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Did you know??? Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible
Do
you know the difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?? Know
the difference!!!
A direct quote from PETA:
" The cat, like the dog, must
disappear... We should cut the domestic animals free from our dominance by
neutering, neutering and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the
domestic pet ceases to exist."--John Bryant, (PeTA,)
PLEASE HELP PROTECT THE
RIGHTS OF WV ANIMAL OWNERS It is our duty as
citizens (local, WV and U.S.) to know the laws. It's time to spread the word to
the WV animal owning population that there are people out there trying to create
laws that have the potential to affect every aspect of all animal ownership.
Please join our group, and help preserve your right to keep animals!
For those in the West: Responsible Dog Owners of the West Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States was founded October 15, 1989. It is a not for profit group. Our supporters include pure-bred, rare breed, mixed breed owners, breeders, trainers, exhibitors, breed clubs, obedience clubs, and even people who don't own dogs, but are sympathetic to the right to keep and own dogs responsibly
COMMITTEE
AGAINST ANIMAL RIGHTS EXTREMISM
Many commonsense, compassionate people
who love their animals do not understand the true nature of the animal
rights movement. They care about their animals and want to insure they are
treated humanely. Because they have been misled into believing that the
movement is about something else (helping animals), they "think" they are
for animal rights. What they actually believe in is animal welfare, from a
responsible animal ownership perspective. They own and love animals and care
for them and do not want to see any animal abused.
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Animal Rights Vs. Animal Welfare
Animal WELFARE
is about humane treatment of animals; in fact, animal welfare is
essentially synonymous with the original
humane movement begun in England in the l840's.
Animal RIGHTS is claiming animals have legal rights, as people do, and the most
basic animal right is the
right not to be owned or used for any purpose at all by human beings.
Animal WELFARE supporters aim for a balance between owning and using animals as
humanely as possible
and allowing owners and breeders their rights to own, use, and breed animals.
Animal RIGHTS supporters aim to end all ownership, use, and breeding of all
animals. They envision a world
in which no animals are left anywhere, because, allegedly, man has so mis-treated
animals, man no
longer deserves to have animals. If it is not possible to end the existence of
all animals by sterilization,
then at least, all animals should be set free to make their way in the
wilderness. Anything less than that
is slavery.
Animal RIGHTS people do NOT believe in animal welfare. On the contrary, they
are not interested in so-called
humane treatment of animals, because they believe there should be no
interaction at all between animals
and human beings.
Roberta Pliner
Permission to cross-post or quote anywhere, but give
authorship credit and pet-law list credit.
A brief guide to America's shelters, who is taking credit for what, and where
your donations go.
Wayne Cavanaugh (President of the United Kennel Club)
Did you ever get mail from the "humane society"? Donation solicitations,
Christmas cards, free address labels? Was it from the Humane Society of the
United States (HSUS), the American Humane Association (AHA), or the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)? Did you ever wonder
who they are and what they do? What about during disaster relief efforts, did
you
ever wonder where to send your donations?
Don't know the answers to these questions? You are not alone. Even among the
most dedicated dog lovers there is huge misunderstanding and confusion when it
comes to our nation's shelters and the SAS – that is, the Shelter Alphabet
Soup, that comes with them.
June 13, 2006 - AA LEGISLATION
You know what's going on in America. For want of a more descriptive term,
let's call it AA Legislation because that's exactly what it is. Anti-animal,
Anti-America. It goes by other names such as
animal rights, animal control and more accurately spay/neuter. But don't
think for one minute that it hasn't always been anti-America!
The cleverly subversive laws began to erode your rights 25 years ago. You
were too busy to notice that your kids were taught to disrespect your family
values and customs by PETA-supplied materials. There were other signals but
you had a litter to plan, dog shows to enter, and your job and family to
worry about. That pretty well filled your plate and you pushed "bad news" to
the back burner. Even as your awareness grew, you left it to others to stir
the pot.
Start a list of things of rights you gave up. It will be a long list. Let's
take just one example. Smoking. I was a smoker but it wasn't the tobacco I
gave up, it was the ever-increasing chemicals and addictive substances that
I finally rejected. My grandfathers smoked for a thousand years. It did them
no harm. Tobacco was clean, a religious and ceremonial tool.
