This is for those with the overactive, inaccurate
imaginations about HOG HUNTING with DOGS and to Those who enjoy passing
judgment on folks they know absolutely nothing about.... Please educate
yourself before you pass judgment. We use some of our dogs, mostly Magnum
and Dixie as catch dogs, used in the WILD....We DO NOT BREED SPECIFICALLY
FOR HOG DOGS. We certainly do not condone animal cruelty or any type of
animal fighting, period! All you have to do is look around our site and
you will see that we care immensely about our animals and would NEVER intentionally
harm them. We show dogs, but enjoy working dogs as well... NOTHING wrong
or illegal about that. The AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER was originally a working
dog and should ALWAYS be that first. Ask a K9 Officer what he would do
without his WORKING DOG or what would happen if German Shepherds or Malinois'
were only bred for show? All dogs were created for a purpose and there
is nothing wrong with using dogs in LEGAL working activities.
We are honest citizens, my husband and I both
hold full time jobs, I am in the process of becoming a Sanctioned Conformation
judge. We support our breed by attending Sanctioned shows, educating those
who know nothing about our breed and fighting unnecessary BSL. I have over
12 years experience working as a Veterinarian Technician with 6 years in
ICU (Intensive Care Unit) . I take care of and save hundreds of animals
a week, what do you do? I have dedicated my entire life to these dogs.
We have about 10 dogs that are almost 10 or over 10 years old. They are
retired and have a home here until they die. Unlike other *Show Folks*
who just get rid of them once their show and breeding careers are over.
Animal Rights Groups say "SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR ANIMALS AND RESCUE DOGS."
Um why? I don't have anything to do with the dogs in shelters. I enjoy
a PUREBRED AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER, why should we, or people breeding
responsibly every now and then get blamed for shelter dogs? We take back
any dog we breed, our dogs are sold with contracts, they aren't in shelters,
believe me.
For those that scream *ANIMAL CRUELTY* because
people use dogs to HUNT WILD GAME, need a reality check. Do you know how
chickens are kept in slaughter houses? Do you know how they slaughter pigs,
cows, how they skin rabbits, etc...? Certainly going out in the woods and
catching a Wild Hog with a dog and killing it is much less torture on the
animal than what the animals specifically raised for the slaughter house
go through, i.e. chickens in chicken houses that are injected with steroids
since they hatch and will fall over from a heart attack if startled because
their hearts are so big from the steroids they are fed day in and day out...
So some will say they are Vegetarians, Vegans or what have you... AND?
Animals are used in experiments to investigate human diseases, test new
drugs, agricultural chemicals, weapons and household products, such as
deodorants, laundry detergents and toothpaste. Do you know what the animals
in Animal Test Labs go through to test those cosmetics your wearing or
the shampoo, toilet paper, skin lotion, Sanitary Napkins etc... Do any
of you use Colgate, Palmolive or Dove or? Do a search and educated yourself
on what they do to those guinea pigs... Did you know that just one company
PROCTER AND GAMBEL uses about 50,000 animals a year to test products on....
or how many animals had to die to make that nice leather wallet, or shoes
or the nice leather interior of your car.
What the FDA says:
Although the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act
does not specifically mandate animal testing for cosmetic safety, FDA strongly
urges cosmetic manufacturers to conduct whatever tests are appropriate
to establish that their cosmetics are safe. In the United States, manufacturers
bear a responsibility to ensure their Products are safe for consumer use.
In fact, cosmetic products that have not been adequately tested for safety
must have warning statement on the front label which reads,
"WARNING--The safety of this product has not
been determined."
FDA continues to work with other governments
and private organizations to develop validated alternatives to animal testing
in assessing cosmetic safety and considerable progress has been made in
some areas. Nevertheless, until a method has been proven to be reliable
and accepted by the scientific community, FDA believes that the use of
animals remains necessary to ensure the safety of cosmetic ingredients
and products.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-205.html
Do you or any of your loved ones or friends
take medications? Do you know how many animals suffer daily testing Medications
to help us Humans? Bet you or your child was sick and the only thing to
save you or your child is an Animal Tested Medicine would you say no? How
about cancer treatments or Diabetes which all need animal tested medications...
Now how about Mary Beth Sweetland, vice president of PETA? She is a type
A diabetic and therefore has to take insulin (a drug tested on animals)
everyday to survive. Yes, the same PETA that supports burning down research
labs. Doesn't she sound like a hypocrite? She doesn't think so.. she's
been quoted.. "I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically
manufactured insulin that contains some animal products -- and I have no
qualms about it ... I'm not going to take the chance of killing myself
by not taking insulin. I don't see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life
to fight for the rights of animals." Seems like animal rights are
only more important than human life when it doesn't involve her....
Does Hypocrisy ring a bell?
Jerry Greenwalt is the General Manager of the
Department of Animal Service of the city of Los Angeles. PETA has driven
this man up the wall with protests, picketing, and vandalism. In fact,
his wife has suffered a heart attack due to the stress brought on by PETA
supporters. These people go into his neighborhood and yell over loud speakers
about how evil he is. Why you ask? Because he has people put animals to
sleep. So? The animals would otherwise be on the streets of L.A. starving
to death or biting and attacking people. What PETA doesn't tell you is
that THEY too put animals to sleep. Of the 2,103 animals that PETA brought
into their headquarters, they killed 1,325. Yes, PETA, an animal rights
organization, KILLS animals. Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and president
of PETA has been quoted, "Sometimes the only kind option for some animals
is to put them to sleep forever." I guess Jerry doesn't comprehend this
and is killing the animals for fun? NOT.. Jerry Greenwalt has saved over
63,000 animals the same year in L.A. and is trying to increase adoptions
and awareness on spaying and neutering so they don't have to put animals
to sleep in the future.
