MrBigglesworth
New member
I sent an email about how their organization is headed by hypocrits and for a non canned response.
Yep...it was canned! Here it is for your purusal!.
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Thank you for your note to PETA.
Unfortunately, the recent article about PETA and euthanasia
did not even begin to address the complex issue of animal overpopulation or
PETA's role in combatting it.
PETA fights companion animal abuse and overpopulation
aggressively and in a variety of ways. Through our undercover investigations
and grassroots campaigns, we work to seek justice through the courts and
educate the public about overpopulation and how to fight it.
If you saw the recent Dateline piece on national television
you will have seen how we are trying to wake the public up to the role puppy
mills and pet shops play in flooding communities with casually acquired, and
then often carelessly discarded dogs and cats. (For more information on our
puppy mill campaign, please go to: http://www.helppuppies.com/index2.html).
Our Community Animal Project (CAP) rescues homeless animals
directly--crawling through sewers, poking through junkyards, climbing trees,
dodging cars, and arguing with landlords to coax terrified abandoned or
neglected animals to safety. We go into the very worst of neighborhoods to
deliver food, doghouses, and bedding to pit bulls who have never known a
kind word or touch; dogs who--thinking we are bent on doing them harm as all
the other humans in their lives have--come at us with snapping jaws to
defend the tiny patch of muddy earth they call home.
We find starved corpses, dying animals, what is left of cats
who have been used as bait for fighting dogs. In winter we see the dogs
shiver and try to curl into the tiniest balls to keep warm; in summer we see
them with their tongues dragging, water bowls overturned, panting to try not
to succumb to the heat. In floods and storms, we are out there at all hours
of the night saving lives.
We push to have owners of severely abused animals prosecuted
and the animals removed, but if we can do nothing else, we try hard to at
least make the animals as comfortable as we can and sterilize them so more
puppies won't freeze out there in winter or burn alive in summer.
PETA takes in the animals nobody wants--the feral cat
colonies descended from abandoned, unaltered house cats who are now thin and
wild and often infected with deadly, ravaging diseases like Feline AIDS and
leukemia. The stray dogs so disfigured by mange they are almost no longer
recognizable as canines. The litters of parvo-infected puppies, wracked with
diarrhea and vomiting--literally dehydrating to death. The backyard dogs who
have known only chains, beatings, and neglect, and who have gone mad because
of it.
Some of the animals PETA takes in are eventually reunited
with their families. We have caught and reunited some of the most elusive
animals who other agencies have given up on. Some animals are fostered until
homes can be found for them (PETA does not operate a shelter; we use
veterinary boarding kennels and foster homes, including our own staffers'
houses, and space is extremely limited). Other healthy and adoptable animals
are taken directly to local shelters. Tragically, the only relief for the
rest lies in oblivion.
Area shelters are overrun with animals, thousands of whom
are euthanized for lack of good homes, despite the fact that most are young,
healthy, and friendly. The "middle-aged" shepherd mix who literally climbs
the walls trying to escape the presence of humans doesn't stand a chance--he
will simply mark time cowering in his cage until his date with the needle.
PETA opts to euthanize extremely sick or feral animals immediately, rather
than subject them to the trauma of further transport and caging that will
only, ultimately, end in death. (Our euthanasia rate is lower than that of
area shelters.)
There is hope for abused animals, and it lies in prevention.
We must persuade people to spay and neuter animals to stop the cycle of
abuse. We must convince governments, like our own here in Norfolk--where we
have already changed the ordinance once and are working to change it
again--to accept responsibility instead of turning a blind eye to a problem
that results in almost unimaginable animal suffering-not to mention taxpayer
expense.
PETA works very hard on this, educating the public about the
need to spay and neuter through pamphlets, billboards, letters to the
editor, ads, articles, and humane education in schools. We spay and neuter
animals belonging to low-income families and the elderly poor for no charge
whatsoever--we pay for every shot, surgery, blood and feces sample, and
medication. Since January 1999, PETA has sponsored more than 700 spay/neuter
surgeries in the Tidewater area.
But PETA and animal shelters can't do it alone. Everyone
needs to do their part. Every one of us who cares about animals must work to
help the animals in our communities. If a stray shows up on our doorstep, we
mustn't tell ourselves that she has a home, or that "someone else" will take
care of her. We must be that "someone else." Caring individuals must take
homeless animals to shelters or, if they have the time, money, and space,
spay them, vaccinate them, and foster them until loving, permanent homes can
be found.
Each and every one of us can make a difference. If your
neighbor's dog "keeps having puppies," offer to have her spayed. Write to
your town councilperson and urge him or her to raise licensing fees for
unaltered animals. Alert authorities if you witness an animal being abused
or neglected. Boycott pet shops that sell puppies and kittens and adopt
strays or shelter animals instead.
PETA can provide information, advice, educational materials,
and assistance. For more information on our companion animal programs and
literature, please go to: http://www.peta-online.org/cmp/ca.html.
I hope this information is helpful. Thank you again for your
inquiry and for all you do to help animals.
Sincerely,
Alison Green
PETA Correspondent
www.peta-online.org
AlisonG@PETA-Online.org
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Try to take away my gun...and you will see my 2nd Amendment Right in ACTION!!! -Me
FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!
