Surely the foreign rescue dog racket was suspended due to the pandemic, yes?
A rabid dog imported into the United States this month has sparked a public health investigation across several states.
Health officials say a dog brought to the U.S. from Azerbaijan that ended up with a family in Chester County, Pennsylvania began acting strangely. It later tested positive for rabies and was euthanized. At least 12 people were exposed to the animal.
The dog was one of 34 animals — 33 dogs and one cat — imported by an animal rescue organization from Azerbaijan to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on June 10.
That’s not a typo — Azerbaijan.
I suppose there is a terrible dog shortage in North America?
That’s the question I keep asking my idiot neighbors when they tell me that:
“oh my growling beast, choking on the leash, comes from an Indian reserve in Yukon”
“oh I just got my mutt that’s chewing on the fence dividing out properties from Lebanon”
Because, it is all about virtue signaling. If they could import their feral beasts from Mars they would.
Meanwhile, it’s quite likely that the local Humane Society is euthanizing dogs every day.
You have option of going to a local breeder of dogs, and seeing the conditions, and you know being able to sue them if they misrepresent what you are getting….
or you can participate in rescue dog mills who breed dogs for the purposes of suckering virtue signalling north american’s and relieving them of cash…
Be advised, be careful where you get your pets. The astute, Eric Hoffer said it best. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Rescue societies are the new puppy mills.
The same urban imbeciles who have been using Wuhan flu as a socially acceptable excuse to flee the nests they fouled with “diversity”—sending real estate prices in the parts of British North America that are still British through the roof—snapped up “pandemic puppies” like they were going out of style, mostly imported from the Third World or “First Nations.”
Unfortunately, at least some of the new dog-mommies will eventually be forced to return to the city or lose their only significant sources of income, even if they don’t miss easy access to Asian food and black and Muslim beefcake.
At that point the untrained “puppies” will be dumped at humane societies or, when mommy puts her piece of rural heaven back on the market at a heavy discount, simply turned loose. Let the rednecks deal with the dirty, dangerous job of culling wild dogs. Dirty, dangerous jobs are what the rednecks are for.
There are more puppies in my neighbourhood this year than all those combined in the 20 years I’ve been here.
My girlfriend was at the dog part a week ago and the 7 other dogs were all huskies.
Our vet sent out a mass email saying they are inundated with puppy appointments.
(There is a shortage of vets and their assistants.)
I suspect, as you write, “we’ll” have a big problem coming up soon.
A dog isn’t a set of weights or an exercise machine you can allow to gather dust in the basement because you’re, in reality, a lazy selfish fat sack of shit.
Besides maybe between registered breeders or for their customers, the dog trade and animal trading in general should be illegal.
All the dachshunds that my parents had were acquired from breeders and those breeders could provide the respective pedigrees. My father didn’t bother getting one for my canine step-brother.
I often see people in Fort St. John walking their dogs. The beasties must come from somewhere, but I don’t think it’s from the local SPCA. When my father died, the police took the little guy to there, where he stayed until I could get to town. The critter had a rough time for a few days as he was the only dog at the facility.
“All the dachshunds that my parents had were acquired from breeders…”
That’s the only way to do it. Rescuing should be left to people with a clue who have experience and understand the risks. Also, no rescues should ever be imported from abroad. Ever.
Buddy the demand with the whu who flu has goldens selling for $3,000 plus.
“There are more puppies in my neighbourhood this year than all those combined in the 20 years I’ve been here.”
So, is Kinsella putting his money in Korean restaurant futures?
I’m trying to remember where I read it, but numerous shelters in the States are being inundated with dogs whose owners got them for companionship while they were sitting at home because of WuFlu and now have no use for them/discover that said canines have the same needs whether you’re sitting at home or going to the office from 9 to 5 and if it’s the latter that’s rather inconvenient.
Big business, big money.
Got my cattle dog at 6 months old. I am the 4th owner.
