Endangered Dogs

• Public Health and Safety Issues
• Humane Issues
• The Threat from Animal Rights Extremisim
  • Animal Rights Industry
  • Lies & Corruption
  • Criminal & Terrorist Activities
• Anti-Dog Legislation

 

There’s no doubt that Americans love dogs. We treat our dogs like family members; take them on vacation; buy them the latest toys, provide them with the most advanced diets and health care; and grieve when they leave us. But there’s also no doubt that in order to maintain this vitally important relationship, dog owners face a perfect storm of challenges: economic, demographic, social and political.

The cost of dog ownership increases every year. Urbanization makes keeping and breeding dogs more difficult, not only because of the space needed to keep dogs properly but also because home owners live very close to one another today. Not everyone loves dog equally and some dog owners allow their dogs to create trouble in the neighborhood. Problems caused by nuisance and dangerous dogs as well as irresponsible and criminal dog owners, generate anti-dog sentiment and anti-dog activism, which ultimately lead to anti-dog legislation.

Unfortunately most lawmakers know little about animal issues and that's where a whole new round of problems start. They learn about a particular animal issue as they draft their first and perhaps only dog legislation following a high profile incident like a dog attack, or a hoarding case. At such times, sensational media coverage and guidance from activist groups combine to produce a pernicious result: overreaching laws that unnecessarily restrict the rights and enjoyment of devoted and responsible dog owners, while often leaving the problem owners unaffected. Today's dog laws restrict the number and type of dogs one can have, force owners to neuter their dogs, and restrict, ban or tax dog breeding.

Public Health and Safety Issues

Nearly 40% of US households have one or more dogs, so it's not surprising that animal service agencies are often the busiest departments within local governments. Set up initially to protect the public from free roaming, sick and dangerous dogs, the duties of animal control agencies have expanded from rounding up strays to rabies vaccination and dog licensing programs, to sheltering homeless dogs, mediating neighborhood nuisances, overseeing dog parks, and enforcing an ever growing snare of laws designed to ensure the public's health and safety from problem dogs.

Some public health and safety issues:

• The threat of zoonotic disease such as rabies;
• Dangerous dogs and breed specific legislation;
• The need for off leash dog areas and parks; and
• Neighborhood nuisances

Humane Issues

While municipal agencies work to protect communities from dog-related problems, humane societies and government shelters work together to protect and care for dogs that have beed abused, neglected, abandoned, or orphaned by the death of an owner.

A few prominent humane issues:

• Willful cruelty and neglect
• Substandard dog breeding operations
• Hoarding
• Surplus shelter dogs

 

The Threat from Animal Rights Extremism

Animal Rights Industry

Traditional Animal Welfare vs. the Animal Rights Industry

The animal rights industry would go bankrupt if the donating public was aware of their beliefs and goals:
Animal Rights or Animal Welfare: Which Is It?

Chart showing range of animal-related beliefs and practices from animal abuse to animal liberation:
Overview of Animal Related Philosophies, Organizations, and Some Guidelines for Recognizing Patterns

The values of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal rights organization:
An Example of Animal Rights Values

The values of the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), an animal welfare organization:
An Example of the Animal Welfare Values

Read in their own words what the leaders of the animal rights movement believe and promote:
Quotes from Leaders of Animal Rights Movement

Animal liberation - that is, ending the human use of animals - is the goal of the animal rights movement:
The Animal Rights Agenda

A traditional humane society explains the difference between animal rights vs. animal welfare:
Animal Welfare vs. Animal rights in Vail Valley

Overview of the animal welfare perspective:
The Animal Welfare View

Overview of the animal rights perspective:
The Animal Rights View

The animal rights industry manufactures no product and supplies no service. They make their money by fundraising on the conflict and controversy they stir up:
Brookfield Zoo President Responds to Controversy Generated by Animal Rights Industry

 

Lies & Corruption

H$U$ Watch: Fund-raising on "factory farming", siphoning cash away from real animal issues	READ MORE »
Atlanta Investigation Uncovers Deceptive Humane Society Agenda	READ MORE »
Hurricane Politics Part l: A breed rescuer's view of Katrina	READ MORE »
Hurricane Politics Part ll: A breed rescuer's view of Katrina	READ MORE »
Hurricane Politics Part lll: A breed rescuer's view of Katrina	READ MORE »
7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA	READ MORE »
9 Things You Didn't Know About HSUS	READ MORE »
7 Things You Didn't Know About PCRM	READ MORE »

 

Criminal & Terrorist Activities

Ecoterrorism: Environmental and Animal Rights Militancy in the United States	READ MORE »
Report to Congress on Extent and Effects of Domestic and International Terrorism on Animal Enterprises	READ MORE »
Acts of Animal Rights Terror and Abuse	READ MORE »
UCLA wins permanent injunction against violent animal rights activists	READ MORE »
Animal rights activists say they set Reno fire	READ MORE »
California Arson Fits Domestic Terrorist Pattern!	READ MORE »
FBI Investigation Documents Suggest PETA Connection to Urban Terrorism	READ MORE »
Feds Indict Animal Rights Group, Seven Radicals	READ MORE »
United States of America vs. Rodney Coronado	READ MORE »
NAIA Condemns Violence, Challenges Animal Rights Leaders to Do the Same	READ MORE »
A Second Hearing on Eco-Terrorism Specifically Examining Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty	READ MORE »
Terrorists Release Mink, Destroy Records to Intimidate Fur Farmers and Retailers	READ MORE »
Federal Report Highlights Animal Rights Terrorism	READ MORE »
Testimony of David Martosko, Director of Research, Center for Consumer Freedom Before The United States Senate, Committee on the Environment and Public Works	READ MORE »
Radical AR Site: Bite Back Magazine	READ MORE »

 

Anti-Dog Legislation