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by JOHN YATES

The American Sporting Dog Alliance

http://www.american sportingdogallia nce.org

Dog owners might be in for another bashing on Friday, when ultra-

liberal talk show host Oprah Winfrey does a special program

on "puppy mills." Winfrey's star reporter, Lisa Ling, went

undercover in commercial breeding kennels to do an expose on the pet

store trade.

Although the commercial trade in pet store puppies has nothing to do

with the vast majority of dog owners and breeders, sensationalistic

news coverage tars us with the same brush. To the liberal animal

rights mindset, all breeders are either "puppy mills" or "backyard

breeders," and this always translates into more laws that harm only

the innocent. Moreover, the hidden agenda of the animal rights

movement is the ultimate elimination of animal ownership, and their

strategy is to pick us off one group at a time.

The American Sporting Dog Alliance (ASDA) does not know how Winfrey

and Ling will approach the topic, but we are not optimistic that it

will be a fair, balanced and reasonably objective report. Based on

the normal biased reporting we see about dog breeding, and Winfrey's

close personal ties with animal rights groups, we would expect them

to take their cameras into a couple of "worst case" kennels, and

then by inference say or imply that all kennels and breeders are bad.

Expect to take a thumping from one of the wealthiest and most

powerful animal rights activists on Earth. According to a report in

Women's Day magazine, billionaire Winfrey feels that leaving a cool

$30 million to her own five dogs in her will is not even slightly

extravagant. Inflation, you know.

Winfrey was partners with the radical Humane Society of the United

States in a movement aimed at destroying cattle ranching because of

alleged food safety issues from eating beef, and they were

codefendants in a lawsuit brought by the industry.

This month, Winfrey has been giving serious consideration to an

invitation to appear in nude photographs sponsored by one of the

most extreme animal rights groups in America, People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals, pop tabloids report. The nude photos would be

for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign. Winfrey's

concern reportedly is not about endorsing PETA. The tabloids report

that she is worried that nude photos might offend voters and harm

the presidential campaign of Barrack Obama, whom she has strongly

endorsed.

On Friday, we can expect a thumping with no opportunity to defend

ourselves. The Winfrey/Ling style of journalism is to exploit highly

emotional topics and sensationalize them to twang the heartstrings

of a predominantly middle class audience of liberals who are looking

for the next "do-gooder" cause to embrace. It looks like saving the

whales or feeding starving people in Somalia aren't fashionable this

year. Pity the poor whales. Pity the poor Somali refugees.

And pity the poor dog owners! A campaign against dog owners and

breeders has become the latest fashionable cause for the glitz and

glitter crowd of celebrities.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

For myself, I'm just plain sick and tired of being unfairly bashed.

I guess I just wasn't raised to be a punching bag.

But, you might be asking, how can we fight back against the

wealthiest and most powerful media mogul in America? How can we

fight that kind of power? How can we fight someone who wills $30

million to her dogs when we're trying to figure out how to pay last

month's electric bill?

I think we can do it, if we get off of our butts and actually do

it. There are hundreds of thousands of people who breed dogs because

they love them ­ show dogs, performing dogs, hunting dogs, obedience

dogs, field trial dogs, companion dogs and just plain dogs. In

addition, there are millions of dog owners who love their animals

and thank breeders for doing the fine job that they know we do in

improving temperament, genetic soundness, utility, beauty and health.

If we join together in this, we can be a formidable force.

My thoughts are that a boycott of Winfrey's advertisers would be the

most effective strategy. If several hundred thousand dog owners and

breeders were to contact advertisers on the Oprah show and refuse to

buy any of their products, they would be forced to take notice.

Please understand that I am not talking about censoring Winfrey's

opinions. I would fight for her right to express any opinion she

chooses, and also for her right to present and endorse the views of

animal rights groups on her program.

However, journalistic ethics demands fairness, balance and

objectivity if programming purports to be reporting the news. If

Oprah wants to do a report on dog breeding, that's fine. But the

report should be fair to us and give us the opportunity to balance

the views of the animal rights groups with our side of the story.

I don't expect that Oprah will hold to the same standard of ethics

that I did as a newspaper reporter. I expect that her report will be

a hatchet job on dog owners and breeders. The promotional blog for

Friday's Oprah Show gives us an idea of what we can expect:

http://www.oprah. com/community/ thread/44908. Read it for yourself.

A boycott of advertisers just might convince Oprah to undergo an

ethical reformation. Most of her advertisers won't like the idea of

losing several hundred thousand customers so that Oprah can preach

sermons against dog owners and breeders.

When I worked on newspapers, there was a cynical wisecrack that my

bosses sometimes told me when they didn't like something I

wrote. "There is freedom of the press in America ­ for anyone who

owns a press." That meant I didn't own the press.

It takes a lot of money to own a TV show. Oprah has that kind of

money, and she earned it, but it has gone to her head. Now she

sneers at the rights and lives of ordinary people who made her a pop

star, and that includes dog owners and breeders.

The Internet is the great equalizer. One of the beauties of the

Internet is that it allows everyone to truly have the rights of free

speech and free press. The Internet has become the printing press of

ordinary people, and now it reaches a reported 80-percent of

American households.

Television represents the past, when Oprah's kind of money and power

controlled the right of a free press. The Internet has given us our

voice.

The American Sporting Dog Alliance is asking all dog owners and

breeders to watch the Oprah Show on Friday and form your own

opinions. Then, if she does the kind of hatchet job we expect,

please bombard her with emails expressing your displeasure.

