House of Representatives Tightens Protections for Dogs and Cats in Farm Bill

Humane Society of the United States HSUS ^ | july 28th, 2007 | DancesWithCats

[Grammy]

Interesting thread. I have some experience with AR people as my niece and her husband do a lot of work with the World Wildlife Fund. Said niece is the one who complains about her mother fishing. She “hurts their little slime coats” when she catches and releases the fish. (Perhaps she would rather she/we catch and eat?)

My brother dated an AR nut. This girl got a job in a lab working with rats. After a bit she felt sorry for them, so she let them all out of their cages.

The end result was that all the rats were contaminated and now no good for research, so they were all put to death.... and she was fired.

[girlangler]

Hey Grammy. You said earlier you’ve had no rain, well, for the past two weeks we have had a ton of rain. We need it badly, as we are still way below normal. Hope you get some soon.

I get news releases from the WWF. They are actually pro hunting and angling, even support the Canadian govt. seal cull. As a result most of the animal rights organizations attack the WWF. The WWF actually does a lot to protect wildlife habitat, critical for species preservation.

Next time your niece complains about her Mom fishing tell her the WWF supports it. She’ll freak when she finds out WWF also supports scientific management (rather than emotional) of most fish and game species.

Yesterday I met my 94 year old aunt’s great grandson, who is a soil/water conservationist in Virginia. He is working on some federally funded programs that assist landowners along the Clinch/Powell rivers, helps fund measures to protect the water quality there for endangered freshwater mussels, darters and madtoms.

We were talking about the madtom your grandaughter caught. He confirmed most of these found where we were fishing are on the endangered/threatened lists.

BTW, the Clinch River has the WORLD’s largest population of TE mussels, in fact there are some found there not in existence anywhere in the world. The Clinch headwaters are among the cleanest in the world, and these species are like canaries in a coal mine (as far as water quality), so are monitored closely.

Many years ago I floated the Clinch headwaters with a TVA biologist, specialist on these mussels. It’s an awesome float, and we passed along the river the area I floated on the way back from Virginia yesterday. I thought about you, and how I’d like to take you fishing there sometime. It’s so isolated you float all day and never see another person.

Lots of good smallmouth fishing. Maybe someday we can get two canoes (I have one) and float/fish it with this relative. There are stretches you can beach the canoe and wade the shoals. And there are these islands that are made from mussel shells. It’s an incredible experience.