If you want to keep paradoxically making the market more ripe for backyard breeders by spreading misinformation by all means, keep doing it.
But people working to educate prospective dog owners to be responsible and prevent dogs from being abused to begin with will always be on the right side of history.
Dear Wikipedia, you are welcome here in Canada!
Correct, there are enough dogs, except once the shelters are empty, people have no choice but to go to breeders. We’ve seen this happen before. That statement does not exemplify for lawmakers how to regulate an industry that is permanently a part of our society. It doesn’t tell buyers to consider their plans to get a dog seriously. It doesn’t encourage shelters and breeders to engage in ethical placement of their dogs.
An increase in adoption from shelters is something we can all agree on, but a decrease on intake to shelters is where the homeless dog problem is taken on directly. Looking at half the equation only helps dogs half of the way. Dogs deserve the best lives and that includes preventing them from ending up in a shelter to begin with.
This is about preventing dogs from going into shelters. Surely you don’t want more dogs in shelters, yet this rhetoric ignores all of that.
There hasn’t been a single time that blanket generalizations and slurs against a demographic of people have ever led to positive social change. Given that everyone in this thread is a proponent for the ethical treatment of animals, let’s have a civilized conversation free of disgraceful attacks, please.
This minor change in wording quantitatively teaches people what a responsible breeder is.
Enter “adopt and shop responsibly” into any search engine, and it will list articles that educate buyers to try to adopt if they can. If they won’t, it will list the many standards that help them find a responsible breeder.
A responsible breeder will: · Raise the puppies in a house, not a facility · Begin the socialization process and habituate them to people and children · Won’t overbreed the Dam. · Raise them until at least 8 weeks of age. · Vet checks the puppies and provides records of all vaccinations, deworming, and veterinary attention the puppy has received. · Maintain a clean and safe environment with proper food and water · Honesty and transparency will let you meet the Dam and the puppies where they are raised. · Ethical placement, vetting their clients, ensures the dog enters a home appropriate for their temperament and breed. · Contracts require clients to agree to spay or neuter the dog and return it to the breeder, not a shelter. · Genetic and health testing will ensure that the Dam and Sire don’t have genes that combine to create known genetic diseases and conditions. · Following best practice breed standards for health and ensuring the Sire and Dam are temperamentally suited for breeding the kinds of dogs they offer. · Warranties for the dog’s health up to 5 years for things like eyes, joints and common hereditary genetic issues.
Nobody can argue that the above standards are worse than those of a backyard breeder, yet this is how people behave.
If I apply the same logic that “if all dogs are adopted, there will no longer be dogs in shelters,” then “if all dogs come from responsible breeders that never relinquish dogs to shelters, there will no longer be dogs in shelters.” The black-and-white thinking that adopted dogs and responsibly bred dogs are somehow mutually exclusive is not true and is harmful.
People WILL keep getting dogs from breeders until the end of time. Making sure those people act responsibly and only ever seek an ethical breeder is called harm reduction, and it keeps dogs out of shelters every day. Missing opportunities to educate people on seeking ethical breeders will funnel those people to backyard breeders instead. Holding breeders accountable to the above standards is much more effective than calling them bastards. Dogs deserve better than half measures and hate. They deserve to be treated with respect at all points in their life, and in every aspect of our society.
Breeders will always exist, and so will their customers, as they always have. If it’s only financially viable for breeders to be held accountable for their actions, that’s another way of keeping dogs out of shelters. I’d rather live in a world where breeders always adopt their dogs back, always ensure they find a home instead of overwhelming shelters, charities and communities work together to make owning dogs more affordable so they don’t get relinquished during financial stress, AND shelters exist. In a world where shelters are the only hope for dogs, dogs are left behind.
Nobody posted any slogans until you did. It’s perfectly reasonable to reply with civilized discourse.
Unilaterally proposing a single solution to a complex societal issue while insulting dog owners is problematic and does more harm than good. “Adopt and shop responsibly” doesn’t offend anyone who bought a dog and might make someone ask, “What does it mean to shop responsibly?” instead of buying a dog on Craigslist. Dogs deserve more respect from people, which requires treating all people with more respect.
“Adopt, don’t shop” can lead to more animal abuse. It doesn’t teach anyone about what a responsible breeder is if they are determined to buy, nor does it educate people on how to find a responsible shelter. Responsible breeders ensure none of the dogs go to a shelter. The message is disrespectful to responsible breeders and owners, and does nothing but alienate people who have had a dog or work to improve their health.
More details: https://humanwords.cc/notes/a6wcmo9ct59f01eu
Please say Adopt and shop responsibly instead.
This is so interesting. I’d like to see more intelligent, well-researched perspectives on exploring what is really behind the mental health epidemic and what the actual impact of social media is.
I feel like some part of me knew this, but I acknowledge that I have the urge to think, “Kids with mental health issues are on social media; therefore, taking away social media will solve mental health problems.”
These narratives are seductive because you can blame your or your kid’s problems on social media instead of looking inwards and doing the more difficult and complex work of changing yourself.
Thanks for this. So I have to pay if I want to download this and click the hyperlinks?
Anyone have a copy of this? Why would he post on this site if he wants his message to be read with links intact?
Agreed.
“Prequel armor” is like super plot armor because you know the character will never die. At least with plot armor you might wonder if it will eventually get removed.
I’m never worried for them when Galadriel or Elrond are on screen because I know they’ll be just fine and live happily ever after.
I feel the same for Spock in strange new worlds.
Where are you that National Parks are so inaccessible for you?
I’m not doubting, I have no perspective on this because I’m from Calgary where I go to them on a near weekly basis and it’s cheaper to go to them than anywhere else.
Funny thing is, very few Calgarians get to go to these places not everyone has a car and options for transit to Banff and Waterton is extremely limiting. It’s definitely a middle/upper class thing
Immich is not stable yet. But as soon as it is, I’m using it to replace all of my galleries.
It doesn’t use OCR but it uses CLIP which accidentally unreliably does tag text like you would want once the images are server side.
There is discussion on GitHub about adding OCR so I imagine sometime after a stable it could be a feature.
Immich appears to have the most active development of all the FOSS gallery and backup apps.
So don’t use it now, but keep an eye on it for the future.
Too many cooks is the best wrong answer. Must resisted watching this again.
I’m just guessing here.
But it could be possible to put the doorbell and camera system in its own network that’s only accessible via the local network. If you make a VPN to the local network, only the person with credentials could VPN into the camera network from outside.
I’m a noob at this though, so I’d need a guide.
I liked solar eye care in the southwest Costco (Tsuut’ina).
Their prices for seniors or children are really good and I’d especially find them cheapersr if I went every year (75 per year instead of 150). They seem well equipped and behave professionally and I’ve never been upsold to expensive glasses.
In the comments she gave a coupon code for Aki fine foods.
“ALSO: Please use code BuyCanadian20 for 20% off your next order as a special thank you.”
Their gratitude alone is so sweet. I’m so happy this dark time can undo some damage from covid.
Oh my gosh, I don’t think info like this is found anywhere on the internet, thank you.
I wasn’t worried for the cat, maybe the fact that they could control a boat made it seem like plot armor.
I was surprised about the other thing though.
Flow is very relaxing to watch.
It’s part of its beauty is that there is no speech and the takes are really long with smooth and slow camera movements. I think it doesn’t take a lot of processing to watch.
My dog watches this movie in silence, I’ve seen this movie once. He’s seen it 3 times 😅
I’m sorry, activists intentionally spreading misinformation to benefit backyard breeders now has something to do with race?
This is appalling.