BRENDA BARNETTE, BREEDING, AND BEST FRIENDS! WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?

Most of us are aware of the horrible dog auctions held in Ohio. Spent breeding stock, many needing medical care, not even to mention emotional care. Poor dogs with broken spirits. So, in ride the good guys, those wanting to stop these auctions - the Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions. This Coalition managed to gather over 150,000 signatures on their petition when only 115,000 were required. Now the signatures have to be verified and if all checks out, legislation has to be introduced within 4 months. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/ohio-dog-auctions-distrubtion-channel-puppy-mill-cruelty

Sounds good, huh? Sounds like the citizens of Ohio are in favor of banning these auctions, huh? Who wouldn't be in favor of something like this? Ask and ye shall receive.

BEST F(R)IENDS DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THEY WANT TO SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION. Read more below.

On the Best F(r)iends Network, December 23, 2011, there is a piece about this legislation and this Coalition. Of course, you would expect to see something like this on BF's site, it is news in the humane world. What you don't expect to see is this disclaimer:

**Best Friends Animal Society has not taken a position of support or opposition to this piece of legislation.

**Best Friends supports legislation that promotes humane standards for commercial breeders of companion animals. Specifically, we support quality standards that incorporate strict guidelines to ensure that animals’ physical and mental health thrive. This includes capping the number of dogs in each facility. Periodic oversight by a state or local agency and notable penalties that seriously deters recidivism is important. We also support statutes that prohibit entities that are not in compliance with existing laws and regulations from operating a pet-for profit business.

I ask you how does that read to you? It reads to me that Best F(r)iends is in bed with breeders, "commercial breeders" at that. Puppy mills are commercial breeders. I don't know about you but it would be a cold day in hell before Best Fiends gets my donation dollar.

SHIRLEY THE "YES" BISCUIT NEEDS TO COOK A LITTLE LONGER, SHE'S MUSHY IN THE HEAD, OR MAYBE HEART

When I saw this, I had to wonder. Now why would this devoted "No Kill'er" not call upon her Lord and Master to save these poor doggies? She called upon the very organizations she openly condemns via her Lord and Master. This is concerning the horrible case in North Carolina where a rescuer was murdered, apparent, by her ex husband. http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/dec/19/2/homicide-investigation-north-carolina-ar-2887455/?referer=http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwspa.com%2Far%2F2887455%2F&h=7AQEjqkX0AQHKz9oX27jnbMDPZvC39XEOCC4hsNs_h-HVnw&shorturl=http://bit.ly/uSsLUY

"This pound is a Maddie’s Fund grant recipient. In 2010, it killed 65% of the pets in its care. I suppose it should come as no surprise that it plans to kill pets for Christmas but I just can not stomach this. The woman who would have saved these pets was brutally murdered and the pound’s tribute to her is more killing?"

Please help spread the word about this situation. Can Maddie’s Fund help by offering financial assistance to board the pets for Christmas or working with the county in some other way to save the lives of these pets? Can HSUS, ASPCA or Best Friends offer any financial or other assistance? Please ask around to any contacts you may have within these organizations and share the news with individual rescuers as well. There are plenty of ways these needless killings can be avoided, even if Rutherford Co doesn’t realize the shame in its threat. I only hope something good can happen in time" 


Why isn't Nathan Winograd and his puppets stepping up to the plate, why does Shirley need to call upon HSUS? Does anyone know that answer?

WHY I WON'T WORK AT A "NO KILL" SHELTER

This caught my eye and I just had to post it. It points to all the reason why I fight this morbid "No Kill" movement of Nathan Winograd.

In college, I volunteered at a small animal shelter in Ohio. I never thought much about the shelter's policies. Only later did I realize how much suffering its limited admission policy caused. All "no kill" animal shelters—big or small—are limited-admission facilities.  

