Politicians & Animal Rights vs the right to breed YOUR dogs

By intention I don’t do much politics here- I am neither partisan or, mostly, interested enough. But does ANYONE pay attention to the fact that one socially conservative Republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, is in bed with HSUS, Wayne Pacelle, and the whole Animal Rights movement, and has been for many years? Worse, he seems …

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More on Spaying

Dr John Burchard writes on mandatory spay neuter, resurrected in California. I had said: “Only Americans (and perhaps Canadians) have this neutering thing. I thinkEuropean members [ of our list– they did] will confirm that neutering of purebred dogs is much rarer there. He replied: “It is beginning to catch on there too … but …

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More Dog Control (and related misunderstandings)

Dog owners in Toronto are no longer allowed to walk bitches in heat or any unaltered males in parks, period, full stop. Canadian saluki breeder Maril Semph sent text from a friend but no link: “Effective February 01 2008 Toronto did ban all intact male dogs and females in season, not just from off-leash dog …

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Doggish Blogstuff

In a post forthrightly called “Nannying Idiots Continue to ignore real problems”, Patrick starts with the case of someone arrested for docking a terrier tail in England and then gets REALLY wound up. “Women are getting breast implants or breast reductions, and men are getting hair transplants and scalp reductions. “Noses are bobbed, fat is …

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Excuses & Around the Web

Bear with me a bit, dear readers! I have just begun my eagle book, mentioned below, and am stll shaking down a schedule. Also doing last reread of my collaboration- in translation of Cherkassov’s 1865 Notes of an East Siberian Hunter with Vladimir — a labor of love that will not be an easy sell! …

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