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by  Allie

by  Anonymous 1/17/2009 8:58 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
Here is a heartbreaking story of a family who lost their 15 year old cat and 5 month old lab puppy to the neighbor's pit bulls...

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=128803&catid=3

Please watch the video; they briefly show the gruesome pictures of what these dogs did to these poor animals. The pit bull owners are remorseless, and the family now lives in fear for their eight year old son.

by  Anonymous 1/17/2009 9:02 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
Here is another family that recently lost their puppy to a pit bull attack...the article has been cached in google;


http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tjKq9Gc1CyMJ:www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D9682719+Arteaga+family+pit+bull&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us


It discusses recent attamepts in Texas to declare certain breeds unsafe to live in residential areas. Where, exactly, are the humane advocates on this?

by  Anonymous 1/17/2009 4:33 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
This is why the breeder lobby hates Peta, because Peta actually is honest about the heart of the problem

People making money breeding aggressive dogs, and the rest of us have to pay to clean up after them

The breeder lobby wants us to believe their lies, and KEEP PAYING THEIR BILLS

If anyone is interested, here is one of the lobbyists the dog fighters and other breeder interests are involved with

http://www.consumerdeception.com

You will see links to Center for Consumer Freedom on dog fighter websites, also AKC and all the rest

He smears the groups that dare to speak the truth

by  Anonymous 1/18/2009 8:17 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
The Center for Consumer Freedom appears to be INSANE

What Is the Center for Consumer Freedom,
and Why Is It Attacking PETA?

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit corporation run by lobbyist Richard Berman through his Washington, D.C.-based for-profit public relations company, Berman & Co. The Center for Consumer Freedom, formerly known as the Guest Choice Network, was set up by Berman with a $600,000 “donation” from tobacco company Philip Morris.

Berman arranges for large sums of corporate money to find its way into nonprofit societies of which he is the executive director. He then hires his own company as a consultant to these nonprofit groups. Of the millions of dollars “donated” by Philip Morris between the years 1995 and 1998, 49 percent to 79 percent went directly to Berman or Berman & Co.

Richard Berman is an influence peddler. He has worked out a scheme to funnel charitable donations from wealthy corporations into his own pocket. In exchange, he provides a flurry of disinformation, flawed studies, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor, and trade-industry articles, as well as access to his high-level government contacts, who are servants of the industries he represents.

Berman’s name might sound familiar. In 1995, Berman and Norm Brinker, his former boss at Steak and Ale Restaurants, were identified as the special-interest lobbyists who donated the $25,000 that disgraced then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was hauled before the House Ethics Committee for influence-peddling over the money. Berman and Brinker were lobbying against raising the minimum wage.

Richard Berman is a spin doctor. For example, he has argued against a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) initiative to lower the blood alcohol content (BAC) limit for drivers by claiming that the stricter limits would punish responsible social drinkers. He has claimed that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warnings about salmonella-related food poisoning are just “whipping up fear over food.”

Here’s how an internal Philip Morris memo described Berman’s spin: “His proposed solution would broaden the focus of the ‘smoking issue,’ and expand into the bigger picture of over-regulation.” Smoking won’t kill you; over-regulation will.

Berman is “a one-man wrecking crew on important issues.” His approach has been described as “misleading” and “despicable.” Berman has been called “a tobacco company whore,” but he’s branched out since then.

Using “freedom of choice” as his battle cry, Berman has now taken on PETA and a number of other groups and organizations whose points of view could have an impact on the profits of his clients by waking consumers up...

http://www.consumerdeception.com/

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 12:32 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
Center For Consumer Freedom also lobbies for Petland (they sell puppy mill puppies, most registered by AKC), puppy mill breeders, lab animal dealers (the kind that steal your pet and sell to vivisection), canned hunt people, and remember Nathan Winograd Mr No Kill connected to Best Friends?

When his book came out, CCF was doing press releases for it and him! They still promote him

And Winograd has directly used CCF propaganda and smear, against Peta and other groups

You will see CCF information on NAIA. the one run by the AKC board member http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patti_Strand

The No Killers have gotten involved with this reprehensible lobbying group CCF, a group that supports animal abuse of the worst kind

And the dog fighters use CCF propaganda all the time, and refer people to CCF (and NAIA, and lately Nathan Winograd!)

More on CCF http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 12:46 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
I also want to point out something heinous about sfgate, the San Francisco Chronicle

The Chronicle has an AKC breeder and lobbyist who writes a Pets column for them, and DOES NOT REVEAL SHE IS A BREEDER LOBBYIST AND A BREEEDER

It's all hidden

Christie Keith is her name

She uses the Chronicle to publish breeder propaganda straight from the breeder lobbyists, whether it is opposing bsl, or spay neuter laws, or whatever

Literally fabrication and falsehood concocted by business lobbyists for the financial advantage of a for-profit industry

and San Francisco Chronicle is allowing a shill for that for-profit industry to abuse their newspaper and falsely claim to be a "journalist" and hide all this in a column

She even works for a breeder industry corporation, PetHobbyist.

