So sad.
I wonder what pushes someone to this.

lima beans: So sad.
I wonder what pushes someone to this.

Craziness.

Today ' s 30 cats, 40 chickens and turkeys, 100 goats and sheep, a llama, an emu, a pregnant horse, three potbellied pigs and a 600-pound farm pig, brought to you by Lancaster CA . Your dog wants food and water

FIFY

/Your cat wants better grammar

It might have been some sort of survivor-esque animal game show, where all the animals were competing to see who could last the longest in extreme conditions. And then the authorities came along and ruined the season, and made all their sacrifice up to that point moot. Good job, authorities. I would have been pulling for the emu, and now I'll never know.

I have a solution.

amazing_live_seamonkeys: I have a solution.

YUM!

Ok, the pigs are taken care of.

Pocket Ninja: It might have been some sort of survivor-esque animal game show, where all the animals were competing to see who could last the longest in extreme conditions. And then the authorities came along and ruined the season, and made all their sacrifice up to that point moot. Good job, authorities. I would have been pulling for the emu, and now I'll never know.

you got a full bore laugh out of me with that.

well played sir, well played

30 cats, 40 chickens and turkeys, 100 goats and sheep, a llama, an emu, a pregnant horse, three potbellied pigs and a 600-pound farm pig

And a partridge in a pear tree.

if this was Lancaster, PA that sounds much like a normal farm.

All of those are edible animals, so this problem should work itself out.

the cheese stands alone

Heh, I live in Lancaster. There are some pretty trashy folks in the Antelope Valley. Of course I am not one of them.

Were they all stuffed inside a 747?

Never an Ark around when you need one.

This would be almost my ideal household, if I could afford to feed them.

/Critters FTW!

George Orwell mysteriously unavailable for comment...

hopefully the animal collector responsible for this did the right thing and hung himself.

I have trouble paying for my 2 dogs and one cat. OH yeah, I'm not crazy and take care of my girls.

Asako: Were they all stuffed inside a 747?

What's the pregnant horse in there for?

baka-san
I have trouble paying for my 2 dogs and one cat. OH yeah, I'm not crazy and take care of my girls.

Yeah, what the crap. Money, vet visits and cleaning up after one damned cat is enough trouble for me.

Since a lot of the female animals were pregnant, I wonder if the asshole(s) responsible were trying to run a baby animal mill, rather than just being your standard non-profit hoarder.

LukeA: All of those are edible animals, so this problem should work itself out.

Cats are edible? Are you Asian?

clod9: the cheese stands alone

So can it be Goatunday?

Having lived at the end of the road where everyone from the city dumped there unwanted pets, I can easily see how this could happen. I wouldn't be so quick to condemn a person who did not want to condemn all of these animals to the gas chamber.

I curse the people who dump their animals in "the country" thinking something magical will happen to them.

/What a nice soap box this is!

clod9: the cheese stands alone

Win!

locustfajita: Heh, I live in Lancaster. There are some pretty trashy folks in the Antelope Valley. Of course I am not one of them.

Of course not...

Sometimes human behavior doesn't surprise me.
And then....


Note to "crazies": The animals don't want you. Leave them be.

Babbs: LukeA: All of those are edible animals, so this problem should work itself out.

Cats are edible? Are you Asian?

....technically, ALL animals are "edible," including the animal known as homo sapiens sapiens. dunno why you meat-eaters see any difference between eating a pig (one of the most emotionally/intellectually advanced "food" animals) and eating a dog or a cat.

Thats some disturbing InformaiSHON

future britney batshiat craziness??

"i can't have my kids, but i canz have all these animalez!!"

....fark, for that matter,
why is THIS scenario considered any more deplorable than most modern US factory farms?

I mean, really....your Tyson chicken nuggets and Butterball turkeys typically live in the same conditions (or worse) and you EAT them....but hey, there are no dogs and cats in danger at those places, so it's okay.


Once again,
I AM NOT one to tell you how to live, or what to eat,
but for fark's sake, look at the bigger picture.
If you think this story is a tragedy (and I would have to agree), consider tragedies that occur on a much larger scale, every day, under FDA approval.

oh, and I heartily agree, Sofajockey.


/NOT a PETAtard
//doesn't condone fake-blood dumping
///DOES like to spread information

Yesterday and friend and I bought 4 large bags of Costco dog food and bowls for water to donate to the rescue effort. The people that are taking in the dogs recently had their house burned down in the fires and are doing this to help.

Egalitarian: baka-san
I have trouble paying for my 2 dogs and one cat. OH yeah, I'm not crazy and take care of my girls.

Yeah, what the crap. Money, vet visits and cleaning up after one damned cat is enough trouble for me.

Since a lot of the female animals were pregnant, I wonder if the asshole(s) responsible were trying to run a baby animal mill, rather than just being your standard non-profit hoarder.

Yes it was a working puppy mill.

embrodak_luvs_strongbad: Babbs: LukeA: All of those are edible animals, so this problem should work itself out.

Cats are edible? Are you Asian?

....technically, ALL animals are "edible," including the animal known as homo sapiens sapiens. dunno why you meat-eaters see any difference between eating a pig (one of the most emotionally/intellectually advanced "food" animals) and eating a dog or a cat.

Damn right. I have no problem eating a vegan or vegetarian if they're slow and stupid and don't stay out of my way. As far as I am concerned, you have to eat meat to be fully human.

jso2897:
Damn right. I have no problem eating a vegan or vegetarian if they're slow and stupid and don't stay out of my way. As far as I am concerned, you have to eat meat to be fully human.


well, at least you're honest.
but would you only eat slow and stupid veg*ns, or do you chase down the quick and nimble ones, too?

