Yes Biscuit! has the disgusting story of Bost, the Boxer who got loose and was turned in to the local shelter by good Samaritans in Walker County, AL. The shelter director killed him immediately and so the owner's heart was broken when he showed up promptly to redeem his pet.
May that shelter director rot in Hell.
Read it here.
Well, try the CGN test!!!
Full information at Wag The Dog.
I am seriously p*ssed off. Harvey Levin, who hosts some celebrity "news" show (which seems to consist of videos of people walking), displayed his complete lack of knowledge about dogs by muttering something about "pit bulls" and an enzyme in their brains. His built-in peanut gallery nod their heads like bobble dolls in the backs of cars.
More media crapola we have to deal with. I don't know if celebrity video shows qualify as mainstream.
Harv, Harv, Harv. Show me the scientific proof to back up your claim about "enzymes" in a "pit bull" brain.
Bet'cha can't.
Because neither exists. Neither the enzyme nor any scientific proof.
Harv, get informed. This is a much bigger battle than you probably know.
The documentary An American Opera - The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever is being screened in Toronto for one night only - Thursday, July 23rd - and only a limited number of tickets are available.
AN AMERICAN OPERA is a visceral, operatic vision of what happened to the people of New Orleans who were forced to evacuate without their beloved pets and the volunteers who came from all over the world to help. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, America suffered the worst domestic animal crisis in its history. Tens of thousands of animals were left to perish in neighborhoods all across the gulf when the owners were forced to evacuate without their house pets. Follow the story magically crafted by Director Tom McPhee, of the pets, vets, owners, officials, rescuers and adopters of animals as they work through the chaos to do what is right only to discover not everyone is working toward the same goal! Tom McPhee went to Gonzales, Louisiana not knowing how he would help, just knowing he needed to help somehow. He volunteered at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center and found himself spending the next four days taking more than five thousand pictures of some of the thousands of house pets rescued from flooded New Orleans. For the next 22 months Tom would continue to document this historic event as it unfolded, trying to understand where it all went wrong and how one fearless woman got it right! You can read more about the movie and see trailers at An American Opera.
Tickets for the Toronto screening can be purchased at Rescue Party Tour. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $25 for VIP which includes a meet and greet with filmmaker Tom McPhee before, a signed poster, and $10 of every VIP ticket goes to local rescues. Please use the promo code K933 in the promo code box to have the $10 portion of a $25 VIP ticket donated to Speaking of Dogs Rescue.
Hope you'll be there! I have my ticket in hand!
Anyone looking for an apartment in Toronto should know about The Bedbug Registry . It looks like the local bedbug problem started in the downtown core and is moving north, with some west and east movement. Beware! It sounds like these things are harder to get rid of than roaches.
Read On!H/T to KC Dog Blog for this....
Animal Farm Foundation and the National Canine Research Council released a new "find the pit bull mix" game, where the owners have done DNA testing on their dogs. What wonderful proof of the absurdity of condemning dogs on the basis of appearance, which is done only by people with small minds. Or political ambitions.
Ginger the dog is the subject of an incredible waste of money by the City of Toronto.
Ginger was leashed and muzzled, in accordance with law, when she was attacked by another unleashed dog (not a "pit bull") that bit her and ripped off her muzzle. Someone got bitten because they stuck their hands into a dogfight - yo, stupid, that's a fast way to get bitten.
Is this what we can expect because of the City of Toronto's unlimited and unfettered taxing powers, granted by the McGuinty Liberals who passed the shameful breed-specific legislation? Wasted money that the powers-who-be think they can recover by sucking it out of taxpayers' pockets?
Where are the charges against the dog owner who let his/her dog run offleash and attack another dog? Oh, right, the attacking dog isn't a "pit bull", so it can bite at whim and the owner suffers no repercussions, just like Rocky in Alderwood.
Breed-specific legislation is unfounded, unjust and fiscally irresponsible. Ginger's case definitively proves the last point.
How much money has it cost Toronto taxpayers to keep Ginger warehoused and away from her owner? How much money has it cost Toronto taxpayers to send City lawyers to trials again and again? What are the courtroom costs, what do the judges cost, the court reporters?
Yo, a$$holes, the city's infrastructure is crumbling and you're chasing one poor dog and its owner. That's sensible. If you're on serious drugs, that is.
Is the McGuinty government squandering our money by sending one of its highly-paid senior counsels to the trial as it has many times before, trying to prop up its bull$hit BSL?
This, by a government that turned Ontario into a welfare province.
This is what one can expect in Ontario and especially Toronto. People legislated into second-class citizenship because of the shape of their dogs, dogs dying because of their shape and not their behaviour, and the complete disregard of Toronto City Council and the McGuinty Liberals for fiscal responsibility.
Addendum: Caveat is on a roll. Read it here.
