More PETA propaganda - Page 1

http://www.peta.org/feat/abc/video2.asp http://www.peta.org/feat-abc_campaign.asp Disgusting tactics, IMO

I thought Peta didn't believe in keeping animals as pets? I thought in their view it's animal slavery? Why do they give a crap about what happens to pets? It's nothing but bull crap.

As much as I dislike PETA, the one where the parents are pressuring their kid to have sex and make babies makes a good point, one that I wish a lot of numbskull show-my-kids-the-miracle-of-life pet owners would get through their stupid heads...

You know what I'd like to see? Every breeder should be required by law to microchip their pups. This could be enforced under the current dog licensing system that's already in place. Then, when the dog shows up in the shelter, the breeder gets a call. Hey, you bred this animal: do we euthanize it, or are you going to come and rescue it? It would really make breeders think twice about who they sold their pups to... Okay, end of dream. I now return you to reality, where 10 MILLION pets are euthanized every year, and the breeders still just keep crankin' 'em out, and when the government tries to do something about it, shouting and screaming: HOW DARE YOU INFRINGE ON MY RIGHTS??? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if supposedly responsible breeders don't find a way to curb the indiscriminate breeding of dogs, someday soon we'll find a solution formulated by an extremist group like PETA being forced down our throats.

Brittany, Your question is valid. This whole "adopt homeless animals from shelters" propaganda is a front--a part of their "hidden agenda". If there are no more breeders, there will eventually (according to the PETA mentality) be no more pets PERIOD--from either shelters or breeders. These idiot extremists don't believe in zoos or in captive breeding programs for animals nearing extinction!

Here's their link to "there are no responsible breeders". http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-responsiblebreeders.asp

Sunsilver, First be clear that I am not saying that there is not a problem to work on BUT we need to get clear about what that problem is and the true size and definition of it. That starts with using accurate figures not widely inflated out of date ones - such as your 10 million. While lobbying against AB1634 last year, Mancuso in my presence claiomed to a legislator that for every Californian born 15 dogs were born. I said wait a minute there are 35 million Californians. That would mean there are 525 million dogs in CA when we KNOW the population is about 10 million. She screams at me - "that's because you KILLED them all" I said "well, I'll double the current rate of euthansia to 200,000 and it would still take 2,635 years to kill them all and it's only 2007 - maybe you should invest your money in math education. I have seen these HIGHLY FRAUDULENT figures tossed around like candy and people believe them. There is a you tube video that I believe claims 60 or 70 animals born per person. We need to stop allowing this kind of FRAUD to go on unchallenged. From OFFICIAL state figures - In Ca in the last 30 years we have reduced out shelter population by 76%. Reduced euthansia and radically increased rehoming and adoption. We are doing some things right. In 2005 115,000 ( thats thousand NOT millions) dogs were PTS - many not at all adoptable and certainly not eqivalent to a well bred GSD as a companion. In San Diego in that same year of the dogs they had to PTS do you know how many were designated as healthy and adoptable? TWO - yes folks that's right - TWO. So lets get involved in Animal Control in our communities and first start to get an accurate picture and then maybe we can come up with some new solutions that will help us work on the problem we still have. MSN has been shown repeatedly NOT to work while education has been shown repeatedly TO work. One of our local shelters is open 10-4 M-F. Do you think they might have a problem adopting out dogs???? It can be as simple as changing decades long practices. Do you know that in MASS their shelter system IMPORTS animals from other states and PR(along w/ a case of rabies) and is the biggest sole supplier of pets in the Commonwealth. Totally unregulated and unlicensed. If I was a tax payer there I'd be pissed my tax money was going for that. That job belongs to SPCA and resuce groups - lease out the shelters no longer needed and make money instead of using tax revenues to keep animal control jobs. This is just the tip of the iceberg and we all have to start to question and challenge what "facts" are fed to us. So please KNOW your facts and figures and do not just spout PETA propagda.

Thanks for the reality check, Tig. I think California is doing an excellent job. I was surprised by just how many GSD rescues there were in the state, when I did a search recently. What is MASS, BTW? PR? Us non-animal rescue people aren't up on these abbreviations! And elsewhere you said you used a service dog. I'm just curious to know what kind of service dog. (If you want to take that topic to PM, that's fine with me.) Our local shelters in Ontario must be doing a pretty good job, too, and the spay/neuter message seems to have made an impact, because when my friend wanted to adopt a puppy for her daughter, she COULD NOT FIND ON! They finally settled on a 9 mo. old boxer mix, which had been turned in to a shelter about an hour's drive away.

Sunsilver: "What is MASS, BTW? PR? Us non-animal rescue people aren't up on these abbreviations!" ************************************************************************************************* I believe that TIG may be referring to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. TIG's service dog (schutzhund titled, BTW!!!) is for mobility assistance.

Sunsilver I know what you mean. My next door neighbor wants her kids to see "the miracle" also doesn't want to deny her dog "the chance to be a mommy". They kept a sleightly built eight month old female in the backyard with their humongous brute of a stray male. So far she is on her third litter. Every heat cycle, just like clockwork one of her kids shows me a puppy. I've given up talking to her about it. Shots? Wormer? Vet check? No way. Hadn't even heard of the need for any of it. Because they are only going to be in people's yard. Yeah, and the pound. Makes me furious. Like the poem Yellow posted. It's a life dammit.