Better Off Dead - PETA On Shelter Dogs

Better Off Dead!

Fur is dead? 

You got that right, are so are at least 96 healthy cats and dogs.  How come?  Because PETA made damn sure of it. 

PETA crusaders Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook scoured  Hertford County, NC looking to save helpless and homeless shelter dogs and cats from a fate worse than death.

They were armed with a twisted sense of morality and a belly full of kindness - not to mention a tackle box full of syringes loaded with sodium pentobarbitol.

And save these helpless and homeless little dogs and cats  they did.   And to save them, these  PETA employees did the kindest thing they could do.......

They killed them. 

Killing Them Softly

Two mercy-killing Angels Of Death - aka PETA employees  - are on trial this week in North Carolina for killing innocent animals and then unceremoniously dumping their little dead bodies  - with their pink little tongues sticking out - in black trash bags in a shopping center dumpster down in Ashokie, NC.

But not just any shopping center dumpster - they pick the Piggly Wiggly shopping center.  Talk about irony - or is that just PETA's wacky sense of humor?

What's even more ironic is the fact that PETA readily admits that.......

They killed those helpless, healthy, and perfectly adoptable animals - all 96 of them in fact.  That's not even being debated.

Killing Them Kindly

PETA's defense is that it was the "kindest thing to do".  Phil Hirschop, a PETA attorney,  told the News & Observer,

"the only crime Hinkle and Cook committed was throwing the animals in a trash bin, an act for which PETA President Ingrid Newkirk has apologized and offered to pay.

Hirschkop said the pair dumped the animals because they had other stops to make and the animals often started to smell before they got back to Norfolk, where PETA has facilities for cremating animals".

Lemme get this straight - not only does PETA think killing these animals was "kind" - PETA has its own animal crematorium??? 

OK -so what animal organization has their own cremation ovens ........ ? Hey  - wasn't PETA doing that Holocaust campaign comparing dead chickens to Holocaust victims? 

Maybe they wanted to get all the details juuuuuuuust right.  Do you think maybe the PETA crematorium doubles as a tanning bed?

Get The Facts!

Want all the juice? Here are two sites that serve up the facts:

Stop on over to NoKillNow.com for an in-depth look at PETA's killing policies (they're calling for Ingrid Newkirk's resignation) and what you can do to save more dogs.

If you'd like to read the day-by-day trial updates - you'll want to pop on over to PetaKillsAnimals.com for the latest coverage and  and a tom more photos (photos here are from the PetaKillsAnimals.com site).

You're eyes may pop out of your head when you read PETA's past track record, and NoKillNow is actually run by FORMER PETA people.

Oooops! 'My Bad?

It would seem PETA employees Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook made an oooopsie. A big one. 

But they're not sorry for killing these animals.  They're only sorry for  dumping them in the dumpster! 

In PETAland - the only thing they're guilty of  is using the wrong trash receptacle.  Ooops - 'my bad?

No Protest For Puppy Killers?

The PETA trial has commenced in North Carolina , but unlike other animal cruelty trials where PETA is involved - this one is missing something............. Oh!  I know!

Where are all the PETA protesters?  You know - the ones that stand outside of courtrooms demanding justice for the innocent victims of animal cruelty? 

What - no PETA protesters out front of the courthouse caged up and playing dead? Where are they?  Are they all on vacation?  Off on a cruise?  Busy fighting other injustices elsewhere? Gas prices still too high to make the drive? 

Why are the PETA protesters for these puppykillers MIA?  Hey PETA - what's the matter - cat got your tongue?

Unlicensed Angels Of Death

There's one other little problem that I forgot to mention.

It seems that the DEA has a a bit of an issue with  PETA's Angels Of Death cruising around North Carolina dispensing kindness through a syringe full of sodium pentobarbitol.

That's because sodium pentobarbitol is a controlled substance, like cocaine or morphine. And PETA skipped over those teensy details, like obtaining a federal license to dispense the stuff.

So the question is - just how did Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook get their hands on such a controlled substance - AND - just what made them think is was OK to go cruising for looking for victims?

Milking The Cash Cow

The defendants  Hinkle and Cook - and PETA - the world's largest and richest animal rights organization may get their asses royally whooped by the prosecutor  and the press . 

And that may throw a hypothetical folding metal chair through the plate glass window of PETA's carefully crafted and highly polished brand image built on "kindness".

But these Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook will have some of the best defense lawyers that PETA money can buy. 

After all - in addition to mounting a defense against animal cruely and felony charges, PETA also needs to defend their reputation.

Above all else - they've gotta protect that revenue stream built on "kindness" - you'll forgive me - that cash cow, so PETA can keep on milking money out of people who really want to save animals. 

Stop Making Sense!

Like a giant purple sodium pentobarbitol haze -Does anything about PETA does make any sense?  Nagging questions linger, like...........

Why is PETA  - the organization that's out there demanding that we all stop killing animals, for food, for clothing -  out there actually killing animals?

Why do PETA people protest 19 dead circus elephants yet their employees go out and kill 95 defensless, healthy and ADOPTABLE cats and dogs?

Why does PETA insist that the kindest way to save the animals is to KILL the animals?

From NoKillNow:

"‘PETA believes euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.’ 

Ingrid Newkirk at a press conference following the arrest of two employees.

Ingrid's Busy Schedule

Why just look at Ingrid's Calendar - she certainly has her work cut out for her.  All those cats and dogs and kittens and puppies out there in shelters are just waiting to be killed out of kindness! 