Here's someone that PETA has no problem with....
Rodney Coronado. He fire-bombed a Michigan State University lab and admitted
to 6 other arsons. He is probably the most celebrated activist among the
animal rights extremists. Ingrid Newkirk has gone on record claiming him
to be a "fine young man." In PETA's tax return a donation of $45,200 was
made to the Rondey Coronada Support Fund and a $25,000 "loan" was made
to Rondey's father the same year. Think PETA might have some sort of connection
between the FIRE-BOMBING of research labs?
PETA's final goal is the total liberation of
animals everywhere. That means that there are no pets, no seeing eye dogs,
no meat, no fur, and even no honey (yes, bees apparently are prosecuted).
But that also means to animal research. Without animal research, medical
progress would be slowed down by at least 85%. PETA says that if they ever
had to test on a rat, AIDS would never be cured? If that isn't ridiculous,
I don't know what is.. They aren't willing to cure aids, but their Vice
President can take Insulin? Human life is evidently less valuable to them
than animal rights. That is why it is so easy for them to start such campaigns
as "Holocaust on Your Plate." On their website they intercut livestock
photos with pictures from concentration camps. Yes, PETA is very "Ethical
Maybe all of you screaming ANIMAL CRUELTY at
those of us who simply hunt for food should sit back and think a little
and realize that you yourself commit some type of Animal Cruelty every
day of your life. See, the point is not to put down Peta or any "particular"
Animal Rights group, but to open the eyes of those that are involved with
them that don't realize these things about them... their heart is in the
right place, but they go about stuff the wrong way and are very much hypocrites
in many aspects...
Let's say we can't hunt deer or hogs any longer.
At least we will still have them to look at, right? Consider this: There
are over 10 million deer in Texas alone. Hunters in Texas harvest around
500,000 deer each year. If the animal rights folks got their way and deer
hunting were discontinued, a large majority of the deer in that state would
die a slow, miserable death. They would starve. Man has become a viable
part of the checks and balance system of the deer's ecosystem. By not harvesting
the half million deer that they currently harvest annually, they would
run out of food. Sound like hype? It's not.... do your research. In early
1900, around Kaibab Plateau in Arizona, a mule deer herd grew to 4000 head.
Hunting these deer became illegal. In 24 years the herd grew to 100,000.
They ate everything in sight. During the winters of 1924 and 1925, over
50,000 of the mule deer died, due to starvation. It taught wildlife conservationist
an important lesson. Man is an instrumental part of the ecosystem of our
wildlife. Taking him out of the conservation picture would have devastating
effects to all of our wildlife and fish.
Our dogs are healthy, well taken care of and
spoiled and we are against the use of animals for illegal purposes and
would never intentionally harm an animal or be cruel to an animal. A few
of our dogs are used as *Catch Dogs*, which is STILL LEGAL, and they are
used in the woods to hunt WILD FERAL NUISANCE BOARS. This is NOT hog dog
fighting, and really, there is no such thing as a hog dog fight, that's
just the media and Animal Rights folks over sensationalizing what happened....
It's catch work... The dogs use vests for protection from the hogs tusks
and once the catch dog is released on the hog, we get a handle on the dog
and the hog is killed. We do not release hogs in enclosed pens or arenas
to catch them just for fun. If animals weren't hunted they would
overpopulate and cause major destruction as they do already. It's part
of the CYCLE OF LIFE and there's a reason why we're at the top of the food
chain... We send all our kills to be packaged to eat... We eat our meat
caught by us, natural, from the wild, no steroids, no preservatives...
WE HUNT FOR FOOD!!!
I'll leave you all with this... Some people's
stand is based on personal decisions to not hunt, to not eat meat and then
finding a justification for imposing those beliefs on others. Sorry, but
you don't get to tell us how to live, just like I don't get to tell you
how to live. Some may be completely and utterly convinced of the rightness
of their argument but that doesn't, in and of itself, make it right. Because,
if that were the case, then abortion would be illegal and we'd all be whatever
religion our current president is. And guess what? That ain't my America
and anytime someone TELLS me how to live is the easiest way to get me to
do the opposite.
Impose not your issues upon me.
Let him who is without sin
cast the first stone.~~~
Cold Steel Pits
For those who insist we protect
these harmless little, wild, innocent piggies... take the time and do your
research... here are some links you should read:
Depredation Problems Involving feral Hogs
http://texnat.tamu.edu/symposia/feral/feral-10.htm
FERAL HOGS: THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE
http://texnat.tamu.edu/symposia/feral/feral-14.htm
THE FACTS ON WILD FERAL HOGS
http://www.texasboars.com/articles/facts.html
http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=215
Hog Hunting Florida
http://www.gamecalls.net/fieldreports/hoghuntingflorida.html
The Feral Hog: Disease & Depredation
http://www.noble.org/Ag/Wildlife/FeralHogs/11-Depredation.htm
NFC: peta quotes
http://fins.actwin.com/nanf/month.200004/msg00047.html
Why Banning Hunting is Evil
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/nikolas.lloyd/opinion/huntban.html
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