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CC: All Appropriations Committee Members
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RE:  AB2110 (as amended 4/18/06) – OPPOSE							
	

Dear Assembly Member 					;

	As one of your constituents, I am urging you to OPPOSE AB2110. 

	The author of this bill has unfairly confused a legitimate hunting activity – open field coursing – with 
practices associated with the training of racing greyhounds.  

	The arguments used in support of this bill are provable falsehoods manufactured by extreme animal 
rightists. A rebuttal to just some of their fabrications is included below. 

	AB2110 will significantly reduce funds for the CA Department of Fish and Game by eliminating 
revenue from hunting license fees paid by coursers. These funds are used to fund wildlife management and 
conservation programs.  

	The bill is poorly written and inconsistent, making enforcement difficult, if not impossible. It 
proposes to make hunting with hounds a crime, but only if done in competition. Should our already 
overburdened law enforcement officers be asked to determine whether a group of people in a field are merely 
out for a walk, ridding pests from a farmer’s property, or running a field trial? 

	By criminalizing hound field trials, this bill ultimately affects anyone who hunts with dogs or 
competes in field trials or in performance tests with any breed. Competition is a common feature of all forms 
of hunting, fishing, and animal husbandry. AB2110 proposes to outlaw such competition.

	Contrary to sensationalist media reporting, coursing is one of the oldest and most humane methods 
of taking game. For those reasons, it was one of the few acceptable ways of obtaining meat in the Arab 
world. 

	The stated objective of the major endorser of this bill is to end all hunting in California . AB2110 is 
merely the first step in a much more comprehensive agenda. 

	Please oppose this very misguided legislation. 

Sincerely yours, 

  “We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. We will take it 
species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state.” 
Interview with Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society of the United States, Full Cry magazine, October, 1990.