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Should Animal Abusers be Registered, Toronto Cops are Tops! The Queen is here, I am so excited! I think I’m Gonna Lose Some Readers…………..

I think I may lose some of you by the end of this post but…  C’est la Vie in the immortal words of Robbie Nevil.  Remember him from the 80’s?  No?  Ok here’s a memory jog!  I hope you see this post as my opinion.  Not me telling people they are right or wrong.  But just how I feel right now! 

The animal section of Change.org has caught my attention.  There was a question there to the effect of “Should there be registries for animal abusers?”  Hmmmm, I say!  With all the evidence that points to those who abuse animals escalating to humans and given that the inhabitants of earth seem to value humans….  Maybe the answer should be….  A resounding YES!  However then you will have the nay sayers who are on their soap boxes right now about the G20 violence in Toronto, clambering on about Civil Rights!  So who knows!  Why would we register them and other criminal elements…? 

As for this idiocy about the G20, I cannot tell you how tired I am of hearing about it.  Leave the cops alone!  Stand with them or stand in front of them.  If you don\’t understand what their jobs entail have a look at this website. They want to go home each night to their family not end up DEAD!  I am sure the majority of the cowards spouting off would not do their job for even a minute!  Yet they are the ones that scream about war and yet don’t thank the soldiers that fight in it for the CIVIL RIGHTS these people are crying have been stepped on.  Sorry but if you don’t like it don’t read it!  It’s that easy!  (Pic from The Canadian Broadcast Corporations website)

Another thing that is running rampant right now is the fact that OUR Queen…  YES I said OUR Queen is here for a royal visit.  I don’t quick care to hear anyone mocking, degrading and or anything else our Royal family.  There was a letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun this morning noting that “it must be as foreign to those who have emigrated to Canada as it is to those who were born here to hear Queen of Canada.”  I ask why?  She is the Queen of Canada.  As long as I am here I will accept that.  If you don’t like it…  immigrate some where else….  The country below us doesn’t have a Queen…  Go there!  I am sorry that is not very diverse but the one thing I cannot stand people messing with is my Royal Family!  I love them…  They set us apart!  (Pic is from Archives Ontario )

OK so, now I have ranted.  I am gonna go.  So I will wish you a Happy Canada Day, 4th of July, Long week-end, whatever you are celebrating!

Just wondered if well, dog pedigree breeders are so bad what about cats breeders……

Found this!  Anyone else got any info?  http://healthycatclub.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/bbc-tv-pedigree-dogs-exposed/#comment-49

Gonna go on a search and destroy to find some more!

Some follow up on the Pedigree business from yesterday!

Here is some information on a study completed by the Royal Society for Protection of Animals.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=pedigreedogs 

http://www.verrere.org.uk/RSPCA%20report%20critique1.pdf

An article on inbreeding. 

http://www.physorg.com/news138025054.html

Some info on Sringohydromyelia that happens in King Charles Cavalier Spaniels.

http://www.jaaha.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/1/34

Apparently the “ridge” for which the Rhodesian Ridgeback gets it’s name poses major health issues, and puppies born without it are immediately culled even if healthy, because they don’t fit the breed profile.  It has been prove that the puppies with the ridge that is so sought after are sickly and prone to pin hole like lesions on their skin which allow infection to get to their spin or brains.  The puppies without the ridge are the more heartier of the breed! 

http://www.rhodesianridgebackhealth.org/resources/ridgegenetics.html

While I understand that we have to have standards because we can’t have people going of half-assed or half-cocked breeding left, right and centre, but really should the standard, cosmetics and or looks weigh heavier in the show ring than HEALTH!?????  The winner of Crufts in 2003 Yakee a Dangerous Liason a Pekingese was immediately rushed from the winning circle to sit on an ice pack to cool him down because the threat of him overheating from running around the ring under the lights with that fur was imminent! 

I can’t say I love my dog more or less for him being the breed he is.  To me he is the opposite of what Cesar Milan tries to tell me.  He is Brody, he is a dog, he is a Yellow Lab….  Cesar wants me to see him as dog, breed, individual.  However I feel that is where we go wrong.  When we don’t see them as individuals they become object, of prestige, power and money and are used at all costs to gain each…..  When we see them as living, breathing creature with beating hearts and searching else who feel pain how can you not stop and think that what we are doing to them in the name of perfecting a breed is WRONG!

So watch out for tomorrow when I start talking about my disdain for breastfeeding Mothers!  ARRRRG!

Pedigree Dogs Exposed – Passionate Eye Monday | CBC Newsworld

Pedigree Dogs Exposed – Passionate Eye Monday | CBC Newsworld 

Please ready this article, if you get a chance to see the show it is an eye opener.  It is horribly shameful that these breeders, breed club, breeder associations and the kennel clubs all worry more about appearance and breed standard than they do the health of the individual dogs and the line of the breeds they profess to care so much about and love so deeply.  There was great debate about “culling” puppies that don’t fit the standard.  A vet actually likened breeding dogs that have known ailments such as syringomyelia where the dogs brain is actually too large for it’s skull causing pain and creating more dogs to suffer from it to beating that dog with a stick.  Something that would land you with animal cruetly charges, so why then are breeders not subject to health checks etc in order to continue to breed their dogs, why are they allowed to disregard a vet’s advice not to breed their dogs….?  Doesn’t make sense!  Here are a few other things to take note of.  I wish more people would take notice!  It is simply and purely not right.  Yes, you will ask isn’t my dog a purebreed?  Ummm Hmmm!  But he was rescued as well from a breeder!  I never set out to have him.  I took him after I saw how he was living when he was a mere five months old!  Please everyone have a look! 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7569627.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7569521.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7569064.stm