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SURRENDER THE WALLABY
PETA is emailing me about the wallaby now. pic.twitter.com/tdTiCQIDEh
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The American Kennel Club (AKC) issued a statement this summer expressing “vehement disapproval” of the euthanasia policy at the shelter run by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in Norfolk, Va. Joined by the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association (VVMA), the AKC called for PETA to take steps to balance its adoption and euthanasia rates.
“While most shelters strive for a 90% re-homing rate, PETA is apparently proud of their 99% killing rate and callously boasts that the animals it rescues are ‘better off dead.’
http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/groups-call-peta-reduce-high-euthanasia-rate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthanization-rate_n_6612490.html
The AKC is a bunch of hypocrites and is half the problem. All they care about is their dues getting paid. They continue to do nothing to curb puppy mills rasing dogs for cash in deplorable conditions as long as they are paying their dues.
with the fact that PETA kills a metric fuckton of animals each year?
Check the Huff Po link. It's pretty grim.
Because puppy mills are one of the main reason that so many dogs are killed every year. If Peta doesn't do it, somebody else will. There are too many dogs and we don't have the capabilities to care for them so we kill them.
I am not defending PETA, i'm just not about to blame them for killing animals when the real problem lies elsewhere.
If I don't eat the bacon, somebody else will. There are too many pigs and we don't have the capabilities to care for them so we make them into tasty bacon.
You won't bait me into defending puppy mills, which most reasonable people are opposed to, but the existence of puppy mills doesn't explain PETA's actions. It also does not explain why they kill so many cats.
Several PETA employees have been arrested and charged for kidnapping animals and killing them.
Shelters all over the country are now killing way fewer animals than ever before. All of them except for the PETA "shelter".
Let me rephrase that.
I don't agree with what PETA does and how they do it. I think they are way over the top. Doesn't mean I don't agree in principle with some of what they stand for. And most people that will read an article on PETA killing animals have no idea how many animals are killed in shelters all over the country and will continue to get their pets from backyard breeders or pet stores and drop them off at the pound when they become inconvenient.
When I was 11 me and my vegetarian, anti-hunting, Republican(yes, you read that right) father went to DC. We went into a PETA tent on the Mall and the PETA nuts proceeded to grill me on why I ate meat. The tent was filled with all sorts of terrible pictures of animal cruelty.My dad got me out of there ASAP.
Fuck PETA. Terrorizing little kids is not humane. You combat animal cruelty by teaching kids in a compassionate manner how to appreciate and cherish animal life.
PETA is trying to deal with the mess that AKC helps foster. AKC is dedicated to the proposition that genetically malforming dogs through generations of inbreeding is not only desirable but should be the basis of awards. If one organization or the other had to disappear from the face of the Earth for the benefit of dogs, it's AKC by a mile.
pretty much every shelter operates like this. the no kill shelters are full so they just turn away animals which end up killed at other shelters. This is why you should spay/neuter your pets and rescue instead of supporting backyard breeders.
I have two rescues btw so I'm not just talking the talk.
I'm no fan of PETA, but this is a horrible misrepresentation of their position on euthanasia.
PETA is an "open-admission" shelter, meaning they take literally any animal brought to them regardless of condition. This is very different from your typical Humane Society such as Huron Valley, which places strict limitations on which animals they take. Now, I'm not saying that PETA is doing a good job or that they should be euthanizing so many animals, but to not even mention that in the argument is very disingenuous.
Millions of adoptable animals are being slaughtered every year in the US, and that isn't PETA doing all that dirty work, that's just what happens when pets are overbred and under-sterilized. That's the result of incredible irresponbility of people who own pets without a care for the responsibility involved as well as the dog breeding/puppy mill industry that capitalizes on people who think "purebred" means something other than "inbred to the point of genetic deformity."
How can you make this claim? I can nearly guarantee that only one of us has had a wallaby for a pet, and that only one of us is well versed in the care of exotic animals.
How can I make a claim that is a personal opinion? As I stated below, its all a personal choice. Whether eating animals or keeping exotic ones as pets, there are no absolute rules. I feel that its immature and selfish. And I am entitled to that opinion, unless you have some moral objection to that.
My objection isn't really a moral one. Do you own any pets? If so, I guess my issue is with the cognitive dissodance between your actions and your words. I can sit here and tell you with authority that owning a wallaby falls between owning a dog and a goat in the pet spectrum. Now granted, a goat is not a good choice for a campus apartment, but your opinion is that owning a wallaby is immature in and of itself. You're entitled to that opinion, but you're also pretty hypocritical if you've ever owned any sort of mammal as a pet.
My dad had a friend that moved here from Australia and bought a house with a decent amount of property on the outskirts around Ann Arbor. He had a few kangaroos and I believe one or two wallabies. He had raised them before in the outback when he was younger and when he got to the states got a few and raised them. Just because you own an "exotic" pet doesn't mean you don't know how to raise it or that no one should ever have one.
but what are the chances some college football players have the slightest idea what it takes to own an exotic pet? Most college kids can't even handle a normal pet.
True, but nobody gets up in arms if our OLB brings home a puppy. It's a stupid argument that just because an animal is not typically a pet, that it's any less responsible to own one.
Seriously? Dogs have been genetically bred over hundreds of years to be happy living with humans. Comparing dogs to un-domesticated animals is silly. But I concede that in situations in which the animal can no longer live in the wild and has a wild-like situation in which to live, that owning an exotic pet is ok. There are no black and whites here.
Animals also imprint onto people - especially pack animals. Dogs may have been bred for generations, but if you have ever worked with exotic animals, you'd know that they can be just as content and attached to people. I agree that most people who decide to go buy an exotic animal are probably not thinking through the ramifications as well as they should, but if someone cares for an exotic animal in a way that a good pet owner would treat a more traditional pet, there is no reason to chastise them for their decision.
This is true. Not everyone has a dog or cat.
Your odds on empathy for people down the road probably ain't great, either. That's how most psychotics and sociopaths get started.
This is a major stretch. People who are able to torture animals tend to have psychotic behavior, but not a person who simply views an animal as less important than a human.
I bought my son 3 fish a month ago. They are all now dead. I'm not excited about that, but I'm not losing sleep about it either. That doesn't make me a sociopath.
"It's a stupid argument that just because an animal is not typically a pet, that it's any less responsible to own one."
Honestly one of the dumbest statements I've ever read on this blog.
Tell me about it...I've read plenty of yours
It just depends on who you know and how responsible you are. I've some seen some real shit conditions while I was at Michigan for pets to live in (small dog in a small senior frat house that would drink that natty people spilled on the floor for it and the house was always full of smoke) and I've seen some really decent set ups for people that have pets while in college. It just depends on the individuals and their understanding of the amount of time and effort needed. That's probably why they got rid of it. They thought they could handle it and when they realized it was too overwhelming they gave it a better home with someone better equipped to raise it. At least we know they were responsible and forward thinking enough to do that.
with drinking left over natty?
If it was good enough for me, it was good enough for the dog.
Leftover is one thing. It wasn't left over. It was the only thing I saw them put into the dog's "water bowl" anytime I visited there
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Cheers to you, man.
MeanJoe07.
He's a fuzzy evil genius.
He asked me to be his arch enemy and I politely declined out of a sense of self-preservation.
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Thank God.
What's PETA gonna do about this Kangaroo situation?
cheer?
