.. it may be better for the rest of us!
A debate in the LA Times begins by framing the issues thus: “There’s wide agreement that most dogs should be spayed and neutered.” Really?
But worse is to come. “I am a volunteer humane advocate going against you, Bill, a paid lobbyist and profiteering dog breeder allied with a PR firm that unsuccessfully defended Big Tobacco and fought against a living wage law. Birds of a feather, readers!” [See Eric at Classical Values, also quoted earlier here, on the mindset of “activists”]
(Snip)
“Not once have I seen an e-mail response from a breeder, puppy mill or pet store saying that they will save these animals’ lives. It would mean one less family to which they could sell a puppy or kitten at a profit. These profiteers not only fail to help, they are now frantic to stop those of us who are demanding a change.
Who do you trust? Those who sacrifice or those who profit?”
So now all breeders are blood- drenched profiteers, while only animal rightists love and do right by animals.
Oh wait, dog haters do too. Here is a columnist in the same paper who also supports mandatory spay neuter (he recently also caused a controversy by writing that he hated people in the military though admitting he had never met any):
“I used to believe that I hated dogs. But now I realize that I’m apathetic about dogs, as I am about any animal that is not delicious. Dogs to me are a lot like flounder.
“What I’ve come to realize is that what I really hate is you, the dog owner. Because you’re the one who honestly believes that your dog is sentient and that he loves you. Your ego is so grandiose that you can’t see that your dog is just using you. Yes, your dog loves you, but only in the way that Anna Nicole Smith loved old, rich men. Yet you honestly believe that your dog’s love is particularly meaningful because your dog is special — almost human, really. In fact, you think, he’s an almost-human that happens to be a lot like you. He is a lot like you if you happen to assess colleagues by smelling their butts and enjoy publicly eating your own vomit.”
As a dog owner and breeder who has taken a loss, not a profit, to breed rare and useful dogs that could not even be expensively exempt under the proposed law, I am nearly speechless.
Sorry, Mary, but there is no compromise with fanatical hidden agendas (no more domestic animals) or invincible ignorance and arrogance.
Molon Labe*.
HT Margory Cohen & Reid.
*”Come and take them”– what the Spartans said to the Persians when ordered to surrender their weapons.
