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Pets in the Panic Society.

    Domesticated animals were nearly as common as the first
forms of evil civilization. They first occurred when evil early
man learned how to control wild dogs and used them to help him to
murder other animals.

    The Egyptians domesticated small cats which were very useful
for keeping rats and mice out of their grain bins and houses.
They were even worshiped by the Egyptians.

    Early evil European civilization was noted for its abuse of
pets. The nobles and kings kept many animals as pets. They even
used them for sporting events.

    There were often fad animals as pets. The French developed
the French poodle. The English, the bloodhound. The Germans the
German Shepherd. The Danish, the Great Danes. And many other
animals as well.

    The miniature horse was a fad of the kings and nobles. It
was abused as a pet for the royal kids. Only a few of those
ponies lived in such royalty. The rest lived in the coal mines
underground where they were severly abused.

    As the 20th century came about, pets became very popular in
Europe and the United States. Nearly every household had them.

    The most popular pets have always been dogs. Dogs would
always be eager to please their owners. They could be easily
trained to fetch the paper or the masters' slippers. They came in
all sizes from smaller then cats, to as big as ponies. They could
easily live in an apartment, or loose in some farm yard.

    Cats were just about as popular. While they didn't fetch
your slippers or the paper, they seemed always willing to be
petted and lay on your lap. They could easily take care of
themselves and didn't need much exercise. They would even keep
your house free of rats and mice.

    People kept other pets as well. Fish were kept in many
houses. Birds were also enslaved in many homes. There were even a
few chickens, goats, pigs, and other animals kept for pets if the
home had the room for them.

    However, All the advantages of keeping pets weren't without
their problems.

    With dogs, the problem was their waste products. Dogs soon
learned to go in the neighbor yard. The male dogs would often
spray every post, tree, fireplug, and maybe someone leg with his
very smelly urine. This stuff could kill plants. Once so marked,
every dog in the neighborhood would use the same spot for the
same purpose.

    Dogs often had a habit of barking at everything. This noise
would wake up all the neighbors at night.

    Dogs didn't have any morals either. They would sniff at each
other rear end. It was not unusual for them to be licking on
their sex organs while in front of people. Male dogs would also
be chasing every female dog in the neighborhood. If not, then
they could chase each other, or, grab your pant leg with their
forelegs. (Very embarrassing when you had company over.)

    Tom cats were a special annoying problem. They would wake
everyone up at night with their fighting and howling.

    In addition, they also spray their very rotten smelling
urine on trees, bushes, car tires, and, the latest fad, into the
air intake vent on the hood of your car. Once so marked, it was
impossible to stop as that tom cat remarked those spots every
chance that he got.

    Some people went overboard on pets. The pets soon overran
those places. One old lady was a cat nut. She had over 50 of them
in her house. There were too many of them for her to keep. The
smell of cat waste and urine was sickening.

    Another old woman was a dog nut. I have seen this one. She
takes 20 dogs with her in the car. How she can stand it with 20
barking growling dogs while driving is unknown.

    The problems that were being caused by those pets soon
resulted in local Government trying to do something about them.

    Most cities and county Governments soon passed laws
requiring dogs to be license. In addition, because of the threat
of rabies, they required that all dogs have rabies vaccination.
Such license required a fee to be paid. Dogcatchers were
established to collect those fees and to catch any unlicensed
dogs that they could.

    Many people don't license their dogs because they don't want
to pay the fee and take their dog to the vet for the required
rabies shot. There are also many dogs that are being caught.
Because many those dogs are never claimed, they end up being put
to death by the dogcatcher. This, of course, outraged Your
Glorious Leaders

    In addition, in many communities, there are limits on how
many dogs that you are allowed to have. If your female dog has a
litter of puppies, you have to get rid of them after they have
reached a certain age.

    Little kids are often getting their sex education as a
result of watching dogs "Do It." Your Glorious Leaders have gone
into shock over this. They have passed laws to arrest and fine
the owners of those pets that are observed "Doing It" in public.

    Even worse problems have occurred as a result of pets such
as dogs. Dogs can become quite protective of their territory.
Many of them will bark growl and even bite at people such as the
mailman or any strangers that enter this territory.

    Some breeds of dogs are very aggressive. They soon get a bad
name as a result of such aggressive behavior.

    It all started with the German Shepherd. This dog could be
very protective and had a nasty bite. Later, the Doberman Pincher
got the bad name. Movies made by Hollywood such as "The Doberman
Gang" soon pushed people into hitting the panic button over this
normally docile animal.

