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Humane Society Ad. (just sad)
Vanity | 10/18/2009 | Vendome

Posted on 10/18/2009 7:49:37 AM PDT by Vendome

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To: gardencatz

oops more=less

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61 posted on 10/18/2009 9:41:19 AM PDT by gardencatz (Thank you America, for exercising your free speech rights my Marine is fighting to defend!)
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To: Vendome
My little boy is black and has perfect little white paws and look like gloves. His chest is open with white and he sits like a gentleman. So I named him Rex Harrison. His sister is a sable or blonde color and is blessed with extraordinary intelligence and poise. She is beautiful. So I named her Grace Kelly.

Awwwww, Rex and Grace are lucky pups! LOVE the description and name choices.
62 posted on 10/18/2009 9:56:20 AM PDT by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Vendome

why don’t you just donate food, warm blankets ,kitty litter ect. to your local animal shelter?
I can’t bring home any more pets, but I buy stuff like that and just drop it off.
OR you could go to your shelter and walk/play with the caged dogs.If your shelter lets you


63 posted on 10/18/2009 10:03:14 AM PDT by ronniesgal (my hybrid runs on hippies)
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To: InspectorGadget

my daughter is 29, and watches Animal Cops, even though she bawls like a girl who got dumped by her boyfriend.
I don’t watch, I can’t do it.


64 posted on 10/18/2009 10:06:51 AM PDT by ronniesgal (my hybrid runs on hippies)
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To: TYVets

One of my dogs was adopted from a Humane Society shelter; so they do exist. It’s too bad they’re so anti-pet.


65 posted on 10/18/2009 10:14:30 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
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To: nmh
What makes me sad is how human beings that know better, treat God’s wonderful animals in this way. I would no like to be them when they stand before Him and account for their miserable lives. God will serve out perfect justice.

You might enjoy this quote from Tennessee vet Bruce Langlois: "If we don't put an end to the senseless killing of healthy adoptable pets; we run the risk of finding there is no room for us when it is OUR turn to enter heaven." Amen.

66 posted on 10/18/2009 10:20:23 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Vendome
Exploitive? That is a laugh. I am the one being taken advantage of. I have to talk like a girl because they like it. I have to walk the dogs, because they like it. 3, 4, 5, 6 times a day. I have to carefully check their food to ensure it is of the highest quality. I spend $100 a month for food and toys for two dogs. Sometimes I explain to them that life would be easier for all of us if they had opposable thumbs so they could get a job and help out a little around here. Apparently that would be a real hardship on all the sleeping they do. I have no idea what the cost per year is for vets but it is a couple grand and the last two have exceeded $7,000 for operations due to cancer.

Hah, you think that's bad? Try owning a horse. Talk about demanding and exploitative! Six hundred a month for board, $125 for shoes every five weeks, $300 for just one blanket (and Miss Princess has several for different weather conditions, including a rain sheet, a cooler, a kinda cool weather blanket, a blanket to keep her hind end warm when she's being ridden, a super-cold weather blanket, a cover to wear to keep dust off her at shows, etc. etc. etc.) She has toys, too. She has all sorts of specials wraps and protective devices for her legs. She does not have one single thing that was bought because I felt like spoiling her, only stuff that was bought because I found out the hard way that it was necessary.

None of this includes, of course, the vet bills, the health insurance, or the cost of maintaining a truck and trailer to drag her around. I don't have the truck and trailer yet, just getting ready because I'm tired of paying other people to drag her around when I want to go somewhere. There are special supplements. There are training devices. There are are bridles (she has a dressage bridle, a show bridle, a schooling bridle, and a flat hunting bridle), bits to go with same, and the saddles (two Stubbens, one for dressage and one for hunting, and I'm not even going to tell you about the angst of getting those fitted to her). We have a stack of saddle pads roughly 2 1/2 feet high. Girths, leads, lunge lines, health products, grooming devices, treatments, medications. THe list of purchases doesn't count the time taken off of work to meet the vet or the farrier out at the barn, or the drives to go buy all this crap, or the lessons and training.

She's pretty smug about all of this. She figures she deserves it and gets indignant if she doesn't get it.

I love this horse. I love my two dogs, too. And I don't want the HSUS to spend hundreds of millions to lobby legislators so that I no longer have the right to ride the horse, or hunt, or even own animals.

67 posted on 10/18/2009 10:22:15 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: Vendome

I can’t stand the ads either. I understand they are used to educate the public, but they break my heart.

All four of my pets are rescues. When something hard happens in my life I always want to go get another pet. You can tick off the deaths in my family by the pet additions. Heart healers!


