Joe Biden might have lost the race to the White House, but he still managed to beat Barack Obama in the race to the doghouse - getting a new puppy for his family weeks before Obama's family took possession of their much lauded 'First Dog.'PETA, the vile 'animal rights' organisation, were on the warpath when they learnt about the new addition to the Biden family. Joe Biden had bought his new puppy from a breeder, not an animal shelter as PETA encouraged.
This inspired them to blow some of their annual $30 million budget on a series of controversial ads with the slogan 'Buy One, Get One Killed.'
In the words of PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk: "Buying from a breeder kills a shelter dog's chance of being adopted. Four million unadopted animals are killed in shelters every year."
As is typical for PETA, their campaign is wildly hypocritical. While the message about adopting animals is correct, what Newkirk and Co. fail to mention is that PETA itself is the leading killer of shelter animals in the United States.
Despite having an annual budget in the tens of millions, PETA execute over 90% of all animals brought to their PETA adoption centers. Compare that to the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who have a shoestring budget compared to PETA, yet successfully re-home 70% of animals brought to their shelter.
PETA is in a better situation than any so-called humane organization in America to actually save animals lives - yet they prefer to spend their budget on adverts encouraging children to give up eating meat, or abandon drinking milk.
To criticize the Bidens for not adopting a shelter pet is disgusting, considering that PETA murdered over 20,000 shelter animals in recent years.
PETA's cruelty towards animals is unprecedented. In 2007, two PETA employees (Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook) went around the Virginia area visiting local animal shelters and taking healthy cats and dogs from them to 'rehome.'
After loading up 80 pets in their van (including 'Happy', a puppy belonging to Animal Control Officer Barry Anderson, who made Hinkle promise that the puppy would be re-homed and not 'put down') Hinkle and Cook idled their van in the parking lot of that same shelter and began systematically exterminating all of the animals with a (highly illegal) lethal injection.
Within twenty minutes of promising to rehome all these animals, the two PETA employees had killed every last one of them. They then proceeded to dump the bodies in the dumpster of a local Chinese restaurant, rather than dispose of the murdered animals properly.
Here are the results of PETA's handiwork:
So when Ingrid E. Newkirk warns that buying a puppy kills a shelter dog's chances of adoption, what she fails to mention that PETA will be doing the killing.
PETA are an absolute disgrace and anybody who donates money to them is contributing to animal cruelty.
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I'm a vegetarian embarrassed about PETA. They are no better than the people they talk down to.
PETA makes me furious. To say the least, they have misplaced messages in targeting breeders. Responsible breeders, such as the ones we've bought dogs from and are often dog show participants, are very selective about breeding their dogs (maybe on litter every few years, very caring and very thorough in who they sell their puppies to. We had to have referrals on top of referrals, then an interview, then the breeder insisted on some home visits to make sure we were caring for the dogs correctly. With a breeder raised dog, you have a good indication of the temperament and disposition of the dog, eliminating the owner/dog mismatches that often lead to dogs being dropped off at shelters.
But then, what do you expect of people like PETA who think nothing of firebombing a Sonoma chef's restaurant (at the risk of human life) to save a few ducks from being used as foie gras?
I'm so disturbed by PETA everytime I read something new about them. I'm not a hateful or vengeful person, but I wish that particular organisation nothing but bad kharma.
Both my pets were adoptions.
Galea the cat was the runt of the litter and no one wanted her. Nothing wrong with her 13 years later other than the Siamese mouthiness. :)
Bonjovi the dog was a rescue from a no kill facility near us that works with an adoption place in Puerto Rico to get strays an abandonded pets off the streets. He is by far the best dog that I've ever had.
Neither of these animals would have had a chance if it wasn't for my wife and I. We would never consider working with a shelter or organisation that would put an animal down simply becuase "they couldn't find it a home".
Shame on PETA.
Thank you for your past articles about PETA and making the folks out there more aware.
Ingrid Newkirk has given her life and her fortune to helping animals to the degree that she lives humbly on about thirty thousand dollars a year and works seven days a week to eliminate animal suffering. She and her PETA staff live and breathe to help animals. Euthanasia by Peta? Please read "PETA and Euthanasia" at Peta.org.
Trevor - Ingrid Newkirk does not 'live' on 37,000 a year. That is merely what she receives from her own company, PETA. She lives quite comfortably on the proceeds from the dozen or so books she's written.
Having supported ALF (the terrorist group in England), and said she'd oppose a cure for AIDs if it was found by animal testing - and having written to Yasser Arafat to ask them to use something other than donkeys to carry suicide bombs (not to stop suicide bombs themselves) PLUS done nothing to stop PETA's murder of thousands of animals each year, I think it's fair to accuse her of being utterly morally bankrupt, a filthy hypocrite and delusional to boot.
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals
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Wow - a powerful post. We are currently looking at getting a dog from a shelter, but I wouldn't criticise anyone for buying from a good breeder. It's the puppy mills that need to be closed down.
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