PETA Causes Trouble at Tennessee Dog Show
If anyone from PETA would like to explain this action, please bark in! Also, if you know more about this situation, please bark in!
Thanks to Lynn H. for barking this in!
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Heads up for exhibitors.. ..
Suzie just called from the Franklin, TN 4 day circuit to file this report:
PETA was on the grounds today — mostly taking pictures of dogs in rates (”animal cruelty”) and causing a scene. After lunch an attempted theft of a GSD created a lock down of the building. An announcement was made on the loudspeaker just before groups that the State Troopers were called in and would be helping in “security” for the handlers and their dogs! As of then only one door guarded by law enforcement and watched by club members remains open to come in or go out. Handlers got their friends/assistants to watch their set ups while they were in the ring showing in the groups.
Now Franklin, Tennessee is only about 4 hours from Louisville, and the consensus of opinion was that this was a “dress rehearsal” for the big event.Anyone planning on taking dogs, bring padlocks for your crates and use the buddy system. Introduce yourself to people set up around you if you are crated in the building, and take turns watching the dogs. Rumors are circulating that this could end up going back to the national level like it did several years ago when handlers started carrying baseball bats! Please think twice before leaving your dogs unattended at any show.
How low can PETA go?
Im shocked, this is overboard. I personally know several people who show their dogs (including myself) and I know that most of these live in wonderful conditions and are family pets as well as show dogs. Im sure some live as Kennel dogs but then again they are well fed with proper Vet care.
Peta needs to realise dogs are den animals and their crates become a save haven to them during shows.
A dog spending an hour or so in a crate dosent mean its abused. Most show people carry their own water and food and even toys for their preciouse pups with them.
Peta needs to worry about Labs and the poor dogs that are chained outside in the blazing heat or freezing cold often with no shelter, food or water.
Its a shame when PETA is saying trust us we will help your pets and then terrorising shows, familys and pets on the other. I have been concidering joining PETA because I belive in helping animals “IN NEED” but this is beyond anything I want to be part of.
Shame on you PETA
Dianna, I could not have said it better myself.
PITA needs to focus on the real criminals, Labs, dog fighting clubs, puppy mills, pet shops, etc…
Thank you for allowing me to respond to the absurdly false rumor that PETA activists are disrupting dog shows. While we at PETA recognize that some dog shows can be exploitative and that the breeding industry contributes to the tragic companion animal overpopulation crisis, it would be contrary to all we believe in to frighten, disorient, or risk physical harm to dogs by letting them out of their show crates.
Our main objection to dog shows is that they promote breeding dogs for a certain “look� while millions of healthy, loving, adoptable dogs are killed every year in our country’s shelters simply for lack of good homes.
When people breed and sell animals, shelter animals lose their chance at being adopted. That’s why we encourage everyone who has the time, money, patience, and love to care for an animal to adopt a companion from their local animal shelter or rescue group.
To learn more about PETA’s work to protect companion animals—including our efforts to help chained dogs and end dogfighting, as well as educate the public about puppy mills and pet stores—please visit http://www.HelpingAnimals.com.
Sincerely,
Lindsay Pollard-Post
Staff Writer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Thank you Lindsey for barking in!
Could this situation have been caused by some well-meaning but misguided folks saying their were running this ruckus in PETS’s name?
PETA teams up with terrorists and leaves dogs in dumpsters. I have no doubt they’d do something so unspeakable. Shame on PETA. They don’t really care about our pets…
Posted by Barb S on 3/12/2007, 8:32 pm, in reply to “PeTA hits dog shows in TN – possible prep for KY cluster”
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Saw this on another list:
>> from Mary Jane Frank on Gazehound-L
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>> “Here is “the true skinny” from a member of the Tullahoma KC show committee who was there — yesterday and today (which was the Nashville KC show). She says if you want more details you can contact her:
>> Joan Gambino at tennwoods@… . . . It was, Joan says, an “unfortunate misunderstanding”! The man running the coffee stand saw a set-to . . . somebody (#1) took a GSD out of his crate, and somebody (#2) nearby said (apparently rather loudly) something to the effect “Hey! That’s not your
dog!” #1 apparently did not give a satisfactory response,
and #2 yelled “Are you PETA or something?” To which #1
sarcastically responded “Yeah!”