    Soon, however, the Pit Bull dog starting getting all the
attention. This was a dog that had been bred as a fighting dog.
Once it attacked, it held on with an iron grip. It often fought
to the death. Soon, many reports of vicious attacks by Pit Bulls
were appearing all over the newspapers. Anytime that a Pit Bull
dog attacked someone, it made national news.

    This dog could kill large animals, It has even killed kids
that wandered into its yard. It has even been know to turn on
abusive owners and killed a few of them.

    A 73 year old woman was killed by 3 English Bulldogs when
she went out for the paper in Jacksonville Fla. Another elderly
woman saved the life of a young school girl that was viciously
attacked by 2 "Pit Bulls" when she beat the attacking dogs with a
piece of wood. The police shot the dogs when the two dogs
attacked them. Many other people have been attacked and badly
injured or killed by the "Pit Bull." A 2 year old boy in
Pittsburgh was dragged off the porch and mauled by 6 rottweiler.
The police had to use a fire extinguisher to get the dogs off the
kid who is in critical condition. September 19,1990. A 5 year old
boy in Flint, Michigan was killed by a rottweiler when the dog
grabbed the kid by the throat in a movement that is typical of a
wolf attacking a prey animal, December 1991.

    A lot of farm animals and other dogs have been attacked and
killed by "Pit Bulls," Rottweilers and other such breeds or
mongrels of this dog. It is often used as a fighting dog in
illegal dogfights. Drug dealers often have "Pit Bull" dogs around
as guard dogs around their illegal establishments.

    The panic was on. Many communities soon banned ownership of
the "Pit Bull" dog. Many of the Humane Societies in the country
started killing any "Pit Bulls" that they obtained. The few
communities that allowed you to keep one required that the dogs
to be penned up or muzzled while on a leash. Such owners had to
register those dogs and post huge liability insurance policy. In
Pontiac, Michigan, Waterford Township, a law bans the new
ownership of "Pit Bulls" and requires the registered owners of
Pit Bulls that have puppies to get rid of the puppies by the age
of 6 months. Failure to comply with such laws resulted in huge
fines and the dogs being destroyed.

    In May 1991, a Pit Bull dog attacked and mauled a little kid
in London, England. Also, 1/4 of all dog attacks in London were
the result of Pit Bull dogs. The public uproar was so severe that
the British Government declared the species a wild and dangerous
animal. It has ordered the destruction of all 10,000 registered
"Pit Bull" and Rottweiler Terriers in the country.

     Soon, other large dogs joined this list. In Saginaw,
Michigan, An Alaskans Malamute attacked and severely injured a 4
year old boy before a city worker drove off the attacking dog by
emptying a can of mace into the dogs face.

    Three of the 24 deaths' last year in the U.S. from dog
attacks were the result of Malamute.

    Exotic animals were soon added to the banned list. A couple
was forced to move after the town discovered that they had a pet
Panther.

    The following happened March 22, 1992.

    "Girl, 11, attacked by lion-tiger hybrid PORTLAND Ore. (AP)

    A lion-tiger hybrid mauled an 11 year old girl who put her
hand inside the 400-pound cat's cage on Sunday, stubbornly
locking its jaws on her arm until its owner' shot it dead.

    Katie Leamy of Corbett under went surgery to repair
extensive muscle damage and was expected to regain full use of
her arm and hand.

    She tried to pet the cat during a morning visit with her
parents. Pat and Becky, to family friend Ed Winebarger, who kept
the hybrid known as a liger in a large cage.

    The girl's father reached in but was unable to free her, so
Winebarger shot the cat once in the head, killing it instantly."
(Saginaw News OCR file)

    Currently, there is much debate and panic over the breeding
and ownership of "Wolf Hybrids." The owners claim that such dogs
are very loyal pets. Your Glorious Leaders take the opinion that
keeping such an animal is tempting fate and playing with wild,
dangerous animals.

    The leaders in Communist China banned ownership of all dogs
and many other pets Due to a shortage of food in 1991, dog killer
squads were organized in China. They are roaming the countryside
killing all domesticated dogs that they can find.

    People were being scratched, bitten, stepped in waste
products, suffered allergies, fought shedding, etc. from pets.

    Dogs often ran in packs in poor city neighborhoods. They
would scatter trash everywhere and terrorize the kids. Packs of
dogs would run rampid in the country where they killed wild
animals and farm livestock.

    Pets could also carry fatal diseases. The movie craze of May
1990, of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" produced a huge demand
for pet turtles. This produced a huge outbreak of salmonella
disease. Birds could carry Newcastle disease. Dogs and cats could
get rabies. They also got infested with fleas and ticks which
could carry disease.

