Post by bubsy on Dec 4, 2008 14:53:28 GMT -5
Here's the article I was talking about, Mary
TX-RPOA E-News
From RPOA Texas Outreach and
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
"Animal welfare, not animal 'rights'
and, yes, there is a difference."
Permission granted to crosspost.
November 25, 2008
Thanks to Charlotte McGowan for the message below "Watch Your Language"
which is especially appropriate right now for Texas. HSUS and Texas Humane
Legislation Network (assisted by all Texas "animal rights" groups) have a
publicity campaign in full swing to get a "Puppy Mill" Bill passed by our
state legislature during the upcoming session. The HSUS media campaign had
already begun nationwide with "Baby," the three-legged dog supposedly
rescued from a puppy mill. To the extremists anyone who breeds dogs is a
"puppy mill." They work in incremental steps to end all use and interaction
with animals until their goal is eventually accomplished. We hope you'll
read Charlotte's message carefully and tell your friends. Charlotte is an
AKC judge and exhibitor.
_____________________________________
From Charlotte McGowan:
I would like to make some observations about language. The animal rights
people want to change language to help them in their quest to give animals
legal standing and we are helping them. Time to stop.
Adopting - this is a term used for humans. We don't adopt animals. Sorry,
rescues don't offer dogs for adoption either. They offer them for placement.
They re-home them. But they aren't adopted. If money changes hands, they
sell them. A shelter here in Mass grosses over $700,000 a year selling
imported shelter strays, mutts and feral street dogs. They go for $350 a
pop. They don't rescue in my opinion, they keep product in the store! They
have a big so-called not for profit 501(c)3 business. If we start calling it
like it is (and I do) believe me you are going to feel so much better. Now
if a purebred rescue collects money from someone for a dog, they are taking
money as a placement or re-homing fee or they are asking to be reimbursed
for expenses related to the re-homing. If you need it to be warmer and
fuzzier, it is humane re-homing. Let's drop adoption. Animal rights people
love us if we help them. Let's stop helping them.
Fostering - This is a term used for children taken by the state and put in
the care of people not their parents. We don't foster dogs. We provide
temporary care for displaced dogs. Sorry if you find that awkward but we can
all benefit by retraining ourselves.
Guardian - legal term used for the legally responsible person caring for a
minor child or incapacitated person. I think we get this one. We have to
fight Guardian language in animal ordinances tooth and nail because a
guardian takes away ownership from the owner. If you own a dog it is yours.
If you are a guardian, you are not an owner. You are a person or entity with
legal care responsibility. If dogs have guardians instead of owners, we no
longer have ownership rights.
Puppy Mill- There is no such thing. Puppy mill is a slur, like the "n....."
word. Let's stop using it. We hate substandard kennels. We want all dogs to
be kept well. Well kept dogs are well kept dogs whether they are in kennels
or in homes. It isn't about how many dogs there are it is about how well
they are kept. HSU$ calls all farms factory farms. When have you ever heard
them talk about or care about family farms? Now they call all breeders
puppy mills. They try to mumble in a remote footnote that there might be
some good breeders but for them it is all about shelters and if not shelters
rescues. Do you get it? They use language to slander all animal use and all
dog breeders. Their mumbled lip service doesn't fly with me.
Rescue - what is a rescue? To me, IMHO, it is taking on the care and
rehoming of a dog in a true need situation. This includes when the owners
are incapacitated or die, have to go into a care facility like a nursing
home, lose their home, etc. When some one just wants to dump a dog because
they are tired of it, that's a disposal job. I am not nice to such people.
When purebred rescues go into auctions and buy dogs I call that just plain
dumb. That is assisting and supporting commercial breeders. Some people may
not agree but supporting this sort of thing does absolutely nothing for
purebred dogs.
Words that do not belong in the language at all - furbabies, furkids, fur
children. All of these terms make animals into children who (gasp) need
guardians, adoption and fostering.
So I hope you watch your language!
Charlotte McGowan
RPOA Texas Outreach (501 C4)
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance (501 C3)
900 NE Loop 410 #311-D
San Antonio, TX 78209
Website: www.responsiblepetowners.org
$15 Annual dues (January - December)
To subscribe or unsubscribe,e-mail rpoa@....
TX-RPOA E-News
From RPOA Texas Outreach and
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
"Animal welfare, not animal 'rights'
and, yes, there is a difference."
Permission granted to crosspost.
