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…so, why are people so dang upset ?  He didn’t rescue a pound puppy.  Ok; the puppy he chose was already born; couldn’t be unbirthed, so why not?   There is nothing wrong with buying a pup from a breeder, where you can see it’s parents, and I assume it’s registry.  I met a lady who paid $500 for a Sheltie..( you know the kind?..looks like Lassie, only miniature )…imagine her surprise when the pup didn’t quit growing until it reached 75 pounds.   A co-worker bought a registered Old English Bulldog;  $1,000.00.  The Old English Bulldog is supposed to be tuff-looking, saggy jowls, cork-screw tail, and ground clearance is about 8 inches.   Imagine their chagrine when their baby grew to be 29 inches tall at the shoulders.   That’s about the size of a Boxer.   To both families’ credit, they kept the dogs.  They loved the beasties, but freely admitted they got shafted.  They bought dogs from people who couldn’t / wouldn’t show them the pups’ parents.   Any reputable dog breeder will freely, and proudly, show you the parents of their litters.

I understand that people accuse the kennel Mr. Biden bought the puppy at of being a puppymill.  It is easy enough to check.  She sells registered German Shepherds, so her litters have to be registered with the kennel clubs before the puppies can be sold.  Each pup has a ” puppy paper “, documenting it’s birth.  It’s easy enough to ask the AKC, UKC, or CKC how many puppies that kennel has sold over the past few years.  The kennel in question does well enough to supplement it’s bloodline with imported studs.   That isn’t cheap, people.  Nor is it as easy as driving to a new state to buy a likely dog. It’s also funny how the kennel has five documented years of no trouble, then suddenly, after selling a puppy to Mr. Biden, it comes under fire from an agency that is known for it’s own glass house.  ( PETA ).

I also understand people are dismayed that Mr. Biden didn’t get a dog from a rescue shelter.  Well, there is no doubt there are many fine pets abandoned each year.  I myself adopted out 18 dogs and 47 cats one year.  I live in the country and people dump pets all the time.   Let me tell you something else, while I’m at it…. quite often farmers just shoot strays on sight.  Dumping a cat or dog in the country is a death warrant very often.  Sometimes fast, by car or gunshot;  often very slow of starvation unless the animal finds a farm like mine.  How a person comes by a new pet isn’t as important as what they do with it afterwards.  Many pets are given the boot simply because their owners were too lazy to train it to proper manners.   Others outgrew their baby-cuteness.  Still more become pregnant since the owners couldn’t/ wouldn’t, spay or neuter, so they get tossed out.

I’d like to see some changes in animal welfare.  I’d like to see mandantory spaying / neutering programs unless a person had a license to breed pet animals, and set limits on how many they could produce ; stop the backyard breedings.  Let the law of scarcity bring back value to our pets, instead of them being an easily disposible commodity.  I’d like to see the program run for free, name it  ” NO EXCUSES “.

And while we are at it, people voted out the horse meat industry.  The Killers, we called the people who ran them.  Ever wonder what is happening to all the unwanted horses that can’t find homes now?   It’s a bit harder to adopt out a horse, in many places.  It’s also more noticible when a person dumps one.  Yes, it’s happening.  It’s  also affecting animal shelters who have found themselves euthanizing healthy horses, simply because even the shelters couldn’t feed them all.   This makes me as sad as if the killers still shopped.   The horses are still dying, but only the fertilizer plants haul them away now.   If this shocks you…good.  We need to be aware of more going on than just cats and dogs.

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