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Property Rights

One of the problems that we face in our self-righteous world is making moral decisions that exceed the confines of the law.  Recently, a veterinarian was convicted of theft in Michigan for refusing to return a dog to a homeless man.  The veterinarian felt that the local animal welfare organizations would not do proper justice in investigating the welfare of the dog.  She further went on to exclaim that it was her ethical duty as a veterinarian to take the dog, and besides, the dog wasn’t licensed.  Okay, that was pretty lame.

The veterinarian’s “act of kindness” backfired when a Grand Rapids jury convicted the veterinarian of theft.  Her defense attorney spoke to the Associated Press that, “What is right and what is legal are not always the same thing.”  If she gets any jail time, she will get an opportunity to review her actions and determine if “being right” was worth it.

Animals are considered personal property.  By law, only animal control organizations have the authority to take legal possession of a person’s pet, following a practice of exercising due process.

In a perfect world, the court could order the veterinarian to return the dog.  But, it turns out for whatever reason, this “humane act” resulted in the euthanasia of the dog.  This kind of weakens the resolve that the veterinarian was actually performing an act of kindness.  We are all left wondering if the dog was better off with the involvement of the veterinarian.

The feelings that you have about this should feel oddly familiar; we experience this every day.  We have front row seats to some of the worst pet owners in our communities.  Yet the property status of a pet is no different than a person owning a car.  And yet, if you are doing your job right, you can prove to your community that there is a difference:  you are much less likely to go to jail for mistreating your car.  The veterinarian should have trusted her local animal welfare professionals.

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Police Officer Shoots Dog

I have spent a career working with Police Officers and dogs.  Police Officers tend to overreact to dogs acting aggressively.  Police Officers seem to have some notion of self-preservation.  Unlike Animal Control Officers, Police Officers don’t get a lot of practice in being attacked by dogs.  As such, they perceive a doggy threat much higher than an Animal Control Officer would.

Police Officers work with a continuum of threat assessment, but that assessment protocol doesn’t work well with animals.  In a perfect world, an officer might first consider a nonlethal means of handling dogs.  They have little or no experience in testing pepper spray or a taser on dogs, so it makes sense that their gun might be the first tool they grab.  They know, from experience, that their gun is an effective tool.

In that same perfect world, dog owners would be smart enough to reel their dog in (or even place it on a leash) when an officer approaches.  Dogs die because officers don’t want to be bitten.  Dogs die due to stupid owners.

If I were to make the world a better place, I would let the officer take a small bite and then sue the owner for a million dollars.  The dog would live, and the officer could take a nice fishing trip.  And, who knows, maybe the owner learns something in the process.  I know, that’s a long shot.

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Pet Limit Laws

As with most laws, pet limit laws exist because some people lack the common sense to understand their limits. This blog is the result of a seizure of 97 dogs in our community. The notion of pet limit laws is the belief that as the number of animals that increase at a residence, the issue of animal-related complaints rise. Many communities enact pet limits in preparation for the idiots who come into their communities lacking the necessary common sense needed when people group together.

Pet limit laws can be found either in the local zoning code or in the animal control ordinance. Most limit the number of pets to less than a half dozen (over six months of age). As an incentive, many communities allow people to own more sterile pets than fertile ones. The idea is that people who spay/neuter their pets are generally more responsible than those who don’t.  Exemptions are often given to people who are fostering animals for the animal shelter.

A large number of pets at a specific residence increases noise related to pets and odor related to pet waste. Given these issues, it is understandable that people make animals one of the issues that are most reported to city/county councils. The worst part of people owning too many pets is when the government has to step in. Most public animal shelters are unprepared for a large influx of animals. So it comes down to one person’s lack of common sense creates a crisis for those who have to deal with it.

If I sound a little harsh here, it is because I have dealt with my share of pet seizures resulting from stupid people owning pets. From a professional perspective, there are a lot more stupid people in our communities than you could ever imagine; unless you are living next to one, and then you know.

It will be interesting to see how our community deals with this latest seizure. Will they address pet limits due to a single idiot, or do we need a few more incidents of our shelters being overburdened?

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DEI in Animal Shelters

Animal Shelters were practicing DEI far longer than it being accepted in business. If you look at the position statements of most national animal welfare organizations, you’ll find a statement of breeds. These statements began to materialize when communities were banning breeds that posed a risk to public safety.

We began to see statements claiming that “There are no bad dogs.” Or, “All breeds are the same.” I cannot help but feel that the people who wrote these position statements never worked in the business of animal control. Not all dogs are bad, but the ones that are can inflict varying amounts of injury. Some breeds, although aggressive by nature, can only inflict minimal injury. Some breeds have the propensity to inflict larger amounts of injury or even death. It is this last group of animals that communities wanted to ban.

