Cold blooded animals have a heartbeat too.

[misterpunch]

A rainy day on the bike:
Cost: 3 hours of discomfort

wearing full leathers in a televised council meeting:
Cost: minor discrimination

Having a quiver in my voice while telling my piece:
Cost: A little dignity and pride

Wearing a Blackmetal Tee and basically calling the Mayor a Nazi in front of the entire council:
Priceless.
My first time

Comments

[sionn]

"-Funding Kennels to collect and destroy apparent feral and/or homeless cats is akin to the Concentration camps of Nazi Germany. It is not animal control, it's murder."

No, it absolutely is not. What a disgusting and inappropriate thing to say.

I get that you're upset, but that is not in any way a reasonable argument to make.

[misterpunch]

I know it is a horrible thing to say, but if the by law were passed, the thousands of exotic pets in HRM would be systematically rounded up and euthanized in facilities made specifically for that purpose. All because they belong to a made up list of Prohibited animals. The kennels would also be used to destroy feral cats and loved pets that may have ran away from home and captured by an animal control officer or anyone who had the ability to trap it.

In respect to a large group of living things being rounded up and killed for no other reason than living then yes I firmly believe there is a blatant similarity. If you can convince me that I'm mistaken, I'm all ears.

[sionn]

Rounding up and exterminating people wasn't the extent of the horror of the Holocaust. HRM will not be senselessly torturing and experimenting on these animals, nor will they be working them to death/slowly starving them.

I spent a week in a former camp a couple of years ago, and I've been in a Nazi crematorium. Euthanizing animals en masse, while certainly not acceptable, is nowhere near those kinds of atrocities.

[misterpunch]

the by law has a clause that the only animals on the the prohibited list to be exempt from termination is for them to be part of scientific research and/or entertainment purposes. Education is not even mentioned here. So the animals not exterminated would be in fact subject to experiments. The definition of torture is relative here but I'm sure you would agree that tests on cold blooded animals would be more likely to be not in the best interests of the health of the animal over say mammal testing.

The only vet trained to deal with and euthanize reptiles, Dr Benoit, will not euthanize a healthy animal. Therefore who knows how things would be carried out if HRM doesn't have the resources to carry this mass extermination out?