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[Omaha Steve]

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[shenmue]

1. Thank you

[femmocrat]

2. I have mixed feelings about this....

I know that this shelter is better than what they have now, but I do not think dogs should ever be chained to a doghouse. I support anti-tethering laws instead.*

But the reality is that some people should never own a dog. It just breaks my heart to see dogs chained outside like that. Having this shelter could make it seem OK to leave dogs out 24/7 when it is not acceptable.

*For more information: http://www.unchainpadogs.com This law was recently defeated in the PA legislature as part of a larger anti-animal cruelty law that was opposed by the NRA.

[Omaha Steve]

3. We watched the Nicholas Cage film Joe last night

It is a poor southern area with a couple dogs in the film. The entire movie is an eye opener about being in a poor area.

OS

[femmocrat]

4. I didn't see that movie, but I do live in a rural area.

Although I'm sure there are tethered dogs in cities and suburbs, as well. It's not an easy problem to solve, to be sure.

[Omaha Steve]

6. A good article about how the director cast a homeless man for a supporting role in the film

http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2014-04-11/his-name-was-gary-poulter/

His Name Was Gary Poulter
Meet the homeless man who became a movie star
BY JOE O'CONNELL, FRI., APRIL 11, 2014


Gary Poulter in David Gordon Green's Joe

Gary Poulter was a charming movie star with shockingly pale blue eyes and smooth dance moves. He was a smart kid from California who dreamed of joining the circus. He was a Navy man and a drunk. He was a homeless drifter missing most of his teeth and part of one ear. Gary Poulter was kind. Gary Poulter was vicious. Perhaps Gary Poulter was just a little like you and me.

Art Imitates Life

Casting agents John Williams and Karmen Leech were hunting down a different strain of actor for David Gordon Green's Joe, a film adaptation of Larry Brown's Southern gothic novel of the same name about a volatile ex-con who befriends a teenager and tries to save the boy from an abusive, itinerant father and a mean world that evokes William Faulkner's depraved Snopes family. "David said, 'Go and find me characters,'" Williams said. They cast a wide net, walking the streets of Austin and driving almost to Beaumont with stops at every Walmart, roller rink, and youth correctional facility along the way. They approached their job like cops – always alert, instinctively hunting for just the right face, that one persona that pops.

At Sixth and Congress, the duo found themselves chatting up a homeless family. "Don't talk to them!" a nearby man screamed at the family. Over to the side, a blue-eyed man with a crazed tangle of thinning white hair commanded in his gravelly chainsaw voice for the man to shut up and leave everyone alone. Williams and Leech began to examine this fiftysomething man more closely. He had an open wound on his head. He looked like he'd been on a drunken bender.

"I'm an actor," Gary Poulter told them.

In truth, Poulter's acting career was as a background extra on late Eighties TV series Thirtysomething. But he oozed charisma, and, oddly, he spoke fluent Japanese. They brought him in for a taped audition, and a grinning Poulter performed a pop-and-lock dance for the camera. They had Poulter in mind for a small part, but when Green saw the video, he sensed something bigger. Poulter was called back to audition for him in person and was offered the film's third lead: Wade, a drunken, abusive father who never settles in one place for long. In many ways, he was Poulter. "To me there's something about someone who's lived it," Williams said. "If they can act, it conveys on film. You can't fake cirrhosis of the liver."

FULL story at link.

[Archae]

5. Has PETA finally given up their "No pets" preaching?

Looks like they may have.

[AtomicKitten]

7. A proper shelter is just the tip of the iceburg

when it comes to a dog's needs. They also need good food and fresh water and, most of all, interaction with and inclusion in family life. That's what produces the "after" pictures of the healthy, happy dog.

I am adamantly opposed to chaining/tethering dogs. It's illegal in some places and IMO should be illegal everywhere. I appreciate your suggestion but remain torn on the remedy.