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Peta kills kittens

Wow, I have no idea how to link to the video on CNN about this, but apparently in NC, they've caught two members/managers of a Peta shelter who were picking up animals and "saving them" using the death kit in the back of their van. Apparently in this case, they were saving them by injecting them and dumping them in a supermarket dumpster. Busted. The real drama on the CNN video, is they talk to a vet who has been giving them strays that turn up. On the day they caught the shelter workers, they had picked up a momma cat and two kittens. The next shot is a still of said kittens and momma, dead, pulled from the dumpster.

This is a bad enough publicity blow for Peta, but the part that leaves me incredulous is that Peta is defending them, saying only that using the supermarket dumpster was bad. They refer to the shelter as the court of last resort. My husband said it's more like "the final solution". In addition, it turns out there's a Peta shelter in Norfolk that has an 85% kill rate, while the SPCA shelter down the road has a kill rate 1/3 of that.

So let's get real here. The sad reality is that kill shelters are necessary because there aren't enough people spaying & neutering, and therefore not enough people to adopt all of the dogs out there. What makes this story painful is that people who couldn't keep their pets have probably turned over pets to Peta thinking that they wanted to avoid the high kill SPCA shelters. And now it turns out that they would have been better off with the SPCA. It's not that Peta ran a kill shelter, it's that they put on holier than thou cloaks for eating meat, or living anything less than the perfect vegan life, and then treat man's best friend so poorly. And the hypocrisy is staggering, surely even they see it.

Update The San Francisco Chronicle also has a story on this here

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posted by MyHusbandRules @ 8:29 AM