[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Open letter to the Club.,..
- From: "Robert Dir" <dir@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windwych@xxxxxxxxx>, "gsd" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:47:43 -0500
Thanks Dawn,
As most of you know my heart is with Rescue. I also feel the GSDA needs to
step up and do more to prevent the need for more and more rescue units. We
are not alone---all parent clubs should put more emphasis on this area of
their club projects. I am not a leader in this type project as I get way to
emtionally involved--I send donations to those needing funds as my
retirement allows. I will always give my support to those that can handle
the tough stuff. Money, letters etc..
I do not want to see the pictures as, like you, I would be in tears for days
and not able sleep.
Thanks again Dawn--now folks can get upset with both of us!!
Take care.
Sandi Card
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn Restuccia" <windwych@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "gsd" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Open letter to the Club.,..
> In the final outcome, it will be how we treated the least of His creatures
> that will determine out judgement. Are we, as a nation,really any better
> than the people in China who are clubbing dogs to death in the street?
> People turn a blind eye and a deaf ear because it is hard to see, but I
> have just finished looking at page after page of innocent puppies who are
> going to be gassed today for the lack of a home. Yet we do nothing. Our
> club is NOT a poor club. We have the finances and the voice to make
> changes, yet we choose to ignore their cries. I have sent a letter to our
> Club begging that we come together and find a way to help stop the
> overflow of unwanted pets...by breeding, we are just as culpable as
> everyone else. If we are to keep our purebred GSD's, then morally and
> ethically, we need to help those who have no one. PETA and the rest do
> nothing but pull in money...I see no ads in national publications showing
> the gas chambers and dead bodies...I see no commercials
> on television showing the sad faces of the senior dogs who are
> dumped...But WE CAN DO THIS! Think what it would mean to us as a breed if
> WE outed the "shelters" and brought the light of the public eye to the
> holocaust!
> Let the GSDCA be the first breed to start the ball rolling...lets have a
> booth at all breed shows to pull in the other breeds and suggest this to
> them as well! How can success in a show ring mean anything to us when we
> see barrels full of dead puppies???? Dont we love all dogs?
> The mind set of people needs to change in order to effect any meaningful
> difference in the world. We, as a breed club, can be the ones to start. I
> have said this before, but it bears repeating...The GSD has given all it
> has to us...it has led us from darkness, guarded our homes, protected our
> military and police. Let the GSD be the breed to liberate those who sit in
> silent misery in hellholes throughout the US. The time for blame is
> over...dogs are dying by the thousands every day...how can we ignore this
> and sleep at night??? Why? Because WE didnt breed them??? Because some of
> these innocents came from a BYB or a puppymill??? Thinking that it is not
> our problem is going to be the cause for the loss of our breed...They will
> eventually find a way to stop us from breeding if we continue to do
> nothing. The handwriting is on the wall...When the animal rights people go
> thru row after row of unwanted animals (a high percentage are purebred)
> and see PUPPIES put in gas chambers,
> they have every right to be angry at ANYONE who breeds and continues this
> cycle. UNLESS... we are doing something to end it!!! Is this a problem of
> monumental proportions? Yes. I do not deny this. Are we as a club up to
> this task???? YES WE ARE.
> I know this is a volatile subject and that many on this list will be angry
> with me. I dont care. I have no pride anymore...not when it comes to the
> animals. I will beg..I will plead...I will stick my neck out over and over
> until SOMEONE listens.
> I want to thank the people on this list who have posted needy GSD's...its
> a start. Now, lets find the people in the areas of need with extra kennels
> or a few extra dollars or time to help at least THOSE dogs! Pulling a GSD
> gives a mixed breed puppy a few more days at a chance to live. Are they no
> less deserving? I realize that many of you already DO work with rescue, or
> do it quietly yourselves and for that you will be richly rewaded. What
> goes around, comes around. I am talking about a CLUB EFFORT...it is the
> only thing that will get any public notice...and PUBLIC NOTICE is what is
> needed! On a personal level, you can contact your local shelters and ask
> what methods they use to dispose of unwanted pups. If it is not humane
> euthanasia, then contact your local government and complain! Call the
> newspapers or television and ask them to do an expose on this issue! Let
> them know you are members of a national club and that you are horrified at
> the treatment these animals are
> recieving. Many of the "shelters" use the gas chamber or worse due to lack
> of funding for alternative methods.
> We need to differentiate ourselves from the puppymillers and the
> BYB'S...when the 24 GSD's were pulled from the bus, do you think the
> public asked who bred them? No. We are being categorized with these
> subhumans in the newspapers! This needs to stop! We are all ethical
> people, or we would not be on this list trying to learn and educate
> ourselves regarding our breed. WE are NOT puppymills and I get very angry
> to think that this is how we are regarded.
> Again...sorry if this upsets everyone. I am in tears looking at these
> pictures and could not sit silently by.
> Dawn Restuccia
>
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