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Will AKC align with puppy mills, HSUS and Animal Rights in the
2012 Election as it did with PAWS’ sponsor Rick Santorum in
2005?
Oct. 2011 | Barbara J. Andrews,
Editor-In-Chief
 Even
skeptics smelled a skunk when the AKC Board contributed to (PAWS
sponsor) Senator Rick Santorum’s campaign {1}. And
it sure looked like AKC joined with HSUS to put PAWS into LAW
{2} and betrayed Californians by withdrawing
opposition to AB 1634 at the most critical moment {3}.
Let’s be clear here. I’ve supported AKC since I registered my
first litter in 1964. I wish it could be mutual but I
understand. AKC needs to keep secrets. Even the Red Cross
managed to keep secrets until the
press exposed those nasty 2002 financial scandals. It’s tough,
supporting AKC… like being in love with a man who robs banks,
you just keep hoping he’ll change his ways.
Like AKC’s love affair with puppy mills. I was a certified
Patti-Parrott for years, doing Patti’s bidding in my Canine
Chronicle columns because NAIA seemed like a great weapon with
which to fight the puppy mills and those pesky animal rights
terrorists. It should have helped that Patti was also on the
AKC Board. But doggone it, bothersome facts got in the way
because even with $50,000 in contributions from AKC, NAIA has
had minimal success. Okay, some will say otherwise but they
won’t be among the millions of people who sold, gave away,
spayed, or moved in order to keep their dogs!
One appeal letter said “We must make people aware or in a few
years, we will no longer own any kind of pet.” Scare tactics?
Maybe it was a diversion from the truth because long after
there’s nothing left to spay and neuter, the public will have
sick dogs for vets to treat, rejects for shelters to shelter and
TV pets for HSUS to “protect.” If you think not, take a minute
and answer these questions:
When show breeders have been legislated out of existence where
will people get pets?
What will happen when show and hobby breeders can no longer
afford vet bills?
Who alone will profit from the answers to the first and second
question?
 The first answer is just too easy. People will get puppies from
those Weapons Of Mass Production. Puppy mills are USDA
licensed, totally unaffected by the laws that will put hobby and
show breeders out of business. The public doesn’t care. Be
honest, show breeders buy and sell to each other. We used to
sell to the public but now AKC has convinced us we “can’t meet
the demand."
The second answer is nearly as obvious. Pet owners now have
pet insurance to pay vet bills that went through the roof
when AKC made its multi-million dollar pet insurance deal.
Millions of pet owners buy AKC pet insurance, probably at the
same time they buy their AKC registered puppy from the pet
shop! But YOU have whelping and puppy care expense, along
with genetic tests, vet checks and optimum care. YOU can’t
purchase pet insurance to cover your breeding dogs. The puppy
mills and distributors like Hunte Corp. have their own vets. So
who will be forced out of “business”? Are you getting the
picture?
Then put a frame around this. Who re-educated us to think of
puppy mills as “high volume breeders”? Answer: AKC
through its High Volume Breeders Committee {5} and
through one of its many PR outlets - the NAIA. Both subtly
pointed out that AKC has always registered puppy mill puppies
but that AKC is now helping puppy mills to do better and
educating them about the over-breeding, abuse, and production of
diseased and defective puppies.
Stop laughing! That’s what they say. Brainwashing was the
assignment of the AKC HVB committee headed by Patti Strand.
When I interviewed Patti {4}, I only had parrot
eyes. Now I have hawk eyes.
Who postulated the lie that millions of show and hobby breeders
couldn’t meet the public demand for healthy purebred puppies?
Gee, was that AKC? We met demand quite handily until the
Federal government set up G.I. loans to help veterans get back
on their feet by going into puppy farming. Oh, you didn’t know
that? Did you know that the USDA loaned Hunte $900,000 and
Missouri backed another $4.4 million in loans? And that AKC &
Hunte worked together for years. {5} You may want to
put the coffee pot on because if you’re into intrigue and you
care about purebreds, you’re gonna open the links below.
