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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Slippery slope - too simple and far too casual a statement to cover the disgrace of continuing killing 6 - 8 million dogs a year. Isn't the fact that thousands of dogs a day have to get up on a table and die alone because we humans don't want to stop our casual excessive breeding and dog-purchasing practices far too slippery a slope? Are we moral when we say "Oh, I don't want to lose MY rights to own or breed a dog because I might not meet a simple standard for dog ownership" though I fully understand that, to keep those rights, the price the dogs are paying is dying in the thousands every single day(some say it averages 20,000 a day - whatever the math is daily it is yearly marching upward to 10,000,000).
And almost every single time any society tries to take some baby steps to right a great wrong, someone utters slippery slope. Well, the dogs have been on that slope for decades and falling faster and faster as the shelter worker has to lead more and more of them to the little room in the back every single day.
That is why forums like this one work so hard to try to discourage any and all that want to to breed whatever dogs whenever the spirit moves them. If we the people will educate and regulate ourselves, no legislative body will ever need to become involved. If we don't, one day we will be just like China. |
Your so right. Sadly at least one of the shelters in my area put the animals appointed to die in a decompression chamber that takes the air out of their lungs to cause death. Grizzly details of how the innocent suffer because of selfish and thoughtless people who would rather have the "fun" of having a litter of puppies rather than rescue at least one from such a horrible death.