Posted on 04/10/2009 4:00:01 PM PDT by americanophile
Fifteen minutes of fame turned into four months of bitter remorse for the Chester County woman who sold the Bidens their adorable little German shepherd puppy.
Linda Brown's been investigated, scorned and had her life threatened.
"I thought when Joe Biden bought a puppy from me, what an honor," Brown told the Daily Local News. "Out of millions of breeders in the country, in the world, he picked me."
That was December.
When the story got out, Brown faced backlash from pet lovers who thought the Bidens should have opted for a shelter over a breeder to find their new puppy.
PETA seized the moment as an opportunity to blame the killing of shelter animals on people who buy from breeders. The organization's TV commercial, "Buy One, Get One Killed" ran in Delaware after the Biden puppy story made headlines.
Dog wardens from the state showed up at Brown's Wolf Den kennel, repeatedly, for inspections.
"I was cited for a piece of kibble on the floor and five strands of dog hair. They took a picture of that, they walked around, snapped pictures and don't tell you why," Brown told the newspaper.
She was found "not guilty" for each citation, but hiring a lawyer for the court hearings has cost her $4,000 so far in legal fees.
Brown says she and Biden both received death threats from animal activists.
"Never, never, never again," Brown said about selling a dog to anyone with a high profile.
Her advice to breeders who've called about the Obama's puppy search: Don't do it!
"It's been horrific since December," she said.
It’s all part of that “hope and change” thing! No big deal. We all need to prepare ourselves for this kind of stuff. This is the way fascism works.
I only blame the killing of shelter animals on the “Humane Society” and others who actually do the killing.
It takes a liberal to kill something and blame someone else for it.
We are targets because the radical animal rights crazies want to stop anyone from even having dogs and cats. For anyone who is not plugged in and paying attention, there have been laws proposed and passed all over the country, including MANDATORY spay/neuter, expensive licensing for hobby breeders (that includes someone who shows their dog and wants to breed a litter) odious rules that are vague, etc. This is becoming a nightmare.
I’m all for adopting shelter animals, but it there are reasons someone might want a carefully bred purebred. If things go on as they are, that won’t be an option in the not too distant future.
The “people”/nutcases who make up PETA are truely insane. But who can take them seriously when they take up serious issues like getting the Pet Shop Boys to change their band name! LOL. Oh that help animals alright...It’s like any other loony left group..PAY ATTENTION TO ME...LOOK AT ME..I”M IMPORTANT....
So, the PETA freaks don’t like Biden, either.
Friends don’t let friends deal with liberals.
PETAistas ought to have their butts kicked. How many animals were killed at their shelters?
PETA has no right to criticize anyone for killing animals considering they do plenty of it themselves. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
Right! They are big hypocrites.
In New York State it is instructive to look into whether you “own” a cat or not. If your cat has not had a series of mandated shots including a rabies shot. This was a stray cat that “we” adopted.
The obambis are the modern version of the jacobins. This type of mob tyranny will be directed at any number of groups of citiznes...like AIG execs, or GM execs, or maybe soon...gun owners, or Christians. Welcome to hope and change.
Why don’t people just mind their own dang business?? I have purebred dogs and I have rescue dogs, my choice.
All I know is, Biden swears his pup kicked Barney’s ass.
Biden breeds with puppies???
Basically, PETA doesn’t want anyone to own pets. Where any of us choose to get our pet is OUR business — not PETA. I am not responsible for all the dogs in shelters, irresponsible people are responsible for them, if I choose to adopt one that is my business, if I opt to get a undamaged dog from a breeder that is my business as well.
Obviously pointless to try to reason with someone whose capacity for cognitive dissonance has so atrophied that they value the life of a dog from a shelter more than another human.
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