tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28707177643957836112024-02-08T11:43:59.506-08:00Animal CultureAbout a human-animal culture.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-87966028913061267132014-07-31T11:50:00.000-07:002014-07-31T12:29:32.492-07:00Missouri's Amendment 1 is a cruel, dirty trickIt's also badly written. It actually says that any individual's right to farm is subject to any "duly authorized powers" under Article VI of the constitution of the State of Missouri. <br />
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This is the actual language of the Amendment: "Section 35. That agriculture which provides food, energy, health
benefits, and security is the foundation and stabilizing force of
Missouri's economy. To protect this vital sector of Missouri's economy,
the right of farmers and ranchers to engage in farming and ranching
practices shall be forever guaranteed in this state, subject to duly
authorized powers, if any, conferred by article VI of the Constitution
of Missouri." <a href="http://www.moga.mo.gov/const/T06.HTM">source</a><br />
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Article VI confers the powers of city and county governments, and is titled "Local Government." I don't know what "if any" means in this context, because when an article describes the governmental powers granted to counties and cities by the State, there are definitely "any" duly authorized powers. So it says that any city or county can pass laws that nullify a person's right to engage in farming and ranching practices. Amendment 1 explicitly sanctions the authority to nullify the right that the Amendment pretends to guarantee.<br />
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It is fair to say that the HSUS and similar organizations are very useful for driving farmers off their land so that land developers can get the land cheap, to build housing developments and business parks. The city and county governments contribute police and sheriff's officers to the HSUS and other organizations to conduct abusive, shameful raids that result in poverty and homelessness for thousands each year, people who earned their land and who raised animals for a living. These are farmers and ranchers who they attack. Amendment 1 sanctions this practice. The city and county governments want this sanction so that they can carry on business as usual while destroying whoever they want, by bad zoning laws and selective enforcement of humane laws.<br />
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To make this ballot measure good, delete every word that comes after "forever guaranteed in this state." A constitutional Amendment is SUPPOSED to usurp the "authority" and "duly authorized powers" of government, and prevent government from doing things, just like the Bill of Rights.<br />
<br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-44548470619365288012012-07-17T08:45:00.002-07:002012-07-17T08:45:51.371-07:00Do people just want to be criminals?Maybe the point is getting beaten to death, but what I can see in a photograph seems to be quite different from what was actually there. One of the usual suspects persists in railing at me for not seeing it and I don't care for that act. Adding personal insults makes it worse. I will argue bitterly against denouncing anyone on the basis of photographs. <br /><br />These days you can't rely on the "rescue" that wants to take anyone's horses, particularly multiple horses. If the rescue evaluates the horse and can and does take the horse away, that is an automatic fail because of conflict of interest. I always see it as robbery at gunpoint. Every single time a "rescue" or "humane society" or "ASPCA" has taken animals that they have evaluated themselves without using a third party, it has been armed robbery and I want to see them spending long years in jail, very long and hard years.<br /><br />Did someone say that this is the way that they've always done it? Then they've always belonged in jail. The robberies are just one reason. The other is that they have corrupted jurisprudence. <br />Every person who has participated in this is criminally liable. Very few of them are willing to take their needed jail time and end it. If they were that kind of hero they would never have allowed it to get started.<br /><br />Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-56572123725419020262012-07-07T11:33:00.000-07:002012-07-07T11:34:15.749-07:00Too scared to tryBeing too scared to try is not living. Maybe some people mean well when they tell me not to touch the tiger, he might bite, but isn't it being too scared to try to wait until such time as one has somehow earned "permission"? Don't they seem to want to suspend you in that state until they feel like allowing you to live, to be human? I have felt this way for a long time and I haven't always been able to put it into words.<br />
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It seems kind of ridiculous that the better part of my soul is on the other side of a fence that "belongs" to someone else. They reach out to me. I can hear their purrs, feel the soft intensity of their gaze upon me, and I fall in love. They cherish me when I reach out and touch them, and roll with happiness after a pet or a kiss.<br />
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I can feel this place where certain people seem to just have to be, so they can make me do things to gratify them and they can take my reward away from my life. They can reach it verbally, emotionally, or impose themselves physically. I am always afraid that when I get occupied with a real encounter someone is going to do that and give me that rending tearing pain again. So I don't go near them for the most part and the last time I thought I was going to get near them I had a psychotic break from the fear, but what else is new about that. They made a game of inducing such mental states in me for so long that it's just part of the routine.<br />
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There is a knot in my gut and my fist is aching for release. So is my middle finger. You know, it's just easier to not live. I build enough energy to move mountains, or at least my massive butt, and someone siphons it off and uses it for their purposes. In this realm the parasites seem to have more control over everything than those people who work for a living. And yes, those parasites will use that control to prevent themselves from having to take any responsibility at the same time that they get others to smash up other people's homes and menageries.<br />
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Some people get to live. I've seen it and some people are still living. I'm glad for them. My soul, is it really to be found in a big cat? About one in three that I meet seem to want to merge with me. When we do we exchange soul matter and both of us are more than we were before. That's also called "being happier" and "living." This is more precious than gold. Rich people who understand it will write big checks. Those who merely clean up after the highness's hindquarters don't usually rate a touch. Regal my ass. It shits in its own drinking water. Come to think of it, the inbred royalty of Europe is often more than a little peculiar.<br />
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Were the big cat to live with me and were I to use him or her that way, they would love it and they would have a home. The neurotics are very intent on making sure that doesn't happen. It's pretty much the same if I'm "allowed" under conditions that they impose, because they have still managed to get in between and tap that energy for their own misuse. Dammit that's my energy to misuse. That's why they accuse people of abuse when the animal is as pleased and as happy as it can possibly be.<br />
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I'm sick of making concessions. Concessions are all that I make and I don't get to use my energy for me. They should use their own damned energy. The whole thing is about making me work and someone else collecting the rewards that I should be collection.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-92031477907877949902012-06-25T22:57:00.001-07:002012-06-25T22:57:42.526-07:00Someone said this on Facebook:<br />To prevent the situation that animal owners got into, animal owners needed to place being good to each other above all other considerations. To get ourselves out of that situation, the same solution applies.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-81971895523800484362012-06-24T07:52:00.003-07:002012-06-24T07:59:16.042-07:00Humane Feelings Used As Psychological TortureI just wrote this on Facebook: <br />
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"<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">The
bait is the idea of humane care of animals and inflicting the minimum
of pain. Zero tolerance, a bait and switch game, sets the hook that
comes with the bait. The perpetrators use your compassion against you.
