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PETA's Chained Dog Crusade
Any thoughts here on PETA's latest crusade? I really don't accept the
premise that a dog chained to a cable-run is worse off than a dog in a pen or a dog in a tiny backyard. My two dog runs are 50' long with a 15' chain and are mulched with wood chips and are under shade trees. The dogs are established biters and fence climbers. In an ideal world all dogs would have large fenced yards to run free in and a rug in front of a fireplace to sleep on -- but in the real world they are being produced by puppy mills and unspayed dogs and destroyed by the millions in municipal shelters across the country. The worst irony was receiving my PETA lecture from a neighbor woman whose father was the most animal-negligent person I ever knew. Dave http://petaliterature.com/viewitem.a...0%20%20%20&id= |
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It sounds to me like you are being a responsible pet owner. Tell your nosy
neighbor to stuff it up where the sun don't shine. Celeste wrote in message oups.com... Any thoughts here on PETA's latest crusade? I really don't accept the premise that a dog chained to a cable-run is worse off than a dog in a pen or a dog in a tiny backyard. My two dog runs are 50' long with a 15' chain and are mulched with wood chips and are under shade trees. The dogs are established biters and fence climbers. In an ideal world all dogs would have large fenced yards to run free in and a rug in front of a fireplace to sleep on -- but in the real world they are being produced by puppy mills and unspayed dogs and destroyed by the millions in municipal shelters across the country. The worst irony was receiving my PETA lecture from a neighbor woman whose father was the most animal-negligent person I ever knew. Dave http://petaliterature.com/viewitem.a...0%20%20%20&id= |
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wrote in message
oups.com... Any thoughts here on PETA's latest crusade? I really don't accept the premise that a dog chained to a cable-run is worse off than a dog in a pen or a dog in a tiny backyard. My two dog runs are 50' long with a 15' chain and are mulched with wood chips and are under shade trees. The dogs are established biters and fence climbers. In an ideal world all dogs would have large fenced yards to run free in and a rug in front of a fireplace to sleep on -- but in the real world they are being produced by puppy mills and unspayed dogs and destroyed by the millions in municipal shelters across the country. The worst irony was receiving my PETA lecture from a neighbor woman whose father was the most animal-negligent person I ever knew. Dave http://petaliterature.com/viewitem.a...0%20%20%20&id= Spot wrote: It sounds to me like you are being a responsible pet owner. Tell your nosy neighbor to stuff it up where the sun don't shine. Celeste It isn't as if I don't accept the fact that a dog on a chain can be a very sad situation, but I've also seen dogs in small 10'x10' cages and I think that is equally awful. Also if this silly person has all these ideal homes available where she thinks she can place adult dogs why doesn't she encourage those people to visit the local animal shelters where who knows how many dogs are being put to sleep every week? No, I'm sure her snooty friends would buy from a dog breeder. Her silly father was the sort who only kept a dog for a few years and would then "give it away to some friend." Then he'd get a different dog. |
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I agree with you completely. If these do gooders would look at themselfs or
make the effort to help the shelters it would be different. I for one would rather see a dog on a trolley run with room to move about than stuck in some pen. I have a neighbor who has a wonderful dog that is stuck in a damned pen most of the time because they don't want the back yard tore up. What really pisses me off is that they don't even use the stinking yard for anything. I see them get the dog out and play with her about twice a week and then the oldest who is about 15 doesn't always keep an eye on her and she wanders. I politely told the woman last fall when she wondered off that one night that before winter came about that I thought they should get rid of her old worn out dog box and get her one of the newer insulated ones. At least the did listen to me on that point it's just to bad that I have to even tell them they need to take better care of her. Celeste wrote in message oups.com... wrote in message oups.com... Any thoughts here on PETA's latest crusade? I really don't accept the premise that a dog chained to a cable-run is worse off than a dog in a pen or a dog in a tiny backyard. My two dog runs are 50' long with a 15' chain and are mulched with wood chips and are under shade trees. The dogs are established biters and fence climbers. In an ideal world all dogs would have large fenced yards to run free in and a rug in front of a fireplace to sleep on -- but in the real world they are being produced by puppy mills and unspayed dogs and destroyed by the millions in municipal shelters across the country. The worst irony was receiving my PETA lecture from a neighbor woman whose father was the most animal-negligent person I ever knew. Dave http://petaliterature.com/viewitem.a...0%20%20%20&id= Spot wrote: It sounds to me like you are being a responsible pet owner. Tell your nosy neighbor to stuff it up where the sun don't shine. Celeste It isn't as if I don't accept the fact that a dog on a chain can be a very sad situation, but I've also seen dogs in small 10'x10' cages and I think that is equally awful. Also if this silly person has all these ideal homes available where she thinks she can place adult dogs why doesn't she encourage those people to visit the local animal shelters where who knows how many dogs are being put to sleep every week? No, I'm sure her snooty friends would buy from a dog breeder. Her silly father was the sort who only kept a dog for a few years and would then "give it away to some friend." Then he'd get a different dog. |
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Spot wrote:
I agree with you completely. If these do gooders would look at themselfs or make the effort to help the shelters it would be different. I for one would rather see a dog on a trolley run with room to move about than stuck in some pen. I have a neighbor who has a wonderful dog that is stuck in a damned pen most of the time because they don't want the back yard tore up. What really pisses me off is that they don't even use the stinking yard for anything. I see them get the dog out and play with her about twice a week and then the oldest who is about 15 doesn't always keep an eye on her and she wanders. I politely told the woman last fall when she wondered off that one night that before winter came about that I thought they should get rid of her old worn out dog box and get her one of the newer insulated ones. At least the did listen to me on that point it's just to bad that I have to even tell them they need to take better care of her. Celeste I was just looking at the PETA info on the local ordanances they have helped get passed. They outlaw any type of cable run but require a pen size of only 10'x15' = 150 square feet. Uh, my dogs each have 1800 square feet. |
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Now isn't that just freaking insane to sticking a dog in a 150 sq foot pen.
