Re: PETA Kills Animals

>>Ingrid Newkirk: "PETA usually takes the animals back to Norfolk to be euthanized, Newkirk said, in a process that involves a single hypodermic shot and a gentle caress. Very few are ever put up for adoption, she said. "We won't shy away from doing society's dirty work as long as the alternative is a life of misery and a bad or slow death," Newkirk said.<<

COMMENT:

My lab has fostered several hundred kittens and cats for adoption at
the local Petsmart, doing free neutering, spaying, virus testing, and
administering vaccines and treating all kinds of parasites first. We
get them from owners who know what happens when they take them to the
pound.

The only two cats we euthanized in the last two years have been a pet
with a horrid squamous cell mouth tumor (it was time), and a feral
tomcat with FIV AND FeLV who became a vicious biter after we got
through curing the mite diseases that had turned his heat and front
quarters into an infected mass of cardboard-like skin and crust.

We are in the process of working with the local city council to turn
the local animal shelter into a no-kill shelter, where no healthy
animal is euthanized. We think it's possible to save 80% of the animals
this way. Pilot programs in both rural New York State and city (San
Francisco) areas suggest it's possible.

Neither the Humane Society nor PETA is any help in this process at all.
PETA makes our research with dogs harder by making it impossible even
to get already-euthanized dogs from the pound (we could use them for
histology and thermal modeling). PETA figures these dogs have been
"through enough" and deserve a quiet cremation without any chance to
serve a better purpose. As for the Humane Society, they don't impede
research, but they don't help that much with the pet problem, either.
On the contrary, they seem to be fairly happy with the euthanasia
status quo. About as happy as PETA is, apparently. PETA figures the big
difference they make over the humane society is a *caress* before that
Euthasol is given. Our animals get a caress, but also ketamine,
acepromazine, and gas anesthesia. But we save many cats for every dog
we kill, and we breed the research dogs ourselves. They're not pets.

I would personally like to kick Ingred Newkirk's behind up around her
ears for the damage she's done to biomedical research. Failing that,
I'd like to force her to learn how to spay kittens, then make her do
few dozen, so she begins to have some innate understanding of the
animal control problem she thinks she's an expert in.

DAMN I hate people who can only shoot their mouths off, and are ever
good for any real work. People who criticise doctors without much
contact with the practice of medicine. People who criticise biomedical
research who have little understanding of science. People who have all
kinds of answers to animal control who've never been in the trenches
(or when they have, like PETA show their incompetence with solutions
everybody else either figured out long ago, or are in the process of
trying to change for the better.)

If I had PETA's 30 million a year I could convert a large part of
Southern California to no-kill shelters.

By the way, one wonders what PETA is using chemically for their
euthanasia. These things are all controlled substances. I have a DEA
number, the licensed vet on my staff has a DEA number, and my LAB has a
separate DEA licence. We have a monster drug safe, lots of oversite,
and all our i's are dotted and t's crossed. What about Ms. Newkirk?
Hey, FEDS! Pay attention.

SBH

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