yeeee haw
I raise dogs as extra income and can tell you they don't always sell.
Yes i said this - and i can tell you that i've yet to have HAD to euthanize a dog cause it didn't sell - but i'm not stupid enough to know that it can't happen.
There ain't much difference in sending it to a shelter (to maybe get bought - yes ... maybe) or get euthanized there by other people living off donations/state funds... or doing it myself. Because someone is too chicken)(*&) to do it themselves might be looked at ... as should be whole lot of self-accountablility issues in the US of A.
*I* know that even should a puppy of mine hit 3 months old or better that it usually can be given away or sold very cheaply to someone wanting to breed a purbred who doesn't want to wait for a puppie puppie to grow up. (its how we aquired our Mastiffs - and we LOVE our mastiffs... they have the run of the house)
who is right? i don't know - don't particularly believe the mentally ill should be given a free pass either.... but then thats inhumane right? <bleh> This country slips faster and faster into the morass of the few spending to keep the majority comfortable... i don't know i could pass that "sentence" on to a mental state school person... my inherent proclivities prolly wouldn't let me be the decider of that. But when it comes to an animal that i know i can't or won't provide a home for, its MUCH better in my eyes to send it on to heaven (all dogs go there ya know...) than it is to let it suffer for however long before the same end happens.
Yes - your local shelter does that... because people let thier dogs run loose, people get a pet and then move to someplace they can't keep the pet - so they do what they think is "right" and dump it somewhere (its got a chance now right???) or they take it to a shelter so they feel better about thier decision to aquire a pet - and try not to feel guilty about thier decision to move someplace where they can't keep the pet. Or plain decide they don't want to be responsible for the pet after they aquire it. (its too much hassle to have a pit bull in an apartment... whaaa... didn't know it was gonna be such a pain... ) Back to that whole accountablility thing.
Yes - i know purebreds have more issues. Ask any breeder... (duh) Mutts will have loads of puppies and nurse all of em almost perfectly. Sure wish i had that problem w/ my animals. Still - people want and are willing to pay for papers... This day and age... i don't ask a lot of questions on a legal activity that makes me money to support my family. Bet you don't eat hamburgers either... those poor cows.... raised to be killed.... how many per day you think get slaughtered so you can have a big mac? Least i'm raising mine to make someone happy.... the man who said you can't buy happiness never bought a puppy. <heh>
Can't afford spay and neuter. - I think most of the people who would say this don't think they are gonna have a problem keeping sparky in the back yard w/ her finding someone to mate with. SO it would be a non issue... untill sparky digs/climbs out and gets knocked up... Yes - still thier fault... all our pet dogs up till we started breeding are spay'd / neutered. You have to in the country.... cause our dogs roam.
Country life - so as to put it in perspective for one who doesn't know... means that there ain't a shelter around the corner, that roaming dogs that don't go home at night get a warning shot... and if they come back get a killing shot... there isn't any "pet control" to call (and they'd laugh at you if there was one) It means that animals are animals, and ya don't necessarily WANT to do what you should do, but we here don't have them there fancy places to clean our consciences with, we take care of it ourselves.
Sorry if this seemed attacking - but if there is one thing i'm tired of - its people that think they are morally better than me - because they push the issue off to someone else. I'd understand if the idiot was torturing the pups... but he was doing it the best way he knew how - and got hung up on being (un)safe w/ his weapons. For this he's criminal? Nopers.
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Yer right - i've the compassion to know that a well placed bullet is better than months of starvation and scavaging to die of hunger or to be caught and sent to a shelter to sit in a small cage till it is either adopted or euthanized or shot while its trying to scavenge a morsel to eat. The animals that live on this ranch would argue w/ you till you are blue in the face that we aren't bad people. All 8 dogs in the house would lick you till ya drowned proving it.
J/Tharg
