Being a confirmed omnivore, I have no use for PETA and their holier-than-thou attitude. I object to militant vegans and vegetarians as much as vegans and vegetarians object to people who berate them for not eating meat. Now I hear that PETA is actively going out and stealing people’s pets and murdering them. (The pets, not the people.) ‘Ethical’, me arse! As far as I’m concerned, PETA now stands for People Executing Taken Animals. :mad:
I read a similar story about PITA I mean PETA several years ago. I think this sort of thing has been going on for a long time (ETA taking matters into their own hands I mean. If someone’s pets are being abused, call animal control, don’t kidnap them._))
On the other hand I was at a fair yesterday and there was a booth selling sugar gliders and letting people put them in a little cage and carry them around the hot, dusty fairgrounds. Where is PITA/PETA when they could actually do some good? Out throwing lab animals out in the world to starve, I guess, or kidnapping people’s pets. Good deal.
But even if the puppy was running loose, it’s not on them to solve the problem. Calling animal control or even just talking to the owner to ensure that they do a better job of securing the dog sound like better options.
According to the Snopes link, they had been talking to the owners and decided the best thing to do was wait until nobody was home and snatch the dog off the porch.
So dogs weren’t allowed in the trailer park; the park manager asked PETA for help; an adjacent land owner asked PETA for help; the owner of the dog asked PETA for help.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that PETA had no business trying to solve the problem.
The Snopes link doesn’t say they talked to the family about ‘ensuring that they do a better job of securing the dog’. It says they ‘befriended’ them.
And if they ‘befriended’ them, they must have known that the chihuahua belonged to them – which makes their claim that it was a stray rather suspect. According to a former PETA employee:
It sounds to me as if there is a culture of death at PETA, flowing down from the very top.
By the way, the dog was a present for the guy’s daughter when she immigrated. It’s plausible that the immigration was so recent that they had as yet been unable to obtain a collar, tags, and rabies certification.
Surely we are not supposed to believe that a chihuahua tore up the udder of a cow. I agree, the story has a lot wrong with it. I wonder if the “reporter” has ever seen a chihuahua. Or a cow.
Yup. I do think that in some areas they do decent work (they’ve gotten some really terrible shelters shut down), but overall there’s so much crazy there that they’ll never see my money.
And just this morning I saw a PETA magazine urging people to “Go Vegan!” I’ve seen other things that tell me that PETA isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be as an organization. Very disappointing.
The first part is certainly true. The second part? What specific laws do you think they should be charged with, and why do you think the local prosecutor missed these laws?
Over and over Winograd and others have exagerrated PETA’s criminal culpability. The fact is, they do get invovled in animal control issues, and they do euthanize animals. The vast majority of the time, their involvement is appropriate. Once in awhile, something like this happens.
What I’d be very interested in seeing is how their rate of inappropriate euthanasia compares to the rate of inappropriate euthanasia by animal control offices in the southern United States.
This article has an image of a postcard written by Ingrid Newkirk that reads ‘We do not advocate “right to life” for animals.’ (WARNING: There are also pictures of dead kittens.)
