Posted on 06/09/2007 6:57:50 AM PDT by ReignOfError
Nah, they’d rather support mandatory, taxpayer-funded abortions for children (sterilization is too inhuman). /sarcasm
You all can just pack your bags and move to beverly, pardner. - jest don’t come back now, heah?
One afternoon a couple years back, there was a knock on door. Opened it there this person sent from King County to see if my dog was licensed. She was. Talk about a waste of resources and tax payer money. Really ticked me off.
While that has always been a goal of the radical left (nazis and communists), currently they rely on abortion on demand in Kalifornia to accomplish these ends.
On the bright side, perhaps we can have this applied to hippies, as they ARE pets in CA.
Yes, and I think the LA suburbs aren’t much better. As unfriendly, and you’re right, sexless, as you can imagine.
I, too, strongly believe in fixing animals to keep shelter populations down.
But mandatory fixing is wrong. These animals are our property. There are a lot of benefits to kids seeing pets have kittens and puppies. The extremists hate this side of life. They will do anything to stop it.
I, too, strongly believe in fixing animals to keep shelter populations down.
But mandatory fixing is wrong. These animals are our property. There are a lot of benefits to kids seeing pets have kittens and puppies. The extremists hate this side of life. They will do anything to stop it.
Then what would the Mexican illegals eat? Corn is getting too expensive for them. Once you get rid of dog meat, the only thing left in their diet will be flour and beans. Do we really want that? < /sarc >
Only the heterosexual ones. Gotta control overpopulation, y'know. /sarc
Gonna tell y'all a story 'bout a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer til he kilt his family dead
And then when he collected the insurance fee
Wrote himself a book and wound up on tv
"Oprah", that is. "Doctor Phil". "Geraldo".
Well, the first thing ya know, ol' Jed's a millionaire
The kin folk said - 'HEH! Move away from here!'
They said 'Californy is the place you ought to be!'
So they loaded up his truck and he moved to Berk-el-ey
Californy, that is. Long-haired pot-smoking hippie types.
(Announcer:) The BER-ZERKLEYS!"
(bridge banjo solo)
Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and his new family
They would like to thank you for your hospitality
You're all invited back next week to this locality
As long as we're not busted by the authorities
Roll a joint.
Take your clothes off.
Y'all come back now, y'hear?
“Excellent idea, I wish Florida would enact the same law.”
Yes, great idea! I just love the government telling me what I can do with my own dogs, that I do breed and show.
Little by little they will take away every right we have. It may not effect you this time, because you are not a dog breeder.
How about the next time, when they go after you?
Because pets are way too germy.
Agreed. Incentives like that, combined with subsidies to reduce the cost of the procedure, would probably be more cost-effective than enforcement of this proposal.
The one hitch I can see is that if large parts of California don't have dog or cat licensing at all, introducing it statewide could be even more invasive and costly than mandatory sterilization.
What would make more sense would be to require that retail pet shops sell only spayed and neutered pets, and that breeders pay a surcharge for every intact pet they sell. That surcharge would naturally be passed on to the buyer, so each buyer would have an incentive to buy a sterilized pet unless they have their own breeding plans.
That wouldn't have any short-term effect on informal sales or "free to good home" adoptions, but in the long term it'll thin the numbers.
Hysterical much?
The SPCA does not have a hierarchal structure, no chain of command. The state chapters don't report to the national organization, nor the local chapters to the state.
New Jersey, based on your summary that report, made the dumbassed move of contracting out law enforcement to a private organization without proper standards, supervision or oversight. Probably as a means to put animal welfare off-budget -- hiring animal control officers would require paying them. I don't see how that bears on anything relevant to this discussion.
Hysterical much?
The SPCA does not have a hierarchal structure, no chain of command. The state chapters don't report to the national organization, nor the local chapters to the state.
New Jersey, based on your summary that report, made the dumbassed move of contracting out law enforcement to a private organization without proper standards, supervision or oversight. Probably as a means to put animal welfare off-budget -- hiring animal control officers would require paying them. I don't see how that bears on anything relevant to this discussion.
I like the idea.
Does that mean all the dog breeders have to leave the state...
Faced with fewer small dogs and puppies to offer the public, a handful of shelters and organizations have swapped their traditional mission for a new bottom line strategy aimed at filling consumer demands. Simply stated, they have become pet stores. Some are importing stray dogs across state lines and from foreign countries to maintain an inventory of adoptable dogs.
Understandable. Especially at no-kill shelters, the priority is to make pets available for adoption. Many animals that make their way to shelters are simply unadoptable -- ill-temperes, abused or diseased. Feral cats are a particularly large and problematic population among those.
The fact remains that millions of animals are euthanized every year. That is not something PETA made up. If the shelters in one area have more adoptable pets than the shelters in another, I don't see any problem with moving the supply to where the demand is -- or put more starkly, to move the adoptable pets to the empty cages instead of the incinerator.
According to their own records, one foundation, the Save a Sato 2 program championed by PeTA, has already sent 14,000 dogs to the US. Satos (a slang term for mixed-breed street dogs in Puerto Rico) arrive in US cities practically every day. Dozens of shelters are involved. Some of the shelters NAIA is tracking bring in 100-200 dogs each month and are placing them for $200-$250 each.
If dozens (of the thousands in existence) of shelters are engaged in profiteering, go after them. But your article here does not make the case that you claim -- to with, that the excess pet population is an imagined problem.
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