November 25, 2008
Thanks to Charlotte McGowan for the message below "Watch Your Language"
which is especially appropriate right now for Texas. HSUS and Texas Humane
Legislation Network (assisted by all Texas "animal rights" groups) have a
publicity campaign in full swing to get a "Puppy Mill" Bill passed by our
state legislature during the upcoming session. The HSUS media campaign had
already begun nationwide with "Baby," the three-legged dog supposedly
rescued from a puppy mill. To the extremists anyone who breeds dogs is a
"puppy mill." They work in incremental steps to end all use and interaction
with animals until their goal is eventually accomplished. We hope you'll
read Charlotte's message carefully and tell your friends. Charlotte is an
AKC judge and exhibitor.
_____________________________________
From Charlotte McGowan:
I would like to make some observations about language. The animal rights
people want to change language to help them in their quest to give animals
legal standing and we are helping them. Time to stop.
Adopting - this is a term used for humans. We don't adopt animals. Sorry,
rescues don't offer dogs for adoption either. They offer them for placement.
They re-home them. But they aren't adopted. If money changes hands, they
sell them. A shelter here in Mass grosses over $700,000 a year selling
imported shelter strays, mutts and feral street dogs. They go for $350 a
pop. They don't rescue in my opinion, they keep product in the store! They
have a big so-called not for profit 501(c)3 business. If we start calling it
like it is (and I do) believe me you are going to feel so much better. Now
if a purebred rescue collects money from someone for a dog, they are taking
money as a placement or re-homing fee or they are asking to be reimbursed
for expenses related to the re-homing. If you need it to be warmer and
fuzzier, it is humane re-homing. Let's drop adoption. Animal rights people
love us if we help them. Let's stop helping them.
Fostering - This is a term used for children taken by the state and put in
the care of people not their parents. We don't foster dogs. We provide
temporary care for displaced dogs. Sorry if you find that awkward but we can
all benefit by retraining ourselves.
Guardian - legal term used for the legally responsible person caring for a
minor child or incapacitated person. I think we get this one. We have to
fight Guardian language in animal ordinances tooth and nail because a
guardian takes away ownership from the owner. If you own a dog it is yours.
If you are a guardian, you are not an owner. You are a person or entity with
legal care responsibility. If dogs have guardians instead of owners, we no
longer have ownership rights.
Puppy Mill- There is no such thing. Puppy mill is a slur, like the "n....."
word. Let's stop using it. We hate substandard kennels. We want all dogs to
be kept well. Well kept dogs are well kept dogs whether they are in kennels
or in homes. It isn't about how many dogs there are it is about how well
they are kept. HSU$ calls all farms factory farms. When have you ever heard
them talk about or care about family farms? Now they call all breeders
puppy mills. They try to mumble in a remote footnote that there might be
some good breeders but for them it is all about shelters and if not shelters
rescues. Do you get it? They use language to slander all animal use and all
dog breeders. Their mumbled lip service doesn't fly with me.
Rescue - what is a rescue? To me, IMHO, it is taking on the care and
rehoming of a dog in a true need situation. This includes when the owners
are incapacitated or die, have to go into a care facility like a nursing
home, lose their home, etc. When some one just wants to dump a dog because
they are tired of it, that's a disposal job. I am not nice to such people.
When purebred rescues go into auctions and buy dogs I call that just plain
dumb. That is assisting and supporting commercial breeders. Some people may
not agree but supporting this sort of thing does absolutely nothing for
purebred dogs.
Words that do not belong in the language at all - furbabies, furkids, fur
children. All of these terms make animals into children who (gasp) need
guardians, adoption and fostering.
So I hope you watch your language!
Charlotte McGowan
RPOA Texas Outreach (501 C4)
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance (501 C3)
900 NE Loop 410 #311-D
San Antonio, TX 78209
Website: www.responsiblepetowners.org
$15 Annual dues (January - December)
To subscribe or unsubscribe,e-mail rpoa@....
) who advised owners all they had to do to cure their dogs' problems was zap them each time they 'misbehaved'. Of course the dogs ended up neurotic. Is this ok? Many trainers would object to any sort of legislation that told them what they can and cannot do to dogs. I object to dogs going to trainers and winding up dead because of what was done to them by those trainers. Many trainers would probably say, "Oh that is AWFUL, and I don't use shock collars, but I don't think those who do should be told how to use them." This is essentially the mindset of many people regarding breeding practices: they themselves don't like commerical breeding, but they don't even want large scale commericial breeders to be monitored! Because doing so 'feeds into the AR plan to take over the world!' Please. 
I look forward to learning much here