Then, we need to get organized for a campaign to reach her

advertisers. In order to get ready, ASDA is asking readers of this

report to email us a list of every advertiser that supports the

Oprah Show. ASDA is willing to organize this campaign. Also, please

let us know if you are able to help with it. Our email address is

asda@csonline. net.

The American Sporting Dog Alliance works at the grassroots to defend

the rights of dog owners and professionals against the very real

threats of animal rights activism. Please visit us on the web at

http://www.american sportingdogallia nce.org. We maintain strict

independence and are supported only by the voluntary donations of

our members.

While the Oprah segment may be about "puppy mills," the laws that

her friends in PETA and HSUS are proposing really are targeting dog

owners and hobby breeders, with the goal of reducing and ultimately

eliminating animal ownership. These same radical groups also want to

eliminate hunting, ban the ownership of firearms, forcibly convert

us to vegan vegetarianism and destroy American farming traditions.

"Puppy mills" are not the issue. Existing federal, state and animal

cruelty laws already intensively regulate commercial kennels. You

are the issue. These groups want to destroy the things that you love

and believe in.

Does Oprah have a conscience? She is leaving $30 million to support

five dogs that she loves and apparently believes she is doing

something right by supporting animal rights groups.

But she is being suckered. She is supporting groups that believe

that the only unexploited dog is a dead dog. The truth is that PETA

slaughters 97-percent of the dogs that enter the

organization' s "shelter" in Virginia. They would rather kill those

dogs than help them find a loving home.

Please forward this posting to as many people as you can, and also

cross-post it on message boards. We need to reach as many people as

possible quickly.

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maybe people should watch the program for themselves before making a judgement... :whistle:

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maybe people should watch the program for themselves before making a judgement... :whistle:

I quite agree. However, they may not watch it if they aren't aware of it. I didn't write that article - I just posted it....

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Oprah is ultra-liberal? She's one hell of an entrepreneur...I can't see her walking around in a Che Guevara T-shirt.

I thought this might spark an interesting debate....

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Although the commercial trade in pet store puppies has nothing to do

with the vast majority of dog owners and breeders, sensationalistic

news coverage tars us with the same brush. To the liberal animal

rights mindset, all breeders are either "puppy mills" or "backyard

breeders," and this always translates into more laws that harm only

the innocent. Moreover, the hidden agenda of the animal rights

movement is the ultimate elimination of animal ownership, and their

strategy is to pick us off one group at a time.

that's been the viewpoint of a few on vj too.

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My personal opinion on the subject is this:

Oprah holds a lot of sway with public opinion and if the show is geared towards making ALL breeders look bad, then there's going to be a big baclash against reputable breeders. I do think puppy mills and animal cruelty should be highlited, I just don't believe everyone should be tarred with the same brush.

I'm not suggesting this is what will be done, as I haven't seen the show yet, but I think it raises interesting points for sure.

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10th December - EAD approved

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I hate when breeders fight anti-puppy mill laws for their own selfish interests. I'm sorry if it makes it a little more difficult for you, but suck it up in the name of saving millions of canine lives.

Can't you see that protecting breeders' rights is not the real reason these groups oppose anti-puppy mill legislation? They're actually protecting puppy mills, who are part of those organizations and give them money.

A real animal lover would never impede anti-puppy mill legislation.

Of course I dislike breeder organizations, which are mostly corrupt puppy mill defenders, but I also have my bias against breeders. There are so many unwanted dogs in the world. What are you doing making more of them? You want to make pretty ones? Is that it?

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I hate when breeders fight anti-puppy mill laws for their own selfish interests. I'm sorry if it makes it a little more difficult for you, but suck it up in the name of saving millions of canine lives.

Can't you see that protecting breeders' rights is not the real reason these groups oppose anti-puppy mill legislation? They're actually protecting puppy mills, who are part of those organizations and give them money.

A real animal lover would never impede anti-puppy mill legislation.

Of course I dislike breeder organizations, which are mostly corrupt puppy mill defenders, but I also have my bias against breeders. There are so many unwanted dogs in the world. What are you doing making more of them? You want to make pretty ones? Is that it?

Ok, first of all, I am not a breeder, but I do not see why people should not be allowed to breed dogs provided it is done responsibly. I would never advocate puppy mills, but tarring all breeders with the same brush is overgeneralising it. IMO.

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25th September - Check cashed $1010.00 (OUCH!!)

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10th December - EAD approved

28th January 2009 - GC approved without interview. Done with all this till 2011!!!!!!!!

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Um, I didn't "tar all breeders with the same brush." (Not sure if I should quote you or the article, there.) Puppy mills are one thing, breeders are another. I abhor puppy mills (as anyone with a heart probably does) and I am disgusted by any organization that pretends it's not supporting puppy mills when they actually are.

Breeding dogs is something I find disagreeable, but I don't hate breeders. I just wish people would stop doing it when there are so many dogs in the world already. My distaste for breeders does not approach my feelings about puppy mills.

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Um, I didn't "tar all breeders with the same brush." (Not sure if I should quote you or the article, there.) Puppy mills are one thing, breeders are another. I abhor puppy mills (as anyone with a heart probably does) and I am disgusted by any organization that pretends it's not supporting puppy mills when they actually are.

Breeding dogs is something I find disagreeable, but I don't hate breeders. I just wish people would stop doing it when there are so many dogs in the world already. My distaste for breeders does not approach my feelings about puppy mills.

what is the difference between a puppy mill and a breeder? :pop:

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