"No one stands up to them."

You need an Ezra Levant to go and buy a puppy.

It is sad when a good breeder gets tarred and feathered but maybe in this case some of the complaints are justified. Check out the other side of the story
http://abbyk9.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaking-news.html

I know that pet ownership makes people, especially children more empathetic to animals. I don't understand the activists' logic.

You need an Ezra Levant to go and buy a puppy.

Yes indeed. This is an example of the same mentality as those using the HRCs to their own purposes - bringing the almight power of the State to bear on those with different views.

On an other note, today President Obama has has created a new position in his cabinet and appointed Johann Tetzel to be his new Liberal Guilt Advisor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tetzel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102484_pf.html

“The choice of a Portie raised one complication. The Obamas have long said they wanted a rescue dog. But the carefully bred PWDs almost never end up in shelters. Bo had been living with another family, but it wasn't a good fit, so the Kennedys acquired him for the Obamas.
As for the rescue pledge, the Obamas came up with a solution intended to lend a serious symbolic note: They're going to make a donation to the D.C. Humane Society. “
Says Tetzel on this situation, "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the rescue dog from purgatory springs."

Johann also will be advising Pres. Obama on matters of carbon credits, ways to transfer thousands of people in his entourage, and ways to assuage his guilt of excessive consumption.

Also says Tetzel, "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the polar bear from purgatory springs."

Projects that Tetzel is currently working on for Pres. Obama include: Cap and Trade, Carbon offset credits, and a cute little Whitehouse garden.

This piece highlights a broader problem in our society, namely the tendency of governments of all stripes to pack various "advisory" bodies with agenda-driven activists and ignore the possibility of appointing people who are capable of dispassionate, critical judgment. This may be, to date, the most disappointing thing about the current government. We need at least some voices on the CHRC who question the direction the Commission has taken; we need members of the Status of Women commission who actually represent the diversity of Canadian women, etc.

Stand up to Them?

WE ELECT THEM TO HIGHER OFFICE

This will only stop when all the people who do not vote get off their rears and vote their minds and stop just going with the flow and thinking it does not really matter. There are far more conservatives than liberals in North America but conservatives are not looking to the Government all the time to solve their problems and so really do not care about politics so much.

Governments matter, but we have lulled ourselves into this state where over half the voting population does not even know who their representatives are.

This piece highlights a broader problem in our society, namely the tendency of governments of all stripes to pack various "advisory" bodies with agenda-driven activists and ignore the possibility of appointing people who are capable of dispassionate, critical judgment.

This recent Obama appointee to the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships provides just one more example:

...she was also honoured by former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's Office and also for her community activism in the state on behalf of minority women.

Activists of all stripes have always existed. they used to be called "nuts", but these days they get taken seriously by government agencies desperately trying to justify bloated payrolls and budgets. You wanna keep the extra five guys and the extra five million bucks, you've got to keep the complaint pipeline full. Activist nuts are happy to oblige.

Solution? TAX CUT. You cut their budgets, these agencies will have to focus on doing what they are meant to be doing, instead of jumping every time PETA says rabbit.

Enacting some kind of looser-pays-costs deal in court could help, but really the only defense we have is to roll back the power of these agencies by rolling back their budget.

Tax cut now please.

Gus wrote:
"I know that pet ownership makes people, especially children more empathetic to animals. I don't understand the activists' logic."
HEE HEE HAW HAW HO HO HO HEE HEE HAW HAW HO HO HO
The term logic implies intelligence......
REALLY!!!!!!
OBAMA appointing TETZIL reflects OBAMA's ACORN roots. Deadmen voting....long dead German clerics appointed to CABINET somehow fits.

These PETA types hate themselves as well as the rest of the human race. They suffer from a form of Bush derangement syndrome.

Instead of going after reputable breeders. why don't the activists use their power and influence to go after puppy mills? Why don't theu use their considerable resources to educate people about the obligations of pet ownership - most dogs who end up in shelters were acquired by people who greatly underestimated the time, effort and money it takes to have a dog. Why don't they make sure anti-cruelty laws are enfored? in other words, why don't they do something USEFUL?

This explains Obama's reluctance to commit to a puppy.Finally BO the swimmer, via Kennedy the swimmer.
Having the ill Ted Kennedy pick it out ...is that some sort of attempt at appeasing PETA?Perhaps Ted supports them...?

Barbara; it's the rare animal cruelty situation that the anti activists focus in on to further their agenda. The "puppy mills" are a great way to get media support. How many were actually "puppy mills" who were shut down. Not difficult to find a trashy looking area on any peace of property for press hounds.
The gun control activists used the same tactics. The Communists for Gun Control used the Montreal College shootings every chance they got and the media lapped it up. It's taken two decades for December 6th to be just another day. In that two decades a lot of harm was done to our society. We created a dysfunctional impotence and inability to stand up to crime in our culture.

We created a dysfunctional impotence and inability to stand up to crime in our culture.
Posted by: Gunney99 at April 13, 2009 2:37 PM

Call me a cynic, but I'd suggest this was entirely the intended effect. Now, the plebes all turn to Big Government to "solve" the crime problem.

Sadly, the most basic research reveals that jurisdictions that have concealed carry firearm laws experience overall reductions in both violent and non-violent property crime. I'm appalled that politicians supporting comprehensive guns bans (and related restrictive laws, such as the long gun registry) continue to enjoy broad support from an ignorant electorate.

stupid does not have any limit.

It's just envy -- these dogs are having better sex than the animal rights activists will ever experience.

Bang on Colin. Most of these "activist" groups hail from the Communist "Peace Movement" where the strategy is "to start a riot in your enemies bazaar". Anything that harms private business is on the agenda. Take tobacco bans for example. Marijuana is OK though. It's medicinal and not harmful. But a cigarette causes death for a hundred yards around. I don't know why the Jihads haven't caught on to this. They could just employ a suicide smoker. The damage would be catastrophic. (I'm a non smoker if it matters) Dysfunctional? Oh Yea!

You know, Kate, you would have been qualified to say "No one stands up to them." if you at least responded to a certain email regarding certain web site which name ends with 'tz'. But alas, you only stand up when it's about dogs as of lately.

I'd be most curious to hear what percentage of these "activists" are Secular Left Atheists. Just curious.

Obama's daughters just bought a dog. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/12/obama-puppy.html

I suspect they'll be threatened next. /sarc

The pattern emerges that these petatards have no pets and object to anyone else having a pet. They style any ownership/possession of an animal as cruelty/abuse.
IMNSHO they are not only "Secular Left Atheists" but they have no soul.

"I have no use for man nor boy who has never had an understanding with a pup.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

There are so many road kills these days and it is sometimes not easy to miss a small anmal and sometimes it is either the animal or a person and we tend to value the person above the animal.

Sometimes when I have seen a small Animal lying alongside a road I think , " why didn't the person who hit this little creature at least take it off the road and bury it peacefully