When I lived up on the mountain Brandy loved to stay outside during the day and I would often put her on the trolley line while I was at work. She had a 75 foot cable run through the middle of my yard with a 15 foot cable and stops at the end to keep her from getting wrapped up around the trees. The side yard that this trolley ran through was huge and she loved it. At one end was grass and sunny spots to lay in and sun herself and on the other end was a huge tree that provided shade all day along with a row of trees at the edge of the woods for even more shade. She had a dog box to go into if she wanted under the tree along with a 5 gallon bucket of water and food left out for her. The only time she thought life was even better were the few times she'd take off into the woods trying to catch turkeys and wouldn't come out. I just used to leave her be since I knew she'd stay put for hours waiting for them and would be right there behind the house when I got home. I'd come back 4 or 5 hours later and pull in and she'd come out of the woods all played out but happy as could be. Once I moved to town I had to stop letting her out without supervision. It wasn't that she barked or anything or that the yard wasn't fenced but due to the fact that I caught some asshole trying to take her one day. She was the type of dog who was friendly with everyone, more than once she jumped up into the meter readers truck and thought she was going with him for a ride. After that I never left her outside again unless we were with her. Celeste wrote in message ups.com... Spot wrote: I agree with you completely. If these do gooders would look at themselfs or make the effort to help the shelters it would be different. I for one would rather see a dog on a trolley run with room to move about than stuck in some pen. I have a neighbor who has a wonderful dog that is stuck in a damned pen most of the time because they don't want the back yard tore up. What really pisses me off is that they don't even use the stinking yard for anything. I see them get the dog out and play with her about twice a week and then the oldest who is about 15 doesn't always keep an eye on her and she wanders. I politely told the woman last fall when she wondered off that one night that before winter came about that I thought they should get rid of her old worn out dog box and get her one of the newer insulated ones. At least the did listen to me on that point it's just to bad that I have to even tell them they need to take better care of her. Celeste I was just looking at the PETA info on the local ordanances they have helped get passed. They outlaw any type of cable run but require a pen size of only 10'x15' = 150 square feet. Uh, my dogs each have 1800 square feet. |
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Kyler Laird wrote:
writes: I was just looking at the PETA info on the local ordanances they have helped get passed. They outlaw any type of cable run but require a pen size of only 10'x15' = 150 square feet. Uh, my dogs each have 1800 square feet. It might not be as inconsistent as you seem to think it is. Cable runs, chains and "invisible fences" do expose dogs to extra risks because they do not keep out other animals (or children, ...). I don't know if this is what they were thinking though. --kyler Yes this is indeed part of their rationale, but I think they are being too simple-minded. It seems they want to have an "emotional campaign" and not a reasoned set of guidelines. If they are truly concerned about the dogs they should also be against small cages, and not be promoting them. |
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on 2005-03-23 at 08:45 wrote:
Yes this is indeed part of their rationale, but I think they are being too simple-minded. It seems they want to have an "emotional campaign" and not a reasoned set of guidelines. If they are truly concerned about the dogs they should also be against small cages, and not be promoting them. please define "small cages" and explain why their usage should be stopped? while i'm not a fan of leaving *any* dog outdoors unsupervised, my own personal feelings are that there are inherent problems with tying a dog out unsupervised that are not present when leaving the dog in a "small cage" unsupervised. -- shelly http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com/ http://letters-to-esther.blogspot.com/ |
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wrote in message oups.com... Yes this is indeed part of their rationale, but I think they are being too simple-minded. It seems they want to have an "emotional campaign" and not a reasoned set of guidelines. If they are truly concerned about the dogs they should also be against small cages, and not be promoting them. i'm not a huge PETA fan, but... how do you feel about crating a dog indoors? my dogs live in "small cages" when unsupervised, because i don't want to come home and find one of them has killed or injured the other. yes, they get along fine when i'm home, but i'm not going to trust them to ignore their instincts when i'm not home to stop them. a lot of people with my breed (pit bulls) chain their dogs out in a yard on short chains, so that they can't kill each other. they spend all day lunging at each other and hitting the end of their chains hard enough to damage their necks and terrifying their neighbors. is that any better than a crate inside a warm home? i seriously doubt it. personally i wouldn't ban chaining, as i'm against the government forcing personal responsibility on people. but i also think it's simple minded to bash cages if you don't know the circumstance. -kelly |
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