This bitch goes out to people who responded to the news about the 100 culled sled dogs with something like “…what about all the suffering people in this world?” First of all… what, exactly, are you doing for the suffering people in the world? Most likely absolutely nothing. Secondly, compassion and sorrow can extend to BOTH animals and humans. Do you think that just because people express disgust and outrage at the dog cull, that they therefore CANNOT express the same feelings towards human suffering such as the situation in Haiti? Well, they can, They could also donate a few twenties, which you likely didn’t. Finally, to the guy who really laid it on thick about how we should “care more about people instead of making a huge deal about these dogs.” If you keep going on like that people are going to think you have partaken in a little animal cruelty back in the day and you want to downplay its significance. —Dog lover still has room to love people too
This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2011.
I completely agree with you. Those animals were living creatures and never deserved their fate. The saddest thing about animal cruelty is that they don’t understand why it is happening to them and they are also unable (most of the time) to stop it.
if something like this ever stops me from feeling sickened, then i will lay down and die. if we had known, many groups would have stepped up to save them
In “All Quiet on The Western Front” the farmer, Detering, says, “I tell you it is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war” as he listens to the screaming of wounded animals.
I suspect Remarque put that scene in because he knew his readers would be moved by it; the same readers who waved the flags and sang patriotic songs as an entire generation of men were slaughtered with mechanistic efficiency.
I accept the human capacity to inflict cruelty on it’s own kind, which in no way means that I am comfortable or indifferent to it. It merely lacks the power to shock anymore. Cruelty inflicted on an animal, which lacks the capacity for reasoning, but certainly understands pain is absolutely one of those things that can rouse me to fury. Yes, I eat steak. Yes, I would dearly love 5 heavenly minutes with the people who ordered the sled dogs killed. Yes, I am no doubt a hypocrite in this and so many other areas.
And yes, I accept that.
They shoot horses don’t they?
it’s not hypocrisy ivan, everyone chooses their lines. animals enrich my life to an extent that i can’t even fathom…this feeling can even help when dealing with bipeds…grrooo
“Animals have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is” ~Dr. Tom Regan
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ~Will Rogers
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” ~Gandhi
Amen
i knew you would do that hugo. you always come through
“Do you think that just because people express disgust and outrage at the dog cull, that they therefore CANNOT express the same feelings towards human suffering such as the situation in Haiti?”
Yes. Why? Because of evil organizations like PETA.
And I actually agree with OP. Poor doggies 🙁
When all the brainwashed supporters of PETA wake up and realize how batshit crazy PETA is, maybe people will stop associating real animal rights activists with the PETA media whores.
Thanks Painey. You are my go-to gal on issues like this one. Snoop & Hugo – beautifully put, both of you. Me old Dad is fond of saying “If pets don’t go to heaven, who on earth would want to be there”
it was said on the last planet of the apes movie, by gen. urkho,” kill all the dirty humans”.
i can go along with ridding the planet of about 75 or more oer cent. and speaking of ape movies, there is a new one, coming out in november i believe, called,”rise of apes”. detailing how apes gained speech and shit. while humans were using them to test alzheimers drugs on. should be a seer.
A new Planet of the Apes movie? KULE. Let me guess, the college students are all wearing these T-shirts:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/157295…
Go ahead OP, save the people. Just watch for pickpockets.
Amnesty International, Save the Children, UN, Unicef, my tax dollars… there are lots of organizations that try to protect humans under siege, but nothing for the animals. Nothing with any ‘teeth’ to them. I will always stand up for the animals before people because I know two things: My government will use my tax dollars to make themselves look good, and animals don’t go out of their way to hurt anyone.
Even the coyotes are just trying to get by.
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You may not believe in them Painey, but you are on the side of the angels in this fight. Bless you and all who work to aid abused creatures. Roooooooooooooooooo!
one person can make a difference^^
You know painey, after reading your comments, I had gone and done a lot of research about greyhound rescue and I really think that it’s something that I’ll do someday. I’m not in the right place yet to have a dog, bu I know someday my bf and I will probably get one… I definitely try to adopt a greyhound, I think they would fit in with us perfectly.
