What is the main purpose of the NC Sporting Dog Assn.?
We protect our right to own, use, and breed animals. Our constitutional right to own property includes the right to own animals and to own unaltered animals for breeding. This right has come under attack by animal rights groups that are now working openly in North Carolina. The Humane Society of the US, PETA , the Doris Day Animal League, and other animal rights extremists do not believe that people should own animals. These extremists do not believe people should selectively breed animals, such as breeding to maintain purebred dogs. They wish to impose their bizarre ideas upon us. In the spring of 2004, a NC House legislative committee prepared legislation to tax pet food and introduce mandatory spay and neuter policies in North Carolina. We helped alert the 2004 NC General Assembly to the problems with this proposal and no such legislation was introduced. Since 2004, we have monitored the NC General Assembly to alert citizens to any legislation designed to destroy our diminish our ri
