twilight of Topsfield, ME All in state that raise or consume meat were 1000% safer and better off before the guv started his animal welfare department and staffed it with extreme radicals. He's the same guv who said we were better off to have gone from farming to forestry--so we couldn't feed ourselves. Now bugs are coming to eat our trees and we can't farm enough product to feed the population. We have a farm and dogs. We're in the 40% of dog owners who license our dogs. This 40% of dog owners in Maine is the group blackmailed into paying the TOTAL COST funding this radical state animal department out to end all pet and farm animals in the generation now born. Note welll--the only times dogs are seized is AFTER females have delivered litters AND the state refuses to get rid of feral cats? Were the state concerned about the wellbeing of the breeding animals, that would NOT be the timing & USDA is responsible for laws on commercial dog kennels. Dogs are seized here for pups and adults to be sold--as part of the yearly new 100's of thousands of foreign imported dogs including one with rabies brought in from abroad due to insufficient #'s of dogs bred here to meet even pet demands. Dog and farm people need to join together. Farmers won't like being priced out of business by cost prohibitive AC demands. If no more, join those warning potential tourists to boycott Maine and Maine products to get rid of this noxious agency before it gets rid of our animals. China's been caught illegally slipping in poultry shipments into the US. If you want to pay $10/gal for gas and eat Asian meat raised with zero law--stay blind. Nothing in this mess is what it appears to be. It's NOT about kindness to animals. Anonymous accusers are cowards who want neighbors farms or other assets and need to be public. If you don't want a cop who gives you a ticket to be your judge/jury, why would we let animal welfare run such a kangaroo agency court blocking citizens from real court access?report abuse

in shock of Augusta, ME I agree with Dan. But I also have tried to get a horse from a rescue..No easy task..I offered to take a horse in and feed it and love it..ya only if I give a huge fee for the horse..I don't feel too sorry for these people. Give the horses to people looking to adopt a horse or willing to take one in. One less mouth for you to feed..and complain about..there are people in uncle henrys everyday looking to get a horse..if the horse is old and blind or has some injury then put it down..dont expect someone to want that horse for a fee..or even free..do the horse a favor..put it down..place the younger healthy horses in homes..call the people looking for horses and make arrangements...
bring back the slaughter houses..report abuse

Dan Sheehan of Benton, ME Here we go! I have had horses for 38 years and have never had to go to anyone else to support them. I pay my bills and don't ask anyone for anything. If I felt that I couldn't afford them I wouldn't have them in the first place. Now I am going to be asked to pay a trumped up fee so others can dump their animals onto someone else. And best of all the State is going to run the rip-off. Please, not another tax on the people that are paying the lions share to support non-doers.report abuse