Sneaky b*stards
Didn’t start the week intending to concentrate on dogs, but here we are. Although this also speaks to gun control.
The Farm Bill: Big piece of legislation awaiting Congress when they return from their well-deserved taxpayer-funded vacation. (Side note – anyone see where Trump told a farmer’s group that:
“We love the American farmer,” the president said. “I just gave you 12 billion dollars. I don’t know if you know that or not. You make enough money. It doesn’t matter to you, right?”
While plenty of cheers could be heard after “12 billion dollars,” the crowd went largely silent after “you make enough money” Dakota Free Press
I believe whether he thought he was joking or not, that is the definition of “tone deaf”.) Not every joke works.
Back to the Farm Bill.
It contains funding and sets policy on items ranging from conservation programs valued by American sportsmen to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits that help feed low-income families.
So far, so good, right?
Committee Democrats teamed up with a handful of Republican legislators to amend the Farm Bill by inserting House Bill 5017, the Greyhound Protection Act of 2025 — a bill that had no chance of advancing on its own.
I’m sure you’ve seen the articles on the mistreatment of dog racers after they retire – it ain’t pretty. So the bill sounds okay.
While H.R.5017 was completely portrayed by the sponsor and supporters as only focused on ending commercial greyhound racing, the language is much more broadly written and would ban the use of sight hounds in hunting. Additionally, the language included in H.R.5017 could go so far to impact anyone that hunts with bird dogs or scent hounds by banning the use of live animals in dog training. Amendment supporters never told committee members of the broader impacts of the bill.
Animal-rights extremists, with the help of members of the House Agriculture Committee, inserted the controversial language into the Farm Bill by voice vote, despite concerns expressed by Committee Chairman GT Thompson, with no public debate or an opportunity for American hunters or houndsmen to be heard in the process. The extremists know the public is counting on passage of the Farm Bill, so they are hoping Congress will allow the anti-hunting language to remain in the bill rather than derail the huge and vital legislation. Buckeye Firearms
Ever seen a good bird dog on point? Ever seen a good hunting dog seem to almost read your mind? Never again if we let them get away with this over-broad mess. If it’s to protect racing Greyhounds, fine, narrow it down to focus on them. Congress.gov How often have we seen “oh, no one would ever try to stretch the law to do THAT” turn into exactly what they do.
Luckily the bill is going back to the House Rules committee before it goes to the full House and Senate votes. Sounds like a very good time to drop a line to your elected reps to let them know you oppose this.
As always, it’s always about control – and the controllers, like rust, never sleep.
Left/libtards in Oregon trying to ban hunting all together.
https://oregonhunters.org/final_test/
Dogs are amazing creatures, ingrained with instincts developed from centuries of breeding. If your thing is using a hunting dog to hunt, so be it. Train those dogs to their fullest potential, just take care of them, even long after their last hunt.
My Lab passed a little over a year ago. He might not have been a full Labrador Retriever (his vet thought he might have had a little German Shepherd blood), but despite being a house dog, he had a strong urge to hunt. He’d roam free as a puppy and brought me gifts more than a few times, from moles to box turtles. When he was about five years old, I was surprised when he jumped into a pond and started swimming towards some ducks. He was on his leash, so it didn’t work out for him, but still, he was a Lab doing Lab things.
My Mountain Cur has always been a hunter, despite also being an inside dog. She’s great with other pets, but knows what doesn’t belong, and over the years she’s caught and killed both mice and rats. I guess she didnt know what to make of the homeless meth head who hit my wife’s car door a few weeks ago. The Cur just stared as he called her a “stupid dog”. As I told my wife, that’s why I always carry when I cross the river into Baton Rouge.
The Miniature Labradoodle? My wife pitched her as a “replacement” for the Man Lab (Bark Obama being one of his many names). That dog is great at running away from me, crapping on the floor under my chair when I’m sitting down, and stealing treats from the Cur. Oh, and monthly $100+ grooming visits…
I still miss my snowball feist (he was part mountain cur). He lived to be 17, a good 5 or so years after his last squirrel hunt. We buried him back behind the pond under the big oaks where he learned to hunt.
Don’t get me started on Labs. I miss my girls.
I miss all three of my Labs. And my Lab Rottweiler mix. And every other one of my dogs that is waiting on me.
For me, this is one of those; “I don’t do this thing but see absolutely no reason to prevent others from their pursuit of happiness”. I know a few people who do hunt with dogs and they are deep in it. They really care about the dogs too. I found one of the neighbors wandering around my place at 3am looking for a lost puppy who somehow got separated from the pack. Nobody will do that if they don’t care.
I’ve always had a Chessie and enjoyed an occassional
Duck or Goose hunt but now retired and living on a lake
with my present one. We are waiting for the ice to go out so
he can chase the Loons when they come back.
Mans best friend indeed.
My stepsister who passed a couple years ago had been doing rescue greyhound a dozen or so years before that she had rescue Dobermans for 20 or so years. Before that she raised and trained Dobies and miniature poodles.
I had German Shepherds since I was 2-1/2 except for my single days in the Air Force. My previous GSD a rehome since he was 13 weeks old passed last August. In October his successor (not replacement) a 2 year old rehome, took up residence with us. I had a DNA test on him it turns out he was only 94% GSD with 2% Great Pyrenees, 1% Swiss White Shepherd, 1% Shiloh Shepherd, and 2% Boxer. He looks like a West German working line GSD. And he is 100% Good boy.
My local Congressman is on the Ag Committee and I’ll contact him about this.
Mother f**king DildoCrats, poison pill a (good?) legislation. Well, a legislation that doesn’t benefit them, anyway.