It is an absolute disgrace to the world of journalism, a real ethics lapse

Would the Chronicle hire a tobacco industry lobbyist to write a health column? This is the equivalent thereof

Christie Keith is friends with Gina Spadafori, who used to work at the Sacramento Bee, but now works for Dog Writers Association of America and Pet Connection, two breeder industry front groups that pretend to be "information sources."

Gina and Christie promote each other, cover for each other, lobby together, attack people together who expose their falsehoods

A cohort is Kim Campbell Thornton, who works with Spadafori and has written some propaganda junk for msnbc and outright lied about spaying and neutering, among other things.

Quite bluntly, these individuals have used the cover of the media to engage in for-profit industry lobbying, and the media sources mentioned were too stupid to figure out they were and are being duped

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 9:11 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
To above poster....have you contacted the editorial staff at SFgate? Have you attempted to send a letter to the editor? This is powerful stuff, and clearly a violation of ethics.

Its become virtually impossible for the public to hear the truth regarding dangerous dog breeds because the non-dog savvy media is constantly bamboozled by these "experts" who also happen to make money breeding dogs, or lobbying for the breeders.

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 1:10 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
Here are some of her archives:
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/yourwholepet/archive/

There's Something About Shelter Dogs
But a lot of people will tell you to shy away from shelter dogs. They're in there for a reason, they say. They bark and jump and aren't housebroken. Shelter dogs, they say, can be trouble. And they can. I know, because I adopted a shelter dog once, and in her case, "trouble" was an understatement. But that's not the whole story: This is....

It is hard to keep those Colleen's out of trouble.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/28/petscol.DTL

Foreclosure Pets in the Crossfire - How shelter philosophies affect their lives
Keith is quite a piece of work...

Current shelters: The sheltering philosophy that has dominated animal control policy in this country since at least the 1970s is one that lays the blame for every pet problem, including large numbers of animals being killed in shelters every day, squarely at the feet of irresponsible pet owners.

Proponents of this approach believe that high kill rates in shelters are simply their best attempt at cleaning up after an uncaring and careless public. Their efforts to change people's behavior come in the form of policies such as mandatory spay/neuter legislation, strict limit and licensing laws, restrictions or outright bans on breeding, and compulsory microchipping.

No Kill wonder shelters: Their focus is on improving shelter policies to maximize adoptions, volunteers, and donations. It's a community-based approach that has arisen out of the no-kill movement as championed by groups such as Maddie's Fund and the No-Kill Advocacy Center, both national organizations headquartered in the Bay Area."

...The Nevada Humane Society is located in Reno, Nevada, a city hit hard by the housing crisis. The NHS director, Bonney Brown, is part of that new generation of shelter directors who have adopted the goals and policies of the no-kill movement, and under her guidance, the NHS has made itself a resource for the community, not another source of stress and anxiety for people who need help with pet problems.

NHS tried to pawn off the last fatal pit bull mauling in Vegas as a "mixed-breed" dog. The police overruled them. At that point, the NHS stopped issuing statements.

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 1:16 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
Transcript of Christie Keith’s interview with Nathan Winograd
By Gina Spadafori
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/ck-nwtranscript/

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 1:27 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
California dog group bites back at Bob Barker
By Christie Keith
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2008/05/05/california-dog-group-bites-back/

It's Just That They LIE ABOUT IT
By Christie Keith
So let me be crystal clear. Like everything else, be it diet or vaccinations or drugs or herbs, there are risks and benefits to altering dogs and cats. I think we need to make informed decisions on all aspects of how to care for our animals, and you can't make an informed decision when you're being lied to. Lied to over and over and over, explicitly. Not metaphorically, not by omission, but actually told big fat lies.

http://www.doggedblog.com/doggedblog/2006/05/its_just_that_t.html

Gross. Really gross.

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 5:38 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
Christie Keith's editor, a woman last name Moon, has flat out denied that Keith is a breeder on comments on a Keith article, then Christie Keith on her personal web page published a long piece about the fact that she is a breeder and connected to the AKC and proud of it!

Moon lied, pure and simple

This all came up on one of Keith's articles where some posters diasgreed quite civilly with her propaganda, then Christie and her friend Gina Spadafori attacked Chronicle commenters directly in the comments section of Keith's article

It was remarked by several Chronicle readers that this behavior was bizarre and unlike anything they had seen from someone claiming they were a "journalist"

Moon steeped in and defended Keith, and quite blatantly lied to readers to cover for Keith's breeder lobby ties

However, this Moon has had ethics breaches in other instances, and was suspended for a period of time for misbehavior at the Chronicle

So there are entities at the Chronicle that are protecting Keith, and since a lowly Pets column is not perceived as significant by the publisher, it has passed unnoticed for now

Gina Spadafori helped get Keith her job at the Chronicle. This is the problem. These pretend "journalists" are friends and support each others unethical behavior

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 5:49 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
When the Center For Consumer Freedom (CCF)(the puppy mill etc lobbyists that lobby for the industry that keeps AKC in the money) and NAIA (run by the AKC board member on their puppy mill committee) decided they would support Nathan Winograd (because Nathan Winograd agreed to oppose things like puppy mill regulations, breeder licensing, and laws breeders don't like)

then this little cabal of breeder-journalists started with the yellow journalism

When the breeder lobby higher-ups made the decision to promote Winograd, the propaganda worker bees like Christie Keith went to work advertising and using their newspapers to do free public relations to sell Winograd

Fawning, deceptive pieces about Winograd that spread his misinformation and propaganda, falsehood about his past and successes, fake statistics, the usual deception.

