[B]First we kill all the doggies and the kitties[/B]

The BBQ Pit
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I was waiting to see if some one else would bring this up. I don’t know that I’m up to a proper pit rant but…
Governor Ahnold, of the once-great state of California has requested some mail this weekend.
Schwarzenegger backs speedier killing of strays.

We’re out of money, see. Gotta make some cuts somewhere, see. Apparently, The Exterminator seems to think his popularity is boundless. I guess he thinks that since these puppies :wink: don’t vote, he’s found a safe way to shave a few sheckels off the state budget.

Birds (Ducks :eek: )? Hamsters?? Pot bellied-Pigs???
KILLED IMMEDIATELY???
But wait, there’s more:
In This San Jose Mercury News account

Hey wait a minute bub. People pay a lot of money for that technology with the promise that the shelters will use it.
Now I know that he’s ONLY the Californy Gov., but that pendejo has national ambitions and it wouldn’t hurt for him to hear from any concerned pet owners out there whose personal legislative reps might be inclined to get any bright ideas from our own shining star :rolleyes:
This guy’s a piece of work. If you’re interested, you can get to his email through the state’s www.ca.gov page. I’m just too tired to rant, but I’m too disturbed to let it go. Oh, and let’s Do hear from all you doggie and kitty haters out there yelling out, you go gov. :cool: Yeah. Go Gov! Back to Austria.

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Crank! I messed up my headline. Damn coding :mad:

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I am not a fan of this action, but it can be presented a bit more even-handedly.

The current law requires that all shelters keep all strays for six days. Prior to the law’s passage, there was no defined period. When the law was passed, it was declared to not be an unfunded mandate, but the shelters report that the state re-imbursement funds do not cover the extended costs.

The proposal is that the mandatory “keep” period (and the state funding) be reduced to three days. The law does not require that shelters euthanize strays at the end of the three days.

The argument being made is that most of the animals that wind up in shelters, now, are euthanized and that, due to a lack of funds, more adoptable animals that might find new homes if held for eight or ten days are being euthanized after six days because the shelters cannot afford to feed them while also feeding the clearly not adoptable animals for the entire six days.

The argument may be complete bunk, but it is a bit more complex than “kill 'em all after three days.”

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I believe that under the new law, animal shelters would no longer attempt to contact owners whose animals were implanted with microchips. Yes, that microchip you spent $80 bucks on will no longer keep your cat/dog from being killed before they track you down. What was it? They have to hold cats and dogs for 72 hours and then they can kill them, and if 48 of those hours were Saturday and Sunday and they were closed, that’s the pet owner’s tough luck.

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Every time a GOP governor gets Selected, God kills a kitten. And a puppy. Or two.

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Boy, after living in Minnesota for a few years, there are some words that I don’t hear much anymore.

Pendejo, HA! That’s priceless.

Don’t care much about the cats, but the Govenator better leave them puppies alone.

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Your point is taken, but the Governor’s actions are clearly not meant to save the cream of misbegotten crop, but to save the most money.

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Damn, doesn’t Arnie have kids? How is he gonna explain this to them?

“Daddy’s going to make it so more puppies and kitties are killed!”
The waiting period thing is debatable, but not contacting people who put microchips in their pets?

I’d just wait to see someone sue if a pet with a chip was put down.

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I find it difficult to believe that this will save 14 million a year as they are claiming on the radio.

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For all the good it would do. Not sure about California, but Wisconsin and other states limit the damages a pet owner can recover for the pet’s wrongful death to the replacement cost of the pet, which for a run-of-the-mill pet is probably less than $100.

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Looks like he has had a change of heart. Probably took a lot of heat from this. He did admit to error, which in my book took guts.

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Give the Governator a break; he isn’t all that bad.

If the people who are indignant about the fate of strays in California would look at the world around them, they might find better targets for their indignation.

A sample:
Greek tragedy over stray cats and dogs
Although the article mentions protests, the actions on the part of the Greek government are apparently continuing. Mrs. Satyagrahi, currently in Greece visiting her family, reports that there are no dogs and cats to be found in the streets now, where there used to be thousands. That may be good in itself…but how was it accomplished? She knows of people who kept their well-cared-for pets in a fenced yard but who found one morning that poisoned food had been tossed over the fence by apparently over-zealous government workers and that their pets had died in agony.

Google on ‘Athens stray dogs’ and you’ll find more articles and petitions than you could shake a pack of rat poison at…
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At least he’s laying off the humans. :smiley:

As to the issue, BFD (and I like animals). Your dog is gone. Take some fucking responsiblity and call/visit the Goddamn pound. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay extensive room and board for a dog whose owner doesn’t give a fuck about it anymore.

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I’ve got news for you; it’s not always that simple.

Once upon a time, my dear kitty had delusions that he could fly and jumped out my 5th-floor window. I looked everywhere for him, posted flyers offering a reward all over the neighborhood…no luck, until several days later, when someone in a neighboring building called and mentioned she had called Animal Control to pick up a cat fitting my cat’s description.

I called the pound immediately, and was told that they had no record of picking up a cat fitting that description from that address. In a fit of desperation, I borrowed a friend’s car (I had no car then, and it was a good 2+ hours on public transport, all the way on the other side of the city in a lousy, gang-infested neighborhood, and you can’t take cats on the bus anyway) and went to the pound to investigate, beg, commit a prison break, whatever I had to do to get my Alexander Pushkin back. (Never name a cat after a Russian poet; they’re nothing but trouble.)

They swore up, down, and sideways that they didn’t have my cat. They told me I was perfectly free to take home any of the other adoptable cats, or any of the boxes of kittens people were bringing in while I was standing there pleading with them, but they didn’t have my cat.

Finally I got them to let me into the cat room - and of course, my cat was there. He was yowling and sticking his paws through the bars, trying to get to me. But would they give me my cat? No, of course not, for I had no fucking papers to prove he was mine! Who has papers for a kitten from a friend’s litter? Exactly what kind of papers was I supposed to have?

Finally a supervisor came in and saw what was going on, looked at their log book, and saw that there was a data entry error - apparently 2 lines had gotten mixed up or something, and they had indeed picked up my cat from my neighbor’s address. He pointed to me hugging my Sashenka and said to his staff, “You idiots”! Can’t you see that’s her cat?

The Chicago pound kept cats for a week before euthanizing them; I was on Day 5, and it would have been several days more, until the weekend, before I could have gone down there if my friend hadn’t been kind enough to lend me her car. Under Arnold’s proposal, he would have been toast.

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If the Governator really wants to cut costs on animals, why doesn’t he arrange to have the killed pets delivered to the state’s many zoos. That way the cost of feeding the meat-eating animals could be reduced dramatically. Two savings and only one killing. Teutonic efficiency at its best.

There really should be a “whoosh” smilie. I don’t want to be piled on. I’m not a bad person. No, really.

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Bullshit. He took the cowardly route of political expedience.

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Someone needs to tell Mr. Schwarzenegger about how much cash the state could bring in by auctioning off towed and impounded cars after a three day waiting period.

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While saving many animals in the process. :smiley:

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You know, Squink, I seriously like that idea.

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That’s brilliant. Vote Squink!!