As pointed out by Opposition Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in Ontario, the McGuinty revisions to our outdated Animal Welfare Act are problematic, to say the least.  I posted some notes about it in May.

While checking a few of my favourite blogs today, I read that a very similar type of legislation is being discussed for the Schenectady area of New York State.  In Ontario I don't think the plan is to have SPCA employees carry weapons or use Mace or body armour because we tend to be somewhat less escalated that way compared with the US.  Other than that distinction, both scenarios have the same rancid AR smell about them.

Blue Dog State and Smart Dogs' Weblog have excellent posts about the granting of police powers to civilians employed by a private organization which is not subject to public scrutiny or oversight.

I wonder if this is what they talk about at those H$U$ Expos?  There is certainly a lot of similarity among certain pieces of pet-related legislation that are popping up here and there across the continent lately.

Somehow, I doubt it, unless what we see - a duplicitous, avaricious Lord High Executioner for millions of helpless animals - is the real 'Humane Wayne'.

There's a good post over at Nathan Winograd's blog about Pacelle, his batty aunts at Peta and the travesty that was H$U$ Expo 2008 - held, of course, in Orlando Florida - the home of Disney World.

"According to HSUS as presented in statements, media quotes, and workshops at their conference, dogs and cats can and should be killed in shelters (it is a “necessity” and the “kindest option”); No Kill is hoarding; and cronies come before the animals being needlessly killed.

So we are left to conclude that this is the real Wayne Pacelle, and that this will be his enduring legacy to the millions of animals needlessly being slaughtered in shelters each year. When someone shows you over and over who they really are, what they really believe, and what they stand for, it behooves all of us to believe them."

 

Read the whole thing here.