PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

[Annie]

It’s disingenuous, to say the least, for the deceitfully-named Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) to complain about the number of unwanted and suffering animals whom PETA has been forced to euthanize because their guardians requested it, or because no good homes exist for them.

CCF is a front group for Philip Morris, Outback Steakhouse, KFC, cattle ranchers, and other animal exploiters who kill millions of animals every year, not out of compassion, but out of greed. CCF promotes meat-eating and defends corporations that send billions of cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals to terrifying, gruesome, and painful deaths in slaughterhouses.

PETA handled far more animals than 2,124 in 2008. In fact, we took in more than 10,000 dogs and cats, spaying and neutering all of them at low to no cost. We gave them shots, fixed their wounds and treated their illnesses, and returned them to the community. Most of the animals we took in and euthanized could hardly be called "pets," as they had spent their lives on heavy chains, for instance. They were unsocialized, never having been inside a building of any kind or known a pat on the head. Others were indeed someone's, but they were aged, sick, injured, dying, too aggressive to place, and the like, and PETA offered them a release from suffering, with no charge to their owners or custodians.

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You can check Ingrid Newkirk's last blog on PETA's website for more information.

Tool.

 

[Ravi]

Shouldn't you at least EAT them instead of killing them and allowing no death with dignity? How more noble to sustain another mammal than just being put down because there is no one to care for you.

 

[strollingbones]

doesn't the head of peta have diabetes.....doesn't she take insulin....guess what they test insulin on.....

she advocates syn. insulin...but she does take insulin made from pigs...its not what they test insulin on....insulin is made from pigs...well rather extracted from pigs....

the killing of animals by peta has long been known..people just dont pay attention....in nc...about 2 years ago..they caught them adopting animals, killing them and dumping them in public dumpsters...

IF YOU ARE DONATING MONEY TO PETA YOU ARE A DAMNED FOOL....DONATE IT TO LOCAL NON KILL SHELTERS...OR TO THE HUMANE ...NEVER PETA

 

[strollingbones]

PETA IS NOT THE SHELTER OF LAST RESORT...THEY KILL THE ANIMALS..you are right the overpopulation is hard to deal with and animals are gonna be put down..regardless of all the rescues societies etc....what you are wrong about....is what goes on inside peta...in ca they protested at the homes of the managers of local shelters...calling them murders etc...peta has no empathy for the managers or their families....they protested at the homes...while doing the same thing they protested against....

i dont think i have ever heard annie call someone a name..

 

[auditor0007]

probably because people did not adopt them, this is why you should fix your pets!

There are hundreds of groups that will adopt out many of these animals. Granted, they can't take them all, but they do save many of these animals. PETA obviously isn't trying very hard if these numbers are accurate.

My girlfriend volunteers as a foster for a local group here in Toledo. Over the last fifteen years, she's fostered over 500 dogs that have found new permanent homes.

and heres one

Beagles of New England States

Here are the two my girlfriend is involved with.

4 Paws Sake

Planned Pethood, Inc.

 

[Annie]

PETA IS NOT THE SHELTER OF LAST RESORT...THEY KILL THE ANIMALS..you are right the overpopulation is hard to deal with and animals are gonna be put down..regardless of all the rescues societies etc....what you are wrong about....is what goes on inside peta...in ca they protested at the homes of the managers of local shelters...calling them murders etc...peta has no empathy for the managers or their families....they protested at the homes...while doing the same thing they protested against....

i dont think i have ever heard annie call someone a name..

I wish that were so, name calling I mean! I'm quite shocked Dis or Gunny or dillo haven't jumped on yet.

 

[strollingbones]

gunny is busy busting obama idolizers....duckie had a bad day at the office...

 

[auditor0007]

It’s disingenuous, to say the least, for the deceitfully-named Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) to complain about the number of unwanted and suffering animals whom PETA has been forced to euthanize because their guardians requested it, or because no good homes exist for them.

CCF is a front group for Philip Morris, Outback Steakhouse, KFC, cattle ranchers, and other animal exploiters who kill millions of animals every year, not out of compassion, but out of greed. CCF promotes meat-eating and defends corporations that send billions of cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals to terrifying, gruesome, and painful deaths in slaughterhouses.

