What if the animal rights movement wins?
What does the future hold for U.S. dogs? We’d like to think that pets will be healthier and happier, that more dogs will come from the best breeders and fewer from the others, and that laws will punish the real offenders but not discourage good ownership and breeding. Is that where we’re going, or is the future darker? We will try to predict the future, looking twenty years ahead to what dog ownership and breeding might look like in 2026 if the animal rights (AR) movement continues to win. This will not be fun but it may be useful: If what we see in the future is bad enough, maybe we can do more today to avoid going there. We will assume that current trends will continue. If you assume that trends get worse for example, that money is found for muscular enforcement of bad laws you get a worse picture, while if owners and breeders become concerned about the loss of their rights at a rapidly increasing rate, someone very wealthy decides to help defend our rights to keep and breed pets, or
