STOP THE ANIMAL EXHIBIT BAN IN KINGMAN, AZ

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Mayor Miles

Vice Mayor Lingenfelter

City Manager Foggin

Councilman Wayt

Councilwoman Keener

Councilwoman Nelson

Councilwoman Stehly

Councilman Ken Watkins

I am writing to ask that you OPPOSE this misguided ordinance to outright ban legal and highly regulated businesses exhibiting exotic and wild animals in the City of Kingman.

While it has become commonplace to believe that humane treatment is not exercised by caretakers of performing animals and exhibits, nothing could not be further from the truth.  Performing animals are well respected and are provided with a life full of excellent medical care, environmental stimulation, and top-notch husbandry practices all of which are heavily regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

Exotic animal owners and exhibitors are providing an important link in protecting the survival of these species which are under attack by radical animal rights organizations, and in some cases already extinct in their native environments.

It is imperative that we foster appreciation and learning about these majestic creatures through licensed, regulated,  safe and inspected traveling exhibits.

There are many statutes that govern safe and humane treatment and of animals already in place through the US Department of Agriculture and the State of Arizona to ensure that animal abuse does not occur.

Animal rights is an emotion-based agenda led by a small, vocal minority which is not rooted in the care and keeping of animals. Instead, they have an emotion-based agenda appealing to a non-scientific, inexperienced sentiment instead of time-tested animal husbandry standards and best practices of animal owners and animal enterprise operators.

Please do not be wrongly influenced by the animal rights groups pushing this ordinance to ban these legal businesses just because it doesn't align with their emotional agenda.

I respectfully request that you vote NO on the ordinance to BAN Wild and Exotic Animal Performances.

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