I thought the border was closed to “non-essential” travel.
Two people, driving a rented box truck carrying 48 dogs, died in a crash in Eastern Idaho Friday. Sadly, 14 of those dogs also died in the crash.
Idaho State Police says the man and woman were from Arizona and were driving the truck for a nonprofit animal rescue. The dogs were being taken to Canada for adoption when the truck crashed on Interstate 15, west of Shelley.
48 dogs can be trafficked across multiple states in an un-ventilated box van into Canada to profit from the exploding “pandemic puppy” market, but if you need to cross into North Dakota as an individual to put your client’s show dog on a flight home to California — you’re out of luck.
Some animals are more equal than others.
… and it’s not as though Canadians don’t know how to make puppies, all they have to do is watch our PM.
Well, don’t blame the dogs, they’ve been kidnapped by “rescuers”.
One of them lives up the road, with 9 “rescues”. She complains about everyone else’s dogs, but hers are without sin…….biggest hypocrite in the world.
It’s a mental illness, akin to vegetarianism.
laws are for compliant humans.
Kate, A suggestion that might work to get your client’s dog across the border into the U.S..
Neither Canada nor the U.S. is blocking the entry of their own citizens. If you/your client can find a ‘dual citizen’ (with a valid passport for each country) to drive the dog across to a U.S. airport, America will let their citizen in and Canada will let their citizen in. I don’t know about whether or not ANY dogs are allowed over the border, but I imagine that with the usual vet’s health certificate for the dog it would be allowed to cross. Good luck.
Its about residency. I am a dual citizen with my residence in US. I am deemed non essential and am blocked at border. I still pay taxes on my Cdn property.
I assume we need these dogs because they do the work that Canadian dogs won’t do.
So, they’re classed as Temporary Foreign Dogs ?
These rescues are a real issue. They are run by people who don’t follow any of the rules and regulations about safe movement of animals because they are not considered animal retailers though in effect they are, since they don’t give the dogs away. They charge “adoption” fees often more than buying a dog from a breeder. Many of them are actually using donations to buy dogs directly from puppy mills and then reselling at a large profit. And then there is the do gooder rescuers who think all dogs should be saved no matter what their history who move vicious dogs with a history of biting across state lines and international boundaries in order to lose the reports on the animals’ viciousness and unreliability. They dump dangerous dogs on unsuspecting adopters who don’t know any better. Other rescues have deals with the local shelters and they swoop in and “rescue” any dog suitable for reselling before the public even sees them and then they charge far higher than the shelter in adoption fees. These rescues are totally unregulated. This means dogs are transported in highly questionable circumstances, often in cruel ways but because they are nonprofit rescues they are not subject to any inspections or regulation. 48 dogs in a truck? 14 dogs now dead and how many other injured nor lost? It’s safer for the dog to buy from a breeder. At least that way you know there are regulations and standards. I would never ever get a dog from a “rescue”. Get a dog from a local breeder you know is not involved in this garbage.
These rescues are also constantly lobbying local governments to make it illegal to breed dogs and try to force all pet shops to only sell dogs from their “rescues” in order to remove competition. Adopt don’t shop used to be a good idea but with all these retail rescues out there, “Adopt Don’t Shop” is now a form of removing your competition from the market. It’s all outlined in “The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers” by Kim Kavin and I highly recommend reading her book before buying a dog.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
Is this any different than the corruption we see in the Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Universities, UN, and political parties? If we are lucky, they are still now a non-profit business, and haven’t devolved into a corrupt racket that doesn’t deliver its ostensible product (e.g. SJW and Grievance Studies in Higher Education).
As Bill Clinton of the Clinton Family Foundation says,
“We are doing well by doing good. ”
The key is finding the naive, idealistic rubes to fill the grunt worker slots while your non profit management position pays you a wonderful salary and lavish benefit package.
Some animals are more equal than others? Just spitballin’.
Re: Closed borders. Saw a car w/ a Montana plate pull into Crappy Tire in Lethbridge yesterday. Had us scratching our heads.
If you want to get my blood up start telling me about rescue dogs. It’s a scam run by scammers.
Nobody has a clue about the history or the dog they are getting. Just 2 days ago the NP ran a story of a woman killed by her rescue dog. Dog disease previously unheard of in NA has been introduced by these rescue dog charlatans.
I’ve owned hunting dogs for decades, lots of them. I wouldn’t consider a rescue for a second. I have never raised a litter of pups even from my own bitches.
The dog industry was screwed up enough already without the introduction of the rescue game.
There, got that off my chest.
” . . . driving the truck for a nonprofit animal rescue.”
Anytime someone says to me, “But it’s a non-profit organization . . .” I just point out to them, “So is the NFL”.
How can you bring 48 dogs over the border but god forbid you might have a Bananna.
It staggers belief that “animal rescue” pets are allowed across the border in order to be sold. This is a recipe for puppy mills.
The name of the town is Shelby, not Shelley. Used to go there lots in years gone by.
Shelby is in Montana, on I-15, not far south of the Canadian border. Shelley is a small town near Idaho Falls, which is also on I-15, but over 100 miles south of the southern border of Montana.
My bad. I-15 is just west of Shelby. One day I may break my neck jumping to conclusions.
Pretty much any reserve in Canuhduh can gladly fill your desire for a wandering, loose, free range dog.
Even some of the reserves are complaining about “Rescuers”. Many of their pets have been stolen by so called rescuers who say were strays. Once the rescuers get them, they never get their dogs back. They are transported to the big cities and sold to city people. I personally know of three cases where a family pet was “rescued” from local indigenous people, one family not even living on the reserve. I know of another case where a family on a reserve had puppies for sale and rescuers arrived to say selling the dogs was illegal, they “seized the dogs” and drove away with them and then turned around and had them “adopted” into “furever homes” in the city within days for hundreds of dollars each.
Link to one such story from 2014: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/no-more-rescuing-dogs-from-reserves-255965091.html
rez-koo: old Sarcee word meaning “no kids”.
Report flatly states that two people died and then laments the deaths of the animals.
While I empathize with and fully understand objections to what these folks were doing, I think valuing the lives of animals over people is inappropriate leftist sentiment.
Take some time and look over the two photographs in the article. Consider the damage on the vehicle, directional travel, condition of guardrails, etc. and tell me how this accident happened.
Don’t participate in judgemental devaluation of humanity coupled with cries for government regulation.