    A massive Rabies scare has occurred in Michigan. There have
been several rabid bats, skunks and other animals found so far in
1991. A pet dog in the Thumb area has been diagnosed with rabies.
Several people have had to undergo the shots as a result.

    A unidentified 31 year old man from Tucson, Arizona, died of
pneumonic plague August 26, 1992. He became infected by breathing
the same air as a cat he removed from a crawl space of a house
August 19, 1992.

    Exotic pets could attack and kill their handlers. Pet
monkeys would often get violent and tear up a house. They would
often spray waste products all over the place. Emus, a huge bird,
could claw and badly bite someone.

    Deer were very dangerous especially in the fall during their
mating season. Raccoons and skunks would get vicious as they got
older. And, Bears and great cats became very deadly as they
became adults.

    Even domestic pets could be just as bad. Locally, a 2 year
old Labrador retriever badly mauled a 2 year old kid that
wandered into the back yard where the dog was tied. That same dog
a year later was running loose and chewed on the arm of my niece,
who was 14 at the time. In Ann Arbor, December 4, 1990 a housecat
chewed off and ate two fingers from a 2 month old baby. The
remains of the fingers were found in the cat's stomach.

    A white goat knocked down its owner and gored him to death
with his horns. The animal was being abused by the owner at the
time.

    A crippled man became puppy chow when the puppy, a black lab
decided, to eat the man's foot. It had to be amputated.

    Lawsuits over pets became a big problem. Pets were banned
altogether in many places in 20th century communities. People
sued because they were bitten by pets. A Pet owner sued because a
neighbor got fed up with the pet tearing up his property and did
something about it by killing the offending animal.

    In addition, pets were often abused. They were locked up in
tiny cages. They were often kept in small areas with no place or
room to exercise. Some pets were beaten by their owners. Others
suffered when they were locked in hot cars, in stuffy garages, or
in damp, smelly basements. One dog was found to have been locked
in a garage with no food for over a month. Another dog was found
tied under the crawl space of a house. A Pontiac man was arrested
for burying 6 puppies alive. Another man was fined for dumping
unwanted puppies in a dumpster.

    Barba Reyonalds of bakerfields, California was arrested for
cruelty to animals in 1990. She had conned over 83 pet owners out
of their dogs. They were kept in a state of near starvation in
pens on her property.

    Authorities arrested her and took the dogs. However, the
dogs were also kept in cages for almost a year because they were
needed for evidence. They were finally released in the fall of
91.

    Baby cats and dogs are routinely dumped off at the end of
some road, or in the river. Many times, the mother is often one
of the victims.

    Pets have been sexually molested by their owners or others,
The family dog is one of the most sexually abused animals around.

    Pets are often injured by kids in the families that were
careless around them. Kids often sit on pets and injure their
backs. Kids often fall on pets or drop them causing serious
injuries to the pet. One dog was even put in a microwave oven by
a 11 year old boy. The dog was badly burned.

    A little kid microwave a kitten and served it to an adult as
food. Another dog had its tail set on fire by a 3 year old with a
cigarette lighter. The dog was killed when it ran around in
terror and set the house on fire.

    Then, there is deliberate abuse. Cats and kittens are often
thrown off from high places by kids. A teen aged boy set fire to
a kitten after he poured gasoline on it. The burning kitten raced
into the barn which then burned down.

    Large animals were no better off. There are numerous
examples of horses that have been found starving to death when
their owners got tired of caring for them. Locally, I have seen
ponies so skinny that they could be picked up off all four feet
with ease. I saw one border horse rescued from certain
starvation. That animal you could hang your hat on the hip. It
appears to be very easy to find such animals especially when hay
gets expensive. There are hundreds of such cases each year.

    In Texas, thousands of horses were found dead and starving
to death on a ranch belonging to a wealthy businessman. He had
bought all of those animals to make a great deal of money in
selling horses as pets. When the market went soft, he went
bankrupt and quit feeding the animals.

    Animals are even victims of cults. This activity started
thousands of years ago. There are many cases written in detail in
that evil Bible. In Exodus, Chapter 29, there is a description in
all its gruesome detail, how the animals are to be slaughtered as
an offering to God.

    Devil cults are even worse. The movie "Apocalypse Now" has a
scene that shows in gory graphic details, the live slaughter of a
water buffalo cow. Cows were found dead out west with their sex
organs removed and all of their blood missing. Cats and dogs
often turned up mutilated beyond recognition. Many were found
strung up in trees.

