The woman who took these photos updated her thread that all 6 of them were killed this morning because they had “parvo.” 3 of the 6 ID#s were A4632094, A4633095 and A4632097. She also mentioned that when she called 2 days ago she was told that they were exposed to parvo but had all tested negative. Now here they are dead, killed under the guise of having parvo.

Newsflash: The Carson shelter says that every puppy they kill has “parvo.” This is a given. It’s not even a legitimate statement, rather a dubious claim meant to justify their lazy tactics of murdering innocent puppies that they’d rather not waste any energy on networking or securing rescue for. Why would they do any of that? They think so little of rescues and the process that’s involved that they don’t even have a rescue coordinator, a position that most kill shelters have, even if just for looks. They haven’t had one for about 2 years now and the last woman to hold the position wasn’t at all qualified, shocker.

I would suggest that people do public record requests for the medical paperwork, and then publish the results that you get back. At the very least it shows that people are engaged and it tells them they are being watched. Were tests even given? Or were blocks just filled out, copied and pasted to give the appearance that tests were given and that all the puppies tested positive? There’s no way to know, and this shelter knows it. They don’t have to document in any fashion whether a test was given, or what the results were, that would then coincide with any piece of information that actually tracks back to something. They can simply fill in a box, but this is all done on the honor system. The Carson shelter has no honor.

How about some energy be put forth in trying to find out how these dogs were actually exposed to parvo in the first place? How about some energy be put forth in trying to better the sanitation realities that allow such diseases to spread, if in this case such disease even existed? Instead, this shelter basically functions under carte blanche, acting in any way that they see fit. I am the unofficial oversight. You can be the unofficial oversight. If we aren’t then they have none. Those in “official” positions could patently care less.

L.A. County has been touting their “new” website for awhile now but I must say that it looks and functions a lot like their old website when it comes to the art of actually displaying the dogs. The only thing different about this website seems to be the color of its framework.

Why are we still getting results like this?

If you can’t see this clearly enough it displays no picture where there should be a picture displayed. And it starts not 1 but 5 template sentences and then fails to finish each line with any speck of descriptive text whatsoever. This specific post fails to list a name, age, sex, type of dog, sterilization status, which shelter they are at, what day they were impounded, what day they are to become “available” and finally their current kennel number.

It looks like this: “and I’m approximately . I am . I have been at the since . You can visit me at my temporary home at .”

It should look like this (see below): “My name is _____ and I’m an approximately 10 month old female Pit Bull. I am not yet spayed. I have been at the Carson Animal Care Center since September 3, 2013. I will be available on September 11, 2013. You can visit me at my temporary home at C325.”

Individual notes should come below this, they hardly ever do.

So why is such a lack of minimal effort put forth, for even the most basic of duties? How does a dog or cat’s picture fail to make it onto the website? Truth be told, many animals do not get their pictures put on this website at all. But further, how is the blank template uploaded with no descriptive information? Who’s job is it to enter this information? How are they failing to do a basic thing that every impounded shelter animal deserves to have? What is this and how is it helpful?

4 years ago today I adopted my beautiful baby Neola from Pit Bull Rescue San Diego. I love you Pola! Thank you for carrying on Sway’s legacy and loving me unconditionally while you do it.

Remember Presley? Well over the last few weeks he has been making his way to his new life, and I’m happy to write that he is now safely in Ohio and up for adoption. Please watch the little video visual that I put together entitled “From kill shelter to airplane,” and then the small public service announcement that features Presley essentially embracing an endless amount of belly rubs while I talk about him and the many other great dogs that are out there waiting to be saved.

Here Presley is with Guilty ‘Til Proven Innocent director Jeff Theman, after making it to Ohio. We love and miss you Presley! Thanks to Jeff for coming to Carson with me, falling in love with Presley and keeping his word on getting him out. Thanks to Jean for helping rescue Presley, Anna for covering his flight, Irene for assisting me with his adoption fee and Dianne for doing countless things on his behalf behind the scenes (and co-starring with him in the many videos).

So a few PETA-apologists claimed that I edited Lisa Lange’s words to misrepresent their positions on Pit Bulls and BSL. We’ll just ignore for now the fact that these stances are in countless publications (including their own) that are freely available to whomever wants to seek them out. But here’s another video perspective, ran alongside mine, showing that nothing was edited.

