Pat-

I agree with you completely. Animal abuse ticks me off to no end. One of my friends neighbors gets ticked at his dog for barking all day, meanwhile his dog is just tied to a tree all by his lonesome. Big surprise that he is going to bark the whole time. The poor dog is begging for attention and is being constantly teased by only being able to look and not reach everything else around him. The dog is so unbelieavable bored that he just barks to hear something or someone talk to him. It breaks my heart.

As far as the lines being blurred, yes I see what you are saying Don Sonny Corleone. Thats why I believe it should be tougher to adopt a pet. I know in some areas there are strict guidelines and adoption processes to adopt a dog or cat. When we adopted our awesome dog Buddy, they coulden't care less. We just handed over a check for $40 and that was that. I don't blame the workers because I think thier job is very tough and they are mostly volunteers or under paid employees.

Meanwhile I don't know what it's like everywhere else, but here in Georgia people breed and sell puppies like nobodys business. Just last week there were two puppies found in a cardboard box on the road. The want ads in the paper are filled with ads for Puppies/kittens for sale. Even if their is some sort of Government regulation, which I doubt their is, their should be something controlling these people from over breeding their pets just to sell the puppies for $300 a pop.

I could go on and on, because animal cruelty fires me up but I'll quit before I write a novel. Nice job Pat.