I think it's simply a matter of dogs (from high-risk rabies countries) needing to be vaccinated against rabies before they can come into the US, and dogs under 6 months are not old enough to be effectively vaccinated. Side note - I do not know why you think dogs under 6 months do not get rabies. Is there a scientific reason (it would be interesting) for this? I imagine that perhaps they can inherit some temporary protection from the mother dog (assuming the mother dog has been vaccinated).
Using animals purely for sport is wrong because they don't make the choice, Humans do. Dogs & Horses are frequently injured and die at racetracks. Breeding dogs is quite dangerous to females. What happens to all the dogs that aren't good enough to race, or are done racing? Why do we do it at all? Because we don't have enough other things to bet on? Horse & Dog Racing are things I think we should ban.
Rabies is not an airborne virus. Domesticated puppies are generally well protected and if by a chance they are attacked by a rabid animal, they have a significantly higher chance of dying.
no, under 8 weeks there is an extremely low risk, close to zero. at that age many puppies are still inside a kennel, close to the dam, and not wandering the countryside being exposed to rabid skunks and raccoons. There is always the chance of a rabid bat getting into a kennel, I suppose, and biting a less-than-8-week-old puppy . . . but I think the odds of that are likely millions to one, if not lower. Just not a real concern.
I would add that it seems to me this is the problem with modern left-leaning thinking. I grew up in an age where Democrats were the party that "questioned authority." Now? Liberals, progressives, and many Democrats are like "if it's authoritarian, it must be okay and I'm all for it." In other words, for progressives "it's my way or the highway. I don't like the things you like or the way you want to live, so let's ban those things and the way you want to live."
That makes sense, especially here in the US. The odds of contracting rabies here are very low for any dog (not counting wild dogs) because of our vaccination requirements.
Could you imagine if trump was president and he was preceding over a stock market that's booming, crime plunging to a decade low, record low uninsured people, manufacturing booming like never seen? He'd be talking about it non stop 24/7 and everyone would know. This is why I didn't want biden running for re election. He's been great on policy but nobody in the public knows anything he's doing. Policy is useless if you can't properly communicate your victories
As opposed to the other side that wants to ban things like contraception, is taking books they find objectionable out of libraries, banning pride flags, and etc.. This seems more like you're upset about your "pet" issue being regulated and then expanding that to a whole political ideology.
no. but I will say again, as I have said in the past, you personally disappoint me, more than perhaps any other poster. That is not an ad hominem, it is simply how I feel about you. You are a generally kind, reflective, likable, and thoughtful individual--educated and a Berkeley-trained professional to boot. But the best you can manage as a response to me is an actual ad hominem, which is why you disappoint me. I generally don't care about how the other morons on this forum respond to me. But you ought to be better.
You really feel that is an ad hominen? I just pointed out a counter narrative to your posts and put in a pun regarding an issue that you seem to care about that frankly I don't see many other Americans really caring about. If you really find that so hurtful then not just this forum but debate in general probably isn't for you.
you literally said: "This seems more like you're upset about your "pet" issue being regulated and then expanding that to a whole political ideology." i.e., YOU are upset; I will ignore your argument that applies to a whole political ideology. lol. not hurtful. disappointing. you disappoint me.
