Let’s do some basic math. Over 300,000,000 people in the United States + over 60 million dogs (including roughly eight million “pit bulls”) = only about 20 annual fatalities. And yet, we are going to be treated this week to a “Summit on Dangerous Dogs” sponsored by a “Kindness Revolution” backed with animal rights money and line up of presenters that includes a former presidential campaign manager, a breed ban promoting Dog Warden, a police officer/investigative reporter, an attorney, a lobbyist, and – if she’s not in jail - an alleged dog thief! I don’t see a single board certified dog behaviorist on the panel. Something in this equation just doesn’t add up.
For some strange reason, when I think of a revolution, I hear the marching of jack-booted Storm Troopers high stepping all over my civil rights. I don’t care how beautifully you wrap the package, there’s nothing kind about that.
The Best Friends Animal Society, a multi million dollar non profit with a scary past and a questionable future has apparently decided to enter the political arena.
“Who are these Christians anyway? Throw them to the lions!”
Those in the know are already sharpening their fangs.
Briefly summarized, Best Friends has published in their Sept./Oct. 2006 magazine that:
1) Because of breeding, some dogs “have a higher percentage of bad than do most breeds.
2) Dog “attacks are by no means all from pit bulls, but by dogs of many breeds who by now have been inbred with aggressive tendencies.
3) “Beloved pets” will “suddenly and inexplicably turn on their people”.
4) The root cause of dangerous dogs is that “certain people are deliberately breeding aggressive tendencies into dogs”.
5) “the rest of us…are victims”
Wow! I haven’t heard propaganda like that since the Holocaust!!!
Don’t worry…Best Friends has a “three-point plan”. It includes:
1) Acknowledging “that there are dangerous breeds, and that aggressive tendencies have now been bred into their genes”.
2) “legislation making it illegal to breed aggression into dogs”
3) Going “after the people who are breeding aggressive dogs, rather than simply the dogs themselves”.
“This summit seeks to build momentum for a national movement...to protect innocent dogs from people” and their modeling their solution on their own interpretation of excerpts from breeding restriction laws enacted by THE GERMAN ANIMAL WELFARE ACT of 1998, and THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF PET ANIMALS IN STRAUSSBORG GERMANY of 1987.
Zig heil!
THE REVOLUTION is upon us.
