The headlines in the local paper (The Page News and
Courier)states today (24 Dec)..."Animal cruelty crackdown in Page County"
and guess who the 2 being charged are? The Animal Control Officers.
It seems they had a habit of shooting the dogs and cats at the pound
and some locals want to see them get jail time. There was a farm down
the road from me that last year had some horses in a 'dude string'
operation and boarding there and in the winter the horses ribs were showing thru
shaggy winter coats. One day i saw a carcass waiting for the
renderer by the side of the road and i got to thinking something must be wrong
there. Then hearing from another source that this boarder was looking for
her horse and couldn't find it she came back the next day and photographed
enough carnage to have the hacker placed on animal cruelty charges.
His answer was he didn't want to cause her grief by telling her that her horse
was dead... When to call is a personal decision and maybe i should have
called, but the animal activist that lives across the road i would have thought
had a better perspective and she didn't call. It finally came out and
charges have been filed. Here's a small PETA story
about someone i knew who is an activist. She 'rescued'
some monkeys that were in a testing somewhere and brought them to the country
and put them down to save them from torture. I don't know who to believe
anymore. PETA talks a mean talk and does things i find obnoxious and
rather than finding answers they 'Put them down'. Another PETA person
thinks i should put down a dog that is confined to a 14'x36' kennel during the
day and inside at night, because it has no companionship. Well this dog
bit its previous owner, my friend who died of cancer and had her whole
life/death covered except her dogs. On her death bed i agreed to take the
dogs and these were Doberman crosses with something like a hound dawg and so
strong they have broken horse lead ropes. The male i shot when he got
loose and i found him with my 18 you catdawg Manx-Persian in his mouth and
he growled at me and i had to shoot the cat also because it was so messed
up. That was very sad to me because i felt as vicious as the dog, and i
loved that cat and he didn't have to go out that way. So, i'm faced with
taking care of a dog that can be vicious to other animals and because, my friend
is dead and i shot her other dog, i will not put this dog down as she is very
loving to me, its just that she doesn't like other animals. 'Fuzz' Good
the local animal control officer, just indicted, was bad for shooting all
those dogs and cats and people want to see him in jail. What, where or
when is a personal call, but death is not the answer sometimes, and hindsight at
times is just the rear end for an uncomfortable situation. Hopefully those
answers can be found rationally someday. But, personally, i think PETA
needs to reevaluate their perspectives....and not act so holier than thou.
"The only successful revolution is thru evolution" tom
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