diff --git a/lib/statsd.rb b/lib/statsd.rb
index 298610f0..9bb8a86f 100644
--- a/lib/statsd.rb
+++ b/lib/statsd.rb
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 class Statsd
   # A namespace to prepend to all statsd calls.
   attr_accessor :namespace
-  attr_accessor :enabled
 
   #characters that will be replaced with _ in stat names
   RESERVED_CHARS_REGEX = /[\:\|\@]/
@@ -28,8 +27,8 @@ class << self
   
   # @param [String] host your statsd host
   # @param [Integer] port your statsd port
-  def initialize(host, port=8125, enabled=true)
-    @host, @port, @enabled = host, port, enabled
+  def initialize(host, port=8125)
+    @host, @port = host, port
   end
 
   # Sends an increment (count = 1) for the given stat to the statsd server. 
@@ -78,8 +77,6 @@ def time(stat, sample_rate=1)
     result
   end
 
-  def enabled?; enabled end
-
   private
 
   def sampled(sample_rate)
@@ -94,7 +91,7 @@ def send(stat, delta, type, sample_rate)
 
   def send_to_socket(message)
     self.class.logger.debug {"Statsd: #{message}"} if self.class.logger
-    socket.send(message, 0, @host, @port) if @enabled
+    socket.send(message, 0, @host, @port)
   end
 
   def socket; @socket ||= UDPSocket.new end
diff --git a/spec/statsd_spec.rb b/spec/statsd_spec.rb
index ef5c2477..6c6523cf 100644
--- a/spec/statsd_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/statsd_spec.rb
@@ -157,21 +157,6 @@ def socket; @socket ||= FakeUDPSocket.new end
       @log.string.must_be_empty
     end
 
-    describe "while disabled" do
-      before { @statsd.enabled = false }
-
-      it "should be disabled" do
-        @statsd.enabled.must_equal false
-        @statsd.enabled?.must_equal false
-      end
-
-      it "should not send data to the socket but should still log" do
-        @statsd.increment('foo', 1)
-        @statsd.socket.recv.must_be_nil
-        @log.string.must_match "Statsd: foo:1|c"
-      end
-
-    end
   end
 
   describe "stat names" do