[ SHOWGSD-L ] Wild Pigs
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:41:58 -0400
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Wild Pigs
There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor
noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and
stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him
he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting
communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's
government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange
question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young
man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place
in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to
come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day,
you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.
When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you
put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat
again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a
gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to
come through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole
herd.
Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around
inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free
corn . They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the
woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening
to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps
spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental
income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies,
payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we
continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.
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And this is how we will lose our right to breed dogs and control our
ownership of pets, a little at a time. Denver and Dallas here, California
there, Pennsylvania next. When it becomes impossible for anyone to breed
dogs except (possibly) commercial breeders who have business licenses,
inspections, and USDA approved concrete runs and water-impermeable surfaces,
we will wonder how it happened. The answer will be "one piece of fence at a
time" One compromise at a time. One "reasonable negotiation" at a time.
If you've ever said the following, you're guilty of providing a fence post:
-- If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid of inspections
-- No one should have more than ------- dogs.
-- No one should breed more than ----- litters a year,
-- Breeding pets is wrong.
-- No one should breed except to Improve the Breed.
-- You should have a license to own a (fill in the breed.)
-- Breeders with more than ____ dogs should be inspected.
If no one breeds except show breeders,
a) Do you really believe the animal rightists will stop there?
b) Where will the pets come from?
When people can no longer buy a good pet, perhaps we will wake up. Until
then, we continue to bash each other, criticize our fellow breeders, and
support spay/neuter laws for "everyone but me."
When animal control comes to remove your dogs because you are one dog over
the limit or because your dogs are in crates or because your neighbor says
you didn't have water for them one day last week, perhaps then you will
realize that fighting bad legislation is not just for the activists and
fanatics. When you have compromised away your right to breed at all perhaps
you will realize that there IS no compromise with the animal rights
movement.
"First they came for the commercial breeders, and I did not speak out~~
because I was not a commercial breeder.
Then they came for the backyard breeders, and I did not speak out
because I was not a backyard breeder.
Then they came for the one-time breeders, and I did not speak out~~
because I was not a one-time breeder.
And they came for me~~
And there was no one left to speak out for me."
Time to wake up, AKC breeders. They're coming for us.
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Ginger Cleary
"... more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion
to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil."-- Fredrich v
Hayek
Rome, GA http://www.rihadin.com/
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