This bitch is based on a misunderstanding on the OPs part anyway.
A bunch of dogs are killed, people get extremely upset, and then some people respond with “…what about all the suffering people in this world?” OP then assumes that pointing out and comparing the difference between the two reactions our society has to foreign human suffering and local animal suffering is not a valid point about apathy in today’s society, but is in fact a personal attack directed at them, probably because of some self absorption complex OP has. Saying “…what about all the suffering people in this world?” in no way directly accuses or even implies that people who were upset by the dog cull “therefore CANNOT express the same feelings towards human suffering such as the situation in Haiti?” No OP, that connection is entirely in your own head.
Furthermore, OP exposes themselves as a giant hypocrite as in the last sentence of their bitch they go on to do exactly what they just accused other people of doing (making unfounded assumptions) in the previous sentences:
“Finally, to the guy who really laid it on thick about how we should “care more about people instead of making a huge deal about these dogs.” If you keep going on like that people are going to think you have partaken in a little animal cruelty back in the day and you want to downplay its significance.”
Yes, OP, people who think humans are more important than animals are obviously guilt ridden former animal abusers desperately trying to rationalize their past misdeeds… your logic is sound. Yay for black and white thinking!
But the best part is that OP is hilariously passive aggressive about it all. Instead of directly accusing this guy of beating his dog or something, OP says “people are going to think you have partaken” in abusing his dog… or something. (I love the use of the word ‘partaken’ too, it really softens the ‘you’re a dog abuser’ blow.) This is a dead giveaway that OP doesn’t even believe their own accusations. They know their point is unfounded and weak so they phrase it in a way that disassociates them from making the accusation. But since there is no one to specifically take the blame in this case OP uses they awesomely vague and inconsequential substitute “people”. Beware possible dog abuser guy, “people” are on to you. Is their any threat emptier than this, “people might think something bad about you”. This is bullshit cowardly and manipulative people pull when they know they are being crazy and irrational.
I’m going to go ahead and assume this riveting argument OP describes took place online… so really what can we expect?
OP, you be crazy.
they are not for everyone, but i will always have one or more in my home. my brain has much information stored in it. i am always at your disposal miss ralmn
As the resident dog, I will express my disgust for animal cruelty by whimpering, drooping my ears, and generally looking sad but cute.
Let me also point out that if OP wasn’t the immature and self absorbed little snot that they probably are. They would have posted a bitch about the dog cull and animal cruelty instead of posting a bitch about how someone online posted something that they took as a personal insult and how stupid that person is and about how OP thinks some other person online might have been abusive towards animals at some point in the past because of something they said online…
Fuck you OP, this bitch isn’t about animal cruelty, this bitch is about you and about how stupid you think other people are. No one gives a shit about your online shenanigans (says snoop in one of her online shenanigans).
when my ex and i lived in bridgewater, at the time the animal place closed. a good friend and i, took in all kinds of strays and abused animals. be it a dog, cat, horse, cow, or mule. we had a greyhound that was so skinny, people said to put her down.
no fucking way, i don’t go for that shit, unless said animal is in real dire pain, or so sick. as not to recover
and recover flower did, she thrived for the 5 months we had her at our place, so did the rest, with just one exception. a little brown poodle, that was so infested with worms, earwhigs, and fucking maggots, from where she was chained and tried to get loose. if ever i wanted to kill someone, it was the day we, the s.p.c.a., and i rescued her.
we had coonhounds, poodles, labs, shepards, airdale, even a real live bluetick bloodhound, when the big slobbering jowls and all. we loved them all, and when came the time to adopt them out, we made triple damn sure that they would be well looked after. you could get a child adopted easier than one of our animals. people who abuse these poor fucking things, should have a dose of the shit they visit upon the animal in question, not a fucking fine. it would be more of a deterrant, next time around. fuck, this kind of shit really fucking makes me want to cut their fucking throats.
well, snoop, the dedicated bitchers here just happened to turn it into animal cruelty. So it’s all good. Even with a shithead OP.
then you know exactly how i feel suckulous
That’s what I’m counting on ralmn 🙂
you know you are not going to allow a dog to be adopted when
i don’t like the colour
do i have to walk it?
can i hit it when it barks?
it might scratch our new floors
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I don’t see how it is cruel to end a dogs life with a nice clean bullet to the skull. thats how we do it where i am from. if u run a farm and ur animals are no longer good u put them down.
