REXANO Federal Bill Against Pet Primates: Who are these HSUS experts

Federal Bill Against Pet Primates: Who are these HSUS "experts"

REXANO Editorial, May 2007

One of the things I've often wonder is this - who are these Humane Society of United States, ( HSUS) "experts" and what are their credentials?

These are the things that should be questioned ... there is going to have to be a concerted effort by some primate group to testify to whatever committee hears these bills ... A person should also DEMAND to see the documentation and data (from accredited sources) to present the "other side of the story".

Remember these are the wackos who produce the "expert testimony" that dogs shouldn't be kept as slave pets either ...

AND, last but not least, when I posted the monkey case from Maryland to the large petlaw list, someone pointed out that monkeys are often used as service animals ... to deprive people who depend on their help is also **cruelty.**

Another last but not least - perhaps it is time for those of us who value and depend on the company of our animals to tell the good Senators that we would appreciate it they would stop listening to, and being influenced by the opinions of these contribution collecting groups of fanatics with extreme radical views about the way which social and cultural relationships between human beings and their pets should be structured.

No one has the right to deprive human beings of their relationship with, ownership of, and use of animals ... so knock it off and get back to stuff that is truly relevant to the United States today ...like the war in Iraq, poverty, high gasoline prices, disappearing jobs, etc, etc. etc ... I don't think the majority of those who still bother to vote make that effort in order to see the US Senate tell us how to take care of pets.

Author is a life long (over sixty years) fancier of purebred dogs and blooded horses as well as an appreciator of all animals ,domestic and exotic. They are a third generation family of fanciers and exhibitors and believe, as do most rational Americans, that we have to do all in our power to maintain our heritage and right to own and use animals in a humane manner.