Post by HaloOfDeath on Nov 14, 2009 18:53:25 GMT -5
The Humane Society of the United States has won a very significant battle against the game dog sport, and it was never in the media. Many of us missed it. But HSUS has implemented a strategy, below the radar screen, that is unraveling the game.
Earlier this decade HSUS took on, and smashed, the American Game Dog Times. The publisher Fat Bill was put in prison, and the magazine went out of business.
A few years later, they targeted the Sporting Dog Journal. The publisher, and ex publisher, were locked up. Someone new took on the magazine and published it out of Michigan, but on a severely limited level. That person was raided this summer, his printing press seized, and the magazine officially killed off.
Other, smaller, magazines were targeted as well. Lockdown Rudy of Scratch Back was indicted a year ago. That magazine has never returned.
Today there is no way to verify if a dog is a true Ch or Gr Ch. It is impossible to verify if a dog has become a legitimate ROM dog. Fraud runs rampant. Rank curs are sold for thousands by unscrupulous peddlers that lie about the dogs accomplishments. Who would know the difference?
It used to be that the fake champions were called out in the SDJ or the AGDT. This kept people honest, at least somewhat, and that was for the good of the game. These magazines ran the fight reports and you could see for yourself who was winning and who was losing. Nothing of that kind exists today. Nothing. There is no way to know who is lying and who is telling the truth.
Today, nothing can be verified. Dogmen across the country have been burned bad recently by people selling rank curs as 4xw. There is no central location that anyone can check on the background of these dogs. The only way is to see the dogs go yourself, and with shows being so small, that gives dogmen a very limited number of options for picking up good breeding stock.
Newcomers can’t get into shows for obvious reasons. Newcomers have always been easy to scam, and it’s even worse now. We are losing a war of attrition that is driving us closer to extinction.
By destroying our means of communication, the HSUS has dealt a blow that has many, many ripple effects. Their plan is in motion. The sport of dogfighting is dying. We are at the scratch line, the count is 8.
And our sport is fading.
Earlier this decade HSUS took on, and smashed, the American Game Dog Times. The publisher Fat Bill was put in prison, and the magazine went out of business.
A few years later, they targeted the Sporting Dog Journal. The publisher, and ex publisher, were locked up. Someone new took on the magazine and published it out of Michigan, but on a severely limited level. That person was raided this summer, his printing press seized, and the magazine officially killed off.
Other, smaller, magazines were targeted as well. Lockdown Rudy of Scratch Back was indicted a year ago. That magazine has never returned.
Today there is no way to verify if a dog is a true Ch or Gr Ch. It is impossible to verify if a dog has become a legitimate ROM dog. Fraud runs rampant. Rank curs are sold for thousands by unscrupulous peddlers that lie about the dogs accomplishments. Who would know the difference?
It used to be that the fake champions were called out in the SDJ or the AGDT. This kept people honest, at least somewhat, and that was for the good of the game. These magazines ran the fight reports and you could see for yourself who was winning and who was losing. Nothing of that kind exists today. Nothing. There is no way to know who is lying and who is telling the truth.
Today, nothing can be verified. Dogmen across the country have been burned bad recently by people selling rank curs as 4xw. There is no central location that anyone can check on the background of these dogs. The only way is to see the dogs go yourself, and with shows being so small, that gives dogmen a very limited number of options for picking up good breeding stock.
Newcomers can’t get into shows for obvious reasons. Newcomers have always been easy to scam, and it’s even worse now. We are losing a war of attrition that is driving us closer to extinction.
By destroying our means of communication, the HSUS has dealt a blow that has many, many ripple effects. Their plan is in motion. The sport of dogfighting is dying. We are at the scratch line, the count is 8.
And our sport is fading.