They think that they have a natural right to own the issue, your
person, and your resources. <br /> <br /> The ones who think that way are
always less. I've been persuaded at times that they have a stronger
grip on reality. Then I realize that it is not the embrace of a lover,
but the strangling grip of, well, someone who is not so loving. <br /> <br />
I can say that. They define themselves by behavior that aggresses
against other humans and living things, that destroys to further an
agenda, and that isn't smart.</span>"<br />
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This was in response to a <a href="http://thenaughtytobiano.blogspot.com/2012/06/humane-behavior.html">blog entry</a> by The Naughty Tobiano about the definition of the term "humane." You can read Nathan Winograd's "Redemption" and see that the term has been abused for over a century, for monetary gain and to further agendas. If I am going to have to define the word, it might as well be for a human-animal agenda that allows humans the same privileges as animals, to be free to cohabit with or to eat whatever species we want. It's been hard for this to be an agenda because the normal course of things is not an "agenda," it is what we do because we are human.<br />
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People like to inflict a minimum of pain and like to give pleasure, although anhedonia can set in, the aversion to pleasure. I'm not even going to try to paste together a Greek word for a phobia against pleasure this morning. Pleasure dissolves pain and works to defeat neurosis. Then we worry too much about where we got the charge. There is a certain amount of permissible exploitation of animals and exploitation in and of itself is a good thing. The usual suspects try to twist the meaning of the word, but their behavior shows that they will exploit the animals with far more ruthlessness and they will destroy what people have built. Their whole point is to identify those who are "not us" as needful of being destroyed. Most of our social problems are caused by people who define other people as social problems. At the bottom of such there is usually some kind of ripoff. If they accuse you, you will find that they do that so that they can exploit your animals, and they will be ruthless and destructive.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-28403169973179366082012-06-08T00:09:00.004-07:002012-06-08T00:09:44.245-07:00Can we handle the truth?It seems like in every European-influenced nation the fight against big cat ownership is a religious war that they can deny even exists. I don't know that Judaism, Zoroastrianism, or even Catholicism were called "religions" in the beginning, or even Jainism.<br /><br />A religious war would not fly in the 21st century in any Renaissance culture. However, a war over junk science definitely can and does, and instead of "my God is bigger than your God" it's "my science says kill you." But they really can't say "kill" so they have to take our lives by taking our animals. The animal extremists hide a crap religion behind junk science and scientists fall in line so they won't get fired or set on fire.<br /><br />Dominion religions are simply gangs of thieves. They might well have some genuine stuff, but the dominators captured it and make it a weapon. One has to practice in secret to practice true worship. <br /><br />Animal worship has more than one real reason. What could possibly be better than human and God in a close symbiotic relationship where between you and the animal, you can feel the Presence? <br /><br />And I'm watching Richard Hoagland right now and he just said that the religionists say that the truth will kill us and we have to be protected form it. Here we are. To me the truth includes the vital force itself, and love, and what a loving relationship does for humans and animals. That is an ultimate truth. I know the truth when it climbs up in my lap and wants me to hug it. Look what the truth thinks of me. <br /><br />You can read Oliver Twist and gain an understanding of the humane societies and the extremists, and you can read Hal Lindsay's "The Late, Great Planet Earth" and gain some understanding, and Richard Hoagland, and Wayne Dyer.<br /><br />People have actually told me that I was insane and schizophrenic because I see all these connections. Me, I think it's just plain intellectual honesty.<br />
<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvAh621XOE&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvAh621XOE&feature=related</a>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-13893196683479469552012-01-10T10:24:00.000-08:002012-01-10T10:27:06.553-08:00The first thing about critical thinking (short note)If anyone tells you any story that tugs on your heartstrings, stop and think. Your kneejerk reaction is probably wrong. Too many times they ask you to go along with your kneejerk response, the one that they want, and will berate you if you refuse. When they do this it's your choice which window you throw them out of, but if they won't let you stop and think, FORCE them to let you stop and think, and use as much force as it takes. If they get offended they weren't your friend. They were trying to use you.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-67746104807471653712011-12-23T01:46:00.000-08:002011-12-23T01:47:30.350-08:00"Equal Rights," My DonkeyThe ARs don't afford them the same rights as humans. What they actually do is put up a set of ideas, like the "five freedoms" which don't hold up under scrutiny, at all, and falsely claim that those trump human rights. If your right to eat or conduct yourself as a human or your privacy rights conflict with a vague set of wrongheaded "animal rights" then theirs trump yours. It's entirely arbitrary and intentionally confusing. They often mislabel this as "animal welfare." That is part of their drive to co-opt and coerce.<br /><br />The "Five Freedoms" are listed here: http://www.fawc.org.uk/freedoms.htm The words in bold are the original wording. The words in regular type are their qualifiers. Those qualifiers were a big mistake. When your enemy hands you poison and tells you to eat it, you don't put ketchup on it and try to eat it and smile. You shove it as far down his throat as you can, doing as much damage as you can, and you explain to him that his botulism sandwich is not fit to eat. <br /><br />Something had to go missing for people to be able to swallow the wording of the Five Freedoms at all, and that was the recognition of positives intentionally phrased in the negative. There is a huge difference between "freedom from hunger and thirst" and "having enough good food and clean water." The qualifiers can be shed at any time and you are left with the original crap, which the Farm Animal Welfare Council was kind enough to set in bold print. An animal that is free from hunger, thirst, exposure to uncomfortable temperatures, emotional discomfort, or injury, is dead. By species it is extinct. <br /><br />It is not too strong a statement to say that the people who foisted the Five Freedoms on the world belong under the jail for infamous crimes that include vandalism, arson, death threats against human beings, and the killings of innocent animals as part of the vandalism. Let them eat what I care to feed them and they will kiss up to me and beg for Burger King.