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

[Toro]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

 

[Kalam]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

I hope they euthanized them humanely instead of using gas chambers. That shit needs to end.

 

[garyd]

I think over time they kill about ninety-ficve percent of the brain cells of their members.

 

[GHook93]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

Maybe the anti-PETA people should make ads inferring that the PETA people are Nazis!

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

Nothing surprising about that... I'd say that it's a fair bet that they sold a ton of them to pharma-research out of the 5% of innocent little pets that they 'moved'...

 

[manu1959]

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

 

[Burp]

 

[Ravi]

Wow...I'd like to know if this is a credible source. But I can attest to their shady marketing to children.

Peta sucks.

 

[Yurt]

president of PETA - Ingrid's unique will:

a. That the “meat” of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbecue...

b. That my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products, such as purses...

PETA: Ingrid Newkirk's Unique Will

 

[garyd]

It is obvious now joining PETA is bad for your brain cells. The Higher up you go the more stupid you become.

 

[Xenophon]

Hypocrites.

 

[random3434]

PETA makes us vegetarians look bad.

 

[dilloduck]

PETA makes us vegetarians look bad.

naaaaaa people here still think you look ok

 

[Luissa]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

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

 

[DavidS]

Where's Bones? She HATES Peta.

 

[xsited1]

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

 

[auditor0007]

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

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

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.

 

[DiveCon]

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

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

 

[KittenKoder]

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.

 

[liannet]

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.