MISC.>>> The Dog's Diary
>>>
>>> 8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 12:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 5:00 pm - Dinner! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>> 11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Cat's Diary
>>>
>>> Day 983 of my captivity.
>>>
>>> My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling
objects.
>>>
>>> They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are
>>> fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt
>>> for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something
>>> in order to keep up my strength.
>>>
>>> The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an
>>> attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet. Today I
>>> decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I
>>> had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly

>>> demonstrates my capabilities. However, they merely made
>>> condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am.
Bastards!
>>>
>>> There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was
>>> placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event.
>>> However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard
>>> that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must
>>> learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.
>>>
>>> Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my

>>> tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try
>>> this again tomorrow, but at the top of the stairs.
>>>
>>> I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and
snitches.
>>> The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released, and
>>> seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.
>>>
>>> The bird must be an informant. I observe him communicating with the
>>> guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My
>>> captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated
>>> cell, so he is safe.
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Overpopulation!

In early 2007, contaminated pet food worried many pet owners. Hundreds of thousands of healthy pets suddenly became ill or died. Millions of dollars were spent on determining the cause, millions of dollars were spent recalling and discarding the food.

But a situation much, much larger is killing millions and millions of healthy pets every year. Untold more suffer and die. All of our pets are at risk. This current crisis is the overpopulation of dogs and cats. If your pet "goes missing" and ends up at a busy pound, it may join the millions who are euthanized (killed) every year in the USA. Untold more do not even make it to the pounds and die uncounted of injury, starvation, neglect, and abuse.

For this crisis, we know the cure and we have the ability to solve the problem!

This terrible situation does not need to continue. None of the pets who are suffering or dying came from outer space on a UFO. Each and every pet came from an unfixed pair of dogs/cats.

Even if you do not care that healthy pets are suffering and dying, if you care about the people who care about the pets (the elderly who become unable to care for their pets, or the children in families who love their pets but must move or for some other reason must give their pets up) let's work to stop this crisis.

And even if you do not care about the animals or their people, if you care about the waste of your tax dollars, the financial resources, the human resources and natural resources wasted on rounding up, confining, killing and disposing of the bodies of dogs and cats (into landfills or using petroleum to cremate the dead pets), join with us to stop this insanity.

Unlike other national issues like Alzheimer's and Autism, this crisis could be solved this year if caring people work together to stop it at the source.

1. Do NOT send money to any national organization. Your donations are needed in your own community to solve the problem at a local level!

2. Adopt your next pet from a non-breeding (neither purposeful or accidental breeders) source. A great adoption source is www.petfinder.com. Only non-breeders can post pets on this website. If you acquire from a breeder (family, farm, pet store, cattery, kennel) they will think "I got rid of the entire litter, I'm not part of the overpopulation problem." But they ARE the problem. Too many pets are being produced for them all to have good, happy lives.

3. Have any pets in your care either spayed or neutered now. No exceptions! Accidental litters count for millions of puppies and kittens every year. Low/no cost programs are available. www.SPAYUSA.com is an excellent source, as well as the rescues listed on www.petfinder.com. On www.petfinder.com skip the parts about pet description and go directly to zip code and then Animal Welfare Groups. That will bring up the local organizations. Call or Email them for info and referrals.

4. Help others to spay/neuter their pets and strays too. Do you know of a cat who eats on your neighbor's porch? Help to have it fixed now! A coworker has a dog that is not spayed? Offer to pay for 1/2 of the surgery. Just think: If your actions result in 10 less puppies or kittens being born, and you spend say $50 to $100, why that's only $5 or $10 each pet that will not: be put to sleep at a pound, die from being hit by a car, die from abuse, die of disease, or take the home away from a pet already here. Cats that are too wild/shy can be trapped in live traps and transported to the vets, without even touching the cat. After surgery and vaccinations, the cat is simply returned to the trap and then back to the location where they were trapped and released. Low cost or even free services might be available in your area.

5. Only then, after your own pets, the pets you know of, and strays are fixed, then contribute to local spay/neuter organizations. The money will go much further in addressing the cause of the suffering of our companion animals. Shelters are good, but the pet overpopulation crisis cannot be solved at the shelter level. It must be solved at its source.

