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RE: It IS out of control. And its scary

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Posted by: EricWI at Thu Sep 1 06:20:37 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by EricWI ]  
   

The invitation to invite so called "psychologists" or other "experts" into one's private residence with promises of "solutions" (i.e. coercing the show participants, with invented reasons for doing so along the way, into surrendering all or most of their animals, thereby meeting questionable fates) is not only reprehensable and dangerous in of itself, but also represents what could very well mean a new tactic in the aresanal of the A.R. movement. Call me paranoid if you will, but I am beginning to have fewer and fewer doubts that there is some sort of collaberative conjunction going on between H.S.U.S/the A.R. Movement and Animal (Rights)Planet through shows like this; using the "animal hoarding" label against herpers as well as other animal hobbyists, by presenting us as "socially deficient" as possible. The A.R. movement has many weapons in their aresanal to ultimately get animals out of the private sector, and I strongly suspect this is one of them. It should be no secret that this is a publically stated goal of the A.R movement. For those that have seen it, Notice how for the "animal hoarding" episode with Tom and his venomous snakes living in his mother's trailer, for example, help was never offered to clean up his trailer, or improve his enclosures and setups, which should have been the real issue, not the fact that he was keeping 29 snakes. No, they wanted him to get rid of his snakes. Same case with the lady who had the birds (which all generally appeared healthy to me). Do you see the connection yet?



Based on the episodes I have seen and have heard of, "Confessions of Animal Hoarding" is another anti animal keeping series with a disturbingly consitant theme throughout: getting participants to give up all or most of their animals. Not improving their husbandry or conditions they are keeping animals in. This show is not about animal welfare. It is clearly about Animal RIGHTS. Animal (Rights) Planet's offers to help herp keepers through shows like "Animal Hoarding" should be viewed with the same level of skepticism as offers by Rahm Emanuel to improve the Republican party. Hopefully, we all should know better than to buy it.



Let's nip this tactic, clearly intended not to help, but to dismantle us, in the bud by refusing to participate in any way in shows like this, and encouraging others to do the same...


   

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