Kim Basinger leads push to crack down on sales of stolen pets for research

[douglas9]

Kim Basinger is diving into the role of an animal advocate, with the “L.A. Confidential” star calling on Congress to stop the Cruella de Vils of the world from stealing Americans’ pets.

The Academy Award-winning actor recently penned a letter to lawmakers — signed by more than 30 celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Ellen DeGeneres, Charlize Theron, Clint Eastwood and Courteney Cox, among others — urging Congress to pass the Pet Safety and Protection Act (H.R. 3187).

The bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.) would require that dogs and cats used by research facilities come from licensed dealers, publicly owned pounds or shelters, breeders who raised or owned the animals for at least a year or places licensed by the Department of Agriculture.

“Just simply, it would protect stolen and abandoned animals from being sold for research experiments,” Basinger explained in an exclusive interview with ITK.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3714424-kim-basinger-leads-push-to-crack-down-on-sales-of-stolen-pets-for-research/

[Bayard]

1. A righteous cause

She's right, this should have been done long ago. I'm still against letting these people get animals from the pound though.

When I lived in Calif., there was a rash of dogs being stolen right from people's yards, sometimes in front of their kids. I had a friend who's adopted Greyhound was snatched. Although there wouldn't be much meat on her bones, it was finally discovered the dogs were being sold to nationalities in Fresno that still eat dog meat.

[SlimJimmy]

2. Don't get me started on this subject.

I'm, by nature, fairly non-violent. But God help the person that steals an animal and sells them for research.

[Bayard]

3. I found this poem when I was a little kid. I've remembered it my whole life, still makes me cry.

Rags

We called him "Rags." He was just a cur,
But twice, on the Western Line,
That little old bunch of faithful fur
Had offered his life for mine.

And all that he got was bones and bread,
Or the leavings of soldier grub,
But he'd give his heart for a pat on the head,
Or a friendly tickle and rub

And Rags got home with the regiment,
And then, in the breaking away-
Well, whether they stole him, or whether he went,
I am not prepared to say.

But we mustered out, some to beer and gruel
And some to sherry and shad,
And I went back to the Sawbones School,
Where I still was an undergrad.

One day they took us budding M. D.s
To one of those institutes
Where they demonstrate every new disease
By means of bisected brutes.

They had one animal tacked and tied
And slit like a full-dressed fish,
With his vitals pumping away inside
As pleasant as one might wish.

I stopped to look like the rest, of course,
And the beast's eyes levelled mine;
His short tail thumped with a feeble force,
And he uttered a tender whine.

It was Rags, yes, Rags! who was martyred there,
Who was quartered and crucified,
And he whined that whine which is doggish prayer
And he licked my hand and died.

And I was no better in part nor whole
Than the gang I was found among,
And his innocent blood was on the soul
Which he blessed with his dying tongue.

Well I've seen men go to courageous death
In the air, on sea, on land!
But only a dog would spend his breath
In a kiss for his murderer's hand.

And if there's no heaven for love like that,
For such four-legged fealty-well
If I have any choice, I tell you flat,
I'll take my chance in hell.


Forgive me if its too maudlin.....

[Duppers]

4. 😭

I can't stop.

[Bluepinky]

5. So sad. RIP Rags.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. I hope this passes fast.

Cruel people like oz probably steal pets.