"NO. I said I'm for fixing you pet. I never said I'm for laws from an outrageously corrupt government. Like they have anyone's best interest at heart...except their own."

"and pet food companies, (Iams, anyone?) are all part of this "decision" to "help" animals"

You think Iams is behind this? Those are such an ignorant statements I don't know where to begin with them. I don't know what kind of bizzaro planet you live on, but we have laws to keep people from chaining their dogs to a pole in the sun without food or water, because people do exactly that. My former neighbors did it. To two of their dogs. The people who live next door to them, do it. the people who live up the street from them do. as well, but then again, I live right smack in the middle of the real world. Downtown real world, to be exact. Laws will make them stop because they fear being ticketed. They will say they can't afford a fence, until they find they can affored being ticketed and reticketed even less (and not have a fence to show for the money they've had to part with).

Have you done any research on these laws? They were drafted with the wholehearted support of animal welfare groups (like PETA), who've been pushing for this for decades. The only idiots, lemme say that again, so you can hear clearly what I think, idiots who are against them are people who say they love animals, but by that mean the pretty ones that have owners and who don't have to deal with the hundreds of thousands who do not and are dragged, literally dragged sometimes to be euthanized (if they are lucky, shot, or gassed if they are not). Since you last posted to this thread, did you speak to people with animal welfare, animal rights, or animal rescue? Did you speak to anyone who works where those animals are killed to see what people on the front lines think?

Have you spoken to any sociologists to see if studies, cold hard numbers support your theory? or are you just talking of of your ass? I think you are just talking out of your ass, Mostly because I've had a few sociology courses during my tenure as a psych major in college. Here's the shorthand: Folkways follow state ways. People, when polled, will say they are for or against a certain position before a law is changed, say abortion. In 1973 the majority of Americans were against abortion under any circumstances. Then Roe v Wade changed the law. Every year since the percentage of Americans against abortion dropped. The poetic thing is that in both polls (before and after) the people are asked if they formed their opinions because of the laws, or independently, purely using their own moral compass as their guide. They will say that they came to their opinions independently of the laws (they just coincidentally mirror the laws exactly). The same thing is true of seat belts, car seats, domestic violence, child beating, and law after law. If you really want, I'll dig up my text books and quote you studies, chapter and verse.

Sorry, your severe distrust of the government is just exactly the kind of thing that dooms tens of thousands of animals to lives of misery. Sorry that your severe distrust of the government is more important to you than the welfare of innocent animals. I pray that lawmakers see your opinions and those of people like you for the ignorant statements that they are.