[ SHOWGSD-L ] The Last Dog On Earth ....
- From: RihadinK9@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:16:47 EST
***Please forward***
If you have not written to oppose PAWS lately, go to
_http://www.pet-law.com/paws/rightnow.html_
(http://www.pet-law.com/paws/rightnow.html) and take a
few minutes *right now* to send another email or letter. Make a phone call
and leave a message. If you think you don't have time, read the essay below.
(If anyone knows who wrote it, please let me know. I've done an extensive
search trying to find the name of the author, but haven't been able to)
In the Gazette, Chairman Menaker's column implied that revisions had been
made to PAWS. He listed the original PAWS exemptions and added the ones the
AKC has asked for, but NOT GOTTEN. The column was very misleading. Read it
carefully and you'll see that nothing has changed. Even *with* AKC's
revisions,
which are not at all a done deal, PAWS is unacceptable. The animal rights
organizations are experts in legislative manipulations and will lower the
numbers until we are *all* included. This happens everywhere breeder
licensing
is passed.
THE LAST DOG ON EARTH
Author Unknown
They were at the door. Her little dog was growling softly. She tried to
hush the sound. She knew what they wanted. She felt as though her heart was
being ripped from her chest.
She had managed to hide her little friend for years. She shared her food and
bed with her. She had bought her on the black market. It had cost her
dearly but it was worth it.
She had been so alone. Nothing to love her or for her to love in return.
Her children had grown up and forgotten her. Her husband had died two years
before she found Sweetie.
Sweetie had been a tiny black and tan ball of fur showing her Yorkshire
Terrier background. Of course, she knew that Sweetie could not have been
purebred. There had been no purebred dogs for years.
There were few dogs since the breeders had been slowly and methodically
beaten down.
When this first started, everyone sat back and said they could not
possibly be the breeders they were talking about. After all, they loved
their dogs and they were not puppy millers. They would never let themselves be
overloaded with dogs. Some of them did not get overloaded nor did they breed
more than a litter or two a year. They were smug and secure in that only the
puppy millers were being raided.
The raids were relentless. They would take place in one State then another.
The dog raiders got smarter with every raid. They learned about warrants,the
court system, the law in different states and they used whatever means they
could to eliminate the breeders of dogs.
Some people thought the raiders were dog lovers trying to save the poor
mistreated puppies. Some of them were dog lovers, at first. The well-meaning
rescue groups were used. The American Kennel Club was used. They would revoke
the rights of the breeder who was raided. Kennel clubs were infiltrated and
destroyed from within. The very fiber of the dog world was silently unraveled
one string at
a time.
Everyone would rise to arms against every breeder raided. Saying things
like that terrible person mistreated those poor dogs; that person had too
many
dogs; and that person is crazy. If the truth were not provoking enough, they
would lie and say that person should die. They campaigned by e-mail,
petitioned the courts, and used political pull.
Even when common sense would tell them that they did not know the facts or
circumstances, they persisted. They would see fat happy tail wagging dogs
and would say abused dogs. They no longer believed their own eyes. The dogs
tried to tell the truth but no one could hear them.
True, there were cases of abuse, beaten, starved, and sick animals, at
first. Then the tide shifted. Good honest dog loving people started to be
raided. Any reason was used. Dogs were taken and the owners refused rights to
reclaim their dogs.
The raiders started to narrow the number of dogs which were in violation.
Any person with a dog became a target. Dog grooming became a thing of the
past. Veterinarian services were performed out of a back room under the dark
of night until there were no veterinarians. Dog shows had long disappeared
along with the American Kennel Club.
Children were told tales of the days when every boy had a dog to run with
through fields. The stories of " Old Shep"," O'Yeller", "Call of the Wild","
Lassie" and all those wonderful stories which would bring tears to the eyes
of grown men were being forgotten except by a few. The books were no longer
available in libraries as they did not conform to the present day pure
thoughts.
But she remembered as a little girl the small dog who loved her, followed
her everywhere, and gave her comfort like no one on earth could give. She
just
had to find her that special warmth, the grateful lick-kiss, something that
loved her unconditional and a reason for getting up in the morning. She
found Sweetie.
Now they were at her door to take the life that she cherished. The warm
little black and tan 3- pound body that loved her as much as she loved it.
And there was no one to stop them.
The old lady with the last dog on earth.
(Author unknown)
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
"One of the greatest delusions of the world is the HOPE that the EVILS of
this world are to be CURED BY LEGISLATION." Thomas B. Reed 1886
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