<br /><br />The "Five Freedoms" were deliberately, calculatedly, written such that only dead animals could fulfill the criteria. The FAWC would have been better off biting the bullet, or shooting it at the miscreants, than modifying their demands to make them seem palatable. When they give the extremists enough rope to hang US with, our animals are DEAD. <br /><br />Real animal welfare would use positives. We feed and water the animals according to their needs. We comfort them and give them medical care when they are ailing or injured. We give them happiness when we can. It's a lot easier to do that for an animal than for a human. I'm going to dismiss entirely the "normal behavior" thing because it's bunkum and not worthy of trying to explain to an extremist. None of the credit goes to the extremists for "making" me do anything. They have caused the deaths of thousands, maybe millions of animals, the non-existence of many species individuals that the world is short of, such as tigers, lions, and cheetahs, and they are crazy sick hateful. I don't worry so much that abuse is "disgusting." I am concerned with the fact that I can create a place where animals are happy and healthy and I can give happiness and health.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-44256536685456455242011-12-16T16:35:00.000-08:002011-12-16T16:37:33.585-08:00Molly Ivins on how we hurt ourselves."When you make yourself less free, all that happens is that you are less free...you are not safe."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXToviObdoA">Molly Ivins video</a><br /><br />Learn it. Know it.<br /><br />When you make yourself less free I am not safe either. I am also just less free.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-46454903157493779112011-12-09T07:17:00.001-08:002011-12-09T07:17:54.375-08:00More rambling...They're really working to ignore the benefits to society. Someone wants control of those benefits and like the thieves that they are they want to get us to devalue them so that we will sell them at fire-sale prices. Even better for them, like the robber barons, if they can get us to pay them to haul them off, they will. Balderson is no better than the rest.<br /><br />In many ways it would have been better for me to actually take advantage. I think I permanently put myself outside of a group that would have let me have what I desired as long as I was willing to bend over and RAPE the rest of the world. There I'd be trickling down on people because someone told me that I had to if I wanted the kind of life that I want. I feel like if I did that something would go badly wrong with my brain and I wouldn't be able to do useful work with it anymore. Which might explain a lot.<br /><br />Am I abnormal because I want something less if someone else has it and doesn't want me to have it? Because I'm only willing to pay a fair price? Because I think if I rob someone I have already paid a price far in excess of the worth of whatever I took?Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-73992945467478828892011-12-09T05:28:00.000-08:002011-12-09T06:02:59.329-08:00Just rambling I guessI'm not going to name one particular name but she is an obvious drugged-out prostitute whose job title is a cover for selling illicit sex and drugs to whomever has the money, and she must have made a killing driving her van around servicing workers during hurricane clean-ups, until she learned that there were people who would pay her to viciously attack Michael Sandlin. Who would they be able to use but a lowlife who's about half smart?<br /><br />And then we wind up being forced to dwell upon their crap. There are a lot of decent people here who, because of their decency, can't even adequately express contempt and anger when we need to. We don't know how to say "get lost" or the more popular versions of that phrase. We don't know how to use words as weapons. Our role is "straight" versus whatever they are, I guess some kind of freak or pod people or something. In all good faith some of us "went after" certain social deviants because we had to, but as soon as we did that we found ourselves more under the control of some of them than we would have been if we tried to be them.<br /><br />A book that is not even yet in the works, proposed just this day by me, belongs in the potential futures of the next few months or couple of years. It might be titled "Circle of Power." It would be about all this.<br /><br />I idealize contact with tigers and other big cats for reasons that I see to be as certain as some of the laws of physics. The ones who you see who own the animals who are neurotic and who attack others are the ones who "contain" them without human contact. Neurotics want everyone to be as neurotic as they are. They don't feel "safe" even though if they thought about it, the neurosis is more dangerous to them than the external dangers that they fear. Neurosis can be forced on people. <br /><br />Having no defenses, being unable to self-promote, being unable to turn on one's own lights, these disabilities do not make us good people. If you read the book that hasn't been written yet, it would be easier to understand that our normal defenses and capabilities drive out corruption. Just a very few positives in any person's day drive out evil spirits, the ones that we manufacture by brooding over our hurts. Good friends, a warm cat, a good book, television, a good meal, those are positives. <br /><br />The neurotic mindset sees our animals as dangerous because they help relieve neurosis and self-destructive behaviors. Ironically and not coincidentally, the people who want our animals away from us see the ones of us who need the animals the most as least suited to have them. Lord I know that there are problems with allowing unlimited access for those who need contact the most but cutting off contact is depriving humans of needed therapy. The hideous people who pretend to love animals have already attempted to deprive us of needed food. Most of us do eat animal products. I consider animal contact to be a necessity, like food, and people shouldn't be forced to consume or use what someone cares to allow them. Those who would restrain us should be kicked to the curb.