concerning Limited Sunday Hunting,” will now go to the House. The bill title implies the Sunday deer-killing will be limited to private land away from public view, but deer shot with arrows on private land will run up to two miles before they die. We already see wounded deer flee into residential roads and neighborhoods six days a week; Connecticut residents shouldn’t be subjected to this harrowing scene any day of the week — let alone everyday of the week, five months out of the year.
Please urge your Representative to vote against S.B. 605. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has worked to continually liberalize state hunting laws each year since the passage of the Deer Management Act in 1974. Hunting in the state needs to be eliminated, not expanded. You can find your Representative by looking up your town at cga.ct.gov or locate your representative by zip code at Vote-Smart.org.
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On March 25, 2006, colleen o'brien wrote:
please eliminate hunting altogether. leave the poor animals alone. their life is worth as much as yours. and who knows, ever heard of reincarnation? give a thought, would you.
On March 26, 2006, Nikki James wrote:
Have they lost thier minds?! I used to live in Alaska, I loved it there! But boycott? You bet I will! I know several of people I work with that are planning trips up north. Believe me, I’ll do everything in my power to convince them otherwise!
It’s 2006! My god, people! WAKE UP!
On April 1, 2006, david cerino wrote:
I am sick and tired of people who hunt and kill animals for their own pleasure, the modern Christians believe in animal rights, traditional Christians believe otherwise, I know Jesus would not allow his creatures to be destroyed, I dedicate my life and work as a photographer (nature wildlife) to see an end to the slaughter of all animals, in a 21st-century there is no way we need to slaughter for food. We especially do not need to kill animals for sport like the big bad hunters, the majority of hunters are underachievers anyway, I’m guessing this makes them feel manly.
On April 3, 2006, Katherine Ryan wrote:
Once again some poor defenseless animal’s fate lies in the hands of “the wrong people” Leave nature to be and let the good loving people who would love nothing more than to live in harmony with them decide what’s best. It is the 21st century and one would thing by now humans would be civilized and learn how to do things right. The cave man days are over and there are humane ways to get clothing and food as there are to get along with each other.
On April 3, 2006, Jacqueline Lopez wrote:
I know that there has been the sport of hunting and before that they hunted for survival but in this century it is ashame for any animal to go extinct for the simple reason of people finding the joy in killing the beautiful animals of our world. I think we all need to stop thinking of ourselves and start thinking of the whole picture. Do we want to keep hunting for the sport or for the people who wear it until there aren’t any animals left? We are not the only ones who have a right to survive.
On April 3, 2006, Katherine Ryan wrote:
I don’t think it is our place to determine the worthiness of others lives. We’re not God and we weren’t given that job. We all have the right to survive and have a decent life. One would think that humans who are suppose to be the more intelligent (???) would set an example for all other living species. Greed somehow always gets in the way. We should learn to live peacefully with all that inhabit this world. The last time I checked we humans were doing a great job at destroying everything on the planet including the planet.
On April 5, 2006, Wendy Brennan wrote:
Well I agree leave the animals alone they are doing nothing wrong.
On April 11, 2006, Priscilla Feral wrote:
On April 11, The Sunday bow-hunting bill which extends the violence of bow-hunting to private lands on Sundays for five months out of the year, passed the State Senate in Connecticut with a vote of 27-8.
Now is the time to call and write your State Representative in the House to defeat S.B. 605. Complain about the DEP’s propaganda effort to pass this bill, and express your opposition to a bill that caters to several hundred bow-hunters who wound deer — causing deer to flee for up to two miles before they bleed to death, or have their throats cut by the bow-hunter. Bow-hunters view this bloodletting as an exciting sport, while their apologists in the DEP wrap it in biological mumbo jumbo. Deer don’t need to be controlled; hunters should control themselves. And, the Department of Environmental Protection needs a new mission — one that isn’t framed by acts of violence, and hunting license revenues that define the DEP’s devotion to treating hunters as clients.
Next, please write Gov. Rell and press her not to sign the bill into law if received from the House.
Priscilla Feral
Friends of Animals