06/01/2026
Happy Pride Month, folks! 🏳️🌈✌😇
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☀️🐶HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, SWELLIONS!🐶☀️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The first Pride was a Riot, so let's get "controversial"- why should a Dog Training page/ Dog Professional care about human social issues? Well, it's actually very simple:
🔊There is no Animal Welfare without Human Welfare!🔊
Unfun Facts: We're living in the midst of a Companion Animal Overpopulation Crisis. Shelters, rescues an animal welfare organizations across North America are functioning *well beyond their capacity*, and things are not getting better.
Furthermore, we're living in the midst of BOTH a Global Housing and Cost of Living Crisis 🫠🥲
There are Policy Makers and Hate Groups here in Canada that love to deflect these realities and cast blame onto Vulnerable Demographics- ALL OF WHOM ARE MY NEIGHBOURS, FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CLIENTS.
Now let's pretend I gave a s**t about "staying in my political lane" (LMAO, how obtuse 🤡) and focused SOLELY on the Animal Welfare aspect:
I suppose then that the goal should be to keep as many animals in healthy environments (ideally- *"homes") as possible, along with increased access to affordable companion animal education, veterinary care and overall population control through prevention (i.e: spaying and neutering).
*A "home" can look very different from individual to individual. In a perfect world, "home" means access to safe and consistent shelter, to clean food and water, to a secure relationship with other social animals and hopefully, just maybe, the ability to *thrive* over just survive! (I'm sure there's a most scientific checklist I could reference, but I don't feel like it and I honestly shouldn't have to).
Since most companion animals are LITERALLY at the mercy of their human counterparts, this means that the welfare of these animals IS LITERALLY DEPENDENT on the welfare of the human's who bring them into their homes!
If the human does not have access to AT LEAST those factors listed above, how the actual hell are they supposed to set their companion animal's up for success? 🤔 In other words...
❓IF PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD PET FRIENDLY HOMES- HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR THEIR ANIMALS?
❓IF PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD VETERINARY CARE- HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE FOR THEIR ANIMALS?
❓IF PEOPLE CANNOT FEED THEMSELVES- HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO FEED THEIR ANIMALS?
❓❓❓IF PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL SAFE, LOVED AND ACCEPTED IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND INSTEAD ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL SCAPEGOATS FOR 🐴💩 POLICIES AND PISSBABY ANTICS- WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS TO THE WELFARE OF THEIR COMPANION ANIMALS???
😬*Takes a deep breath*😇
The same way I have a ZERO Tolerance Policy for Aversive training methods, I will always have a ZERO Tolerance Policy for Hate, Bigotry, and prejudice.
Whether you realize it, like it or not- ✨The Personal IS Political✨. In my humble opinion, it shouldn't be controversial at all to be kind and AT BARE MINIMUM a decent human being. As a Dog Professional, BOTH ends of the leash matter and always will💁♀️.
✌️🐶☀️
