AKC Tries to Peddle Defective Dogs to the Obama's

The AKC is suggesting Barack Obama to commit political suicide.


The American Kennel Club is asking Americans to cast a vote for the best qualified "first pet" for the family, limiting the list to a selection of American Kennel Club dogs that they claim are "hypoallergenic" breeds because Obama's daughters' are supposed to have some allergies.

Let's cut to the chase: there's no such thing as a "hypoallergenic" dog.

There are some dogs that shed a little less than others, but in that bailiwick you would have to include just about all of the terriers that actually have to be stripped (i.e. the true terriers), including such great dogs as the:

• Airedale Terrier
  
  
• Border Terrier



• Cairn Terrier



• Jack Russell Terrier (broken or rough-coated)



• Fox Terrier (wire-coated)



• Kerry Blue Terrier



• Patterdale Terrier



• Scottish Terrier



• West Highland White Terrier

But never mind.

The AKC is not interested in offering sensible advice, are they? They are only interested in marketing the AKC.

And so, instead of offering up sensible choices, they laughably offer up a bunch of exotic mutants and dogs-that-only-a-hair-dresser-could-love, such as the Bichon Frise, the Chinese Crested, the Poodle, the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier (a dog that sheds and does not have a true terrier coat) and the Miniature Schnauzer (which is not a terrier at all, no matter what the AKC says).

My advice to Barack and Michelle Obama: Forget the AKC. .

This Madison Avenue Club of Clowns has has been fobbing off defective dogs on the American people for more than 100 years.

Follow their advice, and you will be a laughing stock from coast-to-coast.

Remember what the AKC stands for. These sniffing social snobs think coat color and pedigree matter more than ability. True! Tell me if that doesn't sound like the most bitter and fear-driven bigots the Republican Party has to offer.

Mix that kind of nonsense in with with the AKC's long history of anything-for-a-dollar puppy mill mercantilism, and you get the ugliest kind of thing that America has to offer.

Read all about the AKC's "misery puppies" here, and then ask yourself whether ANY thinking person (much less a political candidate) would want to lay down with that kind of thinking!

If you want a dog that is good for the kids on every level, let me suggest almost any terrier or terrier-mutt taken out of rescue. Say "no" to the poodles and French lap dogs if you can; they are the wrong image and the girls will love just as much. Promise.

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