Always something to read.....

...on Caveat, especially the posts about George Strombopoulos skewering Ingrid Newkirk of PETA (who admits to eating meat, gasp!) and the need to donate NOW to Banned Aid to continue the fight for Canadians' Charter rights. To steal directly from Caveat:

Most of all, stand up for your best and only friend, your beautiful dog. He is depending on your help during his darkest hour.

Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support. Together, we can win.

Please donate today - every dollar counts- every dollar helps.

"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

There are several ways you can donate.

You can mail a cheque payable to the DLCC to:

Cathy Prothro
351 Pleasant Street
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3S4
Canada

Contribute via PAY PAL (scroll down to gold 'Donate' button on the DLCC's website)

For your convenience you can deposit from any bank directly into the Banned Aid Legal Fund by depositing to:

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
Penhorn Mall,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Account 00513 010 1526839

You can also make an online payment from your financial institution's website by sending an email transfer to treasurer AT doglegislationcouncilcanada.org

Send cheques or money orders directly to Mr Ruby at the following address,

c/o BANNED AID LEGAL CHALLENGE FUND
(Write On Memo line: Banned Aid - In Trust)

Ruby & Shiller
11 Prince Arthur Ave.
Toronto, ON M5R1B2 Telephone: 416-964-9664

Sorry, sorry...

..been waaay too busy with the cat rescue. If you're in the GTA and want to foster a cat, please visit Abandoned Cats Rescue, read up on fostering (Volunteers page). Please help save cats and kittens from being killed in shelters. If you have some time but don't want to foster, we need volunteers for Santa Pet Photo events, contact info (at) werescuecats.ca for more info.

Antonia Zerbisias at the Toronto Star is one of my favourite writers. She's intelligent, edgy and angry about Ontario's "pit bull" ban. Read her article about Kerry Pakinen and Preacher here, and her super blog here.

H/T to Caveat for AZ's articles. Caveat very kindly gave me a wonderful Superior Scribbler award, I have to deal with the necessity of nominating five favourite blogs. Yikes, there are so many great blogs, going to be hard to choose just five.

Contribute to Banned Aid to work towards defeating an unfair, unjust and unfounded law.
Give someone a Christmas gift of the fight for their Charter rights.

And this is so very wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am saddened and angered by the Ontario court's decision to uphold Onscario's "pit bull" ban. This is wrong on so many levels, I will post my humble opinion later. In the interim, read Caveat's fine take on this decision. Read one here, and another here.

It is a very sad day when law-abiding citizens are not protected from an unreasonable government. This opens the floodgates for law-
abiding people to be legislated into second-class citizenship and have their property seized by the government on any excuse.

This also plays into the hands of extremists who want to end pet ownership - dogs, cats, birds, whatever.

There is a bigger picture here, and mainstream media has failed badly in its obligation to learn and inform.

I'm with Caveat. I no longer have faith in the courts to protect me from the government.

This is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

Michael Vick might get his federal sentence for dog fighting reduced?????!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
THAT WOULD BE BEYOND WRONG.

KC Dog Blog has the details.

As always...

A good article on Caveat about Mississauga Animal Control backing down. Councillor Carolyn Parrish has been a tireless advocate for responsible dog owners in that city.

KC Dog Blog has the great weekly roundup.

Leave a comment on their blogs if you like their articles, or if you disagree with them....it's always good to see that someone is reading :-).