Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama's idea?
Posted on 06/16/2012 8:39:11 PM PDT by Innovative
A new program in San Francisco will pair carefully selected dogs from shelters with panhandlers in an effort to steer the latter away from asking for money on the streets and keep the animals from being euthanized.
The temporary guardians (the words "pet" and "owner" are frowned upon in San Francisco) will receive weekly stipends of $50 to $75 and must agree to jettison their cardboard signs in the pilot project believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
The program, scheduled to start in August, is called WOOF, short for Wonderful Opportunities for Occupants and Fidos. The animals will eventually be placed in permanent homes.
"I can't make panhandling go away," said Bevan Dufty, one of the plan's architects. "But I can make a better offer."
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PETA - Please pick up the white courtesy phone NOW!
I’m sure they’ll find them delicious.
They’ll eat the dogs!
Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama's idea?
Why can’t we send these people to Mars?
People who don’t want dogs, should not be given dogs.
These beggars will take the dogs, to get the weekly money, but I doubt they will care for the dogs.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
That you! I'll be here all weekend.
dog* ... /sigh, time for bed.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Ah California! The state where the technical terms of master and slave to denote a hard drive configuration relationship are likewise frowned upon (if not disallowed outright). Is one allowed to have a "master" bedroom is the once Golden State?
I live alone, but somehow, the brown acid made it into my drink
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid that is. I mean Dehydrated stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. It is trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.
Indeed. That you, that you very much! :-)
“I cannot believe how incredibly stupid that is. I mean Dehydrated stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. It is trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid.”
San Fran... they took the left over brown acid.
Also, it can be hard to get a date on Saturday night at the glory hole.
I like it. The unemployed will be working by fostering dogs. The people and dogs both benefit.
“Giving out dogs, eh? Was this Obama’s idea?”
ROFL!!!
How does giving a homeless man something that costs money to keep encourage him to not be homeless? This is insane.
I’ve just come back from nearly 2 weeks in CA and the pan handlers and homeless are everywhere. I don’t think there are enough dogs to go around.
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