I don't see good things for these dogs.  The animals that fight them deserve to be drawn and quartered.

What fools these dog fighters are making of us? The cops don't even answer the alarm while dog fighters steal back their big-money dogs to go back in business.

The cop should get fired. The thieves get in, but he can't? He doesn't even try? He just lets it happen?

No one is aware that these fighters steal their animals, so no security? There was NO ONE WATCHING THE SHELTER, even though they knew that dog fighters steal their dogs back and there were people after them.

It makes you wonder- was the city aiding and abetting these fighters? This whole situation smells bad.

No one dog fighting is getting worse in this area. The rest of the country laughs at us!

There have been comments posted on each blog no matter the topic that Black America is the root of all todays problems. And White America live in a perfect glass house. Let's shatter that myth....

Police: Boy Killed Parents, Didn't Want To 'Disappoint' Them Anymore

Jacob Brighton said he shot his parents last month because he always felt like a disappointment to them because he didn't have a job, smoked marijuana and didn't share the same "qualities or interests" as his father

Vampire cult leader gets death sentence in Florida
Rod Ferrell, 17"a disturbed young man," a judge sentenced the teen-age leader of a vampire cult to Florida's electric chair Friday for the beating deaths of a middle-age couple.

Teen Rapes Mother To Get Revenge On Brother Police say 16-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville.

Couple Says They Are Afraid Of Their 13-Year-Old Son
VILLE, Fla. -- A Brevard County couple is willing to abandon their own child because they are afraid of him. The parents said the 13-year-old boy has violent outbursts and has even threatened to kill them.

Teen kills family for insurance money On the morning he was to graduate from high school, Scott Moody (search) walked a half-mile to his grandparents' farmhouse and began what authorities say was the first stop in a gruesome murder-suicide that ended in six deaths. Moody shot his grandparents with a .22-caliber rifle before heading home, where he went from bedroom to bedroom, shooting his mother, teenage sister and two friends.
I wonder were the problem really is in this society, toy gun toting black kid or a disfunctional white kid.

There he goes again. Only three blogs posted to this site. One mentions a lack of police attendance, One mentioned the actual dog fighter owners. the third made it racial. How can that be? How out of three blogs can AA call this blog racial? Is it because he knows more about the theft than he says. If he is calling it racial after only one racial comment made by him, what does he know.

this is disgusting!!!! and once again, the humans get off scott free!!!!!!!!!!!!! and when 1 of these abused animals bites someone, it will make ALL pitbulls look bad! Put the damn real criminals behind bars, the humans! the dogs are innocent, its the people that make them what they are!

There’s one for Julie. You are absolutely correct. The Owner makes the Animal. If you want a mean fighting dog, you can make that from any species of dog. If you want love, and protection, you can train your pet for that. Pits are what the owners make of them. Too bad some of the owners are the mean animals training animals to be mean.

@ African American....what are you talking about?  I don't see anything racial in what was said prior to your post.  You must have posted to the wrong blog or you are just trying to start trouble....which is it?

There are countless dog bites in a given year. If it is a larger dog, they call it an attack, if it is a small dog, they call it a bite. All dogs are subject to biting as all humans are subjected to being made angry by their mere existence. Small dog Attacks or Bites are not public because the smaller the dog the smaller the bite. But the intent of the biting dog is what the subject is. As with humans, the animals have a since of protecting themselves or their loved ones. And as ashamed as I am of the fact, with some humans, they get some perverted ego boost to have an animal that would be or at least appear to others to be mean. The animal was not born that way; it was the perverted human that taught his perversions to the animal. You could make a miniature dog a mean animal. In the older years it was the Shepherd, Doberman, Rott, and now it is the Pit. All dogs
will bite, just the bigger ones get the publicity. The humans make these dogs mean not to protect them selves or their loved ones, but quench some sadistic need. To me, the kind of human that sets out to make a dog mean for his own pleasure is the real BEAST in this tale.

I can't believe that some one would take those inncent dogs. What in the world was they thinking about, I hope that they turn themsleves in.

I agree with you...concerned memphian.  What is AA talking about?  I think we are all fed up with with the black/white crap.  This is supposed to be about stolen pit bulls yet AA is so brainless to make this about his own "black problems".  The problem with people such as this is the very reason blacks and whites can't come together as human beings and stop all the hatred.  Stop feeling sorry for yourself AA and get over it!  

As for the real reason we should be on here.....I hope the person/people responsible for the stolen pit bulls will be found and punished under the full extent of the law regardless of their race.
   

