Border Collie missing from Dorion, Ontario (near Thunder Bay)

This is a very sad story from the dog world....if you have or see Benny, please have a heart and help him get home.

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Benny is a Black and White, Smooth Coated, Border Collie, in athletic condition. He is running "naked" ( NO COLLAR). He has tattoos in BOTH his ears. One tattoo is his registration tattoo with the CBCA and it is ST9R. He also has the tattoo BDBC and in the other ear is 0516. Benny is completely friendly he will come for, pets, food or a game.

Benny is approximately 40-50 lbs, white back feet, tipped tail, and is white to the elbows in front. He has a thin white blaze, white chest and white around the neck "collar". He is not neutered, and is registered with the CBCA as BRILDWNS XANDER.

On Tuesday, March 18, at approximately 11:00 AM he disappeared from 401 Hwy 11/17 Dorion, Ontario CANADA. Benny does not take off so I suspect that someone pulled in and called him to them and drove off with him. It is possible that he did escape the fence and and wander off only to be picked up or even that he escaped and is running home to me here in Thunder Bay from Dorion.

Contact information for Benny's rightful owner is available on the kennel's blog, Bellaclan Border Collies.

Legislate responsibility? Ain't gonna happen.

I hate child pornographers and abusers as much as anyone, and have some humble opinions about what we could use them for...vivisection comes to mind...but trying to legislate responsibility and morality is useless. If a person doesn't have the ethics and morality that would cause them to report child pornography on their own, no law of any kind is going to cause them to report it.

The Fibs are on another rampage of feel-good sound-bite do-nothing law. This is another of Laurel Broten's flicking ideas. Can't wait to see how any charges under this law gum up the already gummed-up court system.

Peter Kormos has sensibly pointed out major flaws in this new Fiberal "initiative". And why is Broten referring to the experts? The Fibs ignored experts in the past, when they ignored all the canine experts who advised that breed-specific legislation doesn't work. Read about it here.

Psst! Wanna see a big one?

Caveat has the goods....

Ban cows!

Cows kill far more people than dogs do and the situation was very dangerous, but the parallels between this article and the usual media hysteria of "pit bull" attack struck me as ironic and sadly amusing. The police had to shoot the cow many, many times before it died...it was "staring menacingly", it was "noticeably more aggressive".

Geez, are they sure it was a cow? Mebbe it was a "pit bull" in disguise...

Kentucky pet owners, H$U$ is coming for you and your animals

Stop H$U$ in its tracks. Don't let it have one seat at the table, let alone two.
This was in my mailbox tonight.

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If you are in Kentucky, or know any one in Kentucky, please forward. The last thing we need, anywhere, is the Humane Society of the United States having any say in animal control issues.

Please contact the Legislative Message Line 1-800-372-7181 and OPPOSE this bill!!!
SB 206 will be heard before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resource committee tomorrow at 10:00 in room 129 of the annex.
If passed, the bill will give HSUS 2 seats on the animal control advisory board. An amendment may be made to change the seats to members of the Kentucky Animal Welfare Alliance instead of the HSUS. This group is mainly comprised of members of the rescue community. Consider calling if they are in your district. Just click their name for contact info and district represented.

Link to bill

Bill's Sponsor, Senator Tom Buford, contact info at the link. Call him, write him, fax him, tell him to drop this Bill.

Committee Membership:
a.. Sen. Tom Jensen [Chair]
b.. Sen. Vernie McGaha [Vice Chair]
c.. Sen. David E. Boswell
d.. Sen. Ernie Harris
e.. Sen. Dan Kelly
f.. Sen. Bob Leeper
g.. Sen. Joey Pendleton
h.. Sen. Dorsey Ridley
i.. Sen. Richie Sanders
j.. Sen. Ernesto Scorsone
k.. Sen. Brandon Smith
l.. Sen. Damon Thayer