    Pets are often surgically altered to "improve their looks."
They were often spayed or neuter. Tails were often chopped off.
Ears were clipped and pointed. Claws and dew claws were cut out
or removed. Even such extremes as moving the horns of white billy
goats to make it look like a unicorn, were attempted. Often, this
was done without the use of any pain killers. I have seen male
horses castrated without pain killer. A twitch was used to
restrain the animal. The owner had three animals done this way by
some guy that would do this for far less then what the vet would
charge. At least, the vet would use pain killer and a muscle
relaxer to knock the animal out for the procedure.

    Unwanted pets resulted from the owners allowing unaltered
pets to roam and mate freely. Such animals bred like rabbits. All
the mongrel dogs seem to have the biggest litters. Often the
litters and sometimes the mothers ended up being dumped off
somewhere. Many other times, they were stuffed in a bag and
tossed into the nearest lake or river. The offspring often ended
up in an animal shelter, or dumped by the roadside somewhere.
Most such pets either starved to death, or were exterminated at
the shelters. Some were even sold to laboratories where they
ended up suffering in experiments and were later killed.

    Greyhound racing is a very popular sport in the U.S. They
are good for racing for only a few months.

    Every year, most of the 20,000 racing greyhounds who have
lived out their usefulness at the track are killed. Tens of
thousands more are killed or donated to research programs before
they even reach the track. Their owners or trainers weed them out
as soon as it becomes apparent they won't run fast enough to earn
money.

    The kindest fate that awaits these doomed racers is a lethal
injection given by a track vet or technician at an animal shelter
or pound. Other means include clubbing, shooting and starvation."

    They are kept in 3-foot-by-3foot Cages, unable to play with
humans or other dogs.

    There are 54 greyhound racetrack in the 19 states where dog
racing is legal. Of the 58,000 to 80,000 greyhound puppies born
each year, only about 35 percent race. The rest are euthanized,
according to Dog Fancy magazine.

    Approximately 40,000 greyhounds race at any one time, and
about half of them are taken off the track each year. Greyhounds
cannot legally race past their fifth birthdays.

    Greyhounds, which date to the days of Egyptian pharaohs,
hunt using their sight and hearing rather than smell. Many
trainers believe greyhounds will run faster if they are trained
to chase live animals they can see and hear.

    The US Army obtained over 100 greyhound dogs from a
racetrack for bone experiments. What was unusual about this case
is that many of those dog owners didn't know their dogs had been
sold to the Army for that purpose.

    Some people have come to their rescue. They generally do
make great pets.

    Beagles make great dogs for pets and for hunting small game.
They are also highly exploited by research labs for biochemical
research. Because of the nature of this research, those beagles
spend their entire lives living in those horrible labs.

    Sled dog racing is vary popular in the Northern areas of
North America. The Husky or similar breeds are used for this
sport. The dogs love it. They are controlled usually by the voice
of the sled driver and the lead dog.

    Each year, there is the Iterod Sled race in Alaska. It is a
long hard race lasting several days and covering a thousand miles
of frozen wilderness.

    Sled teams are required to have all of their dogs at the end
of the race. But, as usual, some dogs don't make it.

    This plus the fact that many sled dog breeders will kill
puppies that don't measure up to the breed standards, has created
some major confrontation with the Animal Rights People. Those
people have forced many communities to cancel their racing
events. Others are forced to add a mess of restriction to the
race rules to the point that the race is no longer a race. And,
all the breeders are under constant harassment from the Animal
Rights Activist. (Where are they when it comes to the problem of
the inferior dogs and cats routinely killed by the hundreds of
thousands every day at all pounds.)

    Pets are also victims of various societies and industries.
In many foreign countries, animals are often raised for fighting.
Dog fighting is common in many third world countries. Also, cock
fights are common in countries like Mexico. In both cases, the
animals fight to the death while hoards of noisy people cheer on
and place their bets with the local bookies.

    In many eastern countries, dogs and cats are often raised
for food consumption. This is quite common in Korea. However, it
has turned off many animal rights extremists. Although this
custom is not practiced in the U.S. Liberal Democrats have pushed
through a bill to make it illegal to eat cats or dogs. This is
sure to cause problems with certain minority cultures such as the
Koreans and Vietnamese.

    Pets and little kids can be a disastrous combination. Pets
are often being killed and injured by little kids. This happens a
lot to small animals when the kids fall on them. Kids often try
to pick up small pets and hurt them when they are thrown or
dropped.

    Even worse is what can happen to those pets in the hands of
little kids. The pets often end up having to wear human clothes
in dress up games. They often end up with ropes around their
necks and are forced to pull wagons and sleds with kids riding in
them. And, the kids even try to ride them.

