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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/31/2007 : 10:10:17 [Permalink]
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Only the Dog Breeders who thought those little yapping overly groomed and high strung toy poodles were a good idea. Or more generally, any dog with a tiny cranial capacity...
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My mother had two of those little poodles once. They were anything but dumb. Their vocabulary (words they understood) was on par with German Shepherds and Collies, extremely observant, and they were visciously protective (if any pitbull had their attitude towards strangers in the yard, it would have to be put down). No way could anyone get into my mom's house without them giving an alarm.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2007 : 13:11:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
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Some are, especially the ones who are hobbyists who do it for extra income and really don't understand the complexity and seriousness of what they are doing. My friend worked at an Animal Protective League for a summer and saw several severely deformed puppies, all dropped off by hobbyist dog breeders. One died a day after being dropped on, and the autopsy revealed that it had extra organs! And aside extreme genetic mistakes, certain breeds have certain health problems that are only magnified with further in-breeding (such as lung cancer in German Shepards and bad allergies in many breeds). If someone doesn't really know what they are doing and taking precausions to prevent such genetic disadvantages and diseases, dog breeding can become a form of cruelty to animals.
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Also known as puppy mills; people who breed for profit alone without the least concern for the dogs.
I always try to convince family & friends to not breed house pets for that reason, but heh. Who ever listens. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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skeptic griggsy
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 05/31/2007 : 14:21:15 [Permalink]
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| Dave W.,right, no transcendence is real-no supernatural or paranorrmal. |
Fr. Griggs rests in his Socratic ignorance and humble naturalism. Logic is the bane of theists.Religion is mythinformation. Reason saves, not a dead Galilean fanatic. |
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JEROME DA GNOME
BANNED
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Posted - 05/31/2007 : 21:01:43 [Permalink]
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Generally a qualified professional dog breeder loses money.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/01/2007 : 05:30:22 [Permalink]
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| I was just kidding, but I guess there are scumbag dogbreeders...particularly the dogfighters. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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evolution is a tool of eugenics
