This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

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Rush Limbaugh, the sea otter rescue revisited;

So what happened was there was an otter. Folks, otters, when they’re in the water are the cutest little things. They’re rodents for the most part. They’re just giant rats, but they’re like squirrels, a tree rat. They look cute as opposed to rats. And the otters are in the water and their two little paws are sticking out and they’re looking up. Everyone loves ’em and they found one just soaked in Exxon Valdez oil.
So they rescued the thing and they took it away to clean it up, and they spent $80,000 cleaning up this one otter. The point of the story was the insurance company had to pay that money, $80,000 to clean up. And the day came where it was a successful project, they’re gonna release the otter back into Prince William Sound. And it was a momentous day for the community. It represented overcoming this ecological disaster. It meant saving an animal from the evil clutches of humanity behaving as it does, destroying the planet every day.
They let kids out of school. They had like high school bands and stuff. It was like a parade and they had the little otter in a cage and they’re rolling it down the street, eventually down to the pier or the dock where they’re gonna release it to great fanfare. And the mayor, everybody is making speeches about what a wonderful thing that had been done here in saving the otter and cleaning it up, it was a symbol of what we could all do when working together, when we can put everything aside and come together and kumbaya and work for one idealistic goal, to save animals from the evils of oil spills.
And they let the kids out of school, first graders, second graders, they’re so happy ’cause the otter is so cute. They even named the otter, I forget what the name was. It came time to release it, they lowered the cage, and after the cage was officially offshore, they opened the door to the cage and the otter swam out and it was sitting there like otters do on its back with its two front paws up looking cute as hell. And before anybody knew what had happened a giant orca came out of nowhere and swallowed the thing, just ate it like sushi, it was otter sushi.

I was reminded of it, that’s all.

29 Replies to “This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society”

  1. I am reminded of all the do-gooders that believe all cultures are equal, that went over to South Korea for the Olympics and were mortified that the Koreans eat dogs. They then set about saving all these dogs from dog farms because well, well…, well…just because we in the West don’t eat dogs therefore other people shouldn’t eat dogs. Moral superiority at its finest.

  2. Mmmm….BACON!
    It’s a Canadian thing.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  5. And then there’s this one-
    Farmer Jones got out of his car and while heading for his friend’s door, noticed a pig with a wooden leg. His curiosity roused, he asked, “Fred, how’d that pig get him a wooden leg?”
    “Well, Michael, that’s a mighty special pig! A while back a wild boar attacked me while I was walking in the woods. That pig there came a runnin’, went after that boar and chased him away. Saved my life!”
    “And the boar tore up his leg?”
    “No he was fine after that. But a bit later we had that fire. Started in the shed up against the barn. Well, that ole pig started squealin’ like he was stuck, woke us up, and ‘fore we got out here, the darn thing had herded the other animals out of the barn and saved ’em all!”
    “So that’s when he hurt his leg, huh, Fred?”
    “No, Michael. He was a might winded, though. When my tractor hit a rock and rolled down the hill into the pond I was knocked clean out. When I came to, that pig had dove into the pond and dragged me out ‘fore I drownded. Sure did save my life.”
    “And that was when he hurt his leg?”
    “Oh no, he was fine. Cleaned him up, too.”
    “OK, Fred. So just tell me. How did he get the wooden leg?”
    “Well”, the farmer tells him,
    “A pig like that, you don’t want to eat all at once!”

  10. Unfortunately the otter story is more urban legend than an actual event. Some versions use seals instead of a sea otter; part of the story rings true, $80,000 was the cost of cleaning and rehabbing per oiled animal (Exxon spent 2.5 billion dollars in cleanup costs). A search comes up with a PDF Exxon Valdez oil spill FAQ paper that provides some good info (from Alaska Resources Library & Information Services via Washington Compost, sorry Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/oil-spill/docs/arlis-exxon-valdez.pdf

  11. Well, there is one bit of truth here; the vaccinations one gives to pets are not the same as the vaccinations one gives to livestock intended for consumption. So this probably wasn’t a bright idea for the pig owners. Whether there’s any actual danger there or not I don’t know.
    By the way, Lance, the reCaptcha says it’s going end-of-life on March 31st. You’re going to have to look at that. (g.co/recaptcha/upgrade)

  12. This is big business at the Vancouver Aquarium, “saving” seals, otters and other marine animals. It’s the ultimate feel good, save the world preening of digooders everywhere.
    Upon a return to health, they are released to the wild, where they can all their cousins, to continue their relentless devastation on the Pacific Salmon. Of course, Orcas are allegedly in danger due to reduced salmon populations, but, that’s gotta be the fault of fishermen, not seals, never. So, next time you see a pack of cute cuddly fat sea lions on log booms, a beach or a rocky islet, be content that they are very protected, demolishing the salmon species
    Cuz they’re cute!

