It was the AR movement. With 20/20 hindsight, we should have pushed for the law when it was first proposed. It would have made the state create a licensing system. We fought it and it later became the API copy and paste law. A hard to obtain license would be better than what we have now... blanket banning of hots.

I agree that the guy's stuff shouldn't be confiscated. In my perfect world he should be allowed to move them out. Especially since it seems he's been taking care to be safe and taking good care of the animals.

It doesn't matter which way you lean politically. Both sides want to intrude on your privacy and rights. They're just different in HOW they want to do it.

Doug T



>>I understand your feelings of limited sympathy for this person, just a little bit. Sure, he could have "just moved" (not that easy if he owned the house and couldn't sell it). But I am still enraged that a citizen who apparently had not been a problem to society up to the point the law changed, now has had his home violated and his property confiscated. Laws ought to exist to serve a particular purpose. What purpose does this law serve? To make reviled outlaws out of otherwise law-abiding, productive citizens?
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>>Can you enlighten us, who brought the bill to the state legislature? In other places it has been the animal rights movement. A few times it has been in response to an incident (escape; bite; animal neglect case; etc) involving animal(s). Was there an incident in WA that provoked this legislation? Or was the AR movement once again successful?
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>>Thanks,
>>Jimi

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