I can support a ban on the selling of dogs and cats, usually the ones at shelters have a better chance of NOT having behavoral problems. Not to mention, less puppy mills.

...but ALL pets minus fish?

Fuck that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CwkTPQNUE&feature=player_embedded

This is why puppy mills should end.

YOUNGPRO. If you would take the time to look up the REAL STATS, you have them almost EXACTLY backwards!.. You will not find ONE SOURCE on line, NOT HSUS, NOT ASPCA NOR PETA or THE USGOV who can verify the fact you just stated that "90% of DOGS COME FROM PUPPY MILLS/ BREEDERS".. Thats is a complete utter ignorant statement and there is NOT ONE REPUTBALE source online or otherwise to verify that fact.. You watch too many HSUS and ASPCA Puppy Mill raid commericals.. THE TRUTH IS, and it IS verifable ALL OVER THE NETS AS WELL AS ON HSUS AND ASPCAS OWN SITES, that nearly 90% of the UNWANTED 4-12 MILLION DOGS, CATS and OTHER animals that are euthanized EVERY YEAR IN THIS COUNTRY come from STUPID, IRRESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS.. LOOK IT UP!... People have heard these lies so long they dont even bother to verify the REAL statistics now days.. You have the internet.. It is a REAL useful tool.. If you and these other people would take the time to verify things likes this BEFORE you donate your money to HSUS ASPCA PETA and these euthanizing liars, you would START donating to your local rescue groups, particularly the NO-KILL ones.. So that we could TRY to curve this astounding kill rate.. That is the ONLY way that we are going to stop the killing.. ASPCA has been around since 1866, HSUS 1955? PETA since the 1980s? Have you seen the pet population do ANYTHING BUT GET WORSE? NO, And you NEVER will until you start volunteering and donating AT YOUR LOCAL HUMANE SOCIETY where all of these animals are being murdered year after year after year because of LACK OF FUNDING AND LACK LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL OVERSITE, and even MORE importantly because of LACK OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBLILITY ON THE PART OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT LARGE!

comment...epic...failure..

you are a fucking retard.

if you see things like " theyre called QUOTATION MARKS, USED TO QUOTE PEOPLE, LIKE FELIX.

i really don't care if you want to stick a broken glass bottle up your ass. it is your right. But IT IS NOT YOUR RIGHT TO ABUSE ANIMALS. They have their right to live. YOU ARE NOT A MASTER.

You know, these situations are becoming more RIDICULOUS every day.. You people seem to have lost all contact with common sense and reality.. You think that your "beliefs" about selling and owning animals are some kind of unversal belief.. You think that what YOU believe should be law and that somehow you have a God given or LEGAL right to inflict that "belief" upon the general public and legitimate businesses. Its is NOT your right no matter what you believe to TRY to tell me I cant raise a puppy or I can sell a puppy because IGNORANT people dont take responsiblitly for their actions. I don't tell you that you cant eat a steak because I don't agree with the way the animal is house our "slaughtered" to be put on your plate. I don't tell you that you can't drive your stinking SUV around my neigbiorhood when my family can hardly breathe clean air these days because of pollution.. The problem is, you extremist think that you can regulate and tell US what to do and we are supposed to just accept any and everything that YOU say should be law.. Im here to tell you, I WILL BE WRITING EVERY SENATOR, CONGRESSMAN, OBAMA, BIDEN, GOVERNOR and other offical for whom I can find a vaild address continually as I have for a long time now.. You have NO right legal or otherwise to try to inflict your ignorance on me and my family. You have NO RIGHT to try to tell me that I cant buy a dog from anyone that I want to.. Why don't you go follow PETA around and tell them TO STOP MURDERING 90+% of the dogs that they SUPPOSEDLY RESCUE EVERY YR.. LOOK UP THEIR KILL STATS.. Why don't you tell the ASPCA and HSUS ( and yes I HATE A REAL PUPPY MILL JUST LIKE YOU BUT I DON'T LIKE TO THE PUBLIC TO MAKE MONEY) to stop LYING to the public to gain donations telling people lies like "PUPPY MILLS/ BREEDERS" cause over population when the reality of it is it is a COMPLETE AND UTTER LIE!. Look up the stats online.. EVEN THE USGOV stats state that only around ten percent of dogs that are born in the U.S. each year come from breeders.. The other 85-90% come from IRRESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS.. YES THEY COME FROM YOU STUPID PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SPAY AND NEUTHER YOUR PET!.. If the ASPCA PETA OR HSUS would tell you that, YOU WOULD NOT GIVE THEM HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR because of these "Puppy Mill LIE commericals".. People need to know the truth.. YOU NEED TO SPAY AND NEUTER IF YOU REALLY WANT TO STOP THE MASS EUTHANIZATION of the esimated 4-12 MILLION (depending on the source ) cats and dogs that are MURDERED in SHELTERS EA YR!.. YOU, the general public who does not spay and neuter, let your dogs run up and down the road breedeing any and everything, YOU are the real culprit here.. LOOK UP THE STATS ONLINE.. STOP LYING TO YOURSELF.. ASPCA HSUS PETA STOP lying to the general public trying to get money out of them.. TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH.. WE, THE NON-SPAYING, NON-NEUTERING PUBLIC are the real culprits here... Until WE, THE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, our local goverments start doing OUR jobs, there will ALWAYS be pet over population.. STOP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR THE PROBLEMS YOU CREATE!..

