[ICKC] The Last dog

[RITABIDDLE at aol.com]

Hi, all,
 
This will bring tears to your eyes and fear to your heart, because if we  
don't wake up and smell the coffee, this is just around the corner.
 
rita
 
PLEASE read this and think about what is going on
right now.  Sandi

> Subject: [petlaw] The last dog
> 
> > The Last  Dog
> By Lidia Seebeck
> 
> The report came in slowly from  Muddy Gap, Wyoming.
> Someone had spotted a dog
> sniffing around  his house in the bitter cold of a
> Wyoming winter. The
> person was  quite sure that this was a dog, not a
> wolf.
> No, of course  he
> didnt secretly own the dog. That had been banned
> long
>  ago, of course. This
> dog seemed to appear out of the blizzard itself  one
> cold night, scaring his
> daughter silly.
> 
> Of  course the animal was transferred to the
> authorities. It was  determined
> that yes, indeed, this person really had found a
>  dog,
> and only its somewhat
> feral behavior kept the land-dweller  from being
> prosecuted for animal
> slavery. This dog had clearly  been in the wild for
> some time. Everyone knew
> that for the last  five years only the police, search
> and rescue, and a few
>  charitable hospices and the like were allowed dogs,
> and the last one,  a
> Yorkshire Terrier, had died last year. There was a
> funeral and  everything,
> and many experts from the animal rights movement
>  hailed the end of canine
> slavery.
> 
> ***
> It hadn't  always been that way, of course. Long ago,
> around the  millennium,
> people often owned and bred dogs, and sometimes they
>  ended up in shelters.
> Unfortunately the dogs that ended up in  shelters
> were
> sometimes euthanized.
> Well, some people  didnt like this. So they began to
> change the laws. First
> they  banned dogs that were considered dangerous like
> Bull Terriers  and
> Dobermans. Unfortunately sometimes docile breeds got
> mixed  up into this,
> like the Greyhound, who was eventually maligned  due
> to
> the muzzle it once
> wore while racing around a  track. Predictably, the
> whole practice of racing
> the dogs was  banned as being too cruel and the dogs
> were executed wholesale,
>  being unadoptable due to the laws. Greyhound lovers,
> or Greyters,  were
> broken hearted and tried to tell the authorities
>  that
> the Greyhounds were
> good dogs, gentle with kids and loving  even to
> strangers. But they were soon
> locked up, having been  prosecuted for animal
> slavery.
> 
> Another one of the  milestones had to have been the
> passage of Californias
> Healthy  Pets Law, which mandated spaying and
> neutering
> for nearly all  dogs
> except the most pampered of show animals. People
>  were
> outraged but the law
> passed anyways, in an effort to reduce  the shelter
> population. Many
> Californians were aghast that  people were doing
> backyard breeding, and
> others were just mad  that animals were still getting
> killed. Eventually this
> became  the American Spay and Neuter Law, which
> mandated spaying and
>  neutering for all animals not involved in police or
> search and rescue.  The
> next ten years or so saw the canine population
>  growing
> old, and more breeds
> being executed wholesale as they  were deemed
> dangerous. Too late, people
> realized that very  docile breeds were getting
> declared, and they began to
> question  the wisdom of breed-specific legislation.
> By
> then even the  young
> dogs were eight or so, and many were rapidly dying
>  of
> old age, at least in
> the larger breeds,
> 
>  ***
> The dog in Muddy Gap had been transferred to a
> facility in  Laramie where a
> police dog academy still stood, unused. The dog  was
> soon deluged with
> donations from around the country of old  kibble and
> soft blankets that had
> cushioned their canine  seniors. Animal lovers came
> in
> from around the
> country  to the chance to see and cuddle with the
> dog.
> Lucky soon  responded
> to the attention, which everyone insisted on.
> 
>  This dog was clearly quite old, having a very gray
> muzzle and  face.
> Surprisingly, this dog was also clearly part
>  Mastiff,
> which was one of the
> breeds to be Declared rather early  on. Some dogs had
> been preserved as
> police dogs, however, so  this dog was probably the
> offspring of one of those
> dogs. It had  numerous abrasions and bite marks, and
> it
