Overreact much?

[paddymcdougall]

So I'm sure you all have seen the picture of Sarah Palin's kid Trig standing on top of their dog in order to reach a counter. I don't think it's the best idea - if the dog moves, Trig can get hurt - but eh? so what?

So PETA complained about it - and Sarah Palin did this rant - overreact much?

Dear PETA,

Chill. At least Trig didn’t eat the dog.

Hey, by the way, remember your “Woman of the Year”, Ellen DeGeneres? Did you get all wee-wee’d up when she posted this sweet picture? http://conservatives4palin.com/…/peta-woman-year-posts-phot… Hypocritical, much?

Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat?

Aren’t you the double-standard radicals always opposing Alaska’s Iditarod – the Last Great Race honoring dogs who are born to run in wide open spaces, while some of your pets “thrive” in a concrete jungle where they’re allowed outdoors to breathe and pee maybe once a day? (http://iditarod.com/ http://www.irondog.org/)

Aren’t you the same herd that opposes our commercial fishing jobs, claiming I encourage slaying and consuming wild, organic healthy protein sources called “fish”? (I do.)

Aren’t you the same anti-beef screamers blogging hate from your comfy leather office chairs, wrapped in your fashionable leather belts above your kickin’ new leather pumps you bought because your celebrity idols (who sport fur and crocodile purses) grinned in a tabloid wearing the exact same Louboutins exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats on their way to some liberal fundraiser shindig at some sushi bar that features poor dead smelly roe (that I used to strip from our Bristol Bay-caught fish, and in a Dillingham cannery I packed those castoff fish eggs for you while laughing with co-workers about the suckers paying absurdly high prices to party with the throw away parts of our wild seafood)? I believe you call those discarded funky eggs “caviar”.

Yeah, you’re real credible on this, PETA. A shame, because I’ll bet we agree on what I hope is the true meaning of your mission – respecting God’s creation and critters.

Our pets, including Trig’s best buddy Jill Hadassah, are loved, spoiled and cared for more than some people care for their fellow man whose politics may not mesh with nonsensical liberally failed ways or don’t fit your flighty standards.

Jill is a precious part of our world. So is Trig.

- Sarah Palin

Apparently PETA responded with:

PETA then hit back at Palin in another statement on Saturday.

"PETA simply believes that people shouldn’t step on dogs, and judging by the reaction that we’ve seen to Sarah Palin’s Instagram photo, we’re far from alone in that belief," the statement reads. "And we’re a vegan organization, so we sit on pleather couches, wear stylish vegan kicks, and consider fish friends, not food."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/palin-peta-dog-controversy--2

[Howey]

So I'm sure you all have seen the picture of Sarah Palin's kid Trig standing on top of their dog in order to reach a counter. I don't think it's the best idea - if the dog moves, Trig can get hurt - but eh? so what?

So PETA complained about it - and Sarah Palin did this rant - overreact much?

Apparently PETA responded with:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/palin-peta-dog-controversy--2

First of all...I've been trying to explain to the morons on USMB that Ellen Degeneres does not have a child, no matter how much the TPNN (Tea Party News Network) wants to say she does. That was a picture posted on her website under "Cute kids and pets". And guess what? It received condemnation too. 'cept Ellen didn't go ballistic over it.

http://photos.ellen.warnerbros.com/galleries/best_pet_photos_2#313193

Some of these photos are concerning. As an animal behavior specialist, I can tell you that although the dogs seem to "not mind" the child sitting on them, standing on them, hugging their face tightly, they in fact do mind! Please do research on canine behavior and body language. Each dog is showing huge signs of stress by displaying large whale eyes, stiff posture, tight mouth/lips, ears back tight to the head and more. I understand that you love your pets and we trust them, but think of them! Yes, it is cute to see children and dogs interact in such ways but the reality is that dogs don't communicate to us in ways we always understand unless you are really paying attention. It is these things that lead to a dog that bites and 9 times out of 10 families say "it came from nowhere" when actually the dog has been giving you stress signals for a long time.

Secondly, Obama didn't knowingly eat a dog. At 7 years of age, close to what Trip is, it was served to him.

[paddymcdougall]

What, Howey, are you trying to go with TRUTH again? don't you know the t-pers are allergic to truth? they can't even read it!