Posted on 09/10/2005 11:21:16 PM PDT by BagCamAddict
Please sign the online petition to stop the killing of pets in New Orleans. Conflicting reports abound, regarding whether orders have been given to shoot abandoned pets. But just in case it is or becomes true, please sign the online petitions below to STOP the killing:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/366281507?ltl=1126417990
And the following petition adds the words "and their pets" to the order to evacuate people from New Orleans. Please sign it also:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/840979272?ltl=1126071044
Promote: To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity
No, I was not "promoting" that website. I was "promoting" that petition. Big difference, in case you hadn't noticed.
But you're too busy "promoting" your anti-lib agenda on this thread to notice that. For your first day posting, one would think you'd be a little less antagonistic. Now I'm done engaging with you. You're not worth my time.
gator time huh?
You are beginning to reek of desperation.
That was so outre´ and obliquely ad hominem as to be almost humorous....:)
And ending on that pathetic note, I believe we are done.
Some fancy semantic dancing there my friend.
click the link for a pic of the statue of "Old Yeller" which was written by Fred Gipson of Mason Texas...just outside the library in Mason...
http://www.texasbob.com/cards/14cardpic.jpg
I sure enough agree with you there. Mine don't get left...period.
It's not like these people are strangers to hurricane activity. We haven't seen a bad one for forty some years, but I'm still ready to bug in less than four hours.
Haven't you figured the Buggy out yet?
It's *not* the principle *or* the issue; it's the frisson of the argument.
Ignore him....:)
BagCamAddict In regards to shelters, Most, if not all shelters have to euthanize, it's just a fact of how shelters work. If your (breeder?) claims they don't, They do, or send them out.
SevenDaysInMay Can't argue with that. People should not be allowed to own pets if they aren't prepared to do everything for them. When they are left to become everyone elses problem then they are dispatched. In this case bullets are cheaper and humane. Fact of life. Another fact is most of these dogs would end up in a shelter and be dispatched anyways. Few will be saved and reunited with their owners, and these organizations will laugh all the way to the bank.
Whoa... that was not an attack my friend.
YOU are the one who said you wanted to use bad language. I based my statement on that.
Relax...
Press "Ignore" now.
LOL!
That is soooooooo good!!!!!!
I agree with you.
OK, thanks. I was starting to think I had signed up at the wrong site! LOL
Oh well, the least they could do is admit they are promoting a leftist website.
But I think on my first foray into FR I ran across some characters I will just have to avoid if I want to stay around.
Thank you again. This time with whipped cream and a cherry on top! :-)
LOL
What's up with "more cowbell" anyway?
PETA is even willing to see animals killed before they are made proper and humane use of by humans. A classic example of this approach came to light 2003 federal litigation. PETA and other animal-liberationist organizations sued to prevent elephants from being imported from Africa and placed in zoos. The elephants in question were endangering the ecosystem of the world famous Kruger National Park. The court noted that granting the injunction would cause the elephants to be culled rather than save their lives. But the attorney for PETA and its liberationist co-plaintiffs told the court that the pachyderms “will be better off if…killed rather than imported and placed in zoos.”
In a similar vein, in 2002 PETA joined with other animal-rights groups to sponsor a constitutional amendment in Florida that prevented pregnant pigs from being placed in gestation crates, which prevents sows from moving during pregnancy. The groups spent well over $1 million on the project even though Florida was not exactly known as the “pig-farm state.” With no major pork industry in the state to finance the opposition, and after a one-sided campaign, Floridians voted to grant state constitutional rights to pregnant pigs.
When the smoke cleared, it turned out that only two pig farmers in the entire state utilized gestation crates. Since the measure made their businesses untenable financially, the farmers sent their pigs to immediate slaughter — to the general applause of animal liberationists, presumably including PETA. As a representative of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida put it, “In the big picture, we see that as a good thing. It’s going to lessen their suffering and hasten the end of their miserable lives.”
Back to the North Carolina debacle and PETA’s handling of unwanted dogs and cats: PETA claims that it tries to find good homes for the stray cats and dogs it obtains. But one wonders how hard PETA tries. According to official records dug out by the Center for Consumer Freedom — the food-industry-financed organization that may be PETA’s foremost political opponent — in 2003, of the 2,224 dogs and cats PETA received for placement, only 312 (14 percent) ended up in homes. All but one of the remaining animals were killed. This has been a consistent pattern for years. The Center noted that between 1998 and 2003, PETA took in 13,021 animals. Of these, it killed 10,195, with 2,540 adopted and 261 transferred.
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/smithw/smith200507130830.asp
Same here.
Packed, stacked and out the door in under 4.
It still boggles my mind that an awful lot of them just chose to sit there and "wait it out".
Surely they have TVs in NO.
The satellite images of Katrina freaked me out and I'm so far away from "hurricane country" that it's not even funny.
I had my go-gear ready just in case a peripheral deluge brought nasty flash flooding down from the mountains.
Turns out we didn't get more than a sprinkle this time.
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