It is the humans that trained the Pits to fight that belong in a confined shelter. Perhaps let the pits he trained stay in the confinement with him.  
Let the trainers of these dogs suffer what the dogs in the fighting pits suffer. Either he fights the dogs to live and win or he looses at the hand of the dogs or the owners.
There were roomers about the Memphis Animal Service and the Pitts back a month ago. Is the Memphis Animal Service SELLING THE PITS TO THE INHUMAN PIT FIGHTERS?
I am sure that the dogs that were SOLD or STOLEN did not have a COLOR issue. They have an issue about how they are made to LIVE.

WHY DOESN'T THE MEMPHIS ANIMAL SERVICES HAVE SECURITY? EVERY OTHER CITY FACILITY HAS SECURITY...I.E. POLICE PROTECTION OR PRIVATE SECURITY. THE CITY COUNCIL COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THOSE POOR DEFENSELESS ANIMALS THAT ARE BACK ON THESE MEAN STREETS OF MEMPHIS!!!! THIS CITY IS WEAK AND HAS BEEN EXPOSED!!!!!

AND WHY DOES THIS STUPID NEWS WEB SITE ADVERTISE THE SELL OF PIT BULLS ON THEIR GOOGLE ADS? EYEWITNESS NEWS IS STUPID ALSO FOR ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE!!!!!

I DONT CARE IF YOUR BLACK, WHITE , CHINESE, LATINO,OR WHATEVER! IM WHITE AND IF I COULD FIND THE ******* THAT STOLE THESE DOGS! I WOULD BEAT THEM DOWN! EVEN IF IT WERE A WHITE MAN! ANYONE, I REPEAT ANYONE, WHO DOES THIS TO ANY ANIMAL, DESERVES A VERY HARSH SENTENCE! WHERE THE *** IS THE SECURITY??? YOU BETTER GET SOME, SO THIS DOESNT HAPPEN AGAIN! WHEN POLICE CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, THEY WILL MAKE AN ARREST HAPPEN! I THINK NOBODY CARES WHAT THESE POOR BABIES HAVE BEEN THROUGH AT THE HANDS OF THIS SCUM! IF YOU KNOW OF ANY KIND OF ANIMAL ABUSE, REPORT, REPORT REPORT! THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO KNOW ABOUT THIS STUFF AND DONT DO ANYTHING! ITS A LIFE, AND THEY HAVE FEELINGS, DONT  TREAT GODS CREATURES LIKE THIS!

This made a lot of sense to me lets see what you all think.

This is a true comment that was posted on the of above site.



I am glad these animal nuts don't love me that much
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:44 pm

NOTE TO DOGS...I am glad these animal nuts don't love me as much as they love these dogs. They saved them from the horrors of fighting for what? So they could kill them? No thank you. I believe I can speak for most dogs when I say I would rather fight it out. The animal people would tell you you were better off dead. That is how much they love animals. They routinely kill thousands.
Posted by: HappyFrenchman
Reader Comment Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:47 pm

Copy & Paste the link.
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071114/NEWS01/71114022/1006

I am glad these animal nuts don't love me that much
Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:44 pm

NOTE TO DOGS...I am glad these animal nuts don't love me as much as they love these dogs. They saved them from the horrors of fighting for what? So they could kill them? No thank you. I believe I can speak for most dogs when I say I would rather fight it out. The animal people would tell you you were better off dead. That is how much they love animals. They routinely kill thousands.
Posted by: HappyFrenchman
Reader Comment Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:47 pm

Here you all go

Copy & Past the link then go to Defending Mick Vick and see if it don't make sense to you all.
www.briandunne.org/

Trying again

PingBack from http://bahamas23.info/?p=24857

One if you go to the blogs to save boo-boo nut biter, all had redirect links to Eyewitness reporters 6 of them.  All 1-2-3-4-5-6  where this channel should have had a non-bias opinion they failed in professionalism.

Second after the dog was adopted they ran a story and drop it from there news site which made this statement.

Forensic specialist said the injuries were obviously caused by an animal and he knew this within seconds of seeing the pictures. He also says there is absolutely no evidence of sexual assault.

Lastly this information was on History Channel on the Pit Bull Breed on how it was bred specifically too fight and kill in the early 1800's

In the time of Queen Anne of Great Britain, it was performed in London at Hockley-in-the-Hole, twice a week, and was reasonably common in the provincial towns. At Stamford and at Tutbury, a bull was annually hunted through the streets.