So you smoke or you don't but now you can't smoke in public. If you live
next to a righteous non-smoker in Florida you can't light up in your own
home! You gave up that right long before you were made to feel guilty for
poisoning others with second hand smoke. Now you pay more for a pack of
cigarettes than the alcoholic pays for a bottle of booze! But who's
counting?
Here's an interesting fact for pot smokers or those who remember when Coke
contained cocaine. Over 300,000 deaths per year from prescription drugs
rivals stats on those who die from "illegal" (non-taxed, non-regulated,
non-doctor dispensed) drugs. But who's reporting that?
While you're mulling over the loss of your constitutional right to bear arms
to protect your family from an oppressive government that can't protect
them.... well, think about how personal and how warped laws and regulations
have become. My new car insists on locking me in. At least the windows roll
all
the way down... But I don't have kids and when I did have small children, I
never lost one out the window! I can't open a pill bottle but I don't even
know anyone who's kid got sick from eating a pain reliever much less Advil!
Now "they" are telling you to castrate your stud dog or shell over the bucks
to keep him whole. The show bitch you raised from a promising whelp to
become the future of your bitch line has to be spayed - or else. And these
are not "dangerous dogs" we're talking about. It is your Cocker, your Newfie,
or
your toy Poodle. You start counting heads, and the yearly bribe to your
county or city is can be more than the "rent" you pay them to live in the
house you "own." Sobering thought. So it isn't a fee, it is blackmail!
Extortion.
Lay your list aside. You get the point. You can no longer have an intact dog
behind the expensive fencing you installed because you are a responsible
owner. You live in a penthouse with a toy dog that uses pee pee pads?
Doesn't matter, they will know you have him, microchips and vet records are
a dead giveaway.... So pay the surgical fee or pay off the racketeers, i.e.
politicians.
Make no mistake. The current legislation mania is but one more step in a
concerted, well organized plan to destroy all that Americans hold dear.
Communist plot? Who knows? There are some who catalog the first assault as
an obscure group calling itself "People For The Ethical Treatment Of
Animals."
Where did PETA get millions of start up funding with which to send out those
solicitations? What about ALF and ELF? Good questions but what matters is
that you recognize the threat and rise up to defeat it. Our forefathers left
Europe because of oppression. They came to a new land and carved out a
place to call home. They dumped some tea in Boston Harbor to symbolize
freedom from unfair taxation.
For over a century, our soldiers have given their lives to protect the
hallmark of American beliefs - freedom from oppression and undue taxation.
Freedom from illegal search and seizure. Sure. Tell it to Denver dog owners!
We protected our homes from "savages" and now we open the door to
inspectors.
We stood up to the King Of England. Now we bow down to a dog warden.
We wrote a Constitution. Now we are afraid to invoke our rights.
Brave men died so we could remain Americans, but who remembers the Alamo?
We are way too civilized now. We "talk out" our problems. We "come together"
and by committee, we hand over our rights. Where once we elected Leaders to
represent us, we now send political lackeys out to collect bribes and perks
and we're so used to it, we shrug off the latest scandal on nightly news.
Or do we?
Dog owners gave a solidly entrenched California senator the boot. Kicked her
out in the primaries. We're not rid of Santorum but he saw defeat and tabled
PAWS. Now we have a NY Assemblywoman who says you can't crop or dock your
dog. If I were to do my own tails (it would take one minute per pup, no
stressful trip to the vet for mom, and the pups would be back to sleep
before they could be put back on the nipple) I'd probably be fined a grand
per pup instead of the $500 per violation that publicity-seeking twit wants!
I hope New Yorkers do to her what Californians did to Speier. Are we strong
enough to send a message, loud and clear?
We are Americans! We come from fighting stock and we have seen the enemy.
Black, white, red, and yellow; we are mad Americans and we ain't gonna take
it any more. Democrat, Republican, Independent, it does not matter. We are
going to fight for the few rights we have left and our companion animals are
at the top of the list.
There has never been progress without revolt. That is the foundation upon
which America was built. Our forefathers brought their dreams and their pets
to America. Dog owners are nearly half the population. We hold the power.
And we use it to defeat every politician who tries to take away our
God-given right to own dogs! There's a new kid on the block and he's a dog
owner.
In fact, he probably has a bumper sticker that says "My Dog Votes" and he
means it!
Barbara J. Andrews
Managing Editor
Letters & Comment Welcomed to:
Editor@TheDogPress.com