After having been hounded by state authorities for infractions at their kennels, some kennel owners euthanized approximately 80 dogs to avoid further legal action.  This was legal.  However, the Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell now wants to change the legality of that and make it illegal for kennel owners to euthanize their animals.

Imagine that you were playing a game of cards and at every hand that you won, the owner of the cards changed the rules so that you couldn't use the strategy you had used to win any more.  You would give up playing cards with this person and leave.

This is such a clear-cut case of bureaucratic abuse.  The kennel owners were being targeted and rather than try to explain or work with the punitive bureaucrats, they sacrificed their dogs.  In other words, these business men threw out their stock. You can't stay in business very long doing that.  The abuse had to have been constant with no end in sight.

The governor is trying to continue the abuse.  He has not looked at what the bureaucrats have done that were unleashed against the kennel owners.  Instead he wants the owners to have to pay a veterinarian for euthanization. This is more punitive legislation.

People are more important than dogs (with the exception of some people and some dogs I have known).  We don't need more laws against people. We need less.  The governor should have looked at the thugs that have been mercilessly terrorizing the kennel owners.  He should be looking at curbing their power by removing some of their authority.  Power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.