Imagine that a shelter sends out an SOS for help, asking for mops and buckets and towels to dry the pets, and you decide to volunteer. You arrive at the shelter, to find the roof blown off, rain pouring down and the pets shivering and soaking wet. You are instructed to dry off pets with the towels and try to dry the floors with the mops and buckets.

But wait, wouldn't the first, smartest step be to put up some sort of roof first, to stop the rain from coming in? We could work forever trying to dry the pets with lots of time and energy spent, but with no real progress. Spaying and Neutering is the first action stopping in the deluge of homeless, unwanted, dying dogs and cats.

Solving the pet overpopulation crisis is win - win - win!
The pets win,
the people who care about the pets win, and even the people who don't care about the pets or their people will win as the resources currently being WASTED on killing and disposing of pets could be used for other causes.

Here's one example of how serious the overpopulation crisis is in Pennsylvania. By law, stray dogs must be held in a pound for only 48 hours before disposal, and the law does not currently say that the pound must be open during those 48 hours. No law says that pound workers must tell you if your dog is at the pound. Stray cats can be euthanized on arrival, as well as owned dogs and cats. Once you have signed over the pet, it can be euthanized before you leave the parking lot! Pounds and shelters probably do not want to kill the pets, but when too many are being produced, they may feel they have no choice.

Please send this to everyone you know. Your tax dollars should be used to make the world a better place, not to confine, kill, and dispose of pets.

The pet you save may be your own!

Thank you
*author unknown*

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How can Minnesota allow a kennel (puppy mill) to open and allow 600 dog kennel to open. Please read the article below and email or write your state and federal representatives and senators, the governor, and these county commissioners.

January 22, 2006
To: Minnesota Rescue Organizations
It is with a very heavy heart and a sense of disbelief that I pass along the following information. A 600 dog kennel has been approved by the Morrison County Commissioners for the township of Belle Prairie. It is ridiculous to call this facility a kennel. It is a puppy mill!! The owner of this puppy mill has also promised to debark all adult breeders to keep down “noise pollution”.

During the several years that I have been in the rescue of dogs from puppy mills I am often asked why these horrors are not shut down. Why isn’t there someone to call who can go out and shut them down? Now the rest of the world sees why they aren’t shut down—because dogs are considered livestock by the USDA and this kind of evil is approved by our own government. Just because something is legal is certainly not good enough reason to perpetrate the problem. This nation has domesticated dogs to be companion animals. Dogs are used for the blind, those with Parkinson Disease and epilepsy, the deaf. Dogs are used to find drugs and are saving soldiers’ lives in Iraq by sniffing out bombs. There are countless stories of dogs who have saved their families by sounding the alarm when fire breaks out in a home. Who can ever forget the images we see of dogs searching for victims after an earthquake or terrorist attack? Dogs lower our blood pressure, help with depression and are used as therapy for troubled teens. They are life time companions who only offer us one thing—their unconditional love. Don’t we owe them more than to just sit back while this puppy mill is opened in our own state??

No one who runs a facility with 600 breeder dogs is anything but a puppy miller. To call this person a breeder is an insult to legitimate dog breeders. Dog breeders breed to improve the breed, they screen adoption applicants for their dogs and they sell their dogs with a spay/neuter contract. Millers go for quantity rather than quality, they sell to pet stores, they keep breeding dogs that may have genetic defects, they pull puppies from their mothers too soon. The list goes on and on.

I have the honor of having four mill dogs as my constant companions. They are incredible dogs but the problems of the mill continue with them every day of their lives. Lack of medical care, proper socialization and downright abuse have cause an abundance of emotional and physical problems. To see one of my little ones please visit www.puppymillrescue.com and see my Emmy. Also, if you are not familiar with puppy mills you can also visit www.prisonersofgreed.org.

We must stand up now and work to stop this mill from becoming a reality. After that is accomplished it is time to work to abolish puppy mills in this country. There is no place or reason for these mills in our lives and society.

I am including a link for the newspaper that published the story of the approval for this kennel. http://www.mcrecord.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=37603&SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&S=1. Please email or write your state and federal representatives and senators, the governor, and these county commissioners. This must be stopped!

Please, please, let us stand together to keep this horror from ever opening!!
Debra Anderson Vogt

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