Your Opinion: Prop. B adherents called 'hypocrites'

Dear Editor:

So Phyllis Greenfield apparently had a bad experience with a dog breeder and is now condemning not only every dog breeder but everyone involved in production agriculture.

While I would really like to address her concerns about factory farms now is not the time. I'm pretty sure I'll get the chance real soon.

Sure, dogs are companion animals and they are not a part of the food chain, at least not in this country. Not every animal species that is considered to be livestock is part of the food chain either.

A good definition of livestock would be any species bred en masse for sale, period.

Horses are considered livestock but we do not eat them. Neither do we eat hamsters, gerbils, cats, guinea pigs or white mice, but the breeding and selling of these animals in large quantities is considered to be an agricultural enterprise.

So Phyllis, the dogs that these breeders raise pups for sale out of are, in fact, livestock.

Let's put that big picture of yours under the microscope.

Overcrowded shelters did not become overcrowded with dogs from dog breeders. Let's put the blame where it really belongs, on irresponsible pet owners who fail to spay their beloved family pets and allow them to have a litter so the kids experience the miracle of birth and then dump them on a shelter when they cannot give them away.

And then there is neglect. You know the kind that the beloved family dog experiences when he outgrows his cuteness and is banished to the far corner of the backyard, not knowing why no one plays with him. He's lucky to see food and water once a day, much less a human.

The big picture is that voters were duped into voting for a measure that will cause much more harm than it does good.

Prop. B has left dog breeders with a little choice, dogs are being put down and that is not what the voters voted for.

For those of you who are standing by Prop. B without compromise, all I can say is what hypocrites you are. Your shortsighted assault on all dog breeders has left you responsible for the deaths of the very dogs that you professed to care about. I guess, as long as you get rid of all the breeders, it's okay to get rid of all the dogs too. I think they call that collateral damage.

Your insolence is sickening, your ignorance is inductible and your gullibility is astronomical .

Live with that.

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