petaboy

I just read an interesting explanation in Yahoo answers about PETA. PETA does euthanizes animals but they do it only to animals that are extremely traumatized or not fit to live in this world because of physical deformities.

A poster in Yahoo answer says

“From what I know about PETA they don’t take in your run of the mill ‘dumped by owner’, ‘owner died’ animals who could quite easily be rehomed. They are not an animal shelter like the SPCA or the Humane Society.

Many of the animals they end up with are those from facilities which have been conducting horrific experiements in which the aninmals have been so badly traumatized, both physicallly and mentally, that it it is simply not possible to rehome them. Who exactly is going to take home a severely disturbed rhesus monkey that has been seperated from its mother after two days, kept in isolation for 5 years and then had electrodes implanted in its brain to simulate epilepsy or by force has developed an addiction to heroin?? or a beagle puppy that has been subjected to various forms of vivisection and has developed an aggressive attitude towards people as a result??

For this reason it makes sense that a higher percentage of the animals which end up in there care ultimately end up being euthanised than with a regular Animal shelter. They are not your average abandoned animals . It is highly likely that 86% of the animals they end up caring for are too messed up to be rehomed. If 86% of animals going into a regular shelter were being euthanised then there would be reason to worry, as most animals which end up in a normal shelter are perfectly good candidates for rehoming.

Put the numbers in perspective also – The 10,000 odd figure for all the animals that PETA were meant to have taken in the whole of 2006 is pretty small in comparison to how many animals a regular shelter has pass through its doors in a single year. If PETA were taking in everyday abandonment cases don’t you think the number would be in the hundreds of thousands due to their funding and profile? They are obviously taking in the extreme cases related to their campaigns not just Fido who got too big for his owners to look after..

Who exactly published those websites which have been mentioned in response to this question?? I would be interested to know. Do they have a vested interest in making PETA seem like the bad guy ie a company such as IAMS or KFC who PETA have long campaigned against?? or a group like the Hunters Association of America??”