I've been reading Classical Values for quite a few years now. In fact I should have credited his post when I made my Famous Leaders post. Obviously, I like reading what is posted over there. If I ever take the time to figure out how to make a blogroll, Classical Values will definitely make the list.
Anyways, on to his post.
A story in today's Inquirer illustrates a strange and disturbing irony, and it's the second one of it's kind to make the local news. I speculated about the line between animal hoarding and animal rescue in an earlier post about a Philadelphia school teacher/author/animal "rescuer" whose house had been rendered uninhabitable by a huge number of cats.
This time, Pennsylvania's animal control bureaucracy stands accused of ignoring a much larger, ongoing problem at a professional animal rescue outfit called "Faithful but Forgotten Friends"
The only comment I have is that I think his conclusion is on the mark. I love animals, but there is a difference between humans and animals.
As for rescue operations, I haven't made the 400 mile trip to the Colorado House Rabbit Society place. However, if they treat the buns there like the people in the above story treated the dogs, I will be absolutely crushed.
I don't think that will happen, though.
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Ooooh, pet stuff, now where did I put that soapbox?
Hoarding is a weird mental illness. There used to be a guy in our WoW guild who worked for Animal Control shutting those people down and he had some very sad stories but I'm glad people are taking more notice of the problem.
Animal rescues sometimes attract people with similar mentalities and are sometimes accused of being too strict. On the other hand, they are usually private individuals who are trying very hard to make sure the animals they've taken out of the shelters -- usually at their own expense -- don't end up in the same kind of lousy home that abandoned them there to begin with.
There was recently a case with Ellen DeGeneres whining when a rescue where she had gotten a dog objected to her rehoming it with her hairdresser. The rescue's reasoning: it was a very small dog and they routinely don't let those go to families with young children, like the hairdresser's, because young children frequently accidentally hurt little pets, and rescues see this happen. Another one is that rescues want to see proof from renters that the landlord allows pets -- because one of the major reasons for pets being surrendered is "landlord won't allow it" and even though people SHOULD check first, often they don't.
I've got a friend on the other side of one of those now, her neighbor has a dumb macho boyfriend with a pit bull that he refuses to leash, claiming it's "cruel" to keep it restrained, and you can just bet that if he ends up taking it to a shelter rather than moving or buying a #!@#%#! leash he'll be whining about how he's been victimized.
Rescues, the good ones (of which I have known several, including the HRS), basically act as intermediaries between the shelter and the people looking for pets, fostering animals until they can find a good home. Just about anyone can adopt from a shelter, so all the people crying about how the mean rescues won't give them a pet can bypass all the interviews by just going to the damn shelter themselves. Usually it's their egos suffering because someone told them "no."
The Feministing blogger ran into some of the anti-breeding types, and they can be zealous. The rationale is that because thousands of perfectly wonderful dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. are euthanized due to lack of homes, people deliberately breeding animals are contributing to the problem and "nice" folks adopt from shelters instead. I've been in arguments with them because my cat is from a breeder because I wanted one with a gentle temperament to be a bunny nanny, and usually the anti-breeders are cultural determinists who don't believe temperament or anything else is genetic (usually they are inspired by that loon Peter Singer, the "philosopher" behind a lot of PETA "thought" and the first one to come up with the notion that running a chicken farm is just as evil as running Auschwitz). Fine, they can adopt all the amateur-bred pit bulls they wan
EasterDurni | 10.30.07 - 7:37 pm | #
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Heh. How did I know that linking to that post would get you to comment?
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Kenshu Ani | Homepage | 10.30.07 - 8:26 pm | #
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LOL and it even cut me off before I could throw ya the bloglink about Tacitus!
Hmm, this Halo thing is sort of wussy about comments. Not enough, uh, room for my excessive verbiage.
I also mentioned that even though I disagree with about 90% of what's posted in Feministing I still read it just in the hopes that some day I may agree with feminism again (I agree with women saying what's on their mind regardless), and it is very obvious that the blogger takes excellent care of Monty and loves him very much. Hope she doesn't get too much flack from her own little PC inquisition because she puts out a great blog even if I disagree with some of the content.
And here's the link I mentioned, seems to fit well with your bloglink. From a righty source (I read both sides).
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And now I shall log into WoW and kill things.
EasterDurni | 10.30.07 - 9:39 pm | #
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Lol. I just read that same article a day or two ago.
Kenshu Ani | Homepage | 10.31.07 - 1:13 am | #
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