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2003-07-19 Carole Diary
House passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006
Dear Howie, I am listening to a CD called Tuesdays with Morrie. It is about a man who is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease and his reflection on what was important in life. This morning I awoke thinking about what he said about family. He said the difference between family and friends is that even well meaning friends usually won’t be there for you when you can’t adjust your own pillow or wipe your own behind, but family is there for you without fail.
Family, he said, will never leave you. He was speaking of blood relatives, but he included his wife and the person narrating the CD who had been a former student. Family are those who have an unconditional love for you. It is the way I feel about you. (besides, I love stroking your behind)
Tuesday the House passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006 and Wednesday it went very well in the Senate for the bill S 269. Woo Hoo!
From Howie: Read the book - it is on the shelf. I'd wipe your behind too!
Written from the future (1/24/2021) Up until now in my diary I haven’t been writing about the progression of my efforts to end the abuse of big cats via the legislative process. I saw from the work we did to end pig gestation crates in Florida back in the 90s that legislation was the fastest way to end abuse of animals. In the late 90s a bill Tippi Hedren called The Shambala Act was introduced and it failed year after year until the 2002 introduction which was largely led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and perhaps the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). That was when I got involved and started rallying our growing mail list from visitors to Wildlife on Easy Street to contact their members of Congress. The large organizations had amazing tools for connecting supporters their legislators, but I couldn’t afford those.
By 2002 I had figured out html code for our website which was originally created in FrontPage and later converted to DreamWeaver. I would study the underlying code in how the big organizations’ online forms worked and then recreated them, to the best of my ability, to function the same way. Not having the underlying engine, I had to insert connections to lawmakers manually, but it was easy for my supporters to take action and I felt it was worth the time and effort on my part to make sure they were heard. The new version of the Shambala Act, this time called the Captive Wildlife Safety Act to distance the bill from Tippi’s version, was re introduced in 2002 and I was all in! Tippi didn’t want the circus exempted, and neither did anyone else, but Kenneth Feld was too politically connected for that version to ever pass back then.
The Captive Wildlife Safety Act passed unanimously in a Republican controlled Congress and under a Republican President and it made it illegal to sell a big cat, across state lines, as a pet. It became law in December of 2003. Ever since then my primary mission has been to close the loopholes in that law to end the cub handling and to phase out private possession of big cats.
House passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006
Dear Howie, I am listening to a CD called Tuesdays with Morrie. It is about a man who is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease and his reflection on what was important in life. This morning I awoke thinking about what he said about family. He said the difference between family and friends is that even well meaning friends usually won’t be there for you when you can’t adjust your own pillow or wipe your own behind, but family is there for you without fail.
Family, he said, will never leave you. He was speaking of blood relatives, but he included his wife and the person narrating the CD who had been a former student. Family are those who have an unconditional love for you. It is the way I feel about you. (besides, I love stroking your behind)
Tuesday the House passed the Captive
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By Carole BaskinHouse passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006
Dear Howie, I am listening to a CD called Tuesdays with Morrie. It is about a man who is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease and his reflection on what was important in life. This morning I awoke thinking about what he said about family. He said the difference between family and friends is that even well meaning friends usually won’t be there for you when you can’t adjust your own pillow or wipe your own behind, but family is there for you without fail.
Family, he said, will never leave you. He was speaking of blood relatives, but he included his wife and the person narrating the CD who had been a former student. Family are those who have an unconditional love for you. It is the way I feel about you. (besides, I love stroking your behind)
Tuesday the House passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006 and Wednesday it went very well in the Senate for the bill S 269. Woo Hoo!
From Howie: Read the book - it is on the shelf. I'd wipe your behind too!
Written from the future (1/24/2021) Up until now in my diary I haven’t been writing about the progression of my efforts to end the abuse of big cats via the legislative process. I saw from the work we did to end pig gestation crates in Florida back in the 90s that legislation was the fastest way to end abuse of animals. In the late 90s a bill Tippi Hedren called The Shambala Act was introduced and it failed year after year until the 2002 introduction which was largely led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and perhaps the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). That was when I got involved and started rallying our growing mail list from visitors to Wildlife on Easy Street to contact their members of Congress. The large organizations had amazing tools for connecting supporters their legislators, but I couldn’t afford those.
By 2002 I had figured out html code for our website which was originally created in FrontPage and later converted to DreamWeaver. I would study the underlying code in how the big organizations’ online forms worked and then recreated them, to the best of my ability, to function the same way. Not having the underlying engine, I had to insert connections to lawmakers manually, but it was easy for my supporters to take action and I felt it was worth the time and effort on my part to make sure they were heard. The new version of the Shambala Act, this time called the Captive Wildlife Safety Act to distance the bill from Tippi’s version, was re introduced in 2002 and I was all in! Tippi didn’t want the circus exempted, and neither did anyone else, but Kenneth Feld was too politically connected for that version to ever pass back then.
The Captive Wildlife Safety Act passed unanimously in a Republican controlled Congress and under a Republican President and it made it illegal to sell a big cat, across state lines, as a pet. It became law in December of 2003. Ever since then my primary mission has been to close the loopholes in that law to end the cub handling and to phase out private possession of big cats.
House passed the Captive Animal Protection Act H.R. 1006
Dear Howie, I am listening to a CD called Tuesdays with Morrie. It is about a man who is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease and his reflection on what was important in life. This morning I awoke thinking about what he said about family. He said the difference between family and friends is that even well meaning friends usually won’t be there for you when you can’t adjust your own pillow or wipe your own behind, but family is there for you without fail.
Family, he said, will never leave you. He was speaking of blood relatives, but he included his wife and the person narrating the CD who had been a former student. Family are those who have an unconditional love for you. It is the way I feel about you. (besides, I love stroking your behind)
Tuesday the House passed the Captive