MISSION STATEMENT
Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States was founded October 15, 1989. The group's name may be abbreviated R.D.O.W.S. It is a not for profit group.
RDOWS MISSION IS TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC SERVICES
- Provide speakers for dog clubs, service clubs, and community centers throughout the western states.
- Have information booths at dog shows
- Formulate alternative legislation to that which infringes upon the rights of people to own or utilize their dogs.
- Attend council, commissioner, and committee meetings.
- Conduct aggressive letter writing campaigns to city councils, county commissioners state legislatures, newspapers, magazines, TV, and radio stations.
- Keep the dog owning public informed of any legislation directly concerning ownership and use of dogs.
- Actively work to cause reasonable dog legislation to be enacted.
- Oppose legislation that infringes upon any citizen’s right to responsibly own animals.
- We actively fight legislation that undermines the right to own, show, hunt, or breed dogs, including breeding bans, mandatory spay/neuter, and breed specific codes or ordinances.
- RDOWS promotes the responsible ownership, care, nurture, husbandry, and treatment of dogs.