PETA handled far more animals than 2,124 in 2008. In fact, we took in more than 10,000 dogs and cats, spaying and neutering all of them at low to no cost. We gave them shots, fixed their wounds and treated their illnesses, and returned them to the community. Most of the animals we took in and euthanized could hardly be called "pets," as they had spent their lives on heavy chains, for instance. They were unsocialized, never having been inside a building of any kind or known a pat on the head. Others were indeed someone's, but they were aged, sick, injured, dying, too aggressive to place, and the like, and PETA offered them a release from suffering, with no charge to their owners or custodians.

Those figures also do not include the hundreds upon hundreds of dogs and cats whose suffering PETA works to alleviate by providing them with free food when their owners are poor, clean water buckets, sturdy dog houses, straw for winter, and more, or the hundreds of adoptable dogs and cats we will not take in but refer to walk-in animal shelters and adoption centers. Since 2001, PETA's low- to no-cost spay-and-neuter mobile clinics, SNIP and ABC, have sterilized more than 50,000 animals, preventing hundreds of thousands of animals from being born, neglected, abandoned, abused, or euthanized when no one wanted them. We also actively decrease the number of animals who end up in animal shelters only to be euthanized for lack of good homes by using star power to promote spaying and neutering in ads across the country.
On a national level, PETA is focusing on the root of the problem through our Animal Birth Control (ABC) campaign. The ABC campaign targets breeders, pet stores, and cat- and dog-breeding mills and in an active way through protests, PSAs, celebrity support, and investigations and puts the blame for the overpopulation crisis squarely where it belongs—with those who breed animals or allow their animals to breed. As long as animals are bred, homeless dogs and cats in animal shelters will die because there simply aren't enough good homes for them all.

As long as animals are still be purposely bred and people aren't spaying and neutering their companions, open-admission animal shelters and organizations like PETA must do society's dirty work. Euthanasia is not a solution to overpopulation but rather a tragic necessity given the present crisis. PETA is proud to be a "shelter of last resort," where animals who have no place to go or who are unwanted or suffering are welcomed with love and open arms.

You can check Ingrid Newkirk's last blog on PETA's website for more information.

PETA and Euthanasia | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com

While not all animals are adoptable, even this article from TIME magazine reports that PETA is killing the vast majority of animals they take in. Their excuse is that they would rather see these animals euthanized in a painless way rather than suffering.

The larger point is that more of these animals could be adopted, and it has been proven through many different no-kill programs throughout the US. All of these programs make certain the animals are neutered and spayed before adopting them out. It is true, that they can't save all of them, but euthanizing more than 85% of the animals PETA has taken in since 1998, as the article states, is certainly not making a concerted effort to find homes for these animals. Trying to convince me that they are is like trying to convince me that the sky is red.

 

[Agnapostate]

Hypocrites.

PETA are the biggest hypocrites known in the world ... well, they tie with a few other groups.

You should see these "chambers of horrors" they store animals in before slaughtering them. A well kept secret.

I don't see any necessarily hypocritical behavior involved, inasmuch as the purpose of PETA as I understand it is to prevent animal suffering, and I don't see how painless euthanasia necessarily conflicts with that purpose. But this number certainly does seem excessive.

 

[editec]

Did you guys know that John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed, used to purchase horses that were about to be put down, then he'd buy pastureland for those aging nags so they could live out their nature lives?

He's my hero, folks.

An anti prohibitionist (hence the apples) and a Christian who actually walked the walk the vast majority of Christians give a lot of lip service to, but whose lives are anythingg BUT Christian.

He died penniless, of course, as every real Christian must.

 

[auditor0007]

Did you guys know that John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed, used to purchase horses that were about to be put down, then he'd buy pastureland for those aging nags so they could live out their nature lives?

He's my hero, folks.

An anti prohibitionist (hence the apples) and a Christian who actually walked the walk the vast majority of Christians give a lot of lip service to, but whose lives are anythingg BUT Christian.

He died penniless, of course, as every real Christian must.

I guess that means I'm well on my way then.

 

[Yurt]

Why is a Korean restaurant always next to a PETA office?

i don't know...why?