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-54133365804153629752011-11-26T19:57:00.000-08:002011-11-26T20:01:14.589-08:00They see virtue as dangerousIn my carefully considered opinion when IFAW granted money to WAO, they wanted the Asvestases to work with them against private owners. I am suspicious that Jack Hanna and someone who we are still pretty sure is on our side have both been given "silver or lead" ultimatums, either work for them and be paid or die. I can see it in the expressions on their faces The Asvestases were already darkside. Their affects never change. If you catch that utterly fear-struck, blood-drained, "my whole world is collapsing around me" look of Jack Hanna's and you see it on someone else who has been in the news, you just know. I'll give Hanna this much credit. He knows that he's going against his better self and he can't keep the fact from showing on his face.<br /><br />Weak attempts at preservation are worse than no attempts at all. Any controlling agency can suck the virtue out of a project along with the money and virtue can be bought and traded. Eric Blair, more commonly known by his pen name "George Orwell" wrote about a Ministry of Love that did exactly the opposite of its name, and conservation organizations make far more money with weak and failing attempts and policies than they would by succeeding or allowing success.<br /><br />It's no surprise if someone finds an agency that they think is decent and then they want a piece of it. I can name the virtues of the big cats half a dozen different ways. Among the ways that I can name it, I could say "essence of common decency." It's real. You could call it "virtue" also. This is something that a man or a woman will strive to have a little bit of to the exclusion of every primary drive that I can name. All but the most addicted to gambling or drugs can replace them with that essence. Those who can't want to. <br /><br />Having us by our sensitive parts is passe. This is something that people who have a clue about would rip their own sensitive parts off to have. It is not materially different from the love that a mother and an infant have for each other. If this is ripped out of a person everyone knows it, too. <br /><br />The virtue that I am talking about is the only thing that people like John Kasich see as dangerous. They use the term "danger" as their private code word. We think that "danger" means something entirely different and we act accordingly when they tell us to get rid of or regulate "dangerous" animals. Then they laugh up their sleeves at us. With six ODNR people on the panel and Kasich egging them on we are dealing with bullies, a collection of the usual pathological jerks and cretins. Who else would twist the head off someone's pet owl in front of him? <br /><br />I could of course write a longer essay and even a book on this one subject. The term "virtue" covers a lot of territory. It is the basis of competence in all areas of life. It can't be forced into a person and attempts to do so take it out of individuals and groups. Having it gives you immunity to parasite, which is why parasites see it as dangerous.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-60841829192417574322011-11-04T15:50:00.000-07:002011-11-04T15:53:49.302-07:00Vote "NO" on the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act?Before I vote "no" on the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, I want to see at least three very specific people, Who Know Who They Are, vote "no" on licensing requirements for private owners of exotics.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-49329988331776870652011-10-21T22:17:00.000-07:002011-10-21T22:43:57.217-07:00What did Governor Kasich do?He handed the state of Ohio over to the HSUS on a silver platter. His executive order will encourage every two-bit "humane society" in the state to go into people's homes and confiscate animals. This has been building for years, to every one of those organizations already has a list of targets. I watched the video. Kasich's part had been prepared, with the help of the fraudulent charity that sponsors domestic terrorism, for months now. So had Terry Thompson's spectacle.<br /><br />Sheriff Matthew Lutz labeled it suicide before the coroner had looked at the body. While the coroner did indeed rule that it was suicide, it looks like he was killed with a 30-30. A 30-30 is a long rifle and if you even can pull the trigger while it is under your chin, no one has arms long enough when it's pointed at the stomach. The rest looks like an animal rights group attack, with locks cut off and fences cut, and of course for some reason Lutz, who has been hovering over this situation for years, had to claim that Thompson did this to himself. <br /><br />As I have learned the hard way, the Feline Conservation Federation has decided that their policy would be that Terry Thompson did it to himself, and that it is incorrigible and otherwise speculative and vexatious to get on their Facebook page and claim that the animal rights people did it. Someone is having trouble remembering who is famous for cutting locks and fences. The idea that this man committed suicide and did all this insults the intelligence. Malicious releases of animals is a trademark of the Animal Liberation Front but I'll bet a dollar that they don't claim this one. Or do you all think that the ALF absolutely has to spray-paint its logo on something everywhere that they go?<br /><br />Were this an animal rights assault it would look foolish for Governor Kasich of Ohio to push for a mass punishment of all exotic animal owners in Ohio, which is what his executive order amounts to. Allowing the employees of every two-bit humane society in Ohio to kick people's doors down will be punishing for thousands of owners. One can hope that the news will come out that it was an AR attack and then Kasich will have to resign in embarrassment. I have no sympathy for him. This is a horrible thing to choose to do, to mistreat every exotic animal owner in a state at once using a very exceptional incident as an excuse, even if it was a real incident.<br /><br />There will be more to come on this. Joe Schreibvogel of GW Exotics in Wynnewood Oklahoma tried to help and Sheriff Lutz prevented him from doing so.