Good morning all - and keep up the letters to the pollies- A number of observers sat in on the meeting and a working party was formed from 2 of our observers - Sue Huebner and Jan Cooke as well as Doug Ford Peter Frost and John Cassar. This committee has the power to co opt people to help but the main thing now is that they have to meet again on monday and have everything ready . Various people have been assigned various part of the bill to ananlyse but his will not stop individuals helping- all correspondence to jansilk@alphalink.com.au . The Bruce Robinson letter is the sort of rebuttal and information we are looking for so if anyone has any scientific papers re inherited diseases in dogs and testing proceedures and what the clubs are doing could they please forward it to Jan asap.Similarly any other information re the dangerous dogs,the powers of the councils Tail docking debarking etc please send over.Gerri Greig has been in contact with the vets and there are nearly 200 Non AVA vets in Victoria who have never had a voice before - these vets deserve our support - more on this later as this Bill is our number one priority!The VCA is talking of hiring a lobbyist - I think the dog world as a whole needs a lobbyist and we also need a watchdog to warn us when bills llike this are being planned !

Pauline Freeman - and thanks to the people that came  out last night and to all those who are supporting us in this fight to save Victorian dogdom .