postheadericon Big Brother IS Watching. . .

Below is an interesting read re Petdata on how their service is useful to take away more of our privacy:

http://www.petdata.com/company/news/news050204-1.html.

Links:

Humane Society of the United States –
www.hsus.org

National Animal Control Association –
www.nacanet.org

http://bluedogstate.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

The Mother of All Databases is already a reality:

PetData Inc., a private corporation in Irving, Texas, already collects information on law-abiding citizens who happen to own pets. They say they have already databanked
information on 2 million residents in
more than 20 U. S. communities, and
four entire counties. Matthews, North Carolina, just joined the ranks of municipalities contracts with PetData.

Your personal privacy on the auction block !

If you live in a community that outsourced animal licensing functions to PetData, you may not even realize it yet. When you vaccinate your cats and dogs for rabies, your vet forwards the details to PetData Inc.

Your name, your address, your contact information. And your dog’s, or cat’s veterinary information–including reproductive status. It all goes into for-profit PetData Inc.’s privately-owned, privately-controlled database.

PetData proudly advertises its membership in the Humane Society of the United States. It has no corporate privacy policy

If breeders stop breeding because of practices that take away their privacy and their rights, where will the general public get their next quality purebred puppy?

California tax officials target breeders via Internet:

June 29, 2009
By: Timothy Kirn
For The VIN News Service

California tax officials are surfing ­ the Internet, that is.

It is not unusual for authorities, potential employers, bankers and others to use the Internet to investigate people.

And now California tax officials are targeting potential breeders that way.

According to a letter from the California Board of Equalization, board officials visited the American Kennel Club Web site and linked to individual dog clubs to identify potential breeders living in the state.

Board officials are not sure if these dog club members are breeders, but they could be.

Tax board spokeswoman Anita Gore confirmed that 361 individuals will receive the letter. She would not say how or why those particular individuals were identified, however.

Below is my prediction of what will happen if reputable breeders stop breeding and many of us are very close with all the legislation hitting us from so many directions:

WHERE WILL YOU GET YOUR NEXT PUREBRED PUPPY???

CHOSE YOUR ANSWER FROM THE FOLLOWING:

____FROM A SHELTER (good luck in finding what you want)

____FROM AN INTERNET BREEDER (picking your puppy up at a gas station or Wal-Mart parking lot at 3:00 A.M. clandestinely because your breeder or better yet dog dealer won’t let you see where the dogs are raised)

____FROM A PET STORE (commercial breeders supply pet stores and may breed their own dogs or get from a puppy mill)

____AT A FLEA MARKET WHERE PUPPIES FROM PUPPY MILLS OR LESS THAN DESIRABLE BREEDERS ARE AVAILABLE ALONG WITH OLD FURNITURE.

____AGAIN FROM THE INTERNET (SEND YOUR PAYMENT AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT RECEIVE THE PUPPY PROMISED TO ARRIVE BY AIR; ONLY GOD KNOWS WHERE AND HOW THESE POOR PUPPIES ARE RAISED)

YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING YOUR PUPPY FROM A REPUTABLE, CARING BREEDER WHO SIGNS THEIR PARENT CLUB CODE OF ETHICS AND WHO SPECIALIZES IN ONE OR TWO BREEDS BECAUSE OF A PASSION FOR THE BREEDS.

ALL THE LEGISLATION BEING NATIONALLY PROPOSED AND PASSED WILL END THE BREEDING OF DOGS AS WE KNOW IT. THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (JUST READ PETA’S MANIFESTO VERY, VERY CAREFULLY) IS THE END OF ANIMAL OWNERSHIP. IT IS VERY SAD AND UNFORTUNATE, THAT THE ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE REALLY TRAMPLING ALL OVER THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF BREEDERS AND DOG OWNERS.

THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS NOT IMPROVED THE PLIGHT OF DOGS BEING BRED IN UNSEEMLY CIRCUMSTANCES AND IT HAS CERTAINLY NOT ADDED TO THE WELFARE OF DOGS WHEN PETA IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EUTHANSIA OF COUNTLESS DOGS, A FACT THAT HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED BY OUR MEDIA. VOLUNTARY SPAY/NEUTER IS WORKING. MANY SHELTERS NATIONWIDE ARE SUPPORTING THEMSELVES BY BRINGING IN PUPPIES AND DOGS FROM OVERSEAS, MEXICO, OR OTHER SHELTERS. OUR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ALONE IS TAKING POUND DOGS SCHEDULED TO BE EUTHANIZED TO UPSTATE NEW YORK SHELTERS WHO DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH ADOPTABLE DOGS FOR THE PUBLIC SEEKING THEM. RESPONSIBLE HOBBY/SHOW BREEDERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM IN PRODUCING DOGS WHO WIND UP IN SHELTERS, BUT WE WILL BEAR THE BRUNT OF ALL THE LEGISLATION BEING PROPOSED OR PASSED AS THE COMMERCIAL BREEDERS WILL HAVE THE FUNDS TO PAY ALL THE FEES AND THE FINES.

Where will you get your next purebred puppy?

 

  

postheadericon Unbelievable! if it can happen in Kansas . . .

Subject: UNBELIEVABLE!!: from the Kansas City Dog Blog —

Here’s the scoop:
On August 1st, the animal control department in Kansas City, MO, implemented a new policy when it comes to evaluating their field officers. Effective immediately, animal control officers in KCMO will be required to issue a minimum of 15 summonses and impound a minimum of  20 animals per month.

  Read it here:   http://bit.ly/tXJJc