The bull was usually placed in a specially constructed ring for the purpose, and tied to an iron stake so that it could move in an area of about 30 feet. The object of the sport was for the dogs to immobilise the bull.

Before the event started, the bull's nose was usually blown full of pepper to enrage the animal before the baiting. The bull was often placed in a hole in the ground. A variant of bull-baiting was "pinning the bull", where specially-trained dogs would be set upon the bull one at a time, a successful attack resulting in the dog fastening his teeth strongly in the bull's snout. Old English Bulldogs were used to bait bulls, in those times in those the dog was cross bred to the pit bull we know today.  What owner to make the dog more aggressive the dog was given bulls blood instead of water.  Later it was given slaves blood, after the blood hound found the slaves.

Sometimes after that the dog was given a none biting dog blood and eventually the dog and was fed dead slaves.

A Bill for the suppression of the practice was introduced into the British House of Commons in 1802, but was defeated by 13 votes, and it was not till the year 1835 that it was finally put down by Act of Parliament, called the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835, which forbade the keeping of any house, pit, or other place for baiting or fighting any bull, bear, dog, or other animal.

For that punk Karl and your cowardly friends want a personal lesson with me.  bring your mouth and not call the cops saying someone threating me on the internet like a little sissy that you are.  

Note the date and time :  African American said:
karl if you like to get together and discuss this you pathetic little piece of dog squeeze, we can you spineless a@@ worm.

You make yourself larger than life, but in reality you still have a steel grip on your mothers panty line as you eat from her rear tit.  

Being a man in the electronic age is easy for a sissy like you as you salivate over your george micheals, and elton john cd collection in a darken room, with the closes thing of a real girl in your life being your sister or your hand.

Now if you like to discuss this name the place punk, or just quit jocking chump!
November 10, 2007 1:31 PM  

So much for intelligent discussion.....

con.memphian when it comes to intellectual conversation with you, starts with a open beer can ending with you skoal in the lip.

Or your mother complaints of being short changed nightly on Elvis P. Blvd.

You are just another coward in the scheme of things.....
As I said before too you and karl any place any time..

Dear African American, thank you for proving my point.  

AA
You need to find your own private blog site because your are the only one that wants to read about what you have to say.
Respect your Creator

I do hope that Your Creator and your Mother, Father don’t see the person you are on this site.
It is soooooooo sad to know there are actually people like you in this world moreover in this city.
Where did your mannerism come from? I know your mother did not raise you to talk in such a way.
If you want to represent yourself as a human being, then you will have to try harder at it.
It scares me the way you keep talking about Jail Bait.
From my understanding the term means Under Age.
What do you have to do with the UNDER AGED?

Read the constitution, try freedom of speech

Is there some hillary clinton rally you ya hoo's need to attend, and con. memph..

you challenged me so don't play ignorant, jacka@@

From your response I don't think you read the last post.
Did your Creator, Mother, Father teach you to talk like this?
Do you have something going on about Jail Bait?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1trl1FMUw

Hey African American.  You are correct.  We all have freedom of speech.  In your case, you speak and prove just how ignorant you are.  Run along now and play in the street and leave this discussion to the intelligent ones.  

AA
Do you approve of Pit Bull fighting? If you do, why would you condone such a thing? Did your Creator give you any indications throughout your life that this was an OK thing to do?
You sound so sure of yourself, and you appear to want to fight the world, why don’t you tell us who your are? You are calling everyone else a sissy, then fess up who you are?

TO ALL OTHER BLOGGERS PLEASE GO TO THIS SITE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1trl1FMUw

To Just My Opinion and Karl and all HUMANs. Check out the web site posted above. You will truly love it.

To 1:

Awesome video!  I loved it.  My family had a pit growing up and she was an awesome dog.  Very loyal and loving!  This brought back memories for me.  Thanks!

@ African American...this is my final response to you.  You are perfectly right that you have freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.  Sadly, you use your right to freedom of speech to incite arguments and cause discord.  However, that is your right.  I have the right to ignore your pathetic rants and ignorant, unkind comments, which I will do from this point forward.    

To in my opinion.
My son has a pit that is twice the weight of my pup, but he plays with her so gently. He is just an 80lb. puppy. He might look big and strong which would scare some, but soon they see clearly that he is always ready to lick and play.

To Concerned Memphian
You just have to go to this site. In my opinion liked it as much as I did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1trl1FMUw

To 1:

I know what you mean.  Many times my mother, father, and I have thought back and discussed Maggie (our pit I grew up with) and how I would play dress up with her.  She put up with a lot from me!  I even have pictures of her with a baby rabbit I had as a child curled up together asleep on the floor.  She was a big ol' baby too!  We still miss her.  

