A short update tonight …
I’ve noticed a pattern over time with the HSUS press releases and CEO Wayne Pacelle’s blog, “Humane Nation”. The pattern? With noticeable frequency, issues used to attack their opponents are issues which are reflected within the HSUS itself. Some examples?
In “Humane Nation”, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle attacks CCF founder Richard Berman [...]
Waiting for her forever home
What would you say to a Metropolitan Animal Control department who’s:
Day-to-day operations are not funded by taxpayer dollars?
Canine licensing compliance rate is in excess of 90% and a feline licensing compliance rate at nearly 60% and rising?
Maintains NO pet ownership limit laws?
Has no Breed-Specific legislation, and sees no need of it?
Euthanasia [...]
The interstate dog-fighting raids this week were a huge story that received lots of media attention, and rightfully so. Training dogs to tear each other apart as a gambling sport is something that I find incomprehensible, especially in light of the so-called fighting breeds possessing such drive to please their owners.
The coordination and execution of the [...]
In reading more news articles condemning “commercial breeders”, which now seems to include anyone who ever breeds a pet, I continuously see references to ‘defects’, ‘genetic conditions’, health problems and calls for a crackdown on people breeding ‘defective pets’. So I have to ask, how many people do you meet in a day that are free [...]
Two contrasting articles on hunting made themselves through my email today, one praising hunting and another demonizing it. In the reading I am reminded of the simple honesty of hunting and agriculture, the lack of self-deception and eternal optimism of hunters and farmers. Hunters and farmers live with a basic truth that most avoid and deny; survival requires [...]
