Reply #204: animal control shelters are county run. [View All]

[idgiehkt]

Animal control shelters house animals that animal control picks up when it goes on calls. Most of them are tiny, and many don't even take in animals from the public. The county animal shelter services are usually contracted out to groups like HSUS and SPCA I'm really not surprised at these numbers since it's very likely that PETA is picking up the cast offs from a lot of shelters simply to keep them from being euthanized in an inhumane way. Some of those methods that have been exposed in NC, besides the gas chamber which is still used in my county, are dropping live animals in cages into bodies of water, a shot in the head at the landfill, or some form of bludgeoning or suffocation.

I think it's tragic that "No Kill Now" is spending all this time and effort going after PETA. Are they waging a similar war against HSUS and ASPCA, or any of the other orgs? I'm starting to think it's a front. I bet it's a non-profit, isn't it, funded by donations? What a tragic, futile waste of funding, not to mention a betrayal of public trust. If Virginia wants to stop using PETA's services, then Virginia can. However, to attack an org that pays a vet to humanely euthanize animals which may result in those animals being inhumanely euthanized is just ludicrous, and stunning, really.

this quote I find a tad bizarre:
"You don't like the fact that PETA advocates violence, has a disgusting euthanizing rate over almost every shelter in the country, tosses dead carcases in trash bins, and spins to the point their heads almost come off. You choose to remain blind to the truth which is indeed a shame."

I've don't think I've expressed any 'dislike' so far, except what I've seen working for HSUS.