I feel with all the news about the Memphis Animal Service that a through investigation should be done. I think every employee should have to undergo questioning and a polygraph about the practices of MAS. I was there the day the 11 week old puppy was raffled off. There was a worker there I spoke to that was in favor of keeping the puppy alive and adopting him out. He also seamed worried to be seen talking to me.  During that time there were roomers that the Memphis Animal Service (MAS) were selling Pit Bulls out the back door. It was implied that someone could look behind the shelter in a given evening and see the buyers hanging out back. I wonder if the word Stolen is correct.  I don’t think Herrington or Keenan McCoy is doing their job if they don’t INVESTIGATE.
The selling of Pit Bulls from MAS would be a FEDERAL crime, so perhaps Herrington and McCoy need to speak to the Feds.

"If there's any parents out there that's got these dogs and got children, get rid of them."

Kressie Warren's 6-year-old son Scott died Friday after the family's pit bull attacked him as he played with his 13-year-old sister.

Warren said the dog has never been aggressive and the attack came without warning.

"He loved them kids, and I just didn't see it coming," Warren said. "I always said it wouldn't happen to me. But if there's any parents out there that's got these dogs and got children, get rid of them."




Family Pit Bull Kills Son - USA Death Toll Is 28 In 2007
On November 6, 2007, 11-year-old Seth Lovitt was running through his own home when his parents' pit bull jumped off a couch and mauled the child to death. This happened in Killeen, Texas.

More Than 200 Stitches in the Face of a 6-Year-Old Boy

Logan Palomo, a six-year-old Houston-area boy, was mauled by a pit bull when the boy tried to give the dog a goodnight hug.

Parents should teach their children to avoid all fighting breeds and guard dog breeds. As an adult with the right of free speech, you can debate the appropriateness of breed bans all you want, and you can be as politically correct on this issue as you feel is necessary. However, you must not neglect your children's safety. Forbid them from attempting to hug pit bulls, Rottweilers, Chows, Akitas or any other fighting dogs or guard dogs.

Dogs and Babies - Preventing Dogs Attacking Babies:

I get a lot of emails from people who own dogs and are about to have a baby. These people want to make sure they don't have an issue with their dog attacking a baby. One thing is certain when a dog is given dominance over a child and bites them this consider a level 10 animal. This type animal should never be allowed to be in the presence of small children alone or supervise ever, there is no matter if in these cases it's when.

Some DANGEROUS INSANE PHOTOS

The following series of photos demonstrate as dangerous of a situation as I could imagine. The owners have allowed this Mastiff to be off leash near this baby.

This dog is showing his dominance over this child. If the slightest thing went wrong here the dog could or would attack the child.

Again this dog is showing his dominance over this child. The parents are very lucky if this dog does not attack the baby.

Again - the dog is demonstrating signs of dominance over the child. It is INSANE TO ALLOW A DOG TO DO THIS TO A BABY!!!

Walking the dog and baby at the same time

You have a second opportunity to demonstrate PACK STRUCTURE when the time comes for you to take the baby and the dog for a walk. The dog must be on leash with a training collar

Leer dog training  VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF DOG ATTACK ON BABY

Police: Eight Dead Puppies Found In Freezer

SALEM, Ore. -- Detectives serving a search warrant involving a child pornography investigation found eight dead puppies in a freezer Thursday in Salem, according to Salem police.

Eight dead poodles in plastic bags were found in a freezer among frozen food items, police said. Detectives said they were told the puppies were placed there until one of the children who lived at the home could bury them in the backyard.

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Animal Rights and Human Wrongs by Richard F. Stratton
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I have often been amused to find that the book that is most often banned in countries which allow such things is The World of the American Pit Bull Terrier. There are a lot of things wrong with this country (although I dearly love it), but we can be thankful for the First Amendment. It does protect free speech. A book can’t be banned just because you disagree with it–or even if the entire world disagrees with it. The animal rights lunatics are not of that mind. If they get the chance, they will ban a book, and the book of mine I mentioned is their favorite target. Is this because I was overly blatant in that particular opus in defending or explaining the pit dog game? Perhaps. But I think a more likely explanation is that I included an entire chapter about the humane movement in regard to animals. No one has disputed the facts in the chapter, but obviously, there is a great desire to suppress them.

