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Speeches, Letters and Presentations Geared to Your Local Governing Body

Introduction

The letters and speeches linked to from this page are offered as a blueprint from which you can model your own presentation to the powers-that-be. Please feel free to deliver these words to your local council verbatim. Or, if you prefer, tweak and personalize your presentation of choice by adding to or subtracting from it using your own words, or words you take from barkingdogs.net, to make your presentation perfectly fit your situation, as well as your personal perspective.

Adams' appeal to reason - a three minute speech
This three minute presentation emphasizes logic and reason as it describes the health and social hazards created by chronic barking, and calls on government to establish enforceable barking laws and an animal control program that emphasizes dog owner education.

A presentation that can serve either as a speech or a letter
This presentation is recommended for use either as a letter you can send to your city fathers as a way of introducing them to the concept of effective dog management. Or, you can begin your interaction with the mayor and city council by briefly addressing them in open session and, then, sending this material along later as part of your follow up.

A letter informing the city manager that noise is a health hazard

A letter to local officials to accompany the Symptoms and Side Effects of Noise poster

A letter challenging the legality of kennels kept in residentially zoned neighborhoods

This page is the Speeches Index, which is part of the Background
Information component of the Activist section of barkingdogs.net