Another "AR" Case for Conservative Outrage

Here's another Pennsylvania case for conservative know-nothings to express chest-thumping outrage about.

Dog wardens have shut down a kennel in Waynesboro, west of Harrisburg, that was operating without a license. Wardens and officers with the Washington Township Police Department went to the property last week and removed all 29 live dogs and one dead dog from the premises. Acting on information provided by a visitor to the kennel, dog wardens and police officers secured search warrants to investigate potential kennel and cruelty violations.

The agents found dogs and other animals living in filthy conditions, including cages stacked four-high and filled with feces, maggots and moldy food. The dogs—Papillons, Yorkies and Poodle mixes—as well as several cats and birds, were immediately removed by the Antietam Humane Society in Waynesboro. The dogs were matted and dirty, and several appeared to have eye and ear infections. The animals will all be examined and receive veterinary care.

The Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement plans to file charges against the owner, Donna Cook, for operating an unlicensed kennel. Any charges for animal cruelty will be issued by the police department. Cook was cited in 2001 for cruelty and operating a kennel without a license.

My God, what's with these fascist local Humane Society's and SPCAs?

Don't they know it's their job to ignore animal abuse? I mean, who doesn't have a dead dog in their Kennel? These thing happen. In any case, the dog committed suicide. It was depressed.

So what if the local Humane Society found dogs and other animals living in filthy conditions, including cages stacked four-high and filled with feces, maggots and moldy food?

You believe these people over the lady who was cited for animal cruelty back in 2001? Why?

These dogs are private property and were on private property. How dare the local Humane Society step in to immediately relieve their misery?

Instead, they should visit, be denied admission to the premises, and then go to a judge for a warrant. Then, with warrant in hand, they should come back and maybe issue a warning. Then, a week or two later, they can come back and maybe levy a small fine if things are not better. Then, a week or two later, they can come back and levy another small fine if things are not much improved.

By then, of course, most of the dogs might be dead, which will make legal action moot.

You see? Wasn't that easy?


Who is to say this is wrong?

The outage here, of course, is that these dogs are going to be placed in loving homes with families rather than be sold to people who have not done their research on how to even purchase a dog, much less how to house, feed, or train one.

Dogs are private property, same as a stack of tires, and this is nothing more than theft by the SPCA's and local Humane Society's in order to line their own well-padded coffers.

It's a konspiracy I tell you!

Everyone knows there is huge cash-money to be made selling broken, diseased, and poorly socialized animals.

That's how the local Humane Societies and SPCA's can pay all those big salaries. That's why every local dog catcher is driving a Lincoln Navigator home from the office every day.

This is theft by the State, and I am outraged.

Thank God we have clear-thinking people like David Zincavage over at the "Never Yet Melted" blog to help us sort it all out.

He knows dogs.

He even tells me that he owns one! He hopes to get a second one soon.

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As good as it should ever get for dogs in a conservative/libertarian world.