tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91271036646247710262011-08-01T21:36:55.254-04:00Laws. Limits & Freedoms. Too Many or Too Few.thepdkc.blogspotnoreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127103664624771026.post-88745423763529960912009-11-28T22:07:00.002-05:002009-11-28T22:12:35.432-05:00

If you are interesting in the subject of hoarding, like where people hoard a house full of cats or dogs, then look below, where I have left a series of posts on hoarding.They are all in drop down menus, just click the "read more".The rest of my posts have been sent through a fliter and over to:http://darlingyouaredoingitwrong.blogspot.comwhere they are mixed in with dog post from other blogs.

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It is that time of year again, but I will port occassionally at:http://thepdkc.blogspot.comWill post again here after the holidays.ps - for those who were reading the travel posts, sorry but I haven't the time to finish them now - besides there never is an end (at least not one that we can tell) to telling our life's tale.

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Someone wrote on hoarding? They wanted comments? I wrote on the subject, think I should gather up my posts and send them over to his comment box? Just kidding. I think when someone asks for a taste of your ham sandwich, they don't really want you to show up at their door with a whole roasted hogzilla. I read a few blogs. I usually read them when they are fresh - so I never see the comments, but

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Hoarding is only one of the problems. Our society has changed from one where the average person was free to let their dog have a litter of puppies, and where most people got their pet puppy from a mother dog who was a pet, to a society where dog breeding has largely become a business. To keep it a business, people in the business often think they have to prevent the people who buy one of their

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One way to help a person self limit, is to take a cue from the tribe of 99. (they lived on an island and self limited their human population number to 99 people - each with a different name, which must be one of the 99 allowed names). When you have fixed the maximum number of dogs, then fix the names too. One woman told me she called her 7 show dogs: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday . . . I look at

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Another way to limit yourself is to build runs, but only enough for Your Magic Number of dogs. Only keep enough crates for that many dogs. And stand firm. If you think you might be too temped to go over, then keep yourself at one less than your magic number. If you have already gone over Your Magic Number of dog, then you have a problem. If you are not emotionally attached to some of them you

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Another way, is to breed an easier breed. But beware, all is not as easy as it seems. If you have big dogs, you might think they are more work than little dogs. But many breeds of little dogs yap, and yap, and yap. Some of the breeds are notorious for being hard to housebreak, and many of them don't take the cold well. Terriers often fight. If you can get a breed where they all run loose in a

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Another way to limit yourself is to focus on training, instead of showing. You can do both - in that there are obedience shows where you show off your dog's training, not just his grooming, and conformation. Once you take a dog through basic obedience, you don't dump him, you go up to the next level, then the next level. Once you have gone through the levels you can focus on winning with the

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Of course there are selfish people, who get too clever for everyone's good. They come up with plans where they think they can have their cake and stay thin too. As you go through life, you often find ideas that seem like good ideas - but they are not. One such idea is co-ownership. Some people can make it work for them. But for every person who makes it work, there are all of those for whom it

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One of the problems with using other people to do your work for you, so that you can have more control over more dogs, is that it keeps you from facing the psychological problems that are developing - no I'm not a professional, it's just my opinion based on time spent at dog shows and with show dog breeders. But I believe that, except in strictly for profit commercial use, it should be obvious

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We all have the right to vote the way we want. Even governors.Still, I kind of liked Nava's bill #241, which Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed. I have been following it for months.http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_241&sess=CUR&house=B&author=navaIt deals, not only with population control in dogs & cats (many cats & dogs are 'being put to sleep' in California shelters), but

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You'd guess that choosing the faster whippets to use as breeding stock would result in healthier dogs. But it has been found, that the fastest whippets are the ones who carry one copy of a mutant muscle gene. I will write a post on it later, after I find some good photos.

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One thing that show breeders pride themselves on is conformation - breeding good bone angles. But do they all really improve on nature? More extreme angles does NOT mean better angles. Years ago, someone started having lure courses. So, I went to some. Most of the breeds ran more or less the way I expected dogs to run. Technically, the running gait of sprinting dogs is very different than that

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Horses run on their hooves (toenails), but dogs run on the balls of their feet. So you can only learn so much about dogs from studying horses. But gait is very important in horses. People use to ride horses -they were our cars.Early dog show judges judged dogs a lot like they did horses. But we did (and still should) breed dogs for their talents. Horses are bred for their gaits.It is ignorant to

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Is the woman in the photo happy? Yes. Is she happier than the hunter out trudging through the woods? Maybe. Nobody says that most hunters hunt in order to prevent animals from starving, but our culture has taught them that hunting is fun. Why? Because somebody has to do it. I don't fault the coyote for hunting, nor the bobcat. Should I fault the man who hunts, even though animals would suffer

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Did you ever sit down tally up the uses purebred dogs are said to be bred for? I have, and I found mostly hunting uses. There are dogs who track animals, sprint after animals, fight animals in a burrow, and wrestle wild hogs. There are even dogs who are bred to specialize in hunting birds. And retrievers who fetch shot birds. When did rifles become accurate enough to shoot birds? From ancient

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They may be small, but they carry disease, and they over-produce. How do you tell a mouse that he needs to wear a condom? I like cats too, but you can have too many cats, just like you can have too many mice. Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1J6zbqOLtc interview with woman with 136 cats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASG6r9rhwcE&NR=1 What many people don't understand is that

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1) This first video clip shows the factual problem in Austrailia with rabbits. The thickest part is almost 60 seconds into it. Eagles are near the end. Once the land reaches it's carring capacity, animals start to migrate and then starve, or force other kinds of animals to starve. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPhn4tYxJQ 2) This is an animation, but it shows the problem with rabbits

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.Watch this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkYu04R_kQ

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I have come to terms with the fact that if someone doesn't thin out the herds of deer, rabbits, rats, mice, other rodents, hogs, and flocks of birds...  ...we would soon have no farm crops for ourselves, our friends, and our families. I like wildlife, but I need food too, and so do you. I've looked at this from every angle, and the only thing that would work, is for people worldwide to have

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Most of our breeds of dogs today, descend from hunting dogs.Towns use to employ a man called a rat catcher, whose job it was to kill rats, but towns still had rats, and the rats spread disease, so...In order to encourage the public to help get rid of the rats that were spreading disease, the government made rat killing a sport. People would bet on how many rats a dog could kill in a set amount of

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