Please read the following and realize what is at stake if the anti-dog and anti-breeding activists have their way. This comes from the Pet Law list. from my friend Peggy:<\/p>\n
This is what is at stake!<\/p>\n
The Last Dog
\nBy Lidia Seebeck<\/p>\n
The report came in slowly from Muddy Gap, Wyoming.
\nSomeone had spotted a dog sniffing around his house in the bitter cold of a
\nWyoming winter. The person was quite sure that this was a dog, not a wolf.
\nNo, of course he didnt secretly own the dog. That had been banned long
\nago, of course. This dog seemed to appear out of the blizzard itself one
\ncold night, scaring his daughter silly.<\/p>\n
Of course the animal was transferred to the authorities. It was determined
\nthat yes, indeed, this person really had found a dog,
\nand only its somewhat feral behavior kept the land-dweller from being
\nprosecuted for animal slavery. This dog had clearly been in the wild for
\nsome time. Everyone knew that for the last five years only the police, search
\nand rescue, and a few charitable hospices and the like were allowed dogs,
\nand the last one, a Yorkshire Terrier, had died last year. There was a
\nfuneral and everything, and many experts from the animal rights movement
\nhailed the end of canine slavery.<\/p>\n
***
\nIt hadn’t always been that way, of course. Long ago,
\naround the millennium, people often owned and bred dogs, and sometimes they
\nended up in shelters.
\nUnfortunately the dogs that ended up in shelters were
\nsometimes euthanized.
\nWell, some people didnt like this. So they began to
\nchange the laws. First they banned dogs that were considered dangerous like
\nBull Terriers and Dobermans. Unfortunately sometimes docile breeds got
\nmixed up into this, like the Greyhound, who was eventually maligned due to
\nthe muzzle it once wore while racing around a track. Predictably, the
\nwhole practice of racing the dogs was banned as being too cruel and the dogs
\nwere executed wholesale, being unadoptable due to the laws. Greyhound lovers,
\nor Greyters, were broken hearted and tried to tell the authorities that
\nthe Greyhounds were good dogs, gentle with kids and loving even to
\nstrangers. But they were soon locked up, having been prosecuted for animal slavery.<\/p>\n
Another one of the milestones had to have been the passage of Californias
\nHealthy Pets Law, which mandated spaying and neutering
\nfor nearly all dogs except the most pampered of show animals. People were
\noutraged but the law passed anyways, in an effort to reduce the shelter
\npopulation. Many Californians were aghast that people were doing
\nbackyard breeding, and others were just mad that animals were still getting
\nkilled. Eventually this became the American Spay and Neuter Law, which
\nmandated spaying and neutering for all animals not involved in police or
\nsearch and rescue. The next ten years or so saw the canine population growing
\nold, and more breeds being executed wholesale as they were deemed
\ndangerous. Too late, people realized that very docile breeds were getting
\ndeclared, and they began to question the wisdom of breed-specific legislation. By
\nthen even the young dogs were eight or so, and many were rapidly dying of
\nold age, at least in the larger breeds,<\/p>\n
***
\nThe dog in Muddy Gap had been transferred to a facility in Laramie where a
\npolice dog academy still stood, unused. The dog was soon deluged with
\ndonations from around the country of old kibble and soft blankets that had
\ncushioned their canine seniors. Animal lovers came in from around the
\ncountry to the chance to see and cuddle with the dog.
\nLucky soon responded to the attention, which everyone insisted on.<\/p>\n
This dog was clearly quite old, having a very gray muzzle and face.
\nSurprisingly, this dog was also clearly part Mastiff,
\nwhich was one of the breeds to be Declared rather early on. Some dogs had
\nbeen preserved as police dogs, however, so this dog was probably the
\noffspring of one of those dogs. It had numerous abrasions and bite marks, and it
\nwas theorized that the dog had probably had to fight and hunt a lot to
\nstay alive. No one really knew of course.<\/p>\n
***
\nAs the War on Dogs continued, canine slavery became quite the hot topic, and
\nthere were two distinct camps of dog owners and former
\nowners. The first was that dogs were nice to have around, but utterly
\nmiserable and it was good that they had mostly been euthanized. The other camp
\nbelieved something quite different, They honestly believed that dogs were
\npack animals and honestly didn’t mind the direction of a dog owner,
\nrather relishing the leadership the owner provided and basking in the love
\nthe owner gave. As such they felt that canine ownership (and they were
\nvery unhappy with the term “slavery”) was an ethical thing, and well worth
\nthe trouble of pursuing. Unfortunately this viewpoint was rapidly
\nbecoming illegal, and there were numerous people in prison for canine
\nslavery. There were also a number of people who lived in the back of beyond who
\nwere breeding dogs beyond the reach of authorities. In the days when
\nbreeding was more common, these people such as coyote-dog breeders, were
\nrelatively few and far between. The shift in laws had increased their
\nnumbers, and now even responsible breeders were hiding out, hoping to save
\nthe last of their lines until the political storm broke. While some of these
\npeople persisted for a few years, it was rather easy to find a kennel full of
\nbarking dogs when all the other registered dogs were gone. Soon even these
\npeople fell to the insatiable sweep of the War on Dogs.<\/p>\n
The number of dogs in America had been rapidly dropping and was now at
\n5,673. Mostly these were police and rescue dogs, with
\na precious 10 or 15 dogs who served as roving servants, transported from
\nhospice to nursing home to hospital to comfort the ailing. Still, the
\noccasional dog would show up and be pressed into one of the allowed professions, or
\nelse euthanized. (For some reason, euthanasia was now viewed as the greatest
\ngift ever, when it was euthanasia which had started the legal avalanche
\nin the first place)<\/p>\n
***
\nLucky was not doing well in captivity. He had suddenly developed a fever,
\nand there was no legal veterinarian anymore, since
\nthey had all been out of practice for years. Former vets clustered around him
\nand tried to remember what to do. They gave him all manner of potions and
\nantibiotics but these only gave Lucky a really nasty attitude and equally
\nnasty gastric disturbances. With every hour it was clear the poor
\nold fella was dying. <\/p>\n
The nation turned in their televisions to watch, hourly updates, and the
\ndebate on dog keeping began to be opened once again.
\nPeople reminisced about their dogs when they were young, and remembered good
\ntimes at the dog beach or at the dog park. The talk of allowing dogs once
\nagain raged just as badly as poor Luckys fever. His health declined quickly, and
\nwithin a few days he was on the brink of death. Some news stations had
\ncompletely stopped reporting on anything other than Lucky and the dog
\ndebate.. As his last sputtering breaths were captured live and transmitted
\naround the world, people started to call their Legislators, asking to
\nplease, please not let Lucky be the last American dog. Unfortunately, things
\nhad gone too far, this was too little and too late.<\/p>\n
Lucky truly became the last American dog.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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