> was theorized  that
> the dog had probably had to fight and hunt a lot to
> stay  alive. No one
> really knew of course.
> 
> ***
> As the  War on Dogs continued, canine slavery became
> quite the hot topic,  and
> there were two distinct camps of dog owners and
>  former
> owners. The first was
> that dogs were nice to have around,  but utterly
> miserable and it was good
> that they had mostly been  euthanized. The other camp
> believed something
> quite different,  They honestly believed that dogs
> were
> pack animals and
>  honestly didn't mind the direction of a dog owner,
> rather relishing  the
> leadership the owner provided and basking in the
>  love
> the owner gave. As
> such they felt that canine ownership  (and they were
> very unhappy with the
> term "slavery") was an  ethical thing, and well worth
> the trouble of
> pursuing.  Unfortunately this viewpoint was rapidly
> becoming illegal, and
>  there were numerous people in prison for canine
> slavery. There were also  a
> number of people who lived in the back of beyond who
> were  breeding dogs
> beyond the reach of authorities. In the days when
>  breeding was more common,
> these people such as coyote-dog breeders,  were
> relatively few and far
> between. The shift in laws had  increased their
> numbers, and now even
> responsible breeders were  hiding out, hoping to save
> the last of their lines
> until the  political storm broke. While some of these
> people persisted for  a
> few years, it was rather easy to find a kennel full
> of
>  barking dogs when all
> the other registered dogs were gone. Soon even  these
> people fell to the
> insatiable sweep of the War on  Dogs.
> 
> The number of dogs in America had been rapidly
>  dropping and was now at
> 5,673. Mostly these were police and rescue  dogs,
> with
> a precious 10 or 15
> dogs who served as roving  servants, transported from
> hospice to nursing home
> to hospital  to comfort the ailing. Still, the
> occasional dog would show up
>  and be pressed into one of the allowed professions,
> or
> else  euthanized. (For
> some reason, euthanasia was now viewed as the
>  greatest
> gift ever, when it
> was euthanasia which had started the  legal avalanche
> in the first place)
> 
> ***
> Lucky  was not doing well in captivity. He had
> suddenly
> developed a  fever,
> and there was no legal veterinarian anymore, since
> they  had all been out of
> practice for years. Former vets clustered around  him
> and tried to remember
> what to do. They gave him all manner  of potions and
> antibiotics but these
> only gave Lucky a really  nasty attitude and equally
> nasty gastric
> disturbances. With  every hour it was clear the poor
> old fella was dying. 
> 
>  The nation turned in their televisions to watch,
> hourly updates, and  the
> debate on dog keeping began to be opened once again.
> People  reminisced about
> their dogs when they were young, and remembered  good
> times at the dog beach
> or at the dog park. The talk of  allowing dogs once
> again raged just as badly
> as poor Luckys  fever. His health declined quickly,
> and
> within a few days  he
> was on the brink of death. Some news stations had
> completely  stopped
> reporting on anything other than Lucky and the dog
>  debate.. As his last
> sputtering breaths were captured live and
>  transmitted
> around the world,
> people started to call their  Legislators, asking to
> please, please not let
> Lucky be the last  American dog. Unfortunately,
> things
> had gone too far,  this
> was too little and too late.
> 
> Lucky truly became  the last American dog.. 
> 
> 
> 
> " We have done the  Impossible and that makes us
> Mighty!"
> Capt Mal Reynolds
>  

Ecclesiastes 9:4 "For him that is joined to all living there is hope:  for a 
living dog is better than a dead lion." 
Sandi Coy RN, 
AADR  Legislative Analyst
Chairwoman Responsible Dog Owners Eastern States  
Responsible Dog Owners of KY 
President KY AADR Club 
1116 Peppers  RD
Hodgenville KY 42748 
270-358-5729 
We need Responsible Dog laws  that punish the Irresponsible owner and not any 
 
breed.

__________________________________________________________
 
 



************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://inghamcountykc.org/pipermail/members_inghamcountykc.org/attachments/20070504/b5a69277/attachment.htm>