Bad PETA
 

PETA killed animals from shelter

> Associated Press
> Published on: 06/24/05

NORFOLK, Va. — Officials of two North Carolina counties have stopped turning over shelter animals to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, saying they were surprised to learn the group killed the cats and dogs instead of trying to find them homes.

Two PETA employees are charged with dumping dead animals they collected in eastern North Carolina counties in a shopping center's garbage bins. Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, Va., and Andrew Benjamin Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, Va., have a hearing scheduled for July 19 on charges of animal cruelty, disposal of dead animals and trespassing.

Northampton County officials decided last week to stop working with PETA until the case against the two employees is resolved. The Bertie County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to cut all ties to the Norfolk, Va.-based group, despite a written apology from its president.

Bertie County Manager Zee Lamb said Tuesday that he believed the animals were being taken for evaluation and "the ones that were adoptable would be adopted," and euthanasia would be only a last resort. Sue Gay, health director for Northampton County, said she assumed the same.

Documents filed with the state of Virginia showed that PETA euthanized about 6,100 domestic animals from 2001-03. Daphna Nachminovitch, director of PETA's domestic animal and wildlife department, said she didn't know how many were from North Carolina.

She also said she didn't know how many animals taken from North Carolina shelters were adopted or euthanized. However, the letter from PETA President Ingrid Newkirk to Bertie commissioners said: "We were able to place a small number of animals but the condition of most rural strays and given-up animals makes that impossible."

All animals PETA accepts are supposed to be examined by a veterinarian, but even some healthy animals may be euthanized if PETA cannot find them homes, Nachminovitch said.

"Did we euthanize some animals who could have been adopted? Maybe," Nachminovitch said. "The point is that good homes are few and far between. Our aim here was to stop them from dying an agonizing death."

The organization has said it began offering to take stray animals from agencies in poor, rural counties where authorities had been putting them to sleep by gassing or shooting them. Newkirk said last week that the organization uses a fast-acting lethal injection.

Since 2001, PETA has taken animals from shelters in Bertie, Hertford and Northampton counties and the town of Windsor.

PETA spent $250,000 improving Bertie County's shelter and $65,000 on improvements in Northampton County and provided more than $9,000 to an Ahoskie veterinarian who euthanized animals, Nachminovitch said.

The organization has stayed in touch with Bertie and Northampton officials in hopes of mending the relationships, she said.

"One of our people made a very bad mistake, and I don't want the animals to suffer for it," Nachminovitch said.

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I am calling Chrissie Hynde right this second. She will go and kick their asses. :laugh:

What utter bull****. :( I can't believe this.

What sluts.I knew all along PETA was worthless anyway..

Chris

You know, this pisses me off to no end. Now because of this, all of their efforts to protect animals will be rendered useless and invalid from here on out. Sick bastards.

It makes me ill. Example #69076587685768705780783076 that people are morons. In this instance "people" can be defined as non-Ledges. :lol:

When I finally own a home I'll be one of those cat ladies taking care of all the strays. This seriously makes me ill, so much that it was hard to even read the article.

It reminded me of that twisted mother****er from Boston last year who was going around tying dogs up and throwing them into the river. People are sick, I don't know how anyone could ever kill an animal and be able to sleep at night. I weep when I drive by other people's roadkill, for cripes sake.

I didn't hear about him. :(

In other news, Mufy got some new toys shipped to him yesterday. He got a new scratcher toy that's like a big ramp. It has a hole underneath the high side with a dangling mouse in it. Well, there was a mouse in there but he already pulled it off of its string. Took him a good, oh, five whole minutes. :lol: He's a punk. When I was putting the toy together he looked into the hole and was very startled. Hehe. Naturally he wasn't scared for long.

He also got a new attachment for his fishing toy, it has feathers, his favorite, and I can't wait to play with him with it. He was purring loudly over the scratcher this morning. What a cutie.

If anyone ever tried to harm him I'd fry their nuts.

There goes any of the credibility PETA ever had... which wasn't much. PETA lost all credibility with me when they came out against fishing last year. There are so many battles that need to be fought when it comes to animal rights (the slaughter of seal pups in Canada, Japanese whaling, etc.) that wasting time on something like recreational fishing is completely foolish. I really think that their publicity stunts do more harm than good when it comes to animal rights. They are seen as a fringe group, which turns off a lot of people. I give money to groups like the World Wildlife Fund but PETA doesn't get anything from me.

I read a story recently about two kittens that were thrown from a car going about 50mph on a highway. They both survived but one had to be euthanized. There are some disgusting people out there.

I find PETA a misguided and bordering-on-psycho group, but from reading the article I got the impression that the animals they took were going to get "gassed or shot" anyway, which would have indeed been worse.

Don't get me wrong. I am a cat lover. Putting my cat Oreo to sleep a few months ago was the hardest thing I'd ever done. I held him as he died and sobbed in the office for a good half hour, and then I embarrassed myself today when I brought my new cat to the vet for a little checkup and started crying remembering when I took Oreo there for the last time. And I'm crying right now thinking about it.

I'd only be upset if the shelters they took the animals from would have found homes for them, and so the injections were needless.

my thoughts EXACTLY. it really sickes me to have to admit that people are so cruel and heartless. what is actually few and far between is a decent human being.

When they die and meet God, they will have a lot to explain to her. :nod: The universe has a special place for those who hurt balls of innocent fluff.

yeppers...she will be none too happy with them. Hopefully, they'll be sentenced to an eternity as pooperscoopers.

btw, love your sig...my cat has greatly improved her typing skills.

Sometimes I think I'm the only one who has a hard time seeing that! It's so common that it seems like people don't even pay attention. It's awful to see something on the side of the road, and even worse when it's in the road and people continue to drive over it. :(

Anyway, I always have thought PETA was on the crazy side. I still have to say that I'm glad those animals didn't have to die violent deaths, but I think there should have been a way to not have to euthanize them. :shrug: I don't think that was morally right. :shrug:

I get your point but I can't help but disapprove of recreational fishing. And why is it that people always seem to think that mammals are more important than fish? I hate that.

I'm amazed at how people think themselves to be so much more important than animals. People are animals. :shrug: