Dollars for dogs...and rights!!!!

UPDATE: Check out the big blue bone on Caveat to see the fundraising skyrocket...read about who's contributing...and kick in to help kick this stinkin' ban to the curb!!!

The Dog Legislation Council of Canada is fundraising to take the legal challenge of Ontario's unfounded, unjust, vague and shoddy "pit bull" ban to the Supreme Court.

It is VITAL that you support this legal challenge. The ramifications go far beyond the shape of your dog, this asinine and politically motivated "ban" makes law-abiding people into second-class citizens.

Send what you can. Squeak out some more. This is too important, and I believe unprecedented in the history of Canadian law....a group of unrelated people, dog owners and not, banding together via the Internet to launch a legal challenge and take it to the highest court in the land.

WE MUST NOT STOP, WE MUST GO TO THE TOP.

You can contribute by PayPal, by Internet banking, by cheque. The various ways are detailed on Wag The Dog, the DLCC's official blog.

Thank you.

The Anthracite Awards

Time for the list of "honorees" for a lump o' coal in their stockings, or upside their heads.

All of the Liberian princes who keep sending me e-mails promising millions but never cough up.

Dalton McGuinty and Michael Bryant - the Tortoise and the Hare-less - and the rest of the snivelling Ontario Fiberals for passing a law that makes law-abiding people into second-class citizens and kills unoffending dogs - over 4,000 of them at last count. With no reason for this law other than political gamesmanship.

Legislators pushing unjust, unfounded and ineffective breed-specific legislation - proving that ignorance is curable only if one chooses to be cured. Perhaps it's plain stupidity.

So-called "journalists" who can't be bothered to research a subject but instead write inflammatory headlines and articles and quote spurious "sources" solely for the purpose of fattening the bottom lines of the global conglomerates that control the news we read in mainstream media. Copy the ignorance and stupidity comment here, add a soupcon of greed.

PETA for being the most hypocritical organization on the face of this earth. PETA has nothing to do with animal welfare and everything to do with a hidden agenda. PETA is nothing more than a well-funded, well-marketed lobby group that killed 97% of the animals surrendered to it last year and wants to take away your right to have a pet.

HSUS for being the runner-up most hypocritical organization on the face of this earth. HSUS tried to pimp the Vick dogs to get donations, while calling for their immediate death.

Anyone who abandons an animal. They should be forced to suffer the same fate.

Anyone who hurts an animal or a child. Animal and child abusers are wastes of oxygen. Forget the coal, hang the abusers by the ankles till they bleed from their eyes.

Merry Christmas

There's much to be grateful for year-round.

I'm grateful when I wake up each morning. I'm grateful that I'm sane (well, some would argue the point), can see, hear, touch, taste, walk. I'm grateful that I live in a country with safe water (well, mostly), plentiful food, health care, civil rights including free speech. I'm grateful that I can make my own living. I'm grateful for my good friends - the ones I know in 3D, and the ones I know through the blogosphere.

My lumps of coal list will follow tomorrow. But today I'm going to give thanks for my many blessings.

Merry Christmas to all, and may the New Year be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for you and yours.

Somebody stuff a cork in PETA and HSUS

Sports Illustrated has done a terrific article on the Vick-tory dogs, h/t to Caveat and KC Dog Blog. Go to those blogs for links to the BadRap site and the SI article online. Must admit, the article and photos made me cry.

Now.

Will somebody duct tape Peta and HSUS shut? Organizations that call for the death of animals don't exactly strike me as animal-friendly. I've ranted about both of these uncharitable organizatios before, anyone who donates is utterly uninformed (aka moron - ignorance is curable, stupidity is not).

PETA killed 97% of the animals in its care last year. Its so-called leader admitted to George Strombopoulos of the CBC to eating meat and taking medical treatments tested on animals, watch it here.

PETA and HSUS should not be consulted on any animal welfare issues. They are NOT animal welfare organizations. They are well-funded, well-marketed lobby groups with hidden agendas, and should be stripped of their charitable status.

Any "journalist" who consults PETA or HSUS isn't worthy of the label.

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