Although I have been very critical of humaniacs, I struggle mightily to understand them. It is not difficult to do. Most of us love animals. Those of us who have become involved with a hobby aspect of dogs, whether it is showing, hunting, weight pulling, or other, even illegal, activities, have nearly always done so from having loved dogs so much that we wanted to do something more to justify putting in more time with them. So humaniacs (the word I invented to refer to the animal welfare lunatics) are not so difficult to understand. They just have taken things a little further than the rest of us. They are often successful and bright, with a little too much time on their hands. But even the brightest of them are criminally ignorant. I was once asked under cross examination if my term "humaniac" was meant to refer to those animal rights people who oppose dogfighting. I replied, "No, it was meant to refer to the lunatics who won’t listen to reason, the kind that castigate the San Diego Zoo for not giving the koalas water–because they are so unenlightened they don’t realize that koalas don’t drink water!"

If you are going to support laws that would put people in prison for years, it is incumbent, it would seem to me, upon such perpetrators to enlighten themselves about the activity they would like to stop. But they have not done that. They remain woefully ignorant, although a field director of one of the organizations travels the country, giving seminars on dogfighting, utilizing mainly the information he has gleaned from my books. But he is not adverse to filling in the gaps with his imagination. The people who attend his seminars are then certified as expert witnesses for court cases. It is these ignoramuses that I often must oppose in various court cases.

Pit dogs are the cakes and ale of these humane groups. Any time they report incidents of dogfighting or their success in perpetrating legislation against it, the money simply pours into their coffers. Although they have not succeeded one whit in suppressing pit fighting, they have reaped more profits than anyone else. The most damning indictment of the animal rights lunatics is that they are ineffective at protecting animals, but they do cause human suffering.

To some degree the tide is showing some signs of turning against the humaniacs. I just recently read an article in a medical journal in which the author maintains that the medical community erred greatly in ever trying to appease these lunatics. Scientists are often an easy target because they have difficulty explaining things in layman’s terms. Not every one of them is a Carl Sagan or Isaac Asimov. The first impulse of these physicians and scientists was to give in to all the new sentiments inherent in the animal rights groups by reducing the use of animals and replacing them in some way whenever possible. But this only emboldened the agitators. They were so ignorant that they wanted all the animal research eliminated and replaced with computer simulation. Where did they think that the information for the computer simulations came from?

My vet tells me that he would hate to have the present-day veterinary school graduates work on his dog. You see, animal surgery practice has been almost completely replaced in veterinary schools by computer simulation. It is not even close to the real thing. What had been used before were the cats and dogs from animal control. They were scheduled for death anyway, but this way they could be used to train veterinarians to do surgery before they were euthanized. They were under anesthetic the entire time, so they never suffered.

The loonies have also had an impact on medical schools. Here is what animal rights people have accomplished for these institutions. There was a time that dogs and cats were utilized for surgical practice. They still have to be, to some degree, as there is nothing like the feel of real blood vessels and organs for learning techniques. The animals were originally animals slated to die from animal control. Again, they were under anesthesia, and they were euthanized while they were under, so they never suffered. In fact, it would be humane if we could all have such an easy death. But the humaniacs wielded their power. These animals could no longer be available, although they still had to be euthanized. So now special dogs are raised strictly for the purpose of being used in practice surgeries. In other words, now two sets of dogs have to die. The old saying "with friends like these, you don’t need enemies" was never more apropos!

The fact is that only one percent of the animals are used for research by scientists. The other 99 percent slated for an untimely demise are the farm animals. The animal rights advocates made a deliberate choice to go for the scientists and doctors because they were less organized and more accessible than the farmers. Not only are humaniacs stupid, they are cowardly and lazy!

There I go again. I started out trying to be understanding of humaniacs and ended up by name calling. This is from the frustration of the harm they have done in destroying labs and the documentation involved in the studies, often setting back important medical research months–even years. And the fact is that the animals are generally well treated. Most of them are mice or rats, with only a few dogs, pigs, and cats being used. Many years ago, scientists were asked to identify the ten most important medical advances. There was a consensus, and later study revealed that all these advances were done through animal experimentation. Humaniacs would have us believe that all animals have the same rights as us. Ironically, they may have gotten that idea from science, as biology has revealed how we are all part of nature. But the concept of rights is a legal term, and only humans have rights, and they must necessarily be limited (to some degree). Surely we can have compassion for animals and still realize that there is a difference between a child and a rat.

