ALERT - Province of Prince Edward Island
At the November 6th, 2009 PEI Veterinarian Medical Association (VMA) Annual General Meeting, members voted to ban veterinarians in the province from conducting cropping, docking and dew claw removal on dogs.
We were informed that there would be discussion of cropping, docking, and dew claw removal at the VMA meeting in the spring of 2009. At that time, the dog fancy launched an extensive letter campaign asking the PEIVMA not to ban these procedures. The lobby efforts pressured the PEIVMA to cancel any action at that meeting.
We discovered they would revisit the issue in November of that year with a May 2010 target date for a ban. Instead the PEIVMA fast tracked the discussion and unbeknownst to us passed a ban at the November AGM.
In their announcement of the PEIVMA ban during the Canadian Veterinarian Medical Association (CVMA) meeting in Ottawa in November 2009, the VMA noted that they received "no local opposition" and that all the correspondence received was from outside their area of operation, mostly from the USA. They said that this made it easy for them to introduce the ban. |