The dogs no one wanted sat for years (yes, years) in solitary concrete and metal cages. The only bright spot in their day was when a volunteer would walk them for 15 minutes and give them a bit of time to wander in a dirt pen outdoors. Otherwise, they spent their days and nights confined to cages. On weekends, when everyone else was in the park or at the movies … on holidays, when everyone else was with their families and opening presents … 365 days a year, they sat in a cage. Occasionally, a puppy would be brought in and quickly adopted, but many of the older, bigger dogs sat hopelessly month after month.  

I befriended a dog named Tigger, who probably weighed 80 pounds, was very cute, and had a wonderful personality. He was one of the sweetest dogs. (I suspect that he wasn't adopted because of his size, because he was a mutt, and because he didn't look like a dog you'd see in a magazine. I would have adopted him without hesitation, but animals weren't allowed in my dorm.) It broke my heart to leave him after our walks because I could see how lonely he was and how our walks were all that he looked forward to each day.

Looking back, I think of all the Tiggers languishing in limited-admission shelters and all the animals who are turned away from those shelters only to suffer on the streets or in abusive households. I wonder why people think those fates are preferable to giving animals a chance to be adopted at an open-admission shelter and, if no home can be found, a peaceful, dignified, painless exit in a loving person's arms. I sympathize with the folks who run limited-admission shelters—as I saw, many of them really do care about animals. But they often have such a fanatical fear of euthanasia that they will let an animal's spirit die for lack of joy or love or a home, just to keep them breathing for breathing's sake. The limited-admission model has proved over and over again that it isn't the answer—it's just sweeping the problem under the rug.  

I have so much gratitude for people who work in open-admission shelters and have the thankless task of having to euthanize the animals they have fed, walked, cared for, and loved while constantly dealing with the question "Why aren't you 'no kill'?" We all need to speak out in support of shelters that accept every animal in need and support aggressive spay-and-neuter and "adopt—don't buy" campaigns. And next time you are chatting with staffers or volunteers at an open-admission shelter, thank them for their courage and compassion.

HIGHWAY TO HELL TRANSPORTS TRAINED VICIOUS DOGS!!!

The first clip will show this "rescuer" training dogs to be aggressive. The second clip is a news story about the citations received by this "rescuer" for neglect. But this "rescuer" is shipping these trained vicious dogs to other states. 

Here’s a perfect example: a “rescuer” in FL called B.U.D.D.I.E.S. 

http://www.clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=90E646A7741123D6

Here’s news coverage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlNz0jdR3I   

http://www.mysuncoast.com/content/topstories/story/Manatee-County-animal-sanctuary-in-danger-of/5OkGjuAwfUed3G8kbe025g.cspx

And if you look at his FB page, just about every dog on it is “mouthy, bitey, recorded bite history,” incl. one who went from the Gaston Co. NC shelter to FL (stayed at his place 2 yrs.) and then all the way to PA (and now has cancer).

"NO KILL", NOTHING BUT A NUMBERS GAME

Since the advent of "No Kill", I have said it is nothing more than a numbers game, creative bookkeeping. If you don't believe that, then look at the numbers from Austin. If you can figure them out, then you must be a genius.

Here is another person, not associated with the humane community, who sees the same as I do. First, there is an article proclaiming all the good it is doing as "No Kill". Leave out the city, fill in the blank with any shelter claiming to be "No Kill", and it reads the same. Note the timing, at a meeting so no one is able to dispute them on the spot. Remember first impressions are the ones that get us in trouble. http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/ACS-saves-record-number-of-animals-2338656.php

Now read this story and see there are differences of opinion. Many reporters also are drinking the koolaid of this cult movement and their reporting will deliberately misguide people. http://www.examiner.com/nonprofit-business-in-san-antonio/no-kill-initiative-san-antonio-needs-investigation-and-review

Although this Examiner seems to be drinking that koolaid too, he is concerned about the dishonesty. We all should be, this isn't the first case. I have blogged about Porter County. They too have a major case of dishonesty. The only way "No Kill" works is on paper, and when it is on paper it can be altered to suit the agenda of the writer. Nothing but a numbers game, plain and simple.

