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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

 

PET SHOPS ON-LINECOMMITTEE 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. Read more...

 

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.

Animal Shelters


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.


In the late 1990's, a group called the California Coalition of Animal Advocates convened to try to find answers to issues dog-related population issues. Their work included a study to find out who and where the animal shelters were in America. It sounded easy enough until they discovered that a national list of shelters did not exist, and, contrary to popular opinion, there wasn't a "humane society" or any other type of organization that oversaw all of America's shelters!

So who, what, and where are the nation's shelters? Who are these big fund-raising groups, and how are they related to shelters? Where do they get their money, and who is running them? To start, the coalition funded a study to create shelter list of every shelter in America. They knew it would always be changing and would never be complete, but they also knew it would be a lot better than what existed, which was nothing. They hired university graduate students to do the only thing that would work – the students called every town, municipality, city, village, township, hamlet and county in America and asked if they had a shelter, what they called it and who ran it. The answers were interesting and the list was compiled. Today, there is still no national organization overseeing or coordinating America's shelters.

Here are some facts that most people do not realize.


The Humane Society of the Untied States (HSUS) does not operate a single animal shelter in America or anywhere else. That's right, not one. Makes you wonder how many people send them money thinking they were the local animal shelter.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) does operate a shelter and an animal hospital - they are both in New York City. That's it, a New York City shelter only. It is a highly regarded shelter, but New York clearly isn't the nationwide shelter list some people think of when they think of the ASPCA. To be fair, the ASPCA does humane work all over the nation, but as far as operating shelters, well, no.
The American Humane Association (AHA) operates no shelters, but does have about 300 shelters that are affiliated and agree to maintain AHA standards of care at their shelters.
What about the SPCA? Is there a national organization called the SPCA (society for the prevention of cruelty to animals)? Nope. Sorry. "SPCA" is simply a term, or abbreviation, used for most any animal shelter but it is NOT a nationwide organization. It's a generic for what we say instead of "dog pound", "animal shelter", or "humane society".

Now you can see the confusion! When national groups use words like humane society, or letters such as SPCA in their name, people think they are giving to their local shelter. But they, of course, are not.

So who runs the local shelter in your town? It could be anyone from volunteers, to your local government, to a private party. Many rural areas simply have a person, with a few extra kennel runs, who the town pays to house the strays. In more populated areas where actual dedicated buildings exists, the shelters are funded by any combination of tax dollars, donations, adoptions fees and dog license fees. (It is interesting to note that the shelters house dogs and cats, but since hardly anyone licenses cats, the dog license fees pay the bills for both dogs and cats.)

These shelters are named anything from the "SPCA of Whatever County" to the "Humane Society of Whatever Township", but are not affiliated with either national group, the ASPCA or HSUS. Within a county or state, the shelters may meet for educational purposes or to share information but not as a member of a national fund raising group that operates and fund shelters.

So what does the ASPCA, HSUS, and AHA do with all of their money if it is not going to your local shelter? Each has their own agenda. They all advertise, use money to raise money, and draft and lobby for legislation. Some may agree with none, all, or some of what they support. The AHA has the contract to oversee and ensure the safety all animals used while filming a movie. They have done so for years
and have done an admirable job. However, they are also opposed to hunting. So are the ASPCA and, obviously, HSUS. Do they help protect animals? Yes, they do. But does their agenda agree with your individual ideas and philosophy? Hang on, you better check. Check a lot. Go to their websites. Call them. Dig deeper into their agendas. See what legislation and advertising campaigns they are spending donated money on.

HSUS for example, in addition to the troubled PAWS legislation, is also spending donations on a new campaign to prevent America's youth from hunting before they are 18 years old. (For those familiar with the PAWS bill, this is typical HSUS – set limits first then adjust them to extinction!) These campaigns and laws are often being funded by well intended people who think they are giving to their local shelter! But you now know that is not true.
With Hurricane Katrina, watch the big PR money being spent by some of these groups, and other dog organizations, as they exploit the hurricane victims by trying to raise money that goes who knows where. Is that money all going to relief? Let's hope so. We have heard that good money is starting to get spent in the hurricane ravaged areas. Or is some going to fund anti-hunting and anti- breeding legislation? It almost seems as though where some see despair and horror, others see a PR opportunity, so who knows?

The bottom line is that there are thousands of shelters in America, all of which are individually operated and funded locally. They always need resources and support. Then, there are large groups who raise money by using the goodwill of words like "humane" and "cruelty" in their national name. To add another layer of concern, while your local independent shelter is not run by HSUS, AHA, or the ASPCA (unless you are in New York City), you really have no idea what the mission of your local shelter is. Your job is to ask.

There are many, many excellent and worthy local shelters that need your donations and will use them directly to help dogs. But before you open your wallet, ask what will be done with your money.


Consider donating food and supplies which can't be as easily used to pay government lobbyists. Ask what they believe in. Then ask yourself what you believe in and where you draw the line. We should and we must help those less fortunate. We must not forget the people and the dogs who need help from the hurricane. We must do so from our hearts, though, and not to take credit or exploit the situation. And we must make sure our efforts are in line with our private individual beliefs.
From the Dog Press
 

 

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
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