I don’t want to delve into the political arena too far on this page, but I heard Glenn Greenwald mention a phrase this morning that essentially sums up perfectly what I try to do with my website… “Adversarial journalism.”

…They (establishment journalists) believe in subservient journalism, not adversarial journalism. I only believe in the latter. If you want to start criminalizing journalism, it means that you’re asking, as a citizen, to be kept ignorant and to allow people in power to conceal what they’re doing behind a wall of secrecy and to have no accountability or transparency. Journalism is not a crime and it is not terrorism.

Greenwald’s talking about the political system and the national security apparatus, I’m talking about the “sheltering” system and all of their backwardness from over in my little pocket of the world. They are both empires that routinely go unchallenged. Be an adversarial journalist.

So PETA responded to my video floating around Twitter by addressing me directly and linking me to some document entitled “The Straight Scoop on PETA and Pit Bulls.” Notwithstanding the fact that I’d already read this PDF and knew fully what was in it, and it literally just backs up my claims that they’ve taken issue with, they still chose to send it to me in a public forum as if it actually disputes my video and disproves my statements made to Lisa Lange… And they attached a loving heart icon for good measure!

As you can see below, it’s written plainly that PETA not only wants the immediate ban on the breeding of any future Pit Bull, but they also support outright bans on the ownership of currently existing Pit Bulls not already “owned.” Going unmentioned is the fact that these positions then make life hell for the Pit Bulls that PETA claims that they will allow to be “grandfathered in,” as these laws are being created on the implication that all Pit Bulls are “dangerous.” All this aligns perfectly with what Ingrid Newkirk has said many times, and what I said in my video to Lisa Lange’s face: PETA calls for the “automatic destruction” of all Pit Bulls entering the shelter, a ban on Pit Bull ownership, and a fazing out of Pit Bulls altogether by lobbying for them to never be able to reproduce.

And I especially loved this doubletalking doozy: Saying that they are protecting Pit Bulls from breed-specific abuse through the use of breed-specific legislation. So PETA is going to protect Pit Bulls by banning them and then killing them. Thus, if there’s no more in existence then they can hypothetically never again be abused. Nice. This is akin to Big Brother and the Thought Police, staples of George Orwell’s novel 1984, telling Winston Smith that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

So sticking with the Orwellian theme, I guess I’ve now committed a “thoughtcrime” by confronting Mrs. Lange on their BSL position. What happens to the people in 1984 who commit a thoughtcrime? Well, they’re taken to this nice little place called the “Ministry of Love” where they are then tortured for committing the thoughtcrime. Again, a euthanasia needle is love, taking a dog’s life is a gift that PETA is giving them. It’s all sick. PETA is twisted.

The parallels between the hateful rant below, which was aimed at an autistic Canadian boy, and the vile garbage routinely spilled online by anti-Pit Bull hatemongers like Colleen Lynn, Dawn James, Korey Nelson and their klan of fake profiles is too rich to pass on noting. Look at this…

Doesn’t this type of disgusting rhetoric sound familiar? The creature who anonymously wrote the above letter goes so far as to say that this boy’s family should “do the right thing and move or euthanize him.” Prior to this they tell the family to “go live in a trailer in the woods or something with your wild animal kid.” Just before that they note that “he is a hindrance to everyone and will always be that way.” They then write “what the hell else good is he to anyone” after suggesting that his working organs be “donated to science.”

Yeah. This letter pretty much sums up many of the sycophantic followers of DogsBite.org. You could literally slide the references to the boy out and insert the noted breed of dog in and we are dealing with the same level of vitriolic ugliness. Discrimination is discrimination. Hate is hate. That is all.

Here’s some further observations that I wanted to quickly address…

@1:55 Total fear-mongering.

@2:26 I love Erika’s followup question here, and Lisa Lange has nothing to say besides looking around for a bailout.