By the time the GSD had been put back in his crate, and the issue settled to the satisfaction of #s 1 and 2, the coffee stand man was reporting to the show chair, who called
the Williamson County police (not state troopers, not Franklin city.) The building was immediately put on lockdown.” When Joan left the show yesterday it was “concrete” that there had been a PETA attempt (and thus the story that T sent was accurate as far as anyone knew); when she arrived this morning she checked with the (Tullahoma) show chair — who told her “the rest of the story”.
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Posted by Karen on 3/12/2007, 8:49 pm, in reply to “Re: PeTA hits dog shows in TN – possible prep for KY cluster”
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Claimed it was all a joke gone wrong and no police were called at all.
But then again, I never put anything past PeTA to test waters either…
Who knows but watch your dogs and be vigilant.
Hey I don’t know that much about Peta, so correct me if I am out of line, but didn’t they let a whole bunch of show dog out during a show, were they(the dogs) ran into the street and a lot of those dogs were hit and killed be cars?
The day someone trys to free my dog from his “bars” (quoting from their “what’s wrong with crating” leaflet: http://blog.peta.org/archives/Crating_Leaflet.pdf) at a dog show, where he actually spends very little time at all, the picture I’m in may not be for Best of Breed (mug shot, perhaps?).
Don’t believe that radical people claiming association with PETA, the Animal Liberation Front, etc. won’t ever come into a show and try this. Even if PETA’s policy is against it, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have uninformed radical followers that won’t tow their “party line”. Think of the people who released farmed minks into the wild, only to have them all die because as farmed animals they did not know how to survive in the wild.
Sure, shock media gets attention (e.g., here’s your dead dog, little girl … every puppy you buy from a breeder kills a shelter dog: http://www.peta.org/feat/abc/video2.asp), but are organizations like PETA proactiely trying to educate those would-be radicals who wind up causing more harm to the animals they are supposedly helping?
Hi, I really apreciated this website! Thanks
I admire you on the willingness to share this info with others – good luck!
PITA needs to focus on the real problems: abuse, puppy mills, education. None of these is attributable to the responsible dog breeder/exhibitor. The AKC has a long and respectable history of maintaining the highest and most ethical standards in the care and support of dogs. Their activities foster close relationships between dogs and their families. As for the impact on the shelter dog associated, according to PITA, by the pure bred dog breeder this is simply absurd and ignorant. Shelter dogs are not appropriate for every family. And, frankly, it is not up to PITA or any other group to tell me or any other person where to obtain a pet. The pet overpopulation problem comes from backyard breeders and puppy mills that are only interested in profit, not from the dog fancy who is interested in the health and welfare of every single dog. They are misinformed if they believe the sole purpose of purebred dog breeding is for a “look.” That is grossly inacurrate. Conformation is more than look, it is about soundness of body, health, and temperament. If they would educate themselves about the AKC and their responsible breeders, and realize that dogs who are exhibited at AKC conformation events wouldn’t be there and wouldn’t be able to show if they weren’t enjoying it, they could stop wasting their time and endangering animals by cruely releasing them from crates (this would be terrifying and potentially very dangerous for the dogs), and focus on the real issue, puppy mills and animal cruelty. I am frankly quite tired of these hypocrits and their ignorant propaganda.
I was just trying to research PETA and their practices and found you folks. I’m very glad to learn that the incident at the Tennessee Dog Show was just a misunderstanding.
The response from the PETA advocate does not hold much water for me after finding this morning the published numbers of dogs PETA has destroyed between 1998 and 2997.
I read a transcript of a proceeding where two PETA workers were found dumping 30 something pet bodies in a dumpster behind a grocery store. These were dogs they’d “rescued” from animal shelters and, in one case, a Veterinarian’s office. The cats they got from the Vets office were put to sleep within the hour after they took them.
I’d always thought PETA was an organization that looked out for animals. In the late 80’s I was a member. They used to do good things. I believe it was actually their campaigning for animal rights that put an end to the beauty industry testing on animals. This was a good thing!
Now, it would appear that their lunatics are running their asylum and that makes me very sad.
err… that would be 2007… but I’m sure you all realized that (blush)