68 posted on 10/18/2009 10:35:51 AM PDT by Roses0508
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To: Vendome
I can relate to your post. I used to work as a vet tech years ago. I've worked for animal shelters. So I have seen what people do to animals. I turn away from those ads also.

Maybe this will make you feel a bit better. I got into horse rescue this summer. We now have a palomino & a race horse who were on their way to the kill pen. Now they have a great home & are well loved.

For a few days I've known there were a bunch of horses left over from the horse auction & the meat buyers were coming today or tomorrow for them. I don't cry anymore over it since I have no tears left. But I got the girl who splits the barn with me & another women to go take a look at the horses. So today a horse was saved & is on his way to our quarantine pasture. Another horse to join our other 5 rescue horses. I am getting ready to go out & see this ex race horse who was tossed away after somebody decided he wasn't worth loving & feeding anymore.

My horses are on my page & Moonie looks 100% better then he did in his picture there. Amazing what lots of love, care & kindness did for him. I hear from some of my friends that I am crazy in this economy to have horses. It is hard & we don't go out to dinner or spend money like we used to on ourselves. But the joy we get from our horses is worth every penny. Plus all my adult children are getting involved & my 10 yr old daughter is active in riding & will show Moonie next summer. I do some cat & dog rescue too when I can. It is a zoo here in my house but I love my animals.

69 posted on 10/18/2009 11:03:50 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn.....................^........................)
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To: ottbmare
I can relate to your post! Thankfully we are in with other people & rent our own barn. I hated boarding & found the last stable I was at wasn't feeding all the time. I love having my own barn & we all help each other out. My friend has the truck & trailer & that saves lots of money. My vet is a friend so she does everything at a lower price then I would normally have to pay. It is very expensive. Then theres the English riding clothes for my daughter & the must haves each time we hit a tack shop. But the joy those 2 horses give us is worth every penny.
70 posted on 10/18/2009 11:12:56 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn.....................^........................)
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To: Vendome

If these ads are for HSUS be aware, they are an animal rights lobbying group and don’t actually run shelters. Yes, they tug at your heartstrings, but a little research will tell you that they and PETA’s answer to animal cruelty is for humans to have no interaction with animals at all. Google Ingrid Newkirk quotes and start from there.


71 posted on 10/18/2009 11:45:43 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Vendome

Do you watch nature shows? They are pretty cruel too. I am not negating the cruelty of humans, but for many animals life is brutish and short no matter where they live it.


72 posted on 10/18/2009 11:48:50 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Vendome

Donate directly to your LOCAL shelter or purebred rescue. They use the money for the animals, not for lobbying for causes that you may not agree with.


73 posted on 10/18/2009 11:49:42 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

An HSUS shelter? Do tell!


74 posted on 10/18/2009 11:56:39 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I know this will likely get me flamed, but that quote makes no sense to me whatsoever. I see nowhere in the Bible that suggests to me that because I cannot end animal euthanasia I will not go to Heaven. What have I missed?


75 posted on 10/18/2009 11:58:10 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: LongElegantLegs
Yep! Here's the website . I'm very grateful to them, Swiper had just been returned to the shelter for the second or third time, and any other place would have euthanized him by the time we got there; but after I found out their national agenda, I decided we wouldn't go back; we got our next dog from the city pound.
76 posted on 10/18/2009 12:02:18 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
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To: who knows what evil?

“You might enjoy this quote from Tennessee vet Bruce Langlois:

“If we don’t put an end to the senseless killing of healthy adoptable pets; we run the risk of finding there is no room for us when it is OUR turn to enter heaven.” Amen. “

Thanks, I do appreciate that.


77 posted on 10/18/2009 12:09:33 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Vendome

In the Virginia governor’s race, Bob McDonnell has earned the endorsement of the Humane Society

http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/index.php/media/player then click “endorsed” on the right column to see the ad.


78 posted on 10/18/2009 12:18:56 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: RJS1950

>>If you think it’s “unmanly” to feel that way about what these commercials show then you’re a nitwit; goodbye.<<

I wouldn’t know. I dumped TV in 1997. This frog jumped out of the water when it was only lukewarm.


79 posted on 10/18/2009 12:20:07 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Vendome

My wife and I adopted 2 GSD’s from the German Shepherd Rescue Group of Virginia. I’ve literally confronted people on the side of the road being cruel to dogs. I’ve taken dogs home that I’ve picked up on the side of the road and have found them good homes.

I have no tolorance towards people that are cruel to animals. Hunting is one thing but beating an animal and making it suffer is entirely different. People that do that should be beaten severely.


80 posted on 10/18/2009 12:24:25 PM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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