PETA
I meant to comment on this earlier and I didn't. The PETA trial regarding the animals that were euthanized without their prior owners (shelters) knowledge or consent and the dead bodies tossed into garbage bins at local strip centers has ended. They were acquitted. I'm not surprised really. It's what I expected would happen. It's what had to happen under our justice system, I think, though expert of our laws I am not.
But the whole thing boils down to this: The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is a political organization that doesn't care as much as they say they do. And animals have "rights" only when it fits with their agenda. They spend roughly $25M a year to help euthanize animals in more humane ways. And not $25M to help find those animals homes.
I'm not niave enough to think such a service doesn't need to exist. Many, many animals are kept in substandard conditions and even more animals are feral or too aggressive and not fit to be companions.
These animals need to be put down, sadly, and someone has to do that. Vets do that, a lot, and I guess PETA does that, a lot, too. And if you read this HERE at their website, it gives a completely different slant to the situation in North Carolina, though by the articles own admission, the conditions they are describing were in 2000. And if you kept up with the trial, they used this in their defense, though the shelter employees testified afterwards that because of PETA's help, those conditions had improved, and all the animals were in safe enviorments and adoptable.
And here's this editorial from February 2nds, Virginia-Pilot. What she describes jives with the article PETA posted, and her own story makes me sad.
As a vet Tech, I had to euthanize my own fair share of animals. All for medical reasons, never because they were unwanted. The saddest, hardest one I had to do was like what she described. A small pomeranian puppy had parvo, she was 7 weeks old. She was feeling fine at the time but after a few days or weeks the illness would ravage her and she'd die a miserable death. The pup was so small, maybe a few ounces. But she wagged her tail and licked and jumped until we injected the needle.
I still see that puppy every once in a while. But I try not to think about her or the others. All the others that I euthanized were very ill, and it was the humane thing to do. One dog was so grossly overweight she could not walk. We had to place a towel on the ground, roll her onto it, stand over her and lift the towel up and trudge her wherever she needed to go. She was a yellow Lab, and weighed nearly 300 pounds.
This whole thing is just sad. It's just not something that I thought a group that thinks all animals have "feelings and rights" would want to do. And it's hard for me to listen to them go and on and on about animal rights when their lawyer claimed that the dogs in question in North Carolina "had no rights" and therefore the PETA employees had done nothing wrong.
Maybe legally that's true, and shoot even in reality that's true ... but that's not the reality that PETA preaches.
But the whole thing boils down to this: The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals is a political organization that doesn't care as much as they say they do. And animals have "rights" only when it fits with their agenda. They spend roughly $25M a year to help euthanize animals in more humane ways. And not $25M to help find those animals homes.
I'm not niave enough to think such a service doesn't need to exist. Many, many animals are kept in substandard conditions and even more animals are feral or too aggressive and not fit to be companions.
These animals need to be put down, sadly, and someone has to do that. Vets do that, a lot, and I guess PETA does that, a lot, too. And if you read this HERE at their website, it gives a completely different slant to the situation in North Carolina, though by the articles own admission, the conditions they are describing were in 2000. And if you kept up with the trial, they used this in their defense, though the shelter employees testified afterwards that because of PETA's help, those conditions had improved, and all the animals were in safe enviorments and adoptable.
And here's this editorial from February 2nds, Virginia-Pilot. What she describes jives with the article PETA posted, and her own story makes me sad.
As a vet Tech, I had to euthanize my own fair share of animals. All for medical reasons, never because they were unwanted. The saddest, hardest one I had to do was like what she described. A small pomeranian puppy had parvo, she was 7 weeks old. She was feeling fine at the time but after a few days or weeks the illness would ravage her and she'd die a miserable death. The pup was so small, maybe a few ounces. But she wagged her tail and licked and jumped until we injected the needle.
I still see that puppy every once in a while. But I try not to think about her or the others. All the others that I euthanized were very ill, and it was the humane thing to do. One dog was so grossly overweight she could not walk. We had to place a towel on the ground, roll her onto it, stand over her and lift the towel up and trudge her wherever she needed to go. She was a yellow Lab, and weighed nearly 300 pounds.
This whole thing is just sad. It's just not something that I thought a group that thinks all animals have "feelings and rights" would want to do. And it's hard for me to listen to them go and on and on about animal rights when their lawyer claimed that the dogs in question in North Carolina "had no rights" and therefore the PETA employees had done nothing wrong.
Maybe legally that's true, and shoot even in reality that's true ... but that's not the reality that PETA preaches.
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