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.

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?

Saw this on another list:

>> from Mary Jane Frank on Gazehound-L
>>
>> “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.

Could this situation have been caused by some well-meaning but misguided folks saying their were running this ruckus in PETS’s name?