You might be surprised - Page 1

TIG,

I read some of the articles your post linked to, and I was horrified by some of what I read.  I knew that some of the animal rights nuts had their fingers into things normal people think are crazy, but...I was shocked at the extent.  To any of you on this forum who believe that a single one of the laws being proposed are actually meant to protect dogs, I urge you to consider that the mission of HSUS, PETA, and many of the other groups is not animal welfare, but animal 'rights' and animal 'liberation'.  To need liberation, something must first be a slave.

How about this: On one of the articles linked to the above posting, there are some statistics.  Approximately 75% of the dogs in shelters are not the purebred dogs "being cranked out" by puppy mills and backyard breeders, but instead are actually mongrels, mixed breeds.  Only about 25% are purebreds.

Wayne Pacelle, the president of the HSUS, said, "We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding.  One generation and (they are) out.  We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.  They are the creations of human selective breeding." 

If legislation tightens to the point that breeding of species can no longer happen, or becomes so expensive that no one can do it anymore, and domestic animals cease to exist, it would end the millennia long associations we have long held with the animals that shape our lives.  They aren't just talking about dogs and cats.  They are talking about chickens and all other domesticated and pet birds, all horses, cattle, pigs, reptiles, and everything else you can think of.  After all, killing animals for food is the ultimate bad.

I'm not saying that animals don't deserve love. They do, all of them.  But they are indeed the product of human selective breeding, and since we made them, we must protect them.  Not so much from the unscrupulous breeders (although they are a threat), but from the stark, raving crazy people who have amassed millions upon millions of dollars to buy the legislation they need to further their insane agendas. 

Don't believe me?  Read for yourself.  And don't tell me that it's just a bunch of nonsense...It isn't the normal, thinking people like us who further these types of legislation.  It's the HSUS, PETA, Best Friends and all the rest of the groups out there.  Only those who are confused as to the final goals of these things would support them.  Just remember, every time the grip tightens, it becomes easier to tighten further.

Crys

Off topic, but applies to this and all governmental interference.  Anybody remember this?:  "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it! Almightly God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!"