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Subject: MO: mercantile-law used by vet-board to quash competition: Oct-09 Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:50 pm |
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this is not about horses - the law as written applies to any species and all things =changing their physical or mental condition=, an enormous area:
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this is bizarre, Bat-boys and Bat-girls - the STATE Atty-Gen office of Missouri filed a suit against a woman with a 5-month apprenticeship in an equine dentistry-school AND 7-years as a practitioner, in October - she is supposedly *infringing on vet-medicine* and abrogating vet-privileges to herself.
here's the relevant quoted law: "The Veterinary Medical Board, the plaintiff... invoked... a 1992 law... [which states] it [is] a criminal offense for any non-vet other than an owner or the owner’s full-time employee *** to change an animal’s physical or mental condition.*** Violation... punishable by a fine [max] $1k and [12-mos] in prison for each... animal involved." [emphasis *** added]
the way that reads with NO exceptions, it means no-one could legally bathe or groom a dog or shear a sheep, or trim or shoe a horse, etc, UNLESS U are 1, the owner; 2, the owners FT-employee, or 3, a VETERINARIAN.
why would i have to be a vet to train a dog - another prosecutable violation? how about clipping the wings of birds, something many vets suck at?
"changing" their mental or physical condition would mean VETS must train, groom, bathe, B-Mod, float all horses or other grazers teeth, trim all bunny-teeth, SHEAR ALL SHEEP, trim hooves on stock, clip nails on dogs + cats + birds, trim the beaks of birds, and on and on... and ON. H***'s bells, if they stretch it, vets also have to milk every lactating animal used for milk or cheese production: cow, goat, sheep, buffalo, moose, camel, whatever.
that the state Vet-med Board is the plaintiff is especially worrisome - this will be a precedent-setting case, watched with great [and avid] interest, as some vets are beginning to allege that trainers are intruding on vet-territory, altho vets without a Board-certificate in Behavior as a specialty have almost no schooling except safe-restraint, anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of species - NOT behavior.
i sure hope the verdict is in the defendant's favor - or there will be a terrible lack of groomers, farriers, trainers, etc, for decades to come!
only in a Merika, - terry
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