Comments on: Animal Rights Activists Bark about Biden’s Dog Choice

By: Room222

Room222 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:06:05 +0000

Joe, I did not vote for you. A man of the people would have adopted a shelter dog. Guess he’s just another low average politician. We invited someone from our local animal shelter to talk to our middle school kids about puppy mills. The kids also collect change to donate to several animal shelters in the area. If kids know the right thing to do, you’d think the vice-president would have also done the right thing.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:31:22 +0000

I am all for adopting animals, but doesn’t anyone realise that if Biden didn’t get this dog, she would have end up in a shelter.

By: Chuck Danielian

Chuck Danielian — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:15:38 +0000

Joe, we voted for you. We do not regret it. What we do regret, however, is that you did not heed the pleas that went out to President Elect Obama to adopt a shelter dog rather than to buy from a breeder. Your decision, Sir, will now cost some innocent shelter dog it’s life. It means one less dog which gets adopted, one less dog that a shelter will have room for and utimately one more helpless animal that will have to be euthanized. Sir, I hope you are proud of your decision. Your adoption of a shelter dog along with President Elect Obama’s decision to do so, could have done so much to raise public awareness to the plight of shelter animals.

By: ardeth

ardeth — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:18:51 +0000

I like Joe Biden, but shame on him for going to a private breeder for his dog instead of a rescue group or shelter. There are purebred puppies available in those venues too, and by adopting through a shelter or recue group, he would not be encouraging “professional” breeders to breed ever more dogs (who are often so inbred they have serious medical problems) in a country where millions of healthy, adoptable dogs are “put to sleep” (i.e., killed) every year for lack of a home to be adopted into. And nowadays there are even more homeless dogs languishing in shelters because of the mortgage crisis and people having to leave their pets behind when they move out of their houses. Sure the puppy is cute (what puppy isn’t?), but Biden has now literally condemned one shelter dog to death and sanctioned breeder adoptions by adopting this dog.