Animal Training & Behavior ModificationBEWARE! City of Chicago's Puppy Kill Mill!
Shortly after writing the last post, entitled Illness, I looked out my window to see an adult dog and (presumably) her 4 month old pup running loose, and crossing the street, etc. I went out and called them to me. The pup came immediately, but the mother remained warry and I wasn't able to get her to come to me. In hindsight, I'm very grateful for that, or I'd have her blood on my hands as well.
What followed is the most vulgar, distressing, incredible and intolerable set of lies I've heard told by a government agency. I'll send you to the full and ongoing account to read it .
Suffice it to say that I am disgusted beyond words that I have ever lived in a city which would tolerate such deceptions and so blatant a disregard for both the feelings of others and for life itself. I am moving at the end of the month, and will never again live in Chicago, the city of my birth.
I hope none of you ever has to know the feelings I'm living with now, never unwittingly betrays a trust given you in such a fashion. Suffice it to say that I cannot endorse associating with, or acquiring a dog from, such an organization. I'd strongly encourage you to do anything, including simply letting the dog run loose (if you are unable to take it into your home,) rather than taking it to such a place to be killed with no good reason whatsoever. Moreover, I ask you to pass the article along, by sharing the link. Let people know what they've done, and let the City and Mayor know that you do not find it acceptable, and will actively campaign against anyone who allows or endorses such killings.
The cavalier indifference encountered from everyone from the Animal "Care" & Control on through to Alderman Troutman's office and even the Mayor's office itself, these only serve to cement the statements of the previous article. We live in an ill society, a morbid, sick, bunch, when life can be so easily and unnecessarily extinguished, stolen from loving hearts and hands.
What followed is the most vulgar, distressing, incredible and intolerable set of lies I've heard told by a government agency. I'll send you to the full and ongoing account to read it .
Suffice it to say that I am disgusted beyond words that I have ever lived in a city which would tolerate such deceptions and so blatant a disregard for both the feelings of others and for life itself. I am moving at the end of the month, and will never again live in Chicago, the city of my birth.
I hope none of you ever has to know the feelings I'm living with now, never unwittingly betrays a trust given you in such a fashion. Suffice it to say that I cannot endorse associating with, or acquiring a dog from, such an organization. I'd strongly encourage you to do anything, including simply letting the dog run loose (if you are unable to take it into your home,) rather than taking it to such a place to be killed with no good reason whatsoever. Moreover, I ask you to pass the article along, by sharing the link. Let people know what they've done, and let the City and Mayor know that you do not find it acceptable, and will actively campaign against anyone who allows or endorses such killings.
The cavalier indifference encountered from everyone from the Animal "Care" & Control on through to Alderman Troutman's office and even the Mayor's office itself, these only serve to cement the statements of the previous article. We live in an ill society, a morbid, sick, bunch, when life can be so easily and unnecessarily extinguished, stolen from loving hearts and hands.
