AR-News: AARP Promotes Backyard Breeding

[DTanzer16 at aol.com]

PLEASE CROSS POST

PLEASE NOTE:  This piece seems to be not in the print version of the AARP 
magazine, but in the online edition.  Go to:

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/money/Articles/a2004-04-16-mag-refund.htm


Forwarded Message: 

Subj: Fw: AARP promotes backyard breeding  
Date: 4/19/2004 6:33:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time 
From: elf8000 at juno.com 
 
 

PLEASE CROSS-POST WIDELY. 
AND SEND YOUR E-MAIL TO AARP!

Note: AARP is the national organization for retired people (age 55 and
older). Their membership is well up in the millions, including their
magazine's readership. Please e-mail them NOW!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ROBERT COOKE bcooke01 at msn.com
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:53 PM
Subject: AARP Doesn't Get It!

I thought you might like to send this to your members too.  Maybe if they
get a huge nationwide negative response, they might start using their old
and worn-out brains.   Bob

The May-June issue of AARP-The Magazine includes an article entitled
"Putting the Fun in Refund".  The author of the article suggests that,
rather then getting a "free" puppy at an animal shelter, readers should
use their income tax refund to purchase a registered, pedigreed puppy. 
By so doing, they would know for sure what kind of dog they were getting
and they could later breed the dog for stud fees or sell the puppies for
a nice financial reward.

This is one of the most irresponsible bits of advice I have ever seen. 
We don't need more inexperienced backyard breeders filling the community
with poor quality "pure" bred dogs.  The breeding of quality, single
breed dogs should be left to experienced, knowledgeable people, not to
those whose only qualification is that they got an income tax refund.  It
is the kind of thinking expressed in the AARP article that has filled
animal shelter across the country and leads to the euthanasia of millions
of animals every year.

Don't let them get away with this kind of ill-conceived advice.  Right
now, while you are thinking about it, send an email to
aarpmagazine at aarp.org and let them know how you feel.  Maybe if enough of
us write they will publish a "correction" or at least not write this kind
of stuff again.  Thanks.

Bob

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