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-42942704508382715062011-05-07T21:58:00.000-07:002011-05-07T22:17:51.116-07:00What Kind of Realities Can We Face?I would think that it would be a coward's motto. "I can't face this", "I can't face that" and "I couldn't live with myself if..." How many people remember when such phrasing would have earned you contempt from most listeners? How many of us remember when they started shoving that very thing down our throats and treated us with malice and if possible destruction if we balked at it? Moral and physical courage seem to have fallen into disuse and even contempt.<br /><br />People have to face things. On what basis do we keep nursing our mental injuries? When I had to handle my first dead person as part of a job as a nurse, I simply faced it and did as I was instructed. Then when I learned what I was supposed to do, I washed them according to protocol and that was that. It was upsetting and frightening at first. I faced that. I went in knowing that it would be a problem and I faced it. I took the pain. I lived with it.<br /><br />Cowboys don't turn away from their jobs when they see a friend being killed by a wild horse or a bull. They don't try to lock everything away and revamp all their systems and rules every time someone dies. It would make them crazy and paralyze them if they did. Deaths on the job and at the rodeo are a part of the life. The people who say they want to make us "safe" want us to be paralyzed cowards who can't do anything to help themselves. They also want us to do nothing but what they tell us to do.<br /><br />Animal rights activists even have a book that says kill yourself if you can't face life. I would rather say pucker up and face it. Don't let the naysayers intimidate you, don't let me intimidate you or play you, don't let someone tell you that you are an idiot if you face it, be proud of being who you are and what you do, and live in that strength. You're not encouraging people to take insane risks. You are encouraging them to live. That's what I want to tell the world. Even a few years of actually living are worth more than enough to compensate for dying in a horrible accident. I'll even bid three months, or if it's really good, a single day.<br /><br />You have to take risks to live.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-16800354972762542772011-04-08T18:54:00.000-07:002011-04-08T19:15:15.850-07:00A Proposal to ConsiderWould animals in general be better off if no one could ever again be punished for inhumane treatment of an animal? <br /><br />The term "humane" is definitely unconstitutionally vague and we have to face the fact that the politically active humane societies use "inhumane" the same way that people once used the "n" word or words like "faggot." They use it the way that people still use the word "pervert." It is a verbal club.<br /><br />How many thousands of dogs, cats, lions, tigers, and so on must be killed or prevented from being born for the sake of this "humane" crusade? If you knew for a fact that a certain number of each species would be tortured to satisfy someone's sick sadism, would you think that it is better that the whole species dies out? I've seen words to that effect, animal rights activists saying that extinction is better than humiliation at the hands of humans.<br /><br />Any book that accuses a segment of the population of being evil and sadistic attracts a like-minded following. Focusing their anger creates a certain pressure that gets people to believe that something "has to be done" no matter how stupid or destructive that something is, or how unnecessary it is.<br /><br />I've said it a dozen times. What actually encourages humane treatment of animals? It is love. Love is the active principle of life. That is why people risk their lives to save the lives of animals. That is why we feed them and pay a lot of money for their medical care. Threats of punishment take a lot of the virtue out of the good things that we do for animals. Worse, they give the threateners undeserved credit.<br /><br />If you try to threaten people to make them get in line, you become a threat to society and yourself. Overall only scientific progress and prosperity improve animal care. Laws that threaten people have too many takebacks. If they do provide some temporary benefits, the people who wanted those laws go around and steal what they feel like stealing. The stealing, the laws that ban breeds and species, and the limit laws actually reduce the number of paws on the ground, which reduces the number of animals that are being cared for humanely.<br /><br />Maybe we can do better without any humane laws at all.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-88546713473869285572011-04-07T19:11:00.000-07:002011-04-07T19:39:07.573-07:00"Irresponsible" Pet Owners of AmericaIt's going to be a funny-looking acronym when it is shown this way: "I"POA.<br /><br />This is something that is vitally needed. I sit before you as a person who has had every responsibility in his life thrown in his face or stuffed up his behind and then forcibly ripped from him before he could "get it." What does the term mean? The term "irresponsible" is a weapon that is used against others the way that the "n" word is used against black people. Black people took to calling each other that in normal conversation. When used by black people who are talking to black people, it means "brother" and "one who I have common cause with" and also "human being." When used by a white man against a black man it means some pretty degrading things.<br /><br />Both "puppy mill" and "irresponsible" are routinely used as terms of degradation, terms of bigotry, terms that denigrate others. If "responsible" means that a person is a good person and "irresponsible" means that a person is a bad person who shouldn't own a "king", then the term is used to set one's self up as the judge of another. Calling myself an "I"POA person means that I am no one's judge.<br /><br />Were I to try to be an animal owner I would have to fight terrorists who work under the color of law and people who will freely label me negatively if I fail to measure up to their allegedly high standards. I've been seeing the term "irresponsible" tossed around pretty freely lately. If it is because someone was irritated with me and wanted me to shut up, she has her wish, at least on her forum.<br /><br />An "I"POA person has principles and one of those is "thou shalt not judge." Another is "thou shalt not steal." A "responsible" person seems to have to be responsible for someone else's actions. The same person will fight to the death of his person and his culture to get at those "irresponsible" people. Well excuse me all to hell. I'm not going to kill myself or my culture over someone's allegedly dirty pen.