I’ve seen a horse ‘put down’ with a needle, and I’ve seen a horse ‘put down’ with a bullet, both are heart wrenching, but I didn’t find one any more humane than the other…except in one instance–sometimes the bullet doesn’t make a clean kill.
the needle is by far the better choice, for the human as well
I’m on the other side. Screw filthy humans. I love animals and value them much more than the lives of humans…it’s weird/awful but it’s just the beginning of my metamorphoses into a crazy cat lady :)! Gosh I miss my kitty while I’m here at work…he’s probably all curled up under the blankets on my bed, dreaming of wet food <3
i had a real fine extra comment that i put up awhile ago here. but it seems to have gotten mislaid,again,hmmmm. methinks there is something going on here?
Jee and I thought people were 100% for culling?
http://www.rall.com/gallery2/d/12340-3/9-1…
Like so many things, it’s not what you do, but how you do it.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/sled+dogs…
So, all the dogs are in close proximity and they are smart (considerably more so than, let’s say, a seal),they know what guns are, and they know what dead is. The guy who they depend on and work hard to please, comes and starts shooting them. Even the slowest of dogs is going to get the hint after 4 or 5 its buddies get their brains blown out. Now the entire yard is in a panic, lots of loud gunshots, terrified dogs are trying to escape, others are screaming in pain. – NOT a cull.
it was a poorly executed slaughter. that’s a fucking oxymoron ain’t it…feck me
So I suppose cutting off a Rhinos horn while barely stunned, comes under what category? It’s not what you, do but how you do it? Cutting off fins from live sharks, so they drown is ok too, it’s just how you do it? Why not, they have no central nervous system, they’re just fish. Isn’t that right, lesser than a mosquito to some. 3 week old mammals bludgeoned,(and they are bludgeoned) while their mothers screams, echo over the ocean. It’s how you do it. Look, if one wants to protect one species in this case, Cod. Humanely kill the breeding stock and not a 3 week old mammal that had a gestation period of a year. And it is Not used for a food supply at that weight.
This DISGRACEFUL culling of these 100 dogs doesn’t come near the 200,000.-300,000 per year of culling 3 week old seals. I don’t give a shit if they’re cute or not. The shark population also runs into the hundreds of thousands. It makes no difference to me. We are the ones tampering with the imbalance in our food stock and not the other way around.. Look out Moose and Look out Wolves.
I’m well aware of the 100 Huskies involved and I have the same disgust as anyone on this board. I grew up with breeding animals and to say they had a cushy life would be an understatement. So seeing there is mass outrage over mans best friend, I’m sure the perpetrator will be duly processed to the full extent of the law. And that is a very good thing!
And paingirl, the culling of humans has been man’s greatest achievement to date. Mostly through war. In North America with the first disembarkment of the Pilgrims, they duly killed off Bisons to starve the native Indians, with much success. If that isn’t culling, I don’t know what is.
I’m not sure where you learned history from Grace, but I was always under the assumption that our ancestors killed all the buffalo/bison due to greed, not to starve the natives. I could be wrong, though.
tl;dr: [citation needed]
Combination of both Brendon. It depended on the local circumstances. Hides and tongues were big business. But definitely during an uprising or a concerted effort to move specific tribes to specific areas, the bison would be an obvious target. Regina was originally known as Pile-Of- Bones, because of the large numbers of skeletons of animals slaughtered for the export market.
i understand. Also, I can’t not post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHLdg_VNww