Did you hear about Bill 37? A Conservative MPP by the very annoying name of Jack MacLaren was pushing forward this new way for the OSPCA to do things. The Bill said "It just won't. Do things." Not that it was all that useful before. Egregious cruelty? Call the cops! They are just as versed in animal welfare, right? Well, it certainly appears that way to me, sorry. Also, OSPCA would not be responsible for farm animal welfare. Shelter Organization, no more OSPCA officers storming down your door. Taking your dog without your knowledge, and euthing it, without calling you first...
Sure, Rocky probably looked rough. He was 16 years old, ffs. I'll look rough too, if I ever hit 112 years old...
Pets, ONLY, for the OSPCA! Are horses pets yet? Just asking. OSPCA had "throughbreeds for adoption", not that long ago.That would again, be someone else's problem. OMAFRA, I think, was the idea. See a sad cow? Call a farmer. And you know what? It does make sense to me. The laws governing meat animals are completely, I mean COMPLETELY, against anything we'd ever subject our companion animals to. But the laws are pretty much the same, for both. Figure THAT out.
(afternote, the Bill was defeated. There were parts of it I actually liked, but NOT the part about vets not having to report cruelty, anymore. Mind you, that isn't working, obviously, anyway. Vets, after all, are human too.)
I still haven't heard of any convictions being successfully laid against anybody charged with cruelty by the OSPCA. There was an animal torture case that happened last May 2010 or so. Guy put his GF's dog in the microwave. I never read anything more about it.
Why IS that? I can tell you why. The animal welfare movement is always struggling in this country. Now, why would that be? I think the blame lies equally between the people of this country and their governments. Well, duh. I think the animal RightS movement has given far too many people far too mch false knowledge and plain bad sense. Duh, again. The death threats the AR people throw around like confetti are creepy as hell. Sure, the true bastards deserve more than what they get, absolutely! But to lump all animal-enjoyers into the same twisted little ball peeves me off.
This story, to me, is the wacky side of animal rightS. Who keeps a foal with severe scoliosis alive? It's own dam rejects it, and the no-sensers are all dewey-eyed about letting it LIVE, to suffer until they have to put the poor critter down. I mean, c'MON. The dewey-eyers were even surprised at the dam's rejection!? Sensible broodie, you ask me. It's sad. It's nature. Life, death, all that crap.
Some of you think I already have bad sense, but that's another issue entirely:)
And so not my problem, because they are after all, MY senses. I see what I see.
Animals that we capture have NO rights. None, zero. Finders, keepers.
"Meat" animals. Any animal at all.
Domestication through the years has resulted in new and amazing ways to produce food. Trouble is, people get totally grossed out by how we figured out how to produce it, using models that take into account 10-20% mortality per year... Maximum profit is the driving force, of course.
And that must remain true, for all of us to continue to own animals. Sad, eh? It's like this weird Moebius Loop. Animals are boxes.
Our earliest domestication of animals has always by definition, stressed that animal. How DID we domesticate our beasties? Think about it. The most domesticated animal on the planet has to be the dog. Or maybe the chicken. Now, obviously, these are two separate distinct species. Various methods of domestication resulted in the animals we are free to be cruel to, today.
You read that right.
Because really, how did we do it?
How do we do it, today?
RIP to the horses killed at the Grand National. There's another tough one for me. I know horses love to run and jump. But others will rather vehemently tell me that ALL racing is bad, and blah, blah, blah. I've read that horses do NOT love to run and jump, and I wonder, how could they say that? I've never seen one that wanted to stand still 24/7. That's not illegal, of course. For a horse to be stilled, 24/7.
Much needs to change. I just hope we can all try to get on the same page, someday. For all critters.
Jeeepers, SOMEbody missed me when I took this private for paranoia purposes for a bit. Glad you're back, Ohio! Unless, of course, you are the ...
Nah.
My psycho-detector has been quiet for a while. Whew.
Here's another Stanley pic. He is doing fabulously, and he loves his new chair. What a wonderful cat he is. He helped defibrillate me one night, as I waited for a call from the hospital to come and pick up Dad. Don't know what I'd have done, without that furry purring kneading noodle calming me down... Dad was fine. I was a total wreck:)
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