<br /><br />People in this society have shown a willingness to bring down society entirely to get at the black people, the sex perverts, the drug users, and now, the allegedly irresponsible pet owners. It's always something isn't it? The pattern of attack is always suicidal. They're in it for the suicide, not to get at anyone else but themselves. When you go on the attack against a class of people, it's always an attack against yourself first. This is true directly because it's usually an attack against something that you hate about or within yourself. It is true indirectly because it gives opportunities for exploiters to come back and beat you up. <br /><br />The only responsible pet owner is one who defends her own.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-67642266918643412872011-04-06T20:45:00.000-07:002011-04-07T11:09:36.334-07:00A Simple ConceptTim Harrison has been caught lying. PETA and the HSUS have been caught lying. They perform their vocations or avocations in a manner that is threatening, dishonest, destructive, and sometimes illegal. They act as accusers, which may be the most important part of this.<br /><br />The burden of proof is on the accuser. In any reasonable interpretation of legal tradition or social custom, the burden of proof is on the accuser. What has happened to our minds so that when someone pulls something out of his ass to accuse someone else of, the person who is accused has to prove his innocence? All that the accuser has to have is a slightly higher status than the person who he accuses, and a certain lack of good conscience. This is something that Carole Baskin can do with great ease, routinely, and that Zuzana Kokol couldn't do with a gun to her head and a million dollar bribe.<br /><br />We have to understand that this kind of enemy is a liar. There is no "this time I'm telling the truth" with known liars such as PETA or the HSUS. It's all lies. When they make a business of lying they don't get to turn our heads with a new video or photograph or "evidence." We have to watch out for the way that every time they pull something out of thin air, people pay attention. And if it is a video where someone like them has total control of the subject matter and editing, don't believe a damn thing. If we keep believing them they will keep manipulating us. The stakes are a lot higher than whether someone might have a little too much shit in a lion's pen.<br /><br />Some people might think I'm making too much of this but this is almost all of our meaningful defense. It is also how we will be able to keep from damaging each other or allowing damage. Right now it's real easy to get one owner to hate another. I've spent years cajoling one group of animal owners to get them to reach the understanding that we can't believe accusations that are being hurled at breeders by mortal enemies. I have also been looking for the understanding of the idea that we do not need to create weapons against other humans to force them to "straighten out" or whatever we want to call it. I am glad to see that at least one group is getting it.<br /><br />I understand very well that when a group is under attack this kind of thing happens, and when it happens, the group fragments and we have problems. We have to solve these problems instead of hacking each other up using rules that are imposed on us by people who hate us and want us dead.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-17895483641110585142011-04-05T16:13:00.000-07:002011-04-05T16:26:57.362-07:00Believing the Word of Our OppressorsAnother good title for the book "Malleus Maleficarum" would be "The Book of Dirty Lies." It invents, in graphic color, lies that can be told about individual humans.<br /><br />The French Aristrocracy called the common human the "proletariat" which means "syphilitic." "Original sin" means that we're all trash that can only be redeemed and made human by obeying our overlords.<br /><br />A witchsmeller is nothing but a dishonest storyteller who can lay down any kind of fantastical story about your neighbors and make you believe it. Had Whitley Streiber's books gained a little more credibility the witchsmeller could get us to believe tales of being abducted by UFOs and being probed by small skinny aliens.. Uh...<br /><br />Why do so many of us seem to swallow a story by PETA hook, line, and sinker? Think about it.<br /><br />It is so hard to believe even what we see with our own eyes, and so hard to understand the import of that which we do believe, that we are seriously harming ourselves if we believe the word of anything that comes from the HSUS or PETA. We're screwing ourselves if we believe their videos. Dan Christensen saw them in action, staging videos in trucks that they brought to the scene. I suspect that it was dog shit that Tim Harrison was shoveling out of that trailer at Terry Brumfield's place.<br /><br />The rite of due process means that the evidence doesn't exist unless it is proven to some degree of certainty. We are dealing with people who would pack a dog crate with manure, shove your dog in that manure face first, and take a picture. So where does the slightest chance of believing their words come from? <br /><br />I know. It's a form of suicide. They throw so much garbage that some of it sticks and since it's mental garbage you might not know which garbage stuck and what it did to you. We're too generous. We give up too much to them when we should be treating them as if none of their evidence exists.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-79289319855023712512011-04-05T15:51:00.000-07:002011-04-05T19:54:56.261-07:00EvidenceOK, so I haven't seen "Elephant in the Living Room" and I've only heard a little bit about it.<br /><br />People have already told me that there is evidence in the film against the late Terry Brumfield, that apparently he didn't keep the lion's housing too clean.<br /><br />Trouble is, I don't believe the word of people who are financed by the HSUS to produce a horrible screed against animal ownership. Belief goes out the window when I see certain names as producers and cast, and when they use their ultimate dishonest: They say that this is why private ownership should be banned.<br /><br />So I had a tiff with someone about this evidence and I'm obviously wrong because obviously evidence is evidence or something, I haven't worked this out. Yet this someone seems to believe evidence from known liars, thieves, swindlers, and people who hate us and wants us dead. I've seen people who should know better believe everything that comes from PETA, too. As if a known jerk can't stage sweeping shit out of a trailer for a film production.