Yep...it was canned! Here it is for your purusal!.
-----------------------
Thank you for your note to PETA.
Unfortunately, the recent article about PETA and euthanasia
did not even begin to address the complex issue of animal overpopulation or
PETA's role in combatting it.
PETA fights companion animal abuse and overpopulation
aggressively and in a variety of ways. Through our undercover investigations
and grassroots campaigns, we work to seek justice through the courts and
educate the public about overpopulation and how to fight it.
If you saw the recent Dateline piece on national television
you will have seen how we are trying to wake the public up to the role puppy
mills and pet shops play in flooding communities with casually acquired, and
then often carelessly discarded dogs and cats. (For more information on our
puppy mill campaign, please go to: http://www.helppuppies.com/index2.html).
Our Community Animal Project (CAP) rescues homeless animals
directly--crawling through sewers, poking through junkyards, climbing trees,
dodging cars, and arguing with landlords to coax terrified abandoned or
neglected animals to safety. We go into the very worst of neighborhoods to
deliver food, doghouses, and bedding to pit bulls who have never known a
kind word or touch; dogs who--thinking we are bent on doing them harm as all
the other humans in their lives have--come at us with snapping jaws to
defend the tiny patch of muddy earth they call home.
We find starved corpses, dying animals, what is left of cats
who have been used as bait for fighting dogs. In winter we see the dogs
shiver and try to curl into the tiniest balls to keep warm; in summer we see
them with their tongues dragging, water bowls overturned, panting to try not
to succumb to the heat. In floods and storms, we are out there at all hours
of the night saving lives.
We push to have owners of severely abused animals prosecuted
and the animals removed, but if we can do nothing else, we try hard to at
least make the animals as comfortable as we can and sterilize them so more
puppies won't freeze out there in winter or burn alive in summer.
PETA takes in the animals nobody wants--the feral cat
colonies descended from abandoned, unaltered house cats who are now thin and
wild and often infected with deadly, ravaging diseases like Feline AIDS and
leukemia. The stray dogs so disfigured by mange they are almost no longer
recognizable as canines. The litters of parvo-infected puppies, wracked with
diarrhea and vomiting--literally dehydrating to death. The backyard dogs who
have known only chains, beatings, and neglect, and who have gone mad because
of it.
Some of the animals PETA takes in are eventually reunited
with their families. We have caught and reunited some of the most elusive
animals who other agencies have given up on. Some animals are fostered until
homes can be found for them (PETA does not operate a shelter; we use
veterinary boarding kennels and foster homes, including our own staffers'
houses, and space is extremely limited). Other healthy and adoptable animals
are taken directly to local shelters. Tragically, the only relief for the
rest lies in oblivion.
Area shelters are overrun with animals, thousands of whom
are euthanized for lack of good homes, despite the fact that most are young,
healthy, and friendly. The "middle-aged" shepherd mix who literally climbs
the walls trying to escape the presence of humans doesn't stand a chance--he
will simply mark time cowering in his cage until his date with the needle.
PETA opts to euthanize extremely sick or feral animals immediately, rather
than subject them to the trauma of further transport and caging that will
only, ultimately, end in death. (Our euthanasia rate is lower than that of
area shelters.)
There is hope for abused animals, and it lies in prevention.
We must persuade people to spay and neuter animals to stop the cycle of
abuse. We must convince governments, like our own here in Norfolk--where we
have already changed the ordinance once and are working to change it
again--to accept responsibility instead of turning a blind eye to a problem
that results in almost unimaginable animal suffering-not to mention taxpayer
expense.
PETA works very hard on this, educating the public about the
need to spay and neuter through pamphlets, billboards, letters to the
editor, ads, articles, and humane education in schools. We spay and neuter
animals belonging to low-income families and the elderly poor for no charge
whatsoever--we pay for every shot, surgery, blood and feces sample, and
medication. Since January 1999, PETA has sponsored more than 700 spay/neuter
surgeries in the Tidewater area.
But PETA and animal shelters can't do it alone. Everyone
needs to do their part. Every one of us who cares about animals must work to
help the animals in our communities. If a stray shows up on our doorstep, we
mustn't tell ourselves that she has a home, or that "someone else" will take
care of her. We must be that "someone else." Caring individuals must take
homeless animals to shelters or, if they have the time, money, and space,
spay them, vaccinate them, and foster them until loving, permanent homes can
be found.
Each and every one of us can make a difference. If your
neighbor's dog "keeps having puppies," offer to have her spayed. Write to
your town councilperson and urge him or her to raise licensing fees for
unaltered animals. Alert authorities if you witness an animal being abused
or neglected. Boycott pet shops that sell puppies and kittens and adopt
strays or shelter animals instead.
PETA can provide information, advice, educational materials,
and assistance. For more information on our companion animal programs and
literature, please go to: http://www.peta-online.org/cmp/ca.html.
I hope this information is helpful. Thank you again for your
inquiry and for all you do to help animals.
Sincerely,
Alison Green
PETA Correspondent
www.peta-online.org
AlisonG@PETA-Online.org
------------------
Try to take away my gun...and you will see my 2nd Amendment Right in ACTION!!! -Me
FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!
"Someone here"