i received this with a request to cross-post: To those attending shows in TX during July. Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Longview, Corpus Christi to name a few. Below is an email we received from a Houston Kennel Club member warning of Animal Rights protesting at dog shows. Their website announcing a "warm up" protest is below. Dallas is in the midst of passing more stringent laws supported by animal rights people. Some years ago we had a warning like this; we drilled holes in the crates to padlock the crate doors shut at the show preventing anyone from letting our dogs out. Putting collars with nametags on dogs while they are in crates might be a good idea too. Nothing may come of this but we need to be on the alert. Better safe than sorry. Mary Keep our troops safe and God Bless America! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Warning re July TX shows - if you have dogs entered, including with handlers The link <A HREF="http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/extreme-animal-rights/message/5949";>http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/extreme-animal-rights/message/5949</A> is to a Yahoo site (open entry so anyone can see it) with a request to "warm up" the crowd for an AR protest at Dallas AKC shows on July 4, 5 & 6 (limited specialties on the 3rd). Be aware they are attempting to mount a serious effort to make a mess at these shows. Dallas is currently a major AR target and apparently poised to fall to AR activity in the immediate future. This might "inspire" dog show protest all the more with recent activity still fanning the fires. The quote forwarded below is from the Yahoo AR site. Conveniently, the message talks about July 5th and 6th. The show site is active from July 3 through the 6th. This 5 & 6th focus may be to lull people to think the earlier days are "safer" than they really are. With July 4th a holiday, attendance will be high and crowd control a factor in permitting less obvious maneuvering than on a normal, slow Friday. July 4 appears to be a critical mass date too. Any of the days could be actual target dates for activists. Details on the shows are viewable from the events page for AKC <A HREF="http://www.akc.org/events/search/";>www.akc.org/events/search/</A>; select conformation, TX and July and check by date. The AKC shows on the holiday weekend are for three DFW area KCs at: Dallas Market Hall 2200 Stemmons Freeway Dallas, TX Not just heads up, Dallas. Heads up, everyone, everywhere. Specialties start on July 3, none for FTs, with KC all breed shows on the 4th through the 6th. Please check with handlers also to determine status and whether you might want to pull and/or keep dogs from traveling to the site. Advise handlers of need to keep help stationed with all dogs on site, at all times - at set ups, at the ring and in motor homes and vans. Trust no one unknown, including ringside, since they use very insidious and often friendly tactics to approach and gain release of animals. They even use children to lend an innocence to their presence sometimes. Be wary, very. These people don't hesitate to sacrifice animals to the cause, though they try to keep their followers blissfully unaware and place the blame on the sport or uncontrolled "reaction" on site, not their fault, and not their doing. A dog reportedly recently died in KS after being released into traffic at much smaller shows. The "home page" for the Yahoo group includes the PeTA logo and a self description. Again, be wary... Description The association for extreme measures to protect animal's rights. Erin Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 1:17 PM Subject: Fwd: [NAIAandNAIATrustMembers] HEADS UP!!!!! DALLAS HEADS UP!!!!! DALLAS <A HREF="http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/extreme-animal-rights/message/5949";>http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/extreme-animal-rights/message/5949</A> AR's have a protest scheduled at an AKC show in DALLAS, July 5th and 6th "It's important that we don't let these breeder/murderers of shelter dogs have their fun at homeless dogs' expense." (Emphasis added.) Diane Strasser Silstra German Shepherds<BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars.<BR> (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)</HTML> ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. 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