HEY, NATHAN WINOGRAD AND ALL YOUR PUPPETS, HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FREE KITTENS YOU OFFER

Free and BOGO kittens are cheap pit bull food and now snake food. This is what happens to those free kittens always being given away by the "No Kill'ers". The pictures are graphic but I want these puppets of Nathan Winograd to look at them, this is what you do, this is what you stand for.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069512/Python-Christmas-video-Hunt-twisted-sadisctic-thug-fed-kitten-python.html

A hunt has been launched for a sadistic pet owner who filmed himself feeding a kitten to a python.

The vile video, entitled Python Christmas, shows a man in his 20s carrying  the kitten called Jasmine into a bedroom in a Santa hat and then placed on a bed.

Lurking half-hidden under a pillow lay a yellow Burmese python, which can grow up to 19ft long and is one of the largest snakes in the world.

And the "No Kill'ers" hand out kittens like candy to anyone who shows up at their doorsteps. 

MORE HORROR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL TRANSPORTS

Hello Honesty Helps,

 

Things are even worse now.

 

Following is an excerpt from a transporter's facebook page, stating that the rescues that they send dogs to are "vetted and approved." Well, if they consider the rescues posting on Craig's List to be vetted and approved, I would hate to see what kind of rescues they turn down.

 

God only knows what becomes of most of these poor dogs ...

 

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS POST THAT WAS RECENTLY ALL OVER FACEBOOK

‎40+ dogs (lots of chis) from City of LA, Harbor Shelter & North Central Shelter made it safely to rescues in Washington & Canada rescues yesterday. After a long 24-hour trip, they are now in the kind and capable hands of vetted and approved Washington & Canadian rescues. Somedogs were pre-adopted from their photos and have homes to go to this week. All dogs will be in foster homes and spoiled... rotten until they find their furrever homes!!!
Many of the dogs who went on the trip had been at the shelter for 2 months.

AND NOW LOOK AT THESE POOR DOGS BEING SOLD ON CRAIG'S LIST IN VANCOUVER - only a sampling of what's on Craig's List in Canada

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/nvn/pet/2703467305.html - an UNALTERED male being given away FOR FREE - this ad has been edited but here is original text (I have pdf of original ad):  He is just over 1 year, about 8 lbs., tan colour, beautiful boy who needs a forever home. He has all his shots but needs to be neutered and is not trained. Rescue dog from California. No fee for him, but I need to know he is going to a good home. He needs someone with time and patience to train him.

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/pet/2691196391.html - This sad excuse for a "rescue" can't even take five minutes to re-take photos, these are obviously the shelter photos. These people are only after a quick buck, it's plain to see.

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/pet/2699299308.html - NO HOME CHECK - "Just write me a check for $250"\

 

Now they are collecting donations for a massive transport of over 200 dogs.  How can these northern communities absorb so many imported animals?  Thay can't possibly.

 

Not to mention the dogs being sold for a HUGE mark up in BC. Always the rescue references something like "saved on his last day" which everyone knows is far from truth. These dog sellers do not care about the dogs, only their huge profits.

 

Thank you for your time, do you have any ideas to stop them?  confidential of course.

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WE REFUSE TO BE VICTIMS OF NATHAN WINOGRAD

This is a long story but I will do my best to make it easy to understand. Recently there has been a lawsuit filed by No Kill Nation (NKN) against another anti-Winograd comrade, Randy DeCarlo. Randy's a good guy, folks. But he has a mouth that won't quit, thanks for that, Randy.

There's a situation in Florida, one I admit that I don't know a lot about, but Randy does. I suggest that you go to his site and read up about it. http://squirrelsnnuts.blogspot.com/

He also has a Facebook page where he posts the most lovely pictures of his "Hounds". http://www.facebook.com/randy.decarlo

Now, Randy is being sued by NKN for his remarks on his FB page. This is now beyond just him being a victim of Nathan Winograd, if NKN happens to win this case against Freedom of Speech on Facebook, a can of worms will be opened to all  of us. I encourage you to join Randy in his fight that represents each and every one of us that want to share the truth about Nathan Winograd to the world.