Gina Spadafori at least now works for a private breeder front group instead of the Sacramento Bee (though she has a friend at the Bee that will write breeder propaganda at times)

But Christie Keith abused the Chronicle to publish breeder lobbying promotion for Winograd, trying to garner Winograd consulting contracts and sell his book

The other breeder-journalists shills did the same at the same time

For example, Denise Flaim, who works for Newsday writing a Pets column, but also works for the AKC, an AKC "historian"

Blatantly abusing the media they work for to write advertising copy and call it a column

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 6:07 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
Bonney Brown is an associate of Nathan Winograd who also worked at Best Friends.

Winograd did his No Kill consulting at Nevada Humane Society NHS, got people fired, and replaced them with Best Friends associates like Bonney Brown

This is the modus operandi. Come in, do a smear consultation, take over, turn these shelters into warehouses, and oppose animal welfare legislation, bsl, etc. for the breeders

NHS has had many problems with this No Kill that staff keep hidden (like overcrowding, disease, giving animals to hoarders) using the fact that it is a private shelter to keep issues hidden from view

The typical Winograd No Kill problems

More on NHS problems here http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/17/18479756.php?show_comments=1 in the comments

The link here is Winograd. Once Winograd sold out to the breeders, and offered to support their fantasies (like no regulation, no bsl, no mandatory spay neuter, overpopulation is a myth) then the breeders decided to support Winograd and get him and his people into animal control and shelters to take over and protect breeders at the same time

They are trying in King County Washington, where Winograd did a No Kill consultation, smeared animal control, and now is trying to get his Best Friends cronies in to take over animal control as well as wipe out County Animal control laws that breeders don't like

http://brucecordell.blogspot.com/2008/09/politics-closer-to-home-kcas-witch-hunt.html and read the comments on http://brucecordell.blogspot.com/2008/07/from-vault-no-kill-animal-shelters.html

A breeder who is the CEO of Seattle Humane Society, Brenda Barnette, has been helping to make this happen with some others

Brenda Barnette's breed club gives money to NAIA and Petpac to lobby for them

Winograd is actually working directly with this breeder lobbying group http://www.petpacnonsense.com/ making appearances at dog shows with the AKC breed club people and telling them no laws are needed for dogs!

What publications like the Chronicle and Newsday are doing is inexcusable by letting these breeder lobbyists use their publications as lobbying & propaganda platforms.

Again, it is like letting a tobacco industry lobbyist write a column on public health.

These breeders are all interconnected, they all lobby together, they are all on the same lobbying forums, they belong to the same lobbying groups

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 6:15 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
Here is Brenda Barnette using her position as CEO of Seattle Humane Society to propagandize against bsl breed specific legislation on behalf of pit bull breeders and the breeder lobbies she is involved with

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008186610_pitbullop18.html

Brenda Barnette also wrote a letter to the editor of that paper that was published after Oprah broke the story on puppy mills. Barnette DEFENDED BREEDERS. Can you imagine a CEO of an animal shelter using her position and the shelter's name to issue propaganda for breeders? She did (and of course never mentioned that her AKC makes its big money from puppy mill registrations)

Brenda Barnette breeds poodles, and her daughter (who lives with her) breeds Portuguese Water Dogs

I cannot understand what is going on with the board of the Seattle Humane Society (please note they have no connection to HSUS, separate)

Barnette is another breeder/Winograd hyper, trying to get Winograd people to take over King County Animal Control.

by  Anonymous 1/19/2009 6:18 PM  |  Flag as abusive  
The No Kill Advocacy Center that Christie Keith is hyping is a business of Nathan Winograd

by  Anonymous 1/20/2009 4:51 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
A really disgusting thing is the whole "peta kills animals" propaganda campaign that was devised by Rick Berman and Center For Consumer Freedom on behalf of his breeder and puppy mill clients

They own and run that smear website

In Virginia, Peta offers services to those that the No Kill shelters turn away- the sick pets where owners can't afford to euthanize at vets, the aggressive animals that can't be placed and need to be euuthanized, animals hit by cars etc

The No Kill fanatics in Virginia turn these animals away and let them suffer. At least Peta offers humane euthanasia for them

They also have offered it in parts of the rural South where they were shooting or gassing animals

That is the basis for the breeder smear campaign of "peta kills animals"

You hear all the dog fighters, the pit bull people, spreading this around from their friend Rick Berman and CCF. Also Nathan Winograd No Kill spreads this smear from his breeder friends unrelentingly, and Best Friends (they should talk!) has too

All from this CCF and Rick Berman.

by  Anonymous 1/24/2009 3:26 AM  |  Flag as abusive  
The US Petcare industry is a $40 Billion a year juggernaut that does not want to be regulated nor have civil product liability.

Somewhere, an individual is getting rich selling Euthasol....

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