Originally a $2500 trendy pet store dog. First owner gave to a bullshit ‘rescue’ after two weeks.
Second owner paid at least a thousand all said and done to ‘rescue’ her. Puppy supposedly bit her and her spawn, given to a local vet at 4 months.
Third owner was my girlfriends mother. Paid 500 and bought a two year ‘protection plan’ for another 500. Lives in a small apartment and uses a walker to get around. Zero exercise. Begged me to take pup after two months .
Add in all the supplies and probably talking $7500-10k. Made off this one animal.
I got one of the best dogs I’ve ever had for free. Took a month to stop the puppy biting, destroying furniture, begging for/stealing food, and peeing everywhere that was intolerable to all the big hearted morons she’d been with before.
A little word called NO, along with two hours a day of good walks and running off leash bought me a fantastic beast.
Slipped through the mask and vaccination screening, eh?
Must have been from Azerbaijan … via Beijing.
there are no limits to insanity! you would think we could become used to that… but thank goodness – getting used to insanity is not going to happen. ever.
Doormatada!
Dog parks are great, but what do they pick up from these foreign dogs?
If you’re referring to urban off leash parks then the answer is no. These dog parks are awful and to be avoided if you value your dog’s health, limb and life. Idiots with aggressive dogs routinely let their dogs off leash in those parks and injuries from dog attacks occur several times a day. Talk to a local vet if you don’t believe me.
Unfortunately, those parks are the only place where one can legally let one’s dog run free in the city aside of one’s back yard.
Yes I know. And the dream of owning a house with a backyard is being denied to an increasingly large segments of population. And most of new electorate would be more likely to eat or at least kill a dog for fun than to care for it. All parts of the same equation. A dying culture, a dying civilization.
I would avoid public dog parks for all those reasons. Fortunately, we have a large, fenced in yard that works as our own dog park. Our dogs enjoy free rein although the two Chihuahuas have to be careful to not to get trampled by two crazy English Setters. The squirrels and chipmunks are on their own.
You got English Setters?
Respect.
Amazing dogs.
Oh yeah. 2 1/2 year old, 75 pound male orange belton named Levon who is the best dog ever and 9 month old female blue named Tallulah who is the naughtiest puppy ever. Born to hunt birds. We love them madly. You too?
I don’t have English Setters, I just love gun dogs, especially the less common breeds, retrievers, setters, spaniels, pointers. As for our family dogs; long time ago I have seen a beautiful dog that, to my untrained then eye, looked like a golden retriever dipped in black ink… and so I met a Flat Coated Retriever for the first time. Soon after we had our first Flattie, and we have never looked back….
I had to look them up. Beautiful dogs. Feathered like Setters. It’s a spiritual experience to hunt with a good dog. They’re the athletes of the canine world. Just love to watch them run.
True, I am not a hunter but our dogs do agility and obedience (strictly for fun not competition) those bad at obedience tend to be very good at agility and vice versa. And yes working with a gun dog is very much a spiritual experience. Plus when they look into your eyes they see your soul. Better be good or they suffer.
So true!
The latest is golden retrievers from the China meat trade. Saw one stunned lady on Saskatoon CTV who got her 2 minutes of fame for bringing a golden into Canada from China. Hope it wasn’t being fed bats or pangolins or Wuhan research assistants or whatever. Ha!
Cringy virtue signalling really needs to be outlawed.
https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2225774
They named it “Wuhan.”
A friend of mine is a breeder. She has named the litter born under lockdown: Wuhan, Covid, Corona, Fauci and Tam.