<br /><br />Whatever it is I might attempt to do for the sake of our freedom to own animals, this is a handicap. It's a hell of a block. (to me)Evidence from known liars with an agenda is not just suspect, it doesn't exist. (but)As long as I am part of a certain group, or more like a dangling chad and Internet troll, let's face it, I seem to have to accept any evidence that gives ammunition to the other side.<br /><br />At least on Petlaw no one seems to be believing statements by abusive raiders.<br /><br />It may be pissing in the wind, but it's my piss. Asking the world to live up to its own minimal standards is pissing in the wind, but there I be. I don't even mind tolerating a certain amount of dirt and shit as long as things are somewhere near being between the rails, and the animals are happy, well-fed, and comfortable. But if people can't quit hacking at each other, I don't want to screw with it. Maybe giving me a lot of money will make me feel better. Then I could afford a psychotherapist, some antidepressants, and a real bed to sleep in. But if I can't own a pet tiger without a bunch of strangers having to share the experience and "making sure" that I satisfy whatever dark desires they have, I'll buy them each a pet tiger for themselves if I get rich, and they can have mine, too. And maybe we can talk some time, but right now I'm sick of talking about animals.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-24759070310230267682011-02-15T09:23:00.000-08:002011-02-15T16:27:44.313-08:00FencesThey're not trying to get us to build fences high enough to contain our tigers. They're trying to make us build fences high enough and strong enough to keep them from taking our tigers. Since there is no such thing we find ourselves with a compulsive-obsessive disorder, driving ourselves to exhaustion trying to cover our backsides while failing to face them down.<br /><br />The unlawful, the unruly, the people who talk out of both sides of their mouths and screw around, they have a big advantage in this field. It seems like a drug-addled idiot can get a free pass out of the people who are grabbing our cats if he just kisses their asses and helps them screw everyone else over.<br /><br />(edit) Funny thing is at the same time the gun grabbers are finally failing the cat grabbers are rising to power. They even use rhetoric like "a big cat is like a loaded gun." Possession of a gun is an absolute right guaranteed under Constitutional law, so that is where we should be but of course "they really don't mean it that way."Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-14223708024961307472011-01-22T02:04:00.000-08:002011-01-22T02:20:25.151-08:00Giving up domain nameI'm sorry to be doing this on short notice but I honestly thought that I was going to be able to pay for my domain name until today. From now on the URL is <a href="http://realanimalculture.blogspot.com">realanimalculture.blogspot.com</a>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-31389652209517329142010-12-15T10:50:00.000-08:002010-12-15T11:56:54.161-08:00Please Help Jean CyhanickThe whole story is at <a href="http://got50.blogspot.com/">http://got50.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Jean is appealing her conviction and we are helping. The information at the Got50 site may be a day or two old, but as of today, Wednesday the 15th of December 2010, pledges total about $28,000 out of $35,000 needed, so we're getting close. Walter Hutchens is taking pledges at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'GeoSlb712 Md BT';">waltah @ earthlink.net</span> (remove spaces). Current instructions are to send no money, but promise to send what you feel you can and you want to. I'm sending $25 when they are ready.<br /><br />In this case the jury was not told that by convicting Jean Cyhanick they would deprive her of her livelihood. That's deception right there. I think that the whole point of prosecuting her was to deprive her of her livelihood.<br /><br />Jean Cyhanick was convicted of animal cruelty because she had dogs that had dental issues that her veterinarian had told her did not warrant immediate attention. This was after she had done a lot to avoid being a "commercial breeder" under the laws of the State of Virginia, and giving up as many dogs as she did, she sacrificed a lot of her yearly income. She had been inspected yearly by animal control officers and no one found anything to complain about until a person by the name of Amy Hammer who wore the uniform of an ACO started strongarming her, first telling Jean that if she didn't give Hammer three of her dogs, she was going to fine her $250 a day.<br /><br />There is a lot in the story that will set your hair on fire. The jury was actually embarrassed to have convicted Jean, and well they should be. Even if we are talking about the law, there has always been some kind of doctrine that the law, if it is used against a person at all, should be used with common sense and compassion. I've read of cases where far more compassion was given to a murderer than to this lady who was taking very good care of her animals and helping the species by giving it a home to breed in.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-541167606115490932010-11-30T22:36:00.000-08:002010-11-30T22:42:36.582-08:00Why would I want to be "safe"?Safety is a good idea. Now it has become moralistic. <br /><br />Since it's "not safe" and since it "might look bad" and "what would the people who hate us and want us dead think?", I think I'm supposed to feel bad about something that I enjoy. I enjoyed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjbo8cmyJr0">watching those lions torment that man</a>. He enjoyed it. I used to enjoy it when my dogs did it. I wish I were him.<br /><br />It's a moral, that I think must be disposed of, that if it smacks the slightest bit of unsafeness or of disreputability it must not be practiced. This is even when I agree that the youngsters must be kept under control. I can tell you for certain that my German Shepherds didn't learn that kind of self-control from me but they were quite good with strangers and quite mannerly.