Cats and Dogs Have Nothing to Fear in Springfield, Ohio

When political rhetoric goes too far, innocent people and places pay the price.

Nancy Parish
3 min readSep 23, 2024
Photo by Grayson neill on Unsplash

One of the most fulfilling things we can do as humans is keep a cat or a dog as a pet. Our furry companions have become more than pets. They become much-loved family members.

Studies have shown there are 86.9 million pet households in the United States. That means 66% of U.S. households own at least one pet.

Americans love their pets and as a result, caring for them is a billion-dollar industry.

So when Donald Trump stated emphatically at the recent presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats and dogs, people were outraged.

That statement was designed by his campaign to draw the focus to the perceived immigration problem in this country, The Trump campaign is running on the immigration policy failures of the Biden administration and how he, and he alone, can fix those problems.

The campaign doesn’t think we’ll remember the bipartisan legislation designed to mitigate some of those issues that Republicans vetoed at Donald Trump’s request.

It seems he didn’t want to hand Biden a win during an election year. His campaign focuses on…

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Nancy Parish
Nancy Parish

Written by Nancy Parish

Amateur Cat Herder. Previously, Contributing Editor for CWIM. My ebook Life with Scout: The Blind Kitty Chronicles avail. https://thesoundandfurry.com/