Thank God we have brave, fearless Pam Bondi on our brave genius President’s cabinet!
She is going away.
If that wasn’t /sarc, I have some bad news:
Alright. Look here. I see all of you talking about these masculine dogs that you have. I’m a Marine who owns a 4.7lb female Maltese. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. A friend at work always says, “you sure you’re not Navy to have such a girly dog?” To which I reply, “Well, Department of the Navy but it ends there.” Alright, all you squids go ahead and pile on.
Its a dog substitute. Defined as either A, something that gets caught in the throat of a self respecting dog when they eat it or B smaller than the neighbors cat.
If It makes you feel any better the last dog that my Old Breed Marine great Uncle had was a Maltese about the size you describe. My father a 26 year Marine had a19 pound cat that thought he was dog when he died and I inherited him.
So, if passed, what is the enforcement mechanism? UAV patrols to spot scofflaw hunters taking their bird dogs into the field, or a duck blind or goose pit? Yeah…..I don’t see many hunters paying any attention to this, if passed. Myself included.
That’s the correct attitude.
And if any po-pos show up to attempt to enforce said “laws”, well, there’s always the back 40 and a back hoe.
Dogs are awesome.
We just lost our 14 year old male Alaskan Malamute-Siberian Husky mix on Monday to liver cancer. Lost our 12 year old female Siberian Husky on 23 Nov 2025 to stomach cancer.
They were great companions, though they had a tendency to be quite argumentative/opinionated.
Sure has empty and too damn quiet around here the last few days.
Mike
USAF Retired
“No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned by a dog.” – Gene Hill
Huskys….the Drama Queens of the dog world.
Tell me about it, they can get down right hilarious when they start their act. The vocalization, side eye, and throwing their head around, etc.
Mike
USAF Retired
I had a wolf / husky /malemute hybrid prior to enlisting. Scary smart. You never had to wonder what she was thinking. She’d tell you.
Our two late Monsters Charlie (Malamute-Husky mix) and Katya (Husky). We are talking about picking up another Husky or Malamute as it’s just to damn quiet and calm around here.
Mike
USAF Retired
When my dad was stationed at Mountain Home AFB Idaho (75-77) he had a coworker that had a Husky-Wolf mix. That dog was beautiful and loyal to a fault and damn was she tall.
If a stranger showed up, she was guarded in her demeanor, showing teeth and watching your every move, until the owner said it was okay, and greeted you, then she was your best friend.
Mike
USAF Retired
Kent Brockman agrees.
Off topic. Reportedly Army chief, GEN Randy George, has been fired by SECWAR Hegseth. Didn’t laugh at the boss’s jokes?
Hegseth fires Army’s top officer, Gen. Randy George – Breaking Defense
Roger. Surprised here.
I also love dogs which I why I support Kristi Noem, who shot a puppy because she claims it was incapable of being trained. Speaking of which; no threads on her on Pam Bondi being fired? Oh, right; we can’t be posting anything if we can’t spin it.
There was a wee bit more to the Kristi Noem puppy story, and I’m quite sure you’re aware of it. If you’re not, Google is your friend. Now, concerning Pam Bondi: She didn’t deliver, so she got fired. No spin necessary.
Yea, it killed two of her chickens. That’s obviously a reason to put down any puppy. Also, why fire Pam when she did exactly what her boss wanted? She covered up the Epstein Democrat Hoax, just like her boss wanted.
“Yea, it killed two of her chickens. That’s obviously a reason to put down any puppy”
That’s a master-level troll comment- sarcastically delivered in support of your point about Kristi Noem, yet exquisitely beautiful in how it parodies
CommunistDemocrat views on law and order.I’d post all the recent / daily news stories of violent criminals out on no bail for their nth violent crime that go out and kill someone / rape a child / unleash other third-world violent mayhem on our American streets but I’m sure the assembled crowd gets my point.
True story: Jeff Sessions was in the process of making drug trafficking a death-penalty-level offense before Trump fired him. Up until that point, only the crime of murder was eligible for the death penalty at the federal level.
So, in other words, the one guy trying to make penalties harsher for criminals in first the Trump administration was also one of the first people fired.
He wasn’t fired, he resigned.
You are aware that Trump could have chose to not accept his resignation?
C’mon, you can do better. Tell the whole story. Your trolling skills have suffered in your absence. Lack of practice?
The whole story of the dog? Goddamn, I didn’t read the damn dog’s autobiography. Apparently it shot Charlie Kirk.
Who is this guy? Commissar’s alter (but equally douchey) ego? 🤣
At least Commissar makes an attempt at an argument. This guy is more of a second grade playground “I know you are, what am I” kind of clown. You know, the kid that got a lot of swirlies.
Oh it will be addressed. In fact, the Noem firing was addressed here on the day it happened.
Greyhounds got me thinking about my last basset hound; huh? Well you see, my basset hound thought every thing on earth was there for him to play with. He would track for hours probably hoping that whatever he sniffed up would scratch his ears or rub his belly. Properly trained basset hounds are actually athletic dogs; it’s just their, “If it’s not done my way, it’s not going to be done” attitude that makes most folks give up on training them. An untrained basset hound turns into a speed bump one has to feed. So anyways, one afternoon at the vet’s office, my hound and I are waiting our turn when in walks a rescue greyhound. The basset hound and the greyhound decide it’s play time. Soon the whole waiting has turned into the canine equivalent to a nursery school playroom. The vet just gave my hound “I figured it was you that started this” shrug. A good time was had by all. Perhaps, when I retire and have the two hours a day minimum it takes to train a basset hound, I’ll get another one, maybe two, that way they’ll wear each other out.