<br /><br />Collectively we worry ourselves to death and then worry that if we don't worry enough someone's going to think something's wrong with us and that will be the end of the world. Kind of silly to think that when the bastards are already going full-tilt at us with what little they have, and like the parasites they are they have to co-opt energy and resources that do not belong to them. And then we have trouble seeing why we should not close off our sources of power and connections with the rest of humanity. <br /><br />The parasites are a small force that continually has to do its worst to try to erode away at a thing that is larger, better, far more beautiful, far more life-giving, than they can ever hope to be. The exotic animal trade, as is all animal-based agriculture, is a lot more important to humanity than we usually think.<br /><br />I don't know. You can call me whatever but what I see in the two cubs playing with their human is one of the great manifestations of life. All things considered it is just about intense enough to help a human remain human. We have a divine spark that requires something intense to keep it at its optimum brightness. The light is what the public wants from keepers of exotic animals, something to nourish their souls. "Safety" does nothing for them. It's less than nothing. It's the promise to subtract something from their lives. When do we start celebrating life? You know, it's not celebrating life to sit in front of a machine punching a touch screen hoping that it will reward me with some spare change.<br /><br />My blog: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.animalculture.org/">www.animalculture.org</a> <div id="yiv1467305226"> <style type="text/css">#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp { border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); font-family: Arial; margin: 10px 0pt; padding: 0pt 10px; }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp hr { border: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp #yiv1467305226hd { color: rgb(98, 140, 42); font-size: 85%; font-weight: 700; line-height: 122%; margin: 10px 0pt; }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp #yiv1467305226ads { margin-bottom: 10px; }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp .yiv1467305226ad { padding: 0pt; }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp .yiv1467305226ad p { margin: 0pt; }#yiv1467305226 #yiv1467305226ygrp-mkp .yiv1467305226ad a { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: none; 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}</style> </div>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870717764395783611.post-63716834244907766552010-11-23T11:57:00.001-08:002010-11-23T18:05:03.814-08:00What's the Use of a Tiger Summit?Is the WWF going to get with Vladimir Putin and blame humanity for all of the troubles that the tiger is having? Is Vladimir Putin going to become another owner of exotic animals who hates all exotic animal owners outside of his own little clique? Are they going to brew up another way to blame private ownership for the ills of the world and the always impending extinction of the tiger?<br /><br />I'm sick of being yanked around like this. If it is that damned urgent to save the species, pay people to live with them and assist them in breeding. Is that too complicated, geniuses? All the complications come from people being picky about how the tiger will be made to survive the alleged oncoming end of the world as they know it. They want us to think it's Hell if the tiger sleeps on a couch in the basement watching television while being waited on hand and foot by humans who are thoroughly in love with him. <br /><br />It is "urgent" enough that they send people in to fight wars against poor people who go into the forbidden territory because they need food and firewood to cook it over. It is "urgent" enough to allow brown-skinned people to be killed by hungry nuisance animals. But when it comes to breeding the animals in private, suddenly every stupid "why not" idea takes precedence. Bull. Shit.<br /><br />Private owners have been the most effective force for saving the tiger. I reject the idea of subspecies purity. Any idea of "specific adaptations" is pure hooey. The tiger does quite well in a Harlem apartment, a Nevada desert, a Nebraska winter, and in my basement. In my basement the tiger also has a faithful loving companion, me. Unfortunately that tiger is imaginary. Or is she? Actually the whole basement is imaginary. <br /><br />I would rather place faith in anyone who buys a tiger or breeds one, that they will do an adequate job, then in regulations that are only used as clubs to destroy the whole business. What are they willing to do to the tiger in order to "save" it? They confiscate and destroy or sterilize animals using excuses like "too small a cage." The idea of subspecies purity is simply a despicable lie, and they have destroyed tigers for not being "purebred." They are worse than useless, the WWF and IFAW and The Tiger Fund, let alone the HSUS. <br /><br />All of the willingness that I might have to save the tiger by giving the tiger a portion of my own home to live in, they discount and say "obey us and send money." About how many tigers has a billion dollars a year in donations saved? I don't see it. They continually advertise their failure to, overall, save even one tiger. But I might be able to create a habitat for a healthy tiger for about a thousand dollars a month. They've already shown willingness to allow people to die, as long as the people who die aren't white Europeans, as long as they are "natives" at the same time that they talk out of the other side of their collective mouth about how "dangerous" it is to keep tigers as pets even though tigers as pets rarely kill. If they made the same bally-hoo about tigers killing people in India and China they would have to sequester or kill the wild tigers. Killing them was necessary in the 19th century because predation against humans by tigers was getting out of hand. The only necessity now is to make fraudulent charitable organizations that much wealthier, by emotional manipulation and because people are literally begging for chances to help the tiger.<br /><br />If you want to help the tiger, pay me to sleep with the tiger. I can do more for the tiger by finding a random male to breed her, letting her birth the cubs in my bedroom, letting them have the backyard to run and play in, letting them share my home with me, than all of the charities that are exploiting the tiger for profit. If you divide the amount of money raised by the charities by the number of animals saved, you get a negative number, how much money they raise to subtract how many animals from the world's stock of tigers. In other words they are getting paid to reduce the number of tigers in the world. The people who snatch our pet dogs are doing exactly the same thing.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00024665871872480537noreply@blogger.com0