Breed bans began with pitbulls because that is the breed that has always attracted the worst owners. It is tragic that you have to ban a breed based on who owns the breed but “it is what it is.” The early pitbull owners were attempting to breed their dogs for aggression and many of those deleterious genes remain in the pitbull’s gene pool.

Due to reputation, pitbulls began to accumulate in animal shelters and quickly overwhelmed the shelters. It was not uncommon to see pitbulls making up over 70% of the dogs in shelters. It became difficult to place pitbulls and shelters felt that the only way to get a pitbull adopted is to lie about the dog. It problem became so great in Virginia that laws had to be created to insure that animal shelters were not misrepresenting their dogs. No longer could an animal shelter lie about the aggressive behaviors that previous owners experienced with the dogs that they had surrendered.

The battle over adoptions and public safety became a war zone. While working in Virginia, I ended my career by deciding public safety was more important than adoption numbers. When dogs (pitbulls) became aggressive towards staff, the best (only) solution was to end the dog’s life. Keeping the public safe was more important that keeping your adoption numbers up. If you are going to lose your job, do it protecting your own species.

Before the laws were created in Virginia, a prospective dog owner would be safer getting a dog from a newspaper ad that getting the dog from an animal shelter. The ad would allow the prospective owner to have a sit down with the previous owner to get a first-hand account of the dog’s behavior.

I’d like to report that animal shelters are honest when dealing with prospective pet owners. The problem is that pitbulls still make up the greatest percentage of dogs in our shelters and philosophies have changed to eliminate euthanasia. The longer that a pet remains in an animal shelter the greater the chances that a dog will become aggressive. If euthanasia isn’t an option, then lying to prospective pet owners may be the only option that animal shelter staff have in moving the dog out of their shelter.  Keep in mind that their statistics are often more important than your safety.

I have preached over and over about integrity, but lying about a dog’s previous behavior is where animal shelters first begin to strip away their integrity. Once the first layer of integrity is removed, the remaining ones are easier to strip away. As such, if someone is thinking of adopting an animal from an animal shelter, it might be a good idea to take along an animal control officer before committing to a particular animal.  If one isn’t available, ask to see the intake paperwork (anything that might have been offered by the previous owner).

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Woke Rebellion

If the Sydney Sweeney affair taught us anything, it is that she has great jeans and that the Woke have bad genes.  It is unclear if American Eagle was preaching anti-wokeism, but if “go woke, go broke” has any say, their stock shot up.

In response to the Wokes’ outrage, “normal people” are rushing to American Eagle to buy jeans.  If it isn’t clear to the Woke, our message is that we are done with your crap.  We have stopped listening to those who pull the race or natzi cards because we don’t recognize you in our gene pool.  Wokeness is a genetic disorder, and that is how we see you.

So why is Ms. Sweeney such a big deal?  For the past several years, we have had advertisers using people whose gender we can’t discern.  All of a sudden we witness a real woman, in all of her glory, selling jeans.  We are holding onto hope that the world might, in some way, return to normal.  It doesn’t hurt the conservatives when everyone realizes that conservative women don’t look like freaks. They are just as God created them.

It just comes down to realizing that there is no superior race; just a bunch of inferior people that make the rest of us look superior.  We are all equal at birth, and then we begin cultivating our good and bad genes.  Woke riots exhibit our worst genes.  Those who want to burn down their cities are, quite honestly, inferior people.  Those people come in all colors.

We have all expressed inferior behaviors in our lives.  God calls that sin.  He has provided a way out: confess your sins, believe in Christ, and walk anew.  You can have a new life.  Call on Him.

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To the Rescue.

I read a post this morning that people wake up in the mornings, gender confused, not knowing if they are male or female. I have to admit that I, too, have awakened and found myself feeling off. After years of being inside my body, I have recognized this feeling as a need for coffee. It has always worked for me.

There is a large segment of society that finds that coffee doesn’t help and may worsen their gender fluidity. For the first time in our profession, those of us in animal welfare can put down our ketch-poles and help society in a new way. The world needs us, and our years of experience in sexing animals will be critical in helping society.

People say that gender identity is complicated. It isn’t; just look under the hood. If you wake up in the morning feeling confused, just look under the hood. If you were born with a penis, you are a male. It is just that simple.  Even if you wish it away, you just end up being a man without a penis… I guess that’s where the problem lies.  If you have body parts added or removed at some point, morning confusion may occur.

