Welcome to Rising Anxieties.

I'm Mary Ann Sullivan.

This is where we talk about what's making me worried, what's making the industry worried.

I like to talk more about what's taking the industry worried.

But, you know, I worry a lot.

As I say all the time, I'm going to turn this light on. Isn't that better? I don't know.

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And I'm going to start out by talking about something that I think is worrying all of us, and that's Ridglin.

And of course, the big Ridgeland rescue was this past weekend. It turned out not to be a rescue.

It turned out to be a very, very upsetting incident between many, many activists who went to

Wisconsin to participate and hopefully rescue at least some of the 2,000 dogs being held by this outfit.

And they were met with really a very, a very overwhelming and violent response.

And a lot of people are really upset about it.

I don't have any inside information, so I'm not going to talk about it in any kind of detail.

I know what anybody else knows.

I will say that the New York Times article was good.

The reporting so far, I mean, the U.S. A-to-day article thought, was, they, they mostly talked about the only thing wrong, being done wrong to these dogs with cherry eye surgeries that didn't explain what that was.

It's absolutely, those are horrifying and there's plenty else wrong.

But still, from what I hear, the press has been really on the side of the animals, which is, that's a good thing.

And I think most of this is still to play out.

People have been arrested.

That was inevitable, I think.

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