    Sometimes, the pets will fight back. They will bite,
scratch, and kick the little kids. This can often results in a
severe beating of the pet by an adult. Then, in the case of a
large pet such as a dog, the little kids can be badly bitten or
killed by the pet. That pet is then sure to be killed as a
result.

    Lately, a group known as PeTA, People For the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, has joined the panic over the use of pets.
"Animals need to have their own time and space," says PeTA
founder Ingrid Newkirk. "People are a cancer that is destroying
this world."

    A dog owner dressed up his dog in costume and had it perform
tricks in public. PeTA members protested saying that this was a
senseless exploitation of this poor animal.

    Some members of PeTA do not believe that anyone should be
keeping a pet. They believe that it is morally wrong to confine
any animal in a cage, yard, house, fence, or on the end of a
leash. "Such animals must be allowed to be free. It is worse then
slavery."

    Their general policy is to have members provide a caring
home for those "companion animals." But, the eventual goal is to
"Phase Out" all domestic animals. I.E. Planned extinction.

    "Our plan is to reduce the demand until we finally phase
them out" Samual Busbee Animal Rights 101, Delta Collage, June 8,
1991.

    Humane Society of the United States avocated the plan "one
generation and out" for domestic animals.

    December 18, 1990, In Redwood City, California, Your
Glorious Leaders and Animal Rights Activist decided to do
something about the problem of all of those pets running around.
They have passed through a law requiring all owners of dogs and
cats to either obtain an expensive breeders license, or have
their dogs or cats sterilized before obtaining a pet license. Of
course, the law would regulate the breeding of those animals that
belonged to the licensed breeders. Violators will be fined $500.
Cost of the permits and other details are not yet known. It does
not state what will happen to the violators' pets. This law was
passed because local Animal Rights activists were outraged over
the number of unwanted pets that were put to death in 89. (Page
A3, Saginaw News, December 12, 1990 and A7 December 19, 1990)

    Due to the problems of abuse of animals, the constant
disturbance of neighbors by pets, the hazards of their waste
products, the food that is needed to feed them that could have
been used to feed people, the damage that is done to yards, the
problems caused by little kids and pets, the abuse of pets, the
danger that you might see a pet "doing it," the danger that you
will see a pets sex organs, the threat of fines and prison if you
are accused of abusing them, and the threat of prison and
lawsuits if your animal kills or injures someone, and the fact
that Animal Rights Extremists believe that owning a "pet is a
fate worse then slavery to the animal," there will be no pets
allowed in the Panic Society in any Super Safe House. There are
no animals allowed for any Panic Society members to see or touch
or own.



























Is this all possible?

    After the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949. millions of
dogs were ordered destroyed, because they were considered dirty
nuisances that consumed valuable food, As part of a patriotic
campaign during the Korean War, Chinese were also told that dog-
fur bedding was needed to help keep the Chinese soldiers warm in
the damp trenches at night while they fought the American
imperialists, During the chaotic Cultural Revolution of 1966-76,
families who dared to own dogs were persecuted for their
bourgeois affectations.

    Animal Rights activists believe that humans have no right in
interfering with any animal what so ever. Except when it comes to
the right for reproduction, the domestic animal doesn't have that
right.

    PeTA and other animal rights groups are presently
campaigning for the "Planned Extinction" of domestic animals, by
pushing for required sterilization laws and high license fees for
unaltered animals everywhere under the guise of animal control.

    How will "Planned Extinction" occur?

    Several Liberal communities such as Kings County,
Washington, have already started "Planned Extinction". Alarmed
over the number of unwanted pets that are killed each year,
Animal Rights Activists that formed the organization Progressive
Animal Welfare Society, PAWS, have lobbied for the passing of new
animal control laws.

    High license fees are charged to owners of unaltered pets.
Additional fees are charged for the rights to breed dogs and
cats. Kings County has a very large animal control force that is
presently enforcing those new laws.

    Such laws greatly restrict the breeding of dogs and cats.
They require all pet owners except for a selected few, to have
their pets fixed. Violators risk having their pets taken from
them to be altered or killed. Professional breeders are leaving
the county.

    Locally Animal Rights Activists are pushing for similar
restrictions. They start out as required higher licenses fees for
unaltered pets. Later, restrictions and breeders licenses are
placed on kennels and breeders. Finally all breeding of pets
becomes controlled.

    Nationally, PAWS, PeTA and HSUS called for a one year
voluntarly breeding ban. This ban would become a mandatory two
year extendable indefinitely by law if this groups have their
way.

    "Planned Extinction" occurs when the license and breeding
fees for unaltered pets become prohibitively expensive to all and
all pets still living die from old age.