OBG, I think I just realized what the answer to your original comment here might be. (Late is better than never, right?)

The average American has no control over what is going on in Iraq, or in Washington, D.C. They can't help how Katrina survivors are being handled. They don't know what has happened to the two little kids who disappeared with their mental father here in WA. They have no control over any of the thousands of other problems they're exposed to daily, but they might be able to do something about saving their pets or the pets of friends.

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If you're going to kill the kids anyway, don't do it when they're the size of a pea, do it a few years later, as they're cowering in terror from years of abuse from the people who produced them. And NO, these people do not put them up for adoption... get real.

Sue