Torturing
DOGS
Dogs have a
right not to be tortured or born handicapped for life. Some
breeds have become canine caricatures, giving the Animal Rights whackos
credibility.
May 2011 |
Sam Harper |
TheDogPress
Watching TV with my kid a few weeks ago, I make one of those astute
observations that compels someone half my age to educate her elder.
Tiffany lost the war of words but it probably was the worst bloodless
battle I ever won. I’m not proud of it either because I respect her
passion for what she believes in.
 So
I put off writing this, hearing “Daddy, you can’t say that, I’ll
never be able to go to another show!” Then I remember that with the new
job, she isn’t showing anyway and what the hell, someone has to say it.
I don’t think that Pacelle guy she was shrieking about reads The Dog
Press but I’m banking on some level heads out there in “the dog fancy”
so here goes.
What
moral justification gives humans the right to torture dogs in a life of
suffering? Why do otherwise decent people condone it? For over a
century now, inhumane humans have bred dogs incapable of living without
human support. In the quest for something “unique” breeders have caused
dogs to be born, which under most other circumstances, would be humanely
destroyed.
One
of the worst dog deformities is the inability to breathe. What
egotistical creature lacking the human capacity to love would do that to
a dog? How horrible to be sentenced to a life of struggling for enough
oxygen to sustain life! I have a touch of COPD from exposure to toxic
chemicals and this spring I suffered like a Pekingese or Bulldog. It
really made me think.
If
you have any perspective, pun intended, you will admit that living with
constant eye irritation, like something in your eye you can never get
out, would be pure torture. Dogs just keep smiling but that does not
mean they “get used to it.” Strong men who suffer severe chronic pain
say if it were not for hurting their family, they would check out. What
do you say as your dog struggles to do your bidding although his twisted
joints or deformed spine hurts so bad he would rather just lay perfectly
still?
 My
old hound looked at me with love, not condemnation, and friend, that
tortured ME. I had quit letting him run free in the woods because he
always came back beat up. Thinking back, I should have kept letting him
be a DOG. Just because he forgave me and worked off his frustration
chasing the cat doesn’t make it right.
Dog
breeders rally to fight against Animal Rights instead of
fighting for their animal’s right to be healthy.
That’s like sending a platoon after one rice farmer instead of launching
a division against the Viet Cong. That makes as much sense as dog
breeders defending the 47 breeds with the most genetic (man-made) health
problems according to some Swedish panel. I can kind of see that those
breeders would be in denial but they need to see a psychiatrist, not a
dog show judge. I looked it up. Seven breeds demanded “urgent
attention.” They are Bassets, Bulldogs, Chows, French Bulldogs,
Neapolitan Mastiffs, Pekingese and Shar Pei.
I
don’t claim to be a dog expert but if I was a chow dog I’d want to see
what might be coming at me from the side and to think that some Chinese
emperor deliberately crippled those little Pekingese so they couldn’t
wander off and do what dogs do is downright sick. I guess Shar Pei
breeders are working on the skin problems but I put the development of
those dog breeds in the same category as sticking a tiny kitten in a
bottle and letting it grow up in there to amuse a kid. Sorry, I know
we’re beholden to the Chinese right now so maybe I should pick on the
French.
You
breeders wonder why you are easy targets? You can’t see the enemy
forces just ahead as you clump and crash your way through the jungle?
Did no one tell you that you are committing professional suicide? If
you loved dogs as loyal companions instead of weird ornaments, wouldn’t
YOU go to the pound and adopt a real dog instead of some creature with
an exaggerated head that had to be conceived by artificial means and
born by surgically cutting the mother dog open...?
How
does that sound to you? Is that a perfect picture for those Animal
Rights extremists? Wouldn’t you rather go to the pound and rescue your
basic dog that will love you just as much? Maybe more because after
all, you saved its life.
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