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DPCA Legislative Committee Mission
Our mission is to become the leading voice for educating the public, as well as civic, community and political leaders, about the importance of reasonable laws and regulations that promote responsible animal ownership and preserve the human-animal bond; particularly where the welfare of the Doberman Pinscher is concerned. To accomplish our mission we are committed to:
(1) Educating the public as well as civic, community and political leaders and providing resources and information about the historic importance of the Doberman Pinscher in the United States and the crucial role that working dogs play today;
(2) Support reasonable and humane animal welfare laws that promote the right to own dogs and encourage responsible ownership practices;
(3) Oppose legislative efforts that would restrict the rights of responsible dog owners;
(4) Actively create societal and legislative awareness that dogs must not to be discriminated against based upon their breed.
DPCA's Position on the AVMA Policy Change
Motion 09-22Whereas the AVMA recently changed its policy statement on ear cropping and tail docking to state that "the AVMA opposes ear cropping and tail docking of dogs when done solely for cosmetic purposes. The AVMA encourages the elimination of ear cropping and tail docking from breed standards," and
Whereas the Doberman Pinscher was bred as a personal protection dog whose ear crop and tail dock is not solely for cosmetic purposes, but for utilitarian purposes that allow our breed to be used most effectively for its intended purpose, and
Whereas the utilitarian purpose for which our breed was created therefore renders the AVMA policy inapplicable to the cropping and docking of the Doberman Pinscher, and
Whereas our breed has a century of devotion and faithfulness to America that has seen the Doberman Pinscher gallantly serve this nation in time of war, saving the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American soldiers, sailors and Marines, as well as civilians, and
Whereas the DPCA has just signed an historic Convention on Cooperation in Topeka, Kansas in October, 2008 in which we have pledged to assist the Department of Homeland Security in developing programs to provide American dogs for American security, and
Whereas this historic commitment encourages American Doberman Pinscher breeders to breed dogs whose conformation, drives and temperament will enable the dogs they breed to do the work for which they were originally bred as well as to adapt to the work needed by the Department of Homeland Security to carry out its mission of protecting the American homeland,
Now therefore, the Board of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America hereby affirms our unwavering commitment to the standard of the breed, as currently written, in all its respects.
Motion passes unanimously.