I've already received some excellent feedback and I appreciate it. I thought I'd share a little about who I am and who I am not.
This blog will never be about "tea parties", right wing agendas, gun rights, or how the federal government is out to get us. I am a basically very liberal person with progressive views. While I appreciate input from others, I want to keep the conspiracy theories, the far right more hysterical websites off of here. I feel the best way for us (animal lovers who do not believe in rights) to educate and keep our freedom to own, exhibit, eat, wear, ride, and breed our animals is to present fact. I feel we need to encourage critical thinking skills, we need to allow people to read the simple facts about illegal seizure, about the anti human agenda of the purist animal rights activists, about the deception of HSUS, PETA and other more prominent groups.
I am not doing this to inflame, I am doing this to educate. I'll leave the petitions to IRS to others. I'll leave the reporting of tax returns to others. I want to get people to think, to draw logical conclusion based on facts. I don't want to wave goofy signs, wear goofy costumes in protest. I don't want the people I'm trying to educate look at me as foolish as women in lettuce bikinis.
Example - Mandatory spay neuter diminishes shelter population - the premise is false. The vast majority of animals in shelters are "unowned" or "surrendered". The overpopulation theory contends that breeders are pumping out masses of puppies and that is what fills the shelters. Let's look at that premise.
Shelter populations are young adult, adolescent dogs of particular mixes and feral cats for the most part. How is demanding that everyone s/n going to change that paradigm? Answer - it's not. The people who are responsible enough to keep track of and s/n their animals are already doing so. If we have overpopulation, why are shelters not overrun with puppies? Mandating that an unowned dog be neutered is ridiculous.
What happens with MSN? - people who cannot afford s/n surrender their dogs and cats. The same number of unowned animals is still out there, the same number of feral cats is still out there. We've simply added to the numbers. Those who are concerned with being legal will s/n, consequently the responsible breeders will eventually wind up having to spay and neuter themselves out of existence. Here's how that works - if something cant' breed no new ones are made. While Wayne's often used quote of "one generation and out" is about purebred cattle, he and others in that crowd have made it clear that purposeful breeding of dogs, cats, rabbits, all "domesticates" (as they are called by ARistas) is unacceptable and in their perfect world would not be allowed. Domesticates currently living would all be spay/neutered and the species would die out, period.
Instead of forcing MSN, why don't the organizations with millions and millions of dollars use those dollars to fund free s/n clinics. Why don't they build modern, efficient shelters that offer rehab and behavior training to make more animals adoptable? A beautiful facility in Rancho Sante Fe, CA is the Helen Woodward Foundation. Their kennels are well run, easy to clean, allow for exercise and are NO kill and have been for decades.
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Please, continue to comment, continue to advise and continue to read. I'll try to keep this fresh and enlightening. If I make factual errors, please let me know. Be kind - I'm very new at this.
Clarkens Syriana being forced to love on her puppies by Ch. Croesan Clarken Actin Kool (Biff).
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