Although humaniacs are generally good people, they have a right to be embarrassed about some of their history. It has always been one of hyperbole. Using the term "vivisection," they were able to get nearly all the dog fanciers on their side, including the old time Pit Bull magazines. I have the old Bloodlines Journal and Pit and Pal magazines to prove it! Vivisection implied cutting an animal open without anesthesia, and such things almost never took place. Strangely enough, Germany bought into this hysteria more than any country, and the Nazi regime announced in 1933 that a person found vivisecting animals of any kind would immediately be transported to concentration camps. (Of course, Nazi scientists and doctors later committed heinous medical experiments upon Jews and other captives, twisting the ideals of science to their own means and elevating animals to a status they murderously denied fellow human beings.)

The animal rights people love to propagate the fiction that every big time criminal and killer started out by abusing animals. (That way they can raise the level of hysteria about animal abuse and gain even more money for themselves.) But they overlook people like Adolph Hitler. He absolutely adored animals, and he was particularly fond of dogs. It was only people that he abused; no animal ever suffered at his hand.

Not all animal welfare people can be tarred with the same brush, of course. Some of them are not as extreme as the terrorists that have destroyed laboratories. Some of them even agree with animals being used in research. But the question to me is: Do any of them do any good? Is it possible to eliminate animal suffering? Is it possible to even make a dent in it? Consider, if you will, one of the most beautiful sights in the world. That is the east plains of Africa. There are animals of every type off to the horizon, wildebeest, zebras, antelope, lions, cheetahs, and leopards. They are beautiful, and the sight of them touches the heart. And yet, every single animal is likely to eventually die a horrible death. The prey animals will eventually be pulled down by predators. The predators are doomed to death by starvation, infection, or parasitism. Some of them may live relatively long lives, but even those will be weakened enough by age that they can’t hunt or are taken down by disease. Nature really is bloody of tooth and red of claw. All biologists know that these are the facts, and yet they would not eliminate the wilderness areas. The only way the suffering can be eliminated is by destroying all living things, as suffering is a part of life for all of us. Unfortunately, I don’t think that it is mere happenstance, the animal welfare people are unconcerned, from all appearances, about preserving wilderness habitats. Perhaps it is also not surprising that some groups advocate an end to the American Pit Bull Terrier breed–for its own good, of course!

Even with domestic animals, it is my observation that the humane groups rarely do any good for animals. Let’s face it. Most people like animals, and they aren’t going to abuse them. Parents teach children to be kind and gentle with animals. On the rare occasions that people actually abuse animals, no one is around to witness it. What kinds of cases, then, are prosecuted? Well, to take just two recent examples from my neck of the woods, an elderly woman was arrested and her cats confiscated (and put down). She had taken in stray cats all her life. In her later years, she was not able to take them to the vet, so a few of them had problems with their skin, although they were being treated. The way I read it, the situation made my blood boil. This poor woman had obviously devoted her entire life to helping cats, and some blue noses got her charged with animal cruelty. How pitiless that must have seemed to her, but then, humaniacs are not concerned with cruelty to humans.

Another case involved a Vietnam War veteran. In a wheel chair because of his war injuries, he had a nice country place, and he apparently liked game chickens. His chickens were all seized because they had their combs cut in the manner of fighting chickens. Like the dogs, the chickens have been bred from countless ancestors of warriors, so the chickens like to fight. There is little cruelty involved. Let’s have a reality check here. What is life like for most chickens? In the egg farm factories, it is not good–not even as good as the chickens portrayed in the movie "Chicken Run" (that I saw with my granddaughter)! A game chicken has a fight or two and then lives the life of a king. But the humaniacs, as usual, won’t listen to reason. And I say this as an impartial observer, as I have little interest in game chickens.

I would rather be writing about dogs here, but perhaps the reader will forgive me for taking time out to vent a little in this article. The fact is that this commentary is not just therapy for my psyche. I wanted to sound a warning that there is a national–perhaps a world–hysteria going on about animal abuse. Consequently, laws are being passed that have real teeth. And some of them are such stupid ones as forbidding that dogs ever be chained. As usual the humaniacs are ignorant and are unaware that show dog people keep their dogs in shipping crates in the house. The problem is that cruelty is in the eye of the beholder. Thus, laws get passed which amount to no violation of anyone’s rights–instead they merely violate some person’s sensitivities. Nevertheless, the laws are on the books, and I would encourage all dog people to be mindful of them. This hysteria, like all hysterias, will eventually pass. The question is how much damage will be done in the time it is in effect. Perhaps having dog people be wary but also aware of some of the facts about humaniacs will be useful. They don’t necessarily hold the moral high ground, but they can be dangerous all the same.