Posted on 10/25/2013 5:16:01 AM PDT by kimtom
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Humane Society, and other animal rights groups have devoted themselves for years to preventing cruelty to animals. Such groups now seek to convince the rest of the world that animals should be celebrated and treated like family (e.g., About Us , 2011). Such humanistic, evolution-based thinking has resulted in the frequent arrest and prosecution of those who are deemed guilty of mistreating animals. For example, a woman in Missouri was charged with six counts of felony animal abuse after authorities seized six dogs from a flea-infested property in Iron Mountain Lake (Six Dogs , 2008, emp. added). As city workers and volunteers worked to clean up the neglected property where the dogs were kept, the local police chief explained: We have a lot of debris to remove . We are also going to burn off the ground to get rid of the flea infestation that exists (Case Updates, 2009, emp. added). ...........
Inherent in all of these accounts is the fact that fleas are viewed as undesirable creatures to be eradicated. Their presence on other animals allegedly constitutes abuse by humans. So how should we deal with the nasty flea problem .......
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Some genetic engineer could make themselves wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, if they could come up with some way for dogs to say a dozen words in a human language. Even if the words were just phonetic single syllables, distinguishable from each other.
Dogs can typically learn some 300 human words in context, and one dog learned 1000 words. Just being able to say things that meant yes, no, come, pain, hungry, thirsty, tired, danger, and syllables that mean the first names of the people “in their pack”, would completely change the relationship.
That would be hard to develop an immunity to.
Yeh no kidding. LOL!
Can't we all just get along?
Mr. GG2 just returned home with a bag of food grade diatomeceous earth. The guy at the feed store said he also sprinkles it out in his dog run as they pick up fleas when they go outside.
We have put it in the small fenced area off the deck and all in our carpet and even dusted Buddy our Beagle with it. The chihuahua just got a bath and when dry will get a dusting. The Beagle is trying to lick it up off the floor so it must taste pretty good.
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