This entire issue is well covered in the book “The Dog Merchants” by Kim Kavin. What has happened is that there is indeed a shortage of dogs. The kind of dogs that make the best dog pets are breeds matched to the lifestyle and physical attributes/limitations of the owner. These dogs are adopted as puppies and are trained and raised by their people. The shortage that has happened occurred because we have been very successful in our spay and neuter campaign. Responsible dog breeders are very careful to match the puppy to the home and ensure things like mandatory puppy classes, obedience training, and spay and neuter are part of the sales contract. Responsible breeders will also take back any dog that they have sold. Yet the “adopt don’t shop” movement means they are treated like pariahs. The demand is filled by rescues who have no regulation and no consequences for bad behaviour. While there are a few good rescues, most of them are scams. I personally put our local Humane Society in the scam category because I have seen them place dogs in homes that are totally unsuitable. A most recent example is they matched a northern reserve rescue puppy with a new immigrant family to be company to an elderly woman . The dog grew to a high energy Husky/Malamute cross of 120 pounds and was simply unmanageable by the tiny elderly 110 pound woman who adopted him. He literally dragged her down the street so many times she finally gave up trying to walk him. Now anyone who knows dog breeds knows such a breed of dog will probably never be able to be entirely reliable on leash for not pulling. If she had adopted say a toy poodle or a Dachshund it would have been a good match. But there are simply no small dogs available. Breeders in my area for that type of dog have a two to four year waiting period and cost $3000 and up.
Well said. As in anything, you get what you pay for and you have to research the breed. Our English Setters were not cheap but they are fantastic dogs from great lines. Perfectly bred. Beautiful, healthy, smart, sweet and gentle and natural hunters.
And yet there is a constant barrage of “adopt don’t shop” propaganda continuously going on. I took my Golden Retriever to a dog park and was asked three separate times if the dog was a rescue, like it was some sort of badge of honour to be “in the club”. I said no. I bought the dog from a responsible breeder. I was unable to find the right type of dog for me from a rescue since I did not want a dog of unknown background and genetics. All three questioners pulled away from me like I was some kind of monster with an infectious disease.
And they all say “rescue” like they personally pulled them from a blazing inferno.
They’re the frontline workers of the rescue world.
Houston’s study, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, details 17 cases diagnosed in Alberta between 2013 and 2020, including a man who died of surgical complications from the infection.
Before the recent surge in Alberta, only two human cases of the disease had been confirmed in North America — one in Manitoba in 1928 and another in Minnesota in 1977, Houston said.
“This remains a pretty rare disease but we should be paying attention to it,” Houston said.
“It’s been found in Saskatchewan and in B.C., but Alberta has had most of the cases.”
AE is an infection caused by the European strain of a tiny intestinal tapeworm. It’s believed the strain arrived in Canada through imported dogs, Houston said.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/now-a-hot-spot-for-tapeworm-that-can-cause-fatal-tumours-in-humans-alveolar-echinococcosis
Why is North America stupid enough to be importing pets from any part of the world. Don’t we have enough stray dogs and cats to go around. This bleeding heart nonsense about saving common pets from other nations has got to stop. I think the individual or group who brought this animal into the country should be held responsible for any damages done by it.
Actually no we don’t have enough strays to go around. We are actually in the midst of a shortage of dogs, especially puppies.
Only because the various humane/animal rights groups have been trying to spay and neuter every animal that moves. They’ve been actively discouraging any kind of breeding, professional or otherwise. Most places won’t let you adopt unless they are spayed or neutered.
It’s their strategy. Make pets rare, difficult to obtain, and eventually too expensive to have. Many of them don’t believe in the concept of “pets.”
There’s a strain of mental illness that has been around a long time, and it makes people want to go individually and save other people and things from all around the world. It’s a little connected to religious proselytizing and missionary work. It is also a strain which causes us to want to be the “world’s policeman” and run around trying to impose some version of democracy on parts of the planet that are ill-suited for it, and ends up in various foreign adventures, coups, and wars. It currently manifests itself as a desire to let millions of third-world illegal immigrants into our country and provide for them. If you want to thank me for my military service, just vote for people who support putting veterans ahead of illegals.
Apparently, it has jumped the species barrier and now must be applied to various animal species, even though we have no lack of American dogs or cats that need to taken care of.
Americans are really bad at MYOFB.