breed rescue Archive

  • Killing for a Myth

    Killing for a Myth

    reprint from 2/24/2008 In my recent correspondence with a pet rescuer who has yet to embrace No-Kill, I saw firsthand the phenomenon that Nathan Winograd discusses in Redemption: that we hear so much about pet overpopulation, but has anyone seen it? The e-mailer wrote: [Shelters]...

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  • A Pup-e-Mill

    A Pup-e-Mill

    If you want to see what a “Pup-e-Mill” looks like, here’s a great example of one that has just been exposed in Montana. First, let’s look at the breeder’s website: Well, someone has spent some time with photoshop and made a nice logo. And it...

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  • Only Five Percent

    Only Five Percent

    Here at the beginning of the twenty-first century, over fifty million household dogs live in the United States. Europe houses an estimated thirty-five million. … If I add Canadian dogs to these populations, I get one hundred million household dogs in the industrial West. In...

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  • Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Stella on Snow There’s plenty of elitism in the dog world and where you get your dog is as much of a potential status symbol as the breed you’ve chosen or any titles that might appear on a pedigree. Much of the cachet built in...

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  • The Myth of Christmas Puppies

    The Myth of Christmas Puppies

    It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so it’s time to think about Christmas! And, like clockwork, the dogblogosphere is again abuzz about “Christmas Puppies.” Much ado about next to nothing, I say. Caveat does a nice recap of several other dog blogs covering the issue with...

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  • Killing for a Myth

    Killing for a Myth

    In my recent correspondence with a pet rescuer who has yet to embrace No-Kill, I saw firsthand the phenomenon that Nathan Winograd discusses in Redemption: that we hear so much about pet overpopulation, but has anyone seen it? The e-mailer wrote: [Shelters] only kill the...

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  • Parroting PeTA

    Parroting PeTA

    Here’s an e-mail I got today from a horse and dog rescuer (Help A Horse Organization) who is rather miffed at my “Buy From a Breeder” rhetoric. I think she missed the point. She also failed to appreciate the elements of my post that were...

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  • Buy From A Breeder

    Buy From A Breeder

    The New York Times is a little slow on the uptake and is just now reporting on PeTA’s disgraceful advertising campaign featuring dead dogs in body bags and the message that if you buy your dog you are directly killing a dog in a shelter....

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  • The Myth of Christmas Puppies

    The Myth of Christmas Puppies

    The second most popular Christmas meme in the dogblogosphere was discussing Saturnalia and the pagan roots of the holiday celebration; I wrote one, Terrierman wrote two, and Christie kicked off the trend last year with hers. The common message was to expose the weak foundations...

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  • BC/R&F: Ellen DeGeneres

    BC/R&F: Ellen DeGeneres

    For the inaugural Border Collies of the Rich and Famous, I’d like to start with perhaps the most infamous and disastrous (and thankfully former) Border Collie owner: Ellen DeGeneresThere are many reasons to dislike Ellen DeGeneres, and most people do so for all of the...

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