Okay, so who stands to gain with that “can’t meet the demand”
ploy? According to AKC, we troublesome show breeders are only
about 10% of its income. Maybe that is why AKC spent so much
developing PRIME? Oh, you didn’t know about the elaborate
inventory tracking software for puppy mills and pet shops? The
Dog Press broke the super-secrete PRIME {6} story
too.
Any reasonable person can see WE will be gone, along with our
carefully bred, genetically cleared, lovingly raised dogs.
Market competition for the puppy mills (excuse me, I meant High
Volume Breeders) will have been removed and if all goes well,
AKC will be working with USDA to “inspect” puppy mills. Now
there’s a plan!
AKC PAC & Presidential Salaries
AKC is quick to point out that HSUS and PETA are lobbying
against us but what’s going on with the AKC PAC created in 2007
so AKC could lobby for us. Seems like yesterday. How’s that
PAC been working out for you?
We know AKC has to sustain its “presidential salaries”{7}.
We accept that it wants the puppy mills back. But we have every
right to expect AKC to be our ally against the Animal Rights
movement. We must demand that AKC do as much for us as it does
for the puppy mills. No, wait… that’s wrong, we don’t need
toll-free phone numbers and free registration services, we just
need AKC to help market the well-bred purebred. You know, so we
can recover the good homes we’ve lost to the puppy mills!
With AKC support, show and hobby breeders would be registering
more puppies than the puppy mills. You know, like we
used to. No Animal Rights enforcers breathing down our necks
because we have intact dogs. We could even breed
those dogs. Stop. Think.
If we fail to recognize the truth and force AKC to stand with us
and for us, hobby breeders will become the platypus and no one
will miss us. Maybe you don’t care because you’ll still be able
to buy a puppy mill/pet shop puppy and show it at whatever
kennel clubs survive this recession and you can have it judged
by whatever judges are left.
There is only one solution. As we gear up for the 2012
elections, we must also demand that our AKC Delegates support
US, the hobby breeder. If your delegate fails to vote your
club’s consensus on every issue - vote the Delegate out!
Put people on the AKC Board who care more about quality dogs and
hobby breeders than about power and money. Hold them
accountable. It is up to YOU to decide who and what AKC really
supports. If you accept the way things are, AKC has no reason
to change.
If you have the courage, share this with friends.
Use the handy email link below. Bring it up
at your next meeting. This is October and March Board elections
are just around the corner. You might have noticed puppy people
aren’t calling you. It is NOT the economy. They are buying
from pet shops which with PRIME in their computers, do the AKC
registration at point of sale. They are “adopting” dogs from
shelters, paying more in adoption fees than you get for a well
bred, healthy, lovingly raised pet puppy. In fact, some
shelters buy purebreds to sell to the public! How many
are AKC registered?
Republican or Democrat, you’ve seen what a handful of people
have done to expose political wrong-doing. If we truly care, we
must stand up and improve our AKC and our sport.
The American Kennel Club belongs to us; not to HSUS, PETA, or
the puppy mills. I’ve done my part to inform you. It’s up to
you to take the American Kennel Club back.
Barbara J. Andrews, Editor-In-Chief
References:
{1}
AKC Buys PAWS, photos, details of Sen. Santorum’s visit with the AKC
Board.
{2}
AKC
Supports PAWS & HSUS The ultimate betrayal exposed in detail!
{3}
AKC Betrays CA on AB1634 Goes “neutral” at critical point.
{4}
The
HVB Committee – Strand Interview, 2-part Insider interview.
{5}
AKC's HVBC and alliance with Hunte Corp., funded by our tax dollars!
{6}
AKC’S super-secret PRIME puppy inventory software just for pet shops and
puppy mills.
{7} Board
Of Directors Salaries, when AKC fees are going up, up, up, prepare to be
shocked!
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