Gimme a 2X4, I want to beat somebody sensible.

The Vancouver Province wrote an ignorant and hyperbolic editorial calling for the banning of "pit bulls" because....you guessed it....they're "ticking time bombs". Cue the sound of retching. And shame on the Calgary Herald for reprinting it.

Gimme a rhetorical 2X4. I wanna whack this editor over the head. I won't link to the editorial because I won't give the paper the eyeball traffic. Editorials should be signed with the author's name. That way, we'd know who these morons are. Somebody send this editor back to journalism school, to learn not to use trite, overworked cliches. Especially false ones. And perhaps to learn that an editorial opinion should be based on fact.

Somebody call for a ban on Labrador retrievers. I've read of three Lab and lab-mix bites in Ontario this week, all serious enough to be reported in the media, which means they're only a fraction of all Lab bites that occurred. Ban the Labrador retriever. It's a "ticking time bomb".

This editorial stinks suspiciously of Ontario Fiberal interference. I have NO trust in McGuinty, Bryant or any of the other Ontario Fibs, it wouldn't surprise me that they would try to get other provinces to sign up for their useless, unfounded, unjust "breed ban" through back-door tactics like using media sources to play their uninformed comments over and over. I truly hate the Ontario Liberals. Liberal in this province is a one-word oxymoron, and democracy is dying in Ontario.

GRRRRRR.

So much to read, so little time...

Cheating by aggregating again...

Caveat has good stuff, including a link to PETA's 2007 kill rate, which seems higher than last year's.

KC Dog Blog also has good stuff, including some info on the media. Thanks for the plug for Banned Aid.

And Pet Connection has good articles about the tragic death of Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby.

Go forth and read. And leave a comment so the authors know you were there.

Frivolous (malicious?) lawsuit kills dogs' chance for rescue

Thanks to three horrid people in Tennessee, a couple and their "I am not an ambulance chaser" attorney, and their frivolous lawsuit, a good rescue has had to disband.

Read about it here.

I can't believe that the judge did not award costs against the plaintiffs, considering their actions and their attorney's lack of knowledge of the applicable law.

To quote, "William and Melinda Robinson and their attorney Michael Shipwash have done a great disservice to the homeless Malamutes and Siberians in Tennessee and the unpaid volunteers who give so tirelessly to these dogs."

So good dogs lose their chance to be rescued and will die, because of the greed of these people.

Let's hope karma kicks their greedy a$$e$ good.

Psst! Wanna see some hot video?

Well, then, check out Selma Mulvey of the Dog Legislation Council of Canada presenting fact and information to Mississauga City Council concerning the emotional damage that isolation can have on dogs.

It's available on MississaugaNews.com, the Mississauga Musings blog.

PETA and H$U$ scorched in Newsweek...

...I would have liked the article to be stronger and really whack PETA and H$U$, with some research on where the millions of dollars go, but there are a lot of informed comments.

Congrats to the author for mentioning Nathan Winograd.

People seem to be waking up and smelling the coffee. Read it here.