  13. “The reality is, it’s not illegal to kill your own animal in Canada. Someone can take a gun and shoot their dog in the head and as long as the dog dies instantly, unfortunately, there’s no law against that.”
    That’s good to know. In November I had the sad task of putting down my dog, humanely, and burying her at my daughter’s farm. Vet quotes were between $400-500, which is obscene. Most dogs don’t like the vet and are scared there. Our dog just walked around a bit, laid down exhausted, and that was it.
    Earlier this year I received a phone call from animal control asking why I didn’t renew her licence. “Because she’s dead,” I replied. “Oh, we’re so sorry.” A month later I get a taxpayer-funded sympathy card.
    If I ever get another dog, 1) no licence; 2) I’ll take care of end of life issues myself.

  14. “McKee adds potbelly pig meat is not meant to be eaten. “Their meat is not designed for that, their diet would be different,”
    So,the Vietnamese developed these pigs as PETS?! Just like our North American Indians domesticated the wolf to have as a pet.

  15. I remember reading years ago, before PC totally overcame common sense, that most animal shelters in the LA or SF area wouldn’t adopt out dogs to Koreans anymore. Wonder why?

  16. i hate to tell mr “99.7 percent always right” limbaugh, but otters are in the weasel family and are not rodents

  17. The last time I heard the story about the pig with a wooden leg was when Robert Friedland sold Diamondfields to Inco after the Voiseys Bay nickel discovery. He told the story how he first sold 10% to Teck (the leg) so that either Inco or Falconbridge would be worried about the pork going to someone else (he told this story as prospector of the year and later appeared in a magazine issue titled “Mining the suckers”). Friedland sold his company to hungry Inco for $4.3 billion but then soon learned an important lesson. Never sell your pig for shares. Voiseys Bay Nickel Company shares, initially valued at $43 eventually fell to under $10, reminding Friedland that while he had owned a 3 legged pig, Inco owned several 1 legged pigs.
    Friedland would soon move on to Russia and eventually left with the memorable quote that he spent 16 months in Russia and after $60 million in payments, still hadn’t found the right people to bribe.

  18. “…the insurance company complained about the loss, $80,000 vanished in one swallow.”
    All that money spent, they could have at least saved the pelt to recoup a bit before feeding it to the orca.

  20. For the last 5-Years, I have been bombarded on daytime talk radio (my listening during the work day) with repetitive advertisements asking for MY $$$$ to help SAVE sea otters (aka “these remarkable animals”). A weepy voiced man comes on and says that … “sea otters are not thriving … and scientists are not sure whyyyyy”. “It could be overfishing, pollution, loss of healthy kelp beds or any number of these factors”. There are no other radio appeals to pay for any other animal. Not the seals, not starfish, birds, not even whales or dolphins. Nope ONLY the wonderful little furry, “playful”, sea otter. I have looked, and tried to find out what multi-National Eco-NGO is behind these ads. I can’t get an answer. They don’t identify who they REALLY are in these advertisements … other than “save the otters” or some such rubbish. A LOT of $$$ is being spent on these ads (or a LOT of FREE public service airtime). For what? Sea otters? The whole ad campaign is really suspicious. I would love to know who or what is behind it … and see the full financials for this “sea otter” charity.

  21. The business with Koreans and dogs reminds me of this story.
    As a result of the Vietnam war, they resettled some Hmongs in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, in the city of San Gabriel, I believe, but I am not certain. Well, it so happens that at the time the city was having a lot of problems with packs of feral dogs. It seems efforts at trapping them were none too successful. Curiously, the problem was substantially diminished coincident with the settlement of the Hmongs.
    Someone in city hall finally figured out the two events may have had a causal effect. What the city should have done was issue a certificate of appreciation to the Hmongs for voluntarily solving the city’s problem, at no cost to the city. What did they do instead? They passed an ordinance making it illegal to eat dogs in the city. What sense does that make? These are not people’s pets that the Hmongs stole. These were feral dogs that the city itself was trying to (but not too successful at) trap and destroy.

  25. So, we could have Hmongs or Koreans solve the surplus dog problem a lot more cheaply for the taxpayer than all the money that goes to the S.P.C.A. …
    As for being harassed by animal rights activists, neither Koreans, nor Hmongs are pacifists.

  28. important lesson to be learned, don’t keep farm animals as pets because eventually we all get hungry and instinct takes over, yum….yum!

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