Re: PETA Kills Animals
- From: "TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Jun 2005 11:55:50 -0700
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http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=88131&ran=99846
PETA has not shied away from euthanasia of dogs, cats
Ingrid Newkirk
By INGRID NEWKIRK, PETA PRESIDENT,
The ugly issue of animal population and euthanasia - and People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals' struggle with it - has been in
the spotlight because of the arrests of two of our workers. Like it or
not, exposure to the issue is a good thing.
PETA was first invited to help animals in North Carolina by a police
officer appalled by conditions at the Bertie County Pound. We found
that some of these "shelters" are just shacks without heating in
which animals have been left to drown during floods or freeze to death
in winter.
We found that animals in underfunded, impoverished pounds were being
killed in hideous, violent ways. Animals were being shot with a .22
behind a shed and forced into windowless metal boxes to be gassed. We
also discovered some dogs and cats were being slowly suffocated after
being injected with a drug that only paralyzes the body.
Life had dealt these animals a rotten hand. At the very least, they
deserved a peaceful death. So, although PETA's main work is not in
sheltering, we stepped in to provide quick and painless euthanasia by
injection, free of charge, thus ending the outdated, barbaric killings.
Over the past few years, PETA has worked to provide training,
personnel, money and supplies to help good people in struggling
agencies in North Carolina clean up these pounds. The counties are
impoverished, so there is a long way to go. We have spent more than
$250,000 on veterinary and other services in Bertie County alone, and
far more in Hampton Roads.
Each dollar spent means a needy animal is given warmth from the cold,
shelter from rain or hot sun, fresh water, nutritious food, veterinary
care and, quite often, the first gentle touch it has ever known.
PETA submitted several proposals to North Carolina officials and
attended several meetings where we offered - begged, really - to be
allowed to implement, among other things, an on-site adoption program.
We have pushed for such a program since 2003. Officials were not
interested in our offer.
We have also delivered hundreds of free sturdy dog houses and fresh
straw in winter to dogs in homes who have been left chained by their
owners to metal barrels or trees. We have paid to spay and neuter
thousands of dogs and cats.
The tragedy is that there are not enough good homes for all the animals
in shelters and pounds. It is only this harsh reality that has
convinced us that euthanasia is a kindness for dogs and cats born into
a world that doesn't want them, has not cared for them, and
ultimately has abandoned them .
And, while people patronize pet shops where dogs and cats can be bought
on a credit card, seek purebreds from breeders who add to the
population overload, and fail to spay and neuter their animals or keep
animals for a lifetime, euthanasia will continue. As long as it does
continue, it should be done with kindness, so that each animal will
know comfort in the last minutes of life .
Although we have placed dogs and cats from North Carolina in homes,
most dogs we have been given were in terrible condition, many with
contagious conditions like Parvo virus or severe mange. They have
untreated injuries and oozing infections from being hit by cars, have
been stabbed or burned, are aggressive, or are simply not attractive to
people, most of whom are looking for small, cute, housebroken puppies
without medical problems.
You can see some of the suffering animals we have put out of their
misery, and the joyful ones we have found homes for, on
www.HelpingAnimals.com.
Recently, two PETA staff members were found disposing of animal bodies
in a completely improper way after euthanasia. We won't tolerate that
and we took immediate action.
Now we - and this means all of us - are left with the larger issue.
We can stop euthanasia, but to do it we need caring people to join us
to curb the animal overpopulation crisis.
Please, spay and neuter your dogs and cats and help those with low
incomes to do the same. Never buy from breeders or pet shops, but
instead patronize your local shelters. Distribute our literature to
educate others. Press for legislation to grant incentives to sterilize
animals.
Only when there is a good home for every dog and cat can the
all-admission shelters (those that open their doors to every needy
animal) and PETA stop doing society's dirty work.
Ingrid Newkirk is president of People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (www.PETA.org) in Norfolk.
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1) What have PETA done with the millions it raises every year that they
can't find any money to give these animals some place to live?
2) Can they not build a facility?
3) Where are the thousands of PETA members who claim to love animals?
Why are they not adopting these poor creatures?
4) What about the dignity of the deceased animals? Is it appropriate to
just throw them in a dumpster?
It sounds as if PETA has failed in following their simple, basic,
fundamental beliefs. ie. animals deserve respect and love. Instead they
are willing to take millions of dollars from donors every year, get
their names in the papers, and then not waste any of the money to
actually take care of the few animals they get possession of. Too
inconvenient to actually have to pay for and handle and care for the
animals. Easier to kill them off. Out of sight, out of mind.
Greedy, glory-seeking hypocrites. The whole bunch of them.
TC
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