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Has the HSUS CEO Paved The Way For HSUS Legal Liability?

On October 18, the Carroll Cox Show interviewed Ronnie Graves and Allan Schwartz, former members of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Emergency Rescue Team.  There are 3 items that stand out that indicate that the Humane Society of the United States as an organization and volunteers as individuals may have been put into [...]

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The Upcoming Animal Legislation Battles, A Virtual Reality

As the legislative season approaches again, I’ve been spending time trying to define what fundamentally divides the two sides of the animal legislation debate.   As I have been rolling these ideas around, I keep coming back to a single word.
 Reality
Reality is fundamentally what divides us,  actual reality as opposed to virtual reality.  There are myriad [...]

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – The Declaration of Independence
On this day, of all days of the year, Americans take time to celebrate these principles [...]

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Is anyone else as confused as I am?
In communities across the US, increasing restrictions are being laid on pet shops.  In some communities, they are being made illegal to operate.  This is happening on the grounds that they are selling pets of indeterminate quality, often from commercial or even illegal kennels with no health testing [...]

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