Monday, November 10, 2008

Dogs, Panthers, and Freedom

THE DOG CREW STORY: The Alachua County, Florida ordinance is unfair, ignorant, and arrogant because a person living on a quarter of acre can have the same number of dogs - 6 - that I can have on a little less than nine acres. Why? We had to "get rid of" most of our dogs. Of course, they went to family and friends as they were beloved creatures, not just expendable things as viewed by the county politicians and bureuacrats ( let me add that there were plenty of kind bureaucrats who were just following orders, and I hope they are able to find other work before their government jobs eat their hearts). Most of our dogs are rescued dogs who have been abandoned by subhumans. We even adopted some out early in their stay with us, but they were too disturbed by the trauma inflicted by the subhumans to make it and had to be returned to us. To save the canine crew, we developed a network of homes for the dogs with Tasha providing the food and veterinary care. We cycle the dogs back to our house where we monitor them, and they get to see the other dogs. Each time a dog cycles back to our house, the mother ship, he meets old friends and often family members. In addition to our rescued dogs, we have a core of labrador retrievers we had been breeding for about twenty occasionally for twenty years. We don't breed any more because it is not only too painful to see puppies we love being bought by other people but also because not all these placements work, and we worried about the puppy's welfare. We only sold our puppies to about a third of the people who came to by one, but in spite of that, there were still puppies who were not treated well. Tasha can be very sociable, and she has developed many contacts who were able to tell us about the puppies we sold. Hearing that one was not being treated was heartbreaking, and although we resolved every case, we are still worried about the ones we don't hear about.
THE BLACK FLORIDA PANTHER STORY:
A few days later, I went to Orlando to Disney World in Orlando with Tasha' office crew. Disney World is not my cup of tea so Tasha bought me "Wildcats of the World" by Barbara Sleeper, and I was content to spend the day with the crowds and artificial phoniness.
FREEDOM'S VIGIL:
What was Obama calling "selfish?" It was a family's income for itself instead of wanting to give a portion of it to the God-state to disperse as it wished. I believe taxation is one of those things that show God deliberately constructed this world to be imperfect. Taxation appears to be a necessary evil for how else can you raise the money needed for government? Lotteries? I say that taxation is evil because it is based upon force. If you doubt that, see what eventually happens if you don't pay your taxes.

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