I want to say I am shocked by the outrage of the idea that people own pets. "owning" pets or caretaking them is just about the same thing. Amanda thanks for all of the insults to anyone that is GOP. I am a republican, however I am not narrow minded. I thought you dems were supposed to be liberal. How is it liberal to only see and respect your way of being. Sorry babe but that is narrow minded. YIKES And the crap about education. All of you over educated idiots have gotten this country in quite a situation havent you now. Ever occur to you that education like religeon is a book written from the point of view of one person and then they get a following and now all of those people who have memorized and became familiar with the retoric consider themselves educated. Well my narrow minded friend. I have a brain and I use it, I do not need books,men people like you, or legislation to tell me how to be or what to think. I am a free thinker as we all should be. I am for gay marriage, I am against abortion (makes women look ignorant) along with taking the life of harmless humans. And if you want to be so high and mighty and talk about the animals rights what about the rights of the unborn. No more natural to yank babies out of a warm womb then parrots out of a tree in the rainforest, but each to his own. I prefer to leave them both where God has arranged for them to be. So you go on with your rants on here and follow the BS that you have been handed by someone somewhere, maybe one of those fancy books someone wrote so you would know how to think and feel. God forbid you use your own senses. Some of us need education to feel important and equal, some of us believe we were all born equal. I choose the latter. So to all of my friends out there who are under educated and were insulted by Amanda, I would like to thank you for working and paying your taxes so that we can put dim lights like her into College and they can come out so bright. Then they can be there to let us know how we all lack intelligence and education. Back on subject of pet ownership, if you adopt from a shelter does that make you any less of an owner. And AKC does inspect just so you know. And by the way maybe you should check the tax returns of some of the shelters and see how much money is paid to the employees before you are so sure they are not profiting. You might be right, but I think you are WRONG! PS I owned a little rat for 4 years oldest rat ever seen by my vet when she had to be put to sleep because of tumors. She was my sons. Bought her on an impulse, she taught him alot about respecting Gods creatures. When she died we both cried for about 2 weeks, could not even talk about it to friends or we would break down. Think of all the kids who wont get to experience that kind of commitment and love, because some group somewhere has an agenda. SHAME ON YOU!!

ADOPT A SHELTER PET. >^..^

I don't support Pet sHops because those animals are from puppy mills.

90% of them are from mills, or all? you contradicted yourself.

please provide clarity and coherence next time.

some more felixthecat fun and games.

felix the cat = nobrainstem (apathysucks)

both have an enduring passion for mike bloomberg:

'I love king Bloomberg.'

both have a not-so-commanding command of the use of simple past tense:

'I think I SLEEP with Rush. I can't remember since I was drunk again.'

both love the mets:

'I heart Mets and Mr. Met.'

...and both love to get owned, on the L train, by hipster men:

'yep, I don't ride it (a big fat peter) often except to head to food swings but there were some gems on that line.'

...and by 'gems' he means man meat.

also, i find it fun and interesting to see felixthecat and nobrainstem both spell 'bytches' the same...

felix, you'll have to wake up pretty early in the morning to fool this girl :) what about me that makes you so jealous? the fact that i (among others) constantly put you in place and make you look utterly stupid? the fact that i found a handful of i.p. addresses from the multiple computers at Fordham you blog from? the fact that you were trapped you into revealing yourself?

it's also 'cute' knowing that you go into your fetal defense 'help me, i'm being attacked' mode and bring out your friend apathy sucks (a/k/a no brain stem) when youre made to look stupid, much like batman calls on robin.

youre not smart. everyone here knows it. every comment by you is like being on an acid trip.

SOME FAMOUS FELIX THE CAT QUOTES:

'I am native New Yorker'

'I may not know what I'm talking about, but trust me'

'90% of pet shops sell animals from mills' followed by 'all animals in pet stores come from mills'

'marty markowitz should be stabbed' (x2)

also, flattering me by using a pic of me as your avatar in no brain stem's profile doesn't exactly help your 'cause.'

bytch!

the extreme use wave of spelling mistakes leads to one person: felix the immigrant

a/k/a the thrilla from manila

FELIX THE ASSHOLE, caught in yet another flip-flop:

(yesterday)

'...90% of the animals come from mills.'

(today)

'...all of the puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills.'

apathy doesn't suck...it just makes you look stupid, felix :)

First off, I recognize the buying/selling animals is amoral. They are treated as a commodity by most places that sell, and that is fundamentally wrong.

But, if an animal is in a shelter or pet store, the clock of it's life it just ticking down to either a) being adopted / purchased or b) being put down. Pet store or shelter, the critter faces the same fate.

Those that would defend animals and claim that the animal's well-being is the most important aspect of this argument don't often take that into account. "Don't buy from stores" then translates into "Let all the animals in stores die". Doesn't seem to mesh with their stance that the well-being is the most important thing. It punishes the animal, not the businessmen who put the animal in that position. Kind of like "blame the prostitute, not the pimp that makes her work".

The reality of this situation is that this issue is not black and white, and blanket legislation like this isn't going to solve anything. In any case, I like the idea of having a surcharge on store-bought animals to support shelters.

Buying animals is not only immoral but the suffering and cost caused by pet shops can't be minimized by a tax. Anyhow NYC isn't progressive as some european countries and San Francisco. Look at what we have here. Christine Quin, who belongs in jail.

... and Felixthecat who belongs in an asylum.

I go away for a week and Felix makes up yet another account/personality? Sad. Sad. Sad. One day he'll get a real friend. One day he'll grow up. Or he'll die miserable. Meh.

and hes using an avatar of my pic again...