One day, people will look back upon this time in our history and wonder if solar flares were adversely affecting the electric impulses in our brains that made us think that a person with a penis could ever be a woman. If you cannot define what a woman is, my advice to you is to stay out of the sun.

Besides being backed by the Bible, I think of young girls forced to shower with foux girls is a crime.  Women should be able to pick the time they experience penises and not have them forced upon them.  But, for some odd reason, the Woke seem to think the desire to dangle your penis in a woman’s shower exceeds the rights of the women to be free from such sexual harassment.

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What’s With Israel?

If you ever bothered to read your Bible, you’d see that the Jews are God’s people. It shows you how much love God can have for such a rebellious lot. They don’t even believe in His Son, Jesus! If His love is so great for these people, we can be secure in His love for the rest of us. So it comes down to this: you are either on God’s side, or you are on the wrong side. You will not like being on the wrong side of God on Judgment Day.

So, if you are a part of the world that wants to destroy Israel, you are going to Hell. Yes, literally! If you don’t believe in Hell, you’ll get a chance to change your mind when you get off the bus. God is not going to allow His people to be destroyed. The sooner that these world groups understand that, the better their survival will be.

The reason that the United States side with Israel is that, for the most part, we are a Christian Nation. We’ve read our Bibles. Although we are not mentioned in the Bible, we know that it clearly says that those who help the Jews will be rewarded. Those who oppose the Jews will find a bus ticket waiting for them. Look, I don’t make up the rules, and far be it from me to argue with God. He has always watched over me, and I understand Him watching over the rest of His people.

Israel has been fighting a land grab by their neighbors. God goes back a long way… from the beginning of time. Early on, God promised the Jews land. Lots and lots of land. Israel has not demanded that those nations get off their “God Given Land.” They just want to be left alone. Of course, that isn’t going to happen, and those folks are going to continue attacking Israel. Eventually, they will bring on Armageddon. You’ve seen the movies; it isn’t pretty. For years, we have tried to figure out Bible prophecy; each year it becomes clearer.

There is only one hope, one way, one truth, and damn it isn’t difficult. Get on the right team!

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Am I getting Racist?

Ever since the BLM riots, I have worried that my attitude towards blacks has gotten worse. I spent much time trying to walk myself back from this racist abyss. And then I found bloggers on YouTube who shared my sentiments. They were all black, but they too were feeling Black Fatigue.

These black bloggers were feeling the same way about other blacks, but being non-white, they were free to talk about it. They, too, want to avoid what they call “ghetto blacks.” They helped me realize that I was no more racist than they were. I found kindred spirits. Everything that I was feeling about ghetto blacks was also being felt by blacks. It wasn’t a racial thing at all, it is just a feeling that good people have towards bad people; skin color plays no part. But to be fair, we have plenty of ghetto whites as well.

So, if BLM turned you into a racist, many blacks feel the same way that you do. BLM just widened the gulf between blacks and other races, including their own.

If you have been watching the news, you’ll see that the ICE protesters are following the BLM script: protest for a few hours, light a few cars on fire, then loot a few stores before heading home. And that is what makes, as the media says, a “mostly peaceful protest.” Just as BLM opened my eyes to ghetto blacks, the ICE protests have opened my eyes to the threat of illegal immigrants; it is funny how looting does that to a person.

If your cause is centered around inflicting harm on a community, you’ll never get many of us to see your cause of being anything other than domestic terrorism.

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How Our Intelligence Affects Who We Are

We are experiencing a time in our history in which our great intelligence is making us stupid. God has witnessed this many times with His creation, and the Bible repeatedly reminds us that the wisdom of man is foolishness to God. We see this playing out every day in our society.

A large segment of our society has gotten so intelligent that their politicians are too smart for their constituents, too smart for the Constitution, and too smart for God. This is causing a constitutional crisis.

These “smart people” are demanding that judicial immunity be extended to allow judges to break the law and obstruct the Office of our President. They have become so smart that they prefer to protect criminal migrants over their constituents.

These are the same intelligent ones who claim there are an unlimited number of genders. When even lower lifeforms seem to know better.  Let’s put it bluntly: if you think that it is fair for men to play in women’s sports, you must have a brain aneurysm larger than your brain.

Recently, one of them told me that voting for Trump would cause a Christian to lose his salvation. This guy says he’s a devout atheist, so he isn’t someone I would take spiritual advice from. So? How do we explain this neural malfunction? Over-vaccination for COVID? Solar flares? Satan? Or, have they lost their fear of God?

Do not allow your great intelligence to make you stupid.