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Comment on More Theft Under the Color of Law – CA by Laurleen Scholz

Laurleen Scholz — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:10:38 +0000

I spoke to Trilvie last night (5/2/2012) and will be stopping by to see her after work today. My husband and I adopted 5 dogs from her over the last 22 years, including our current service dogs. My pom does a medical alert for me and my husband’s pom does hearing alerts for him. She was being hassled by neighbors and animal control over 20 years ago, when we first met. This latest incident, does not surprise me. There is so much anger over “puppy mills,” ANYONE who breeds is being painted with the same brush!

I understand that those who care for Trilvie have stepped up and taken her dogs in as fosters until more permanent decisions can be made. She has 5 of her dogs back, including the two litters of puppies. She must home the puppies by the time they are 4 months old, and one litter is now 3 months. If she doesn’t comply they will be back to take all of her dogs!

I haven’t had a chance to find out where she is with the financial/lien problem, but I will find out more when I see her this evening. One thing they (the DA) tried to do was accuse her of practicing veterinary medicine without a licence because she had dog medications in her home. If that is true, we are all going to be in trouble!

Comment on Living in fear by Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:48:35 +0000

You have said what so many of us feel! Amen!

Comment on Protecting Your Animals in the Face of “Moral Panic”—Taking a Page from the Biker’s Handbook by John Bowen

John Bowen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:23:26 +0000

Asking permission to cross-post this and any other postings of yours on this blog at http://www.allcitydogs.com .
This website is actually owned by a Norwegian Elkhound breeder. But, I am given total latitude in the postings, which you may approve of.
No need to post this comment, as a comment, but I do admire your style and clarity, plus your research. I need that quality on the blog. Care to contribute regularly? We could use a good team of contributors.
John Bowen, Blogmaster

Comment on Idyllic Iowa by Czarek

Czarek — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:24:19 +0000

Breeders should be entraoipg off of a breed standard. You can find these for each breed of dog recognized by the AKC. For me, all my pups are pets first, then show dogs. I could NEVER sell a black & tan Staffordshire Bull Terrier or liver colored dog as a show/breeding prospect. These colors are breed disqualifications in the American Kennel Club. Remember the AKC was formed with the intention of showing a dog’s confirmation to later be used for breeding purposes if of good quality.Judging puppies at such a young age is hard, even for the experienced eye. Truth be told, you can’t predict 100% what a dog is going to mature into.Some breeders restrict breeding, limit registrations for good reason-as not to allow every Joe Blow to walk in buy a dog and breed it out in 8 months. I respect this practice of limiting registration for that reason.Structure & tempermant are important when choosing a breeding dog. As puppies you can see who the confident ones are, the shy ones and the just normal puppies. Sometimes you can tell who is lean & narrow and who has more bone & substance. That all factors in.Also it is HOPED that the breeder is breeding from a standard, and upholds it to every degree possible. If you are interested in breeding, or showing, just say so-some people will cut you short cause you’re new, others may see it as an opportunity to mentor & educate.VERY VERY GOOD QUESTION.There is a book called The Puppy Puzzle by Pat Hastings, AKC Judge. It will help you understand more if you like.

Comment on Magical Numbers – The Myth of 67,000 Puppies by Margo Milde

Margo Milde — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:17:30 +0000

In 2006, Wall Street Journal’s “The Numbers Guy” Carl Bialik did an article entitled “Trying to Herd a Cat Stat”, which completely debunked the corollary to your “67,000 dog myth”, that is, an unspayed female cat and her offspring could produce over 420,000 cats in just 7 years. According to the article, Bialik found the first mention of this figure in an Atlanta newspaper article in 1988, citing HSUS. While HSUS did have the number on its website at the time Bialik wrote the article, they promised to remove it after Bialik contacted them. Wrote Bialik on this figures, “That would mean the U.S. produces far more cats than coal: If each cat weighed, on average, five pounds, this catastrophically huge feline colony would weigh 120 billion tons—or about 100 times the amount of coal produced in the U.S. last year.”
Alley Cat Allies has the full text of this Bialik article available on their website:
http://www.alleycat.org/document.doc?id=120

Comment on H$U$ Divide and Conquer by Margo Milde

Margo Milde — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:28:33 +0000

Great comments, except that I don’t think APRI should be criticized. The announcement sent out by APRI says:

“America’s Pet Registry, Inc will not not not not not not not APRI will not will not never never never not not not not ever not ever not ever – NOT EVER – NEVER
APRI WILL NOT work with the HSUS.”

This was not a direct attack on AKC, and I don’t think it should be construed as such. It was just a matter of APRI stating their position re: HSUS in a very direct way, and APRI has every right to do that. I commend them for doing so. It certainly brought a lot of favorable attention to their registry. If it attracted some new breeders to their fold, well, more power to them.

AKC’s problem is that they refuse to publicly renounce HSUS or any other AR group by name, and therefore become a sitting target for HSUS’ strategies such as this “Dog Breeders Advisory Council” program. This certainly isn’t APRI’s fault, but rather an internal problem at the AKC which should be addressed as such.

Comment on A dog breeder’s naivete…and what you should know about HSUS by Mackerel

Mackerel — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:47:16 +0000

The reptile hobby has also been bullied by animal rights groups for a long time. In an HSUS podcast, they compared reptile breeders to child pimps. Breeding snakes is apparently as bad as being involved with child prostitution according to the HSUS.

I hope more pet owners start to realize that by donating to these loonies they are only hurting themselves, as they want all pets extinct.

Comment on Response to Elkhounds – a Breed at the Crossroads? by Connie Vaillancourt

Connie Vaillancourt — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:54:10 +0000

I haven’t read Robin’s article yet, but I have to agree with you on certain things that you touched on in your blog.

I, for one, believe that our breed is in big trouble. I’ve been watching the decline of the structure and phenotype of the elkhound for many years. I feel that if we want to save our breed from going the way of other breeds in the past, we need to get off our butts and start doing something about it.

We need a health committee that is making more of an effort than they are now. We need to be breeding to the breed standard as opposed to what is happening now, people breeding to a dog that’s convenient, but not correct for the bitch, people breeding to the top winning dog, but not correct for the bitch, etc.

Our breed is suffering because we don’t or won’t do even the minimal in health checks. I’ve watched the National tapes and can see a gradual decline in the breed. It’s our job to protect the breed and keep it structurally, mentally, and spiritually sound. I think it’s time we started doing just that, before it’s too late.

Comment on Response to Elkhounds – a Breed at the Crossroads? by Gail Spangler

Gail Spangler — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:36:06 +0000

Thank you for the information, Amy.

I appreciate your extra efforts.

Comment on We’ve Been Sacked by the Humane Society by Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:24:31 +0000

Thank you, I will find a story and post it