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• steve how many animals you rescue a year??? how many do you adopt out..
  the average for any organizations is 6-10 million animals a year taken in. of those 3-4 million are euthanized. a small foster can do a few animals and afford the care, and sometimes they take animals to vet, but with private foster care, they would rather get an animal with shots already and charge you for those shots as if they did them, for that animal, when its truth, the animal had vaccine records long before it got to foster care home.
  another thing about foster care people, they are going to out and out tell you they don't euthanize, that all thier animals are placed and this is just not true with the majority of them.
  your vet and humane society, will dump euthanized animals in landfill. if a gas chamber is used to kill dogs. often times those dogs are also dumped half alive still, not all the way dead..
  PETA does alot of court issues, thier financial records are public informations, and anyone can request them..they take in millions of dogs, not hundreds, not just a few, or just 20, but millions. peta would like them all to get homes, but to continue care for animals the "public" does not want, leaves it no choice but to inject euthanize and go on to the next animal to save. if you want pictures of what happens in other facilities and how gross and inhumane to see half live animals dumped, be glad to show and tell you it is..
  contact me at luvpups@swbell.net anytime.
  don't let the media play with your head on things..as it was with jews, they were condemned by a word of a hateful person, media is sometimes just as malicious for the polls/public ratings, and have just as much power in the word they use, or play with..
  study the facts yourself. don't let media tell you what to think and feel..cause half thier b.s. is just that b.s.

  By  Anonymous, at 4:26 PM, June 20, 2005  

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• oh yeah. another thought, have you seen what the cost of court is and attorney fees are lately???
  you think that peta is profiting? all that funding goes to court for abusers that sodomize animals, beat, abuse, neglect, drag behind vehicles, stab, shoot, etc etc..
  the thing is that alot of states don't have felony against animal abusers...so it costs double to make a felony on someone like that when its a misdeameanor state on the concerns of animal abuse...
  get your facts, know about all of it, not just part of it, and "condemnation without investigation is ignorance"

  By  Anonymous, at 4:29 PM, June 20, 2005  

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• As a high ranking professional in the field of animal control for many years, I find the comments from both sources to be erroneous.
  First, many of the "no-kill" shelters definately do NOT take in the animals that have suffered the most or are the least placable. Many of the biggest "no-kills" will not take old dogs, dogs with behavioral problems, pit bulls or other "undesirable" breeds or dogs with low "CQ" ( cuteness quotient )They indulge in a lot of spin on how they don't kill anything but they only take in those animals that they know they can place. What they often do if they get an undesirable animal is to give it to another agency that will euthanize it so that they can say THEY didn't kill it. In many cases, they will take animals from pounds that they know they can place but leave the others behind and then they can point fingers at Animal Control because we have no choice but to kill them.
  Please keep in mind that many ACOs are kind and caring people who would love to have the resources to hold animals longer for placement into loving homes. Unfortunately, they are often painted to be the "bad guys" by some of the no-kills. ( obviously not all "no-kills" are like this but many are so the public should check into the individual agency before they buy the "party line" )
  As far as "the average for any organization is 6-10 milion animals taken in" and "3-4 million euthanized" these numbers are appallingly inaccurate. Those numbers are far closer to the total numbers for the entire nation. PETA also does not take in "millions" of animals. If the person posting this would take their own advise and request PETA's records, they would know this.
  I have no desire to enter into any arguments regarding euthanasia or PETA but I do wish that people would get their facts and information straight before they base their entire argument on erroneous information.

  By  Anonymous, at 6:59 AM, June 22, 2005  

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• For those of you who support PETA, here is what Norfolk PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said about their work. Last year, she said, 2,278 animals were euthanized in Virginia, 7,641 sterilized and 361 put up for adoption. She said she was not sure if the North Carolina animals were part of those statistics.“PETA has never made a secret of the fact that most of the animals from North Carolina are euthanized,” Newkirk said. Very few are ever put up for adoption, she said. Police suspected that PETA workers were killing the dogs and cats they were picking up from shelters and clinics because carcasses wrapped in plastic bags were found in the bins every Wednesday for four straight weeks, according to Ahoskie police Detective Jeremy Roberts. A total of 80 dead animals were dumped, he said. The animals were alive when they were picked up earlier in the day, Roberts said, adding, “We don’t know exactly how they were killed.”
  If PETA is such a animal saving society why are they putting down so many and adopting out so little. I do not see how they are changing the world if they are doing what they protest against. I understand there are many that need to be saved, but if they are going to put dow 33% of the animals they take in then it is a big waste of money. They should let the shelters and Vets take care of that problem instead of adopting the animals to do it themselves.
  As a rescue owner myself I only take in as many as I have room for, most of the animals I take have been treated poorly and are in desperate need of medical attention, that is what I do, I treat them, help them heal, and adopt them out. When I adopt out an animal I then will accept another, I know my limits. I usually rescue the animals that need the most care, unlike PETA I take in their favorite animal, snakes and other reptiles. Yes I do feed them mice and rats, so they will not accept me as a friend.

  By  Junkyard, at 11:06 AM, June 24, 2005  

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• PETA stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals," not Efficient Termination. If so, then the two groups are entirely different. But to go along with the post, there are at least 10-11 million homeless animals in the US today. The reason why there are so many is because people don't spay or neuter their pets when they do not want them to breed. It's a $65 surgery in most places for guys and maybe $130 for females. Some places will even do it for free. Also, "no kill" shelters have to turn down many animals because they are so stocked full and overcrowded with original animals. I would rather have an animal euthanized humanely than see it suffering on the street where it can die of horrible diseases or be hit by a car. I own one adopted cat and have a "rescued" cat (basically picked her up out of my aunt's backyard) and have volunteered at an animal shelter. Sometimes, there is nothing to do put put them to rest. PETA, however, should not be taken for true at all times. Their website itself is sometimes blocked by schools. It has facts that have been tweaked to fit their views (mostly about livestock) or many facts have been taken out of context. For example, they claim chickens are sometimes "boiled alive" (to remove feathers from the carcass) when they forget to mention that the chickens are drained completely of blood by that time. Kinda hard to be alive when you have no blood. Also, with chickens again, they claim many suffered injuries during transport like broken legs and such. If this is the case, then the company buying the chickens has to pay extra money to remove all of the bone fractures from their meat before being able to sell it. Companies know this and prevent this from happening as best as they can. Just don't take PETA for granted, they can be deceiving (as well as just plain cruel themselves).

  By  RJ, at 7:06 PM, November 07, 2005  

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