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Wild Pigs

There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some 
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab 
the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing 
his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told 
him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting 
communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his 
country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange 
question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The 
young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a 
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs 
find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are 
used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place 
where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they 
begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. 
They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you 
have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The 
pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to 
eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and 
around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to 
eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten 
how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their 
captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees 
happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism 
and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as 
supplemental
income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy 
subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, 
etc., while we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a time.

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And this is how we will lose our right to breed dogs and control our 
ownership of pets, a little at a time. Denver and Dallas here, 
California there, Pennsylvania next. When it becomes impossible for 
anyone to breed dogs except (possibly) commercial breeders who have 
business licenses, inspections, and USDA approved concrete runs and 
water-impermeable surfaces, we will wonder how it happened. The answer 
will be "one piece of fence at a
time" One compromise at a time. One "reasonable negotiation" at a time.

If you've ever said the following, you're guilty of providing a fence 
post:
-- If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid of inspections
-- No one should have more than ------- dogs.
-- No one should breed more than ----- litters a year,
-- Breeding pets is wrong.
-- No one should breed except to Improve the Breed.
-- You should have a license to own a (fill in the breed.)
-- Breeders with more than ____ dogs should be inspected.

If no one breeds except show breeders,
a) Do you really believe the animal rightists will stop there?
b) Where will the pets come from?

When people can no longer buy a good pet, perhaps we will wake up. Until 
then, we continue to bash each other, criticize our fellow breeders, and 
support spay/neuter laws for "everyone but me."

When animal control comes to remove your dogs because you are one dog 
over the limit or because your dogs are in crates or because your 
neighbor says you didn't have water for them one day last week, perhaps 
then you will realize that fighting bad legislation is not just for the 
activists and
fanatics. When you have compromised away your right to breed at all 
perhaps you will realize that there IS no compromise with the animal 
rights movement.

"First they came for the commercial breeders, and I did not speak out ~~ 
because I was not a commercial breeder.
Then they came for the backyard breeders, and I did not speak out ~~ 
because I was not a backyard breeder.
Then they came for the one-time breeders, and I did not speak out ~~ 
because I was not a one-time breeder.
And they came for me ~~ And there was no one left to speak out for me."

Time to wake up, AKC breeders. They're coming for us.

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Ginger Cleary
"... more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use 
coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil."-- 
Fredrich v Hayek
Rome, GA http://www.rihadin.com/

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