Posted: Mar 26, 2013 4:30 pm
HughMcB wrote:Guess what's STILL going on....PETA killed more than 1,600 cats and dogs at its Virginia headquarters last year
Almost 90% of the animals handed over to the charity's American shelter
By KATIE DAVIES
PUBLISHED: 20:57 GMT, 20 March 2013 |
UPDATED: 01:01 GMT, 21 March 2013
Animal rights charity PETA killed almost 90 per cent of dogs and cats placed in the care of the shelter at its Virginia headquarters last year, it has been revealed today.
The charity, well-known for attention grabbing publicity campaigns such as the 'I'd rather go naked' anti-fur campaign, euthanized 1,647 cats and dogs last year and only placed 19 in new homes according to the data submitted to the Virginia Department for Agriculture and Consumer Services.
PETA told Mail Online that the animals they take in at the center are 'unadoptable', however 89.4 per cent of pets is much higher than their own approximation that half of animals taken to shelters end up being euthanized.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2Of4NgZIv
What would you prefer be done with unadoptable pets? Why is it worse to be painlessly put to death than to live an existence of suffering, neglect, and eventually painful death?