...just wondering.

how did the single horse get pregnant?

embrodak_luvs_strongbad: jso2897:
Damn right. I have no problem eating a vegan or vegetarian if they're slow and stupid and don't stay out of my way. As far as I am concerned, you have to eat meat to be fully human.


well, at least you're honest.
but would you only eat slow and stupid veg*ns, or do you chase down the quick and nimble ones, too?

...just wondering.

Well of course. Not only are the nimble ones harder to catch, but a predator who goes after the stronger member of a prey species is genetically weakening his own meal ticket. Which is kind of the serious back note to my bullshiat. Life on this planet would not function without predation - and we are predators,as surely as wolves or hyenas are.
For that reason, I have to dismiss the eating (or not eating) of meat as a moral issue. Whether or not to eat meat is a perfectly legitimate personal choice to make, just as the choice whether or not to wear blue is - but it's not a moral choice, one way or the other, IMNPHO.

wxboy: 30 cats, 40 chickens and turkeys, 100 goats and sheep, a llama, an emu, a pregnant horse, three potbellied pigs and a 600-pound farm pig

And a partridge in a pear tree.

Damn, you beat me to it.

you make a very good point, jso2897, and it has been noted.

the "moral" issue is a tricky thing...it really depends on one's own concept of morality. It's not so much the eating of animals that bothers me, but the conditions in which most factory farm animals are kept.

and let's face it, the way (most) humans obtain their meat is a FAR cry from the way "nature" intended.



on a side note,
I'm rather surprised....with a headline like this, I expected at least one "Aristocrats!" reference.

/hey, I DO have a sense of humor.

Thank you Mojo for carrying all those bags of dog food, I never could have done it without you!

This is a desperate and sad situation, and the folks at Gentle Barn Rescue have jumped in to help clean, vet and feed these poor animals even though they lost everything in the recent fires.

If you have it in your heart to help, you can make a $1, $5, $10, $20 donation at:

http://gentlebarn.org/id89.html

If everyone who reads this makes a small donation, just imagine.

These folks are NOT PETA and they do not have the funds to handle such an emergency. Most Rescue groups who get down and dirty are poor and depend on our donations.

embrodak_luvs_strongbad: ....fark, for that matter,
why is THIS scenario considered any more deplorable than most modern US factory farms?

I mean, really....your Tyson chicken nuggets and Butterball turkeys typically live in the same conditions (or worse) and you EAT them....but hey, there are no dogs and cats in danger at those places, so it's okay.


Once again,
I AM NOT one to tell you how to live, or what to eat,
but for fark's sake, look at the bigger picture.
If you think this story is a tragedy (and I would have to agree), consider tragedies that occur on a much larger scale, every day, under FDA approval.

oh, and I heartily agree, Sofajockey.


/NOT a PETAtard
//doesn't condone fake-blood dumping
///DOES like to spread information

Really asshole?

"The animals had no water and had not eaten for God only knows how long. There were bags of wood pellets for starting fires in a stove, resembling animal food pellets were being fed to some of the animals. Dogs were found dead in wheelbarrows, ducks were found dead in black mud/sludge, and chickens were found half eaten in dog cages."

Here is some real information for you. Spread that.

embrodak_luvs_strongbad: ....technically, ALL animals are "edible," including the animal known as homo sapiens sapiens. dunno why you meat-eaters see any difference between eating a pig (one of the most emotionally/intellectually advanced "food" animals) and eating a dog or a cat.

Pigs will eat their babies out of sheer boredom. And they will crush them to death by sitting on them. I don't think they're as advanced as you'd like to believe. I'm sure you could train one to jump through a hoop but that wouldn't be enough for me.

alt-kttn: ...
This is a desperate and sad situation, and the folks at Gentle Barn Rescue have jumped in to help clean, vet and feed these poor animals even though they lost everything in the recent fires.

If you have it in your heart to help, you can make a $1, $5, $10, $20 donation at:

http://gentlebarn.org/id89.html

If everyone who reads this makes a small donation, just imagine.

These folks are NOT PETA and they do not have the funds to handle such an emergency. Most Rescue groups who get down and dirty are poor and depend on our donations.


Thanks for the link, kttn.
I've put my paypal account to good use, and I passed the links along to my friends at VegWeb (TONS of animal rescuers and overall helpful folk there)...I know several who will be happy to donate.
:-)

Ah! I think I know now what I'm going to do with that $50 Costco giftcard I was given. I was stumped trying to figure out what movie or electronic device I was going to waste it on.

Many of the animals were pregnant, Laks said.

Does this seem bizarre to anyone else...?

msw-mojo:
Really asshole?

"The animals had no water and had not eaten for God only knows how long. There were bags of wood pellets for starting fires in a stove, resembling animal food pellets were being fed to some of the animals. Dogs were found dead in wheelbarrows, ducks were found dead in black mud/sludge, and chickens were found half eaten in dog cages."

Here is some real information for you. Spread that.

as a matter of fact, I am spreading that information.

I've passed the story along--including a link to the Gentle Barn Foundation donation site--to some friends and an online vegan community. I donated a few bucks to the cause; I'm piss broke, but I wanted to help in some way...

jeezus,
do you REALLY think I'm that insensitive? This story breaks my goddamn heart...it is farking SICK how anyone with the human capacity for sympathy and compassion could mistreat these creatures....It IS real information, it IS tragic, and it IS being spread by myself and many others.


asshole?
chill the fark out.

Oh, and to reiterate:




Sofajockey: hopefully the animal collector responsible for this did the right thing and hung himself.


THIS.

Lived in Lancaster for 15 miserable years. This doesn't surprise me in the least bit.

gleeda: Many of the animals were pregnant, Laks said.

Does this seem bizarre to anyone else...?

Not really...a lot of animals give birth in the spring, which for us is like 6 weeks away.