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What am I to think of "humane advocate protectors" that preaches the evils of dog crates...excuse me, they insist on using the term "cages" - and now come across a photo being circulated via social media that indicates a "humane advocate protector", a greyhound and a "cage" (??!!?!?) - again, their term, not mine - in the "humane advocate protectors" office.
Perplexed comes to mind
as well as hypocritical.
I do not crate my
greyhounds, so in my house you will not find a crate. But let us, for sake of
discussion, say that if I did use crates for my greyhounds you would expect to
find crates in my house. I have never thought that a crate was a
"cage". Many greyhound adoption programs suggest the use of crate to
their adopters as well as use industry standard crates for ex-racing greyhounds
awaiting forever homes. Point is, if someone uses a crate, you will find a crate
in this person's possession. If "humane advocate protectors" vilify the use of
crates you would not expect to come across photos of the "humane
advocate protectors" office with a crate...excuse
me..."cage" in it.
Would you expect to see
photos with what appears to be an industry crate with shredded paper in the
possession of a "humane advocate protectors" office that
has greyhound(s) there yet states:
“They are confined for
long hours each day, with shredded paper or carpet remnants as bedding”
In the name of TRANSPARANCY,
ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY, I believe the public is owed a full and
unvarnished explanation as to why they may have a crate in the office and how
many hours a day are they possibly confining a greyhound in it and what exactly
are the dimensions of this crate? Sorry I keep saying crate. The "humane advocate protectors" insist on
calling it a "cage". Does that include when they themselves use
them?
So what’s next? Are we
going to discover that a ”humane
advocate protectors” founder/board member is involved in whippet racing………………?
Crate-cages ;) are great tools especially for first time adopters. We used one for our first greyhound. He was a very quiet boy and would retreat to the cozy sanctum of his "cage" when activity in the house was too high for his liking. Although we don't currently have crates in our house our greyhounds often look for a "close-quarters" place to chill out, like in a closet or in a corner behind a chair. If we had the room we'd probably still have crates available for them.
ReplyDeleteWe always called it the "box" The door was always open. Our first girl loved her box. Now that she is gone the box is put away. Recently it was up again but for a peahen ICU.
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