Posted on 12/31/2018 12:35:53 PM PST by SoCalConserv
California will fix all of that by requiring pet owners to obtain licenses - with mandatory continuing education.
Tried that with my ex-wife. They informed me they had a policy that forbade vicious, deranged, bloodsucking animals and as such they must be put down. I said, "hell of a deal." Unfortunately they declined my offer. I think it had something to do with the law. :) :) :).
Remarried now to a wonderful Mexican lady, 24 years happy now!
We rescue and foster dogs and I can say without a doubt that a rescued dog is likely to be the most loyal companion a person could ask for.
They instinctively know they have been rescued.
🎼 I don’t like ferrets, rabbits or snakes
And that ain’t what it takes
To love me...
Like I wanna be loved by you...
You are old, too!...................
Actually, under the 10th Amendment it is. Only congress can regulate commerce between the states.
Which encourages people to give up their pets.
“We rescue and foster dogs and I can say without a doubt that a rescued dog is likely to be the most loyal companion a person could ask for. “
1 rescue dog was a disaster,
Multiple breeder dogs, all wonderful.
So, I completely disagree with you that it takes a rescue dog to be the most loyal.
A friend volunteers at an animal rescue shelter. 95% of dogs are pit-bulls from the hood, picked-up wandering the streets of our city, taken in drug raids, or abused and chained up in ghetto yards.
Its simply another welfare program. Americans being forced to bear the problems of the irresponsible.
Ah yes, the song “Spiders and Snakes” comes to mind. Brings back memories.
I have a rescue dog - she’s wonderful. But it is not the place of government to mandate such things. Disgusting overreach - business as usual.
The ‘goal’ is to shut down puppy mills; the result is that puppy mills moved onto Facebook and other platforms a while ago. End result, puppy mills continue, there's no stores to keep an eye on the breeders, and all the puppy mill has to do is block the few whiners to see them go away.
As for the pet stores; many have already shifted to working with rescues and shelters - private rescues will have considerably more paperwork to go through to use the pet store outlets. There's also question if pet stores can actually legally keep animals in the store overnight or if they have to daily be returned to the shelter.
So, to summarize, well intentioned law that does nothing to actually stop what the proponents are actually concerned about and makes it harder for those who were already doing so to continue doing so. More useful in urban areas vs rural, but overall, just a PITA for everyone involved.
This makes shopping for supplies easier for Korean restaurant cooks.
Warning!
On all licenses, pets will be required to be named “Eric”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmfRzRlhMw
Doggy holocaust?
Well, while rescuing animals is wonderful, it is not holier than other forms of good pet ownership. It’s a huge risk, for one. An animal’s past can determine his behavior. Many households have children or have visiting children. No one needs or wants an animal previously traumatized to react with violence one day when he has a trigger from his trauma.
Choosing a purebred or known hybrid puppy allows you to raise your own dog and have him behave the way you wish, with love and affection and good training. You can choose genetic traits that work for your family and lifestyle. Choosing a hybrid reduces the poor overbreeding of straight breeds. (Hybrids are like labradoodles etc where the dog is never a result of inbreeding but is a crossbreed and still has known genetic look or personality but misses illnesses and genetic weaknesses). Obviously the best bet for buying any kind of breed is their breeder.
However, pet stores have been infamous for buying poor quality dogs from disgusting puppy mills. So getting a cute mutt from a store is probably better than encouraging puppy mills (which will still operate illegally for lab animals etc).
There’s big business in rescue pets right now and has been for years. When I volunteered at an animal shelter we often had a shortage of adoptable pets. Other shelters IMPORTED them and so were never short.
I had a business associate recently who got a rescue German Shepherd in SoCal. The organization “rescued” them from China. I put rescue in quotes because they charged him $1k+ for the opportunity to virtue signal to everyone he knew. My guess is that this was a dog from a puppy mill in China.
Hybrids aren’t healthier, that’s an old wives tale.
You all are missing the point on this.
It is crony “crapitalism”
The SPCA now has another way to make money, as a nonprofit I’m sure, and anyone who wants a pet will bear the burden of their 5 minute commercials...
Yeah. Sad. And it’s the immigrants who don’t understand how to find a pet and use pet stores. Most people I know would know to go to a shelter or adoption center for a rescue, or a breeder for a breed. Pet stores attract the casual spur of the moment “new pet owner” which is never going to be the best pet owner.
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