@2:52 Mandatory spay and neuter for certain types of dogs is only 1 facet of breed-discriminatory legislation. To most people it is the lowest on the totem pole in regards to what is intolerable about BSL. I’d disagree, and argue that mandatory sterilization laws targeting specific breeds or types is a long-game way of working around the current laws out there that prohibit the outright banning or singling out of those breeds or types. But Lisa knows full well that BSL is not just mandatory spay and neuter. Yet she rambles on and on and on about it without addressing the portions of BSL that outright ban breeds and types. Bans them simply based around the subjective visual decision of some chosen animal control god. She knows that there is no science behind this. She knows that it’s discrimination based around how a dog looks, having nothing to do with behavior. She knows that it perpetuates the negative stereotypes and myths, blanketly throwing millions of dogs under the bus. She knows that it leads to the relinquishment of animals in mass, and thus their killing in mass. She knows what BSL is, and knows that PETA supports all facets of it, yet just continues addressing spay and neuter while denying all else.

@3:55 If by when you say “reducing populations” you mean of certain types of dogs, after you ban and then kill them all, then potentially yes. As far as mandatory spay and neuter laws actually reducing the number of animals being killed in shelters, that is false. City after city where these laws have been put into place shows that they actually raise shelter intake numbers, and thus shelter kill numbers. PETA doesn’t care about how many animals are dying in shelters every year, as they pretty much kill the entirety of their own shelter in Norfolk. What they do care about is that hypothetically less and less domesticated dogs will be produced into our society.

@6:07 They are outnumbered??? This is a massive lie. And if the media and organizations like PETA wouldn’t constantly let these dogs down by erroneously impressing upon people’s psyches who don’t know any better that these dogs are all land-sharks and killers, well, then that number could exponentially expand even further.

@6:25 Mandatory home-checks? Given by whom? Government, animal control? They are both already horrendously terrible at their current jobs. Don’t rescue groups and responsible persons already take it upon themselves to often do this? Of course. And people are allowed to go to the shelter and not have to worry about being harassed by someone who wants to be a control-freak. This is such a ridiculous statement. And then she starts grandstanding about “all animal’s safety,” yet the home checks are only for the Pit Bulls! Lol. Well, if you care about the other dogs wouldn’t you require these home checks for them as well? See, this is all straw man stuff. It’s not about the welfare of the animals going into new homes. It’s about control and simply throwing another massively confusing, unenforceable hurdle in the way of every Pit Bull adoption.

@8:14 Low-cost spay/neuter clinics all over the city? No there’s not!

@8:55 The “oh shit” face.

@10:14 PETA supports all forms of breed-specific legislation, and often times those exact scenarios happen under the unjust laws that PETA helped usher in.

@11:08 See the document.

@11:33 See the document.

@13:44 No example.

@14:50 Uh oh!

@16:22 Candid shots are pretty interesting.

Finally, a few people that I talked to afterwards made comments to me about my tone and how it could have come off as intimidating or forceful. These were observations from respected friends, and I hear them and understand… But I’m not here to play games with these people. That woman represents an organization that wields a huge public relations stick and they want to literally kill my dogs. They want to kill every Pit Bull in every shelter. I meet these dogs, I love these dogs. They view my dogs as not dogs, but as somehow different from all other dogs. They make life more difficult for my dogs and for me, and for you and your dogs. They want to kill my future dogs, and my ability to have Pit Bulls 5, 10, 25 years from now. They do not have my respect. I have no desire to beat around the bush with them. I love what they do for other animals–a lot of the factory farm stuff, saving the laboratory monkeys and all the rest of it–but their head honchos are authoritarian psychos at the core and their Pit Bull and shelter reform stances undoubtedly prove it.

*Update*

Within an hour of posting this article and video I had this little exchange with someone running to defend PETA on Facebook. There are numerous reasons why I’m posting this, so first check it out and then I’ll explain…

Okay, so first just notice the irrationality of the initial comment. But as you go deeper you quickly see that this person’s reactionary tendencies mirror someone from the DogsBite.org-inspired crew. She quickly throws out the blanketed “dangerous breed” crap and then accuses me of not caring about dead children, insinuates that my dogs have actually hurt children and then blames me for “verbally attacking” victims and their family members. What? Worse still, if you go to her Facebook page SHE IS POSING AS A PRO-PIT BULL PERSON WHO IS IN ALL OF THESE RESCUE AND PIT BULL GROUPS ONLINE. These infiltrators are going hard. Pay attention to their moves. Lastly, isn’t it funny that these are the folks that are defending PETA? The anti-Pit Bull, anti-shelter reform, pro-killing, pro-exploitation and demonization of entire groups “crowd.” Speaks volumes. You can watch the full 90-minute video of the discussion here.