Arkansas Blog

There are some pretty poor excuses for humanity, and the individual responsible for this gross abuse is certainly one of them.

Hope the Arkansas Farm Bureau is happy.

Puppy mill owners are farmers, too. I'd be VERY surprised if Blanche isn't working on some type of federal aid for them.

If the price of a 6rd-generation inbred Cocker Spaniel drops below $500 -- the $20 it takes to raise them and the $420 profit required (they use health insurance industry benchmarks) -- then our American Puppy Farmers suffer and we as a nation must spend like drunken pirates to keep that from happening.

Puppy mill owners are farmers, too. I'd be VERY surprised if Blanche isn't working on some type of federal aid for them.

If the price of a 6rd-generation inbred Cocker Spaniel drops below $500 -- the $20 it takes to raise them and the $480 profit required (they use health insurance industry benchmarks) -- then our American Puppy Farmers suffer and we as a nation must spend like drunken pirates to keep that from happening.

As the Razorbabies fall in standings our puppy mills take up the slack. We're headed for Numero Uno
once again.

Their biggest need right now is for towels. I just called the Johnson Co Sheriff's Office and was told to call back at 8 in the morning -- Im sure they would appreciate money too. I dont have much of that, but I dont need all these towels you somehow accumulate.

These heifers will burn in hell. I have a little Yorkie who belonged to the neighbors but fell in love with the Wonder Dog (and vice versa) and she came to live with us. she's always been a little timid unless she wants me, her slave, to do something, and Im wondering now if she might have come from there. Will find out tomorrow.

If you can help, please call the sheriff's office after 8 am at 479 754 2200. You can read the whole story and watch the video that was on the news this evening at the link on my name. But just in case my technical skills preceded me, here it is again:

http://www.4029tv.com/news/21223738/detail.html

tina.......I just now looked at the video you linked to. Almost lost my dinner. Those women should be locked in a feces filled crate with no food or water for 30 days before they are sent to jail.

But what'cha you wanna bet the prosecutor will only charge them with misdemeanors because you know as well as I do he is probably a Farm Bureau member. And of course there probably isn't enough room in the county jail for them. Excuses, Excuses!

Well, part of the problem is treating breeding more as a business than as a program for keeping a breed useful. Jeez, most breeds were used for specific jobs, now they are just getting bred for a few bucks, and people line up to buy their favorite type.

Never spent any real money on a dog. Mine are rescues, or from friends. My dogs are mostly indoor, and I have fenced areas so they are not running about chasing livestock or becoming roadkill.

The other problem is sort of two-in-one. You do not have penalties for dumping, and you do not have enough facilities to take in the strays that are out there. My roomie and I rescued some dumped cats. One of them prego. Great. So I got on the phone to find a no-kill shelter that would be able to take them. Besides the fact that there are fewer here than I we used to have in Nevada, they were all full and not taking any cats in. So now, I have a house full of cats, waiting for a shelter to find homes for them, and I am looking for homes for most of them. I have been moederately successful, though part of my desire is to see they go to good homes, and won't be dupmed in my part of the world, again.

There is just no sense of consequence behind the animal cruelty legislation, so most folks just unconsiously treat animals with cruelty. Funny, how the knee-jerk reaction is to pick one nebulous force, get the mob ready with pitchforks, and refuse to look in the mirror at the real problem. It is people in general, and the lack of outcry on the weakness of the cruelty law.