PETA kills animals

[PythonWallace]

I just found out about this on another forum. Pretty interesting read.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

[daniel1983]

Interesting site.....i am buying a shirt

PETA is a bunch of sick SOBs.

[Bright202]

Interesting site.....i am buying a shirt

PETA is a bunch of sick SOBs.

It should say on the front ''PETA''
Then on the back say "what a bunch of SOBs''
I like that better, of course it wouldn't be in ''short form''
Lol, yeah I'd buy a shirt too.

[Ginevive]

"PETA" is a bunch of hypocritical fanatics. I hate that there are people out there that fund them.. they are so ignorant.

[vinnimac]

I signed the petition to remove their tax-exempt, sent the form to my wife and a few friends, and bought the shirt. they need to be stopped!!!

[frankykeno]

Just looking over that .pdf from the PETA kills animals site. Something with their math just isn't making sense to me.

For 2005 they report on one line that they have, as of January 1, 2005

- 5 cats on hand

- they took in 19 strays

- they had 1,564 owner surrenders

- they had 5,191 "other" (which since it's the largest group of intake animals, seems to me that ought to have to report what "other" actually is)

Okay so those numbers jibe...that's a total of 6,779 cats for year 2005 which is the total number they reported.

Now how in the world does the math work out when on the next area below..."Disposition" clearly states

- Cats - Reclaimed by Owner - 5,193

Now how do over 5,000 cats get reclaimed by owners when owners only surrendered just over 1,564 and only 19 came in as strays which may have been tracked down by their owners????? Let's be honest too, most cats are never tracked down by their owners....they wander off and the owners never find them and a lot are not microchipped. So how do more owners, like over twice as many owners "reclaim" cats that they never "surrendered"????? These cats weren't picked up as strays, they weren't surrendered, or came in from other shelters in VA, they aren't biters or seized for cruelty or neglect????

Where'd those 5,191 "other" cats come from I'd like to know!

Also I noted as of December 31, 2005 they report zero cats on hand. Now that again makes no amount of common sense to me. What shelter/rescue etc. ever "clears the books" just exactly in time for a certain date on a calendar? What the heck, cats suddenly stop becoming homeless by midnight on December 31st?

This report is, when put against my own concepts of what makes sense, total crap and somebody's shuffling numbers obviously and hiding the bulk of the numbers in a vague "other" category.

Though if you compare the link from the anti-PETA site to the link they provide to this PETA reporting, the numbers they quote don't match either.

[The_Godfather]

peta is so stupid, i can't think of anyone who doesnt have brain damage who supports them.

[Wyldmoonwoman]

I have an issue with PETA..being that I love pit bulls and fight for my right to own one. Supporting PETA gets animals killed

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itswGWddk2A
The video is a little dramatic, but it puts the fact that Peta killed shelter animals out there. you would be surprised how many people have no idea that they did this, dumped the bodies in a piggly wiggly dumpster, got caught and had to go to court, Meanwhile I watched the Michael Vick news and there are Peta supporters outside the courtroom.


What ingrid thinks about pit bulls
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable

Controlling an animal as deadly as a weapon
Ingrid Newkirk

Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Most people have no idea that at many animal shelters across the country, any pit bull that comes through the front door doesn't go out the back door alive. From California to New York, many shelters have enacted policies requiring the automatic destruction of the huge and ever-growing number of "pits" they encounter. This news shocks and outrages the compassionate dog-lover.

Here's another shocker: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the very organization that is trying to get you to denounce the killing of chickens for the table, foxes for fur or frogs for dissection, supports the shelters' pit-bull policy, albeit with reluctance. We further encourage a ban on breeding pit bulls.

The pit bull's ancestor, the Staffordshire terrier, is a human concoction, bred in my native England, I'm ashamed to say, as a weapon. These dogs were designed specifically to fight other animals and kill them, for sport. Hence the barrel chest, the thick hammer-like head, the strong jaws, the perseverance and the stamina. Pits can take down a bull weighing in at over a thousand pounds, so a human being a tenth of that weight can easily be seriously hurt or killed.

Pit bulls are perhaps the most abused dogs on the planet. These days, they are kept for protection by almost every drug dealer and pimp in every major city and beyond. You can drive into any depressed area and see them being used as cheap burglar alarms, wearing heavy logging chains around their necks (they easily break regular collars and harnesses), attached to a stake or metal drum or rundown doghouse without a floor and with holes in the roof. Bored juveniles sic them on cats, neighbors' small dogs and even children.

In the PETA office, we have a file drawer chock-full of accounts of attacks in which these ill-treated dogs with names like "Murder" and "Homicide" have torn the faces and fingers off infants and even police officers trying to serve warrants. Before I co-founded PETA, I served as the chief of animal-disease control and director of the animal shelter in the District of Columbia for many years. Over and over again, I waded into ugly situations and pulled pit bulls from people who beat and starved them, or chained them to metal drums as "guard" dogs, or trained them to attack people and other animals. It is this abuse, and the tragedy that comes from it, that motivates me.

Those who argue against a breeding ban and the shelter euthanasia policy for pit bulls are naive, as shown by the horrifying death of Nicholas Faibish, the San Francisco 12-year-old who was mauled by his family's pit bulls.

Tales like this abound. I have scars on my leg and arm from my own encounter with a pit. Many are loving and will kiss on sight, but many are unpredictable. An unpredictable Chihuahua is one thing, an unpredictable pit another.

People who genuinely care about dogs won't be affected by a ban on pit- bull breeding. They can go to the shelter and save one of the countless other breeds and lovable mutts sitting on death row. We can only stop killing pits if we stop creating new ones. Legislators, please take note.

Ingrid Newkirk is president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (http://www.peta.org) and the author of "Making Kind Choices" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2005).

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... D4G1S1.DTL

This article appeared on page B - 9 of the San Francisco Chronicle

Does anyone besides me see the hipocracy there as PETA rides the wave of free publicity on the coat-tails of the Michael Vick case???

Even the HSUS has issues
http://www.dogpolitics.com/my_weblog...u_funding.html

I have to admit that I am a "granola crunching hippe" and was devastated when I learned the truth about PETA

[jhall1468]

I'm no fan of PETA, but they do serve a purpose. Extremist groups have a tendency to moderate current practices. Without groups like PETA, animal rights laws probably would have never come to be. It's the same with almost every industry where pratices were less than ethical (logging being another major example).

PETA has an agenda, as does that site, made clear by the fact that the site compared Vick with an organization of thousands of members. Vick is a pile of crap, PETA is a mild nusance. While there were two PETA members that disposed of animals in a high unethical and unhealthy manor, the majority are euthanized in a proper manor I'm sure. I'm fairly certain Michael Vick didn't kill any of his 8 animals in a humane manor.

Personally, I spend my time supporting the good groups out there, such as the ASPCA and Humane Society instead of bothering with the loud and abnoxious folks at PETA. At the end of the day, I'm willing to bet the overwhelming majority of PETA's volunteers and donors are good people. But it's the few that aren't, that make the news.

[jhall1468]

Even the HSUS has issues
http://www.dogpolitics.com/my_weblog...u_funding.html

The "issues" HSUS has is by trying to seriously reduce the number of specific breeds in shelters. Pitbulls overwhelm animal shelters in some areas, and by sterilizing, they can reduce the problem.

Then again, I have nothing against breed specific legislation, when it's warranted, so I don't see the problem in the first place.