• MONDAY -  Order Sodium Pentobarbitol and Syringes (get volume discount)
• TUESDAY - Hire Mercy Killers (offer on-the-job training)
• WEDNESDAY -  Kindly Kill Helpless Shelter Animals (share the kindness!)
• THURSDAY - Locate Dumspters & Dump the Dead (saving the environment by conserving precious fuel for the cremation ovens back at PETA headquarters)
• FRIDAY  - Repeat Kindness!  (Note! Keep the legal team on standby)

With such a busy schedule, poor Ingrid must be simply exhausted!

I'm The Decider

Move over George Bush  - Ingrid's just declared that she's  the real "The Decider"!   

Ingrid's decided that if any killing of any animals was to be done - only PETA people could kill animals - because the kind of killing that PETA does is done out out kindness.

And Ingrid's  decided that it's not OK to  eat pork chops  or fried chicken (killing animals), or wear leather sandals or Prada (killing animals) or eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream or put honey in your tea or wear silk or wool (exploiting animals) - and that instead - everyone should give PETA money to stop that cruelty (snicker, snicker) - so they can kill animals.

Apparently PETA has decided that they have been endowed by a higher authority.  And if anyone is gonna exploit animals and profit from that - it will  be PETA.  Is everyone clear on that?

PETA - Death To All PitBulls

PETA's Angel Of Death routine may shock the uninformed, but there are those on the front lines of saving dogs that already have PETA's number - I'm talking about pitbull  owners and those in the No Kill movement.

That's because if you own a pitbull (like me) , love a pitbull (like me),  or rescue or rescued a pitbull (like me), you already know PETA's official stance on pitbulls   - which is, according to fearless leader Ingrid Newkirk  - that pitbulls are better off dead.

What's that? You DIDN'T already know PETA's position on pitbulls?  Then let me enlighten you - my pitbull loving friends - and share with you Ingrid Newkirk's "kind words" about pitbulls...............

"Those who argue against a breeding ban and the shelter euthanasia policy for pit bulls are naive", and

"People who genuinely care about dogs won't be affected by a ban on pit- bull breeding. They can go to the shelter and save one of the countless other breeds and lovable mutts sitting on death row".

Ingrid Newkirk, in the San Francisco Chronicle in June 8, 2005.

Let there be no doubt that PETA not only fully supports euthanizing pitbulls in shelters, but also supports completely wiping the breed from the face of the earth through a breeding ban, breed bans, and breed-specific mandatory spay neuter laws.  It's called breed extermination.

And that, Ingrid, makes it personal. Real personal.

Animal Rights Vs. Human Rights

According to Ingrid Newkirk, “There’s no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals.”

QUESTION: if we are indeed all animals, and as PETA sees it - humans and animals should be endowed with the same legal rights and status - what does PETA's  killing agenda then bode for humans? 

Let's extrapolate that out, shall we?

If homeless shelter animals are better off dead, would PETA then advocate for the ethanization of homeless people?

If those same homeless animals are to be euthanized because they may not be adopted, would PETA then advocate for the euthanization of children in foster care?

And if those homelss shelter animals  less likely to be adopted because they were sick, or abused or elderly, would PETA also advocate for the euthanization of the elderly in nursing homes?  Or the sick or infirm in hospitals?

QUESTION:  Is  euthanasia the "kindest gift" for those who are alone, unwanted, unloved, whether human or not???   According to PETA - the answer is yes.

Gee, Ingrid, that sorta sounds eerily familiar - I dunno - maybe like the Nazi euthanization program of 1939? 

End Game

But all of this should come as no surprise, as one dedicated dog-loving reader put it - PETA's agenda - along with other so-called "animal protection" organizations - is the elimination of animals as pets altogether. 

In their view - simply even owning a dog or a cat or a bunny is cruel.

The end-game for PETA is total animal liberation, including animal ownership.  So while PETA and their pals go begging for money from al those pet owners to end "animal cruelty" - just keep in mind that PETA's vision of animal cruelty includes  - pet ownership.

Pet owners who give PETA money to end pet ownership?  Can you say "Duh"?

Redux

Ok, kids, let recap the goings at at the PETA trial, shall we?

• PETA denies lying to obtain the animals from shelters  by promising good homes
• PETA admits they killed 96 shelter dogs & cats in the back of their van before they even left the shelter
• PETA admits they then illegally and repeatedly dumped the animal carcasses in the Piggly Wiggy shopping center dumpster ('cause their van was getting smelly)
• PETA says they killed the animals out of kindness - killing them was the right thing to do

And.........

• PETA's policy is to kill all shelter pitbulls and advocates for the extermination of pitbulls

OK

Remember -this is your dog:

And this is your dog on PETA:

Any questions?

Repeat after me - Friends don't let friends donate to PETA.

Better Off Dead

As an organization, PETA is better off dead.  So sick, so twisted, that the only kind thing for PETA at this point would be a quick, painless death. 

Euthanization of heathy, adoptable animals is an evil of the last resort - not a "kind" first step.

You can help PETA  shorten their stay on the planet, and kindly help them gasp their last breaths by giving your money, your time, and your support to your LOCAL shelter, and those organizations involved in legimate animal rescue efforts.

Then demand that celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Alex Baldwin stop raising money for hypocritical puppykillers like Ingrid Newkirk.

I'll close my eyes and say a prayer for the helpless, innocent animals that PETA killed so mercilessly - without even trying to find homes for them.

And here's my prayer for the Adria,  Andrew and Ingrid  and the rest of the PETA crew.........

Even though you walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, may Goodness and Mercy follow you all the days of your lives - and may they be armed with a syringe filled with Sodium Pentobarbitol.

Amen.

Comments

[Megan]

I can't believe this, I was double checking to make sure I read it right. They think owning a dog is Cruel????! Wow. But putting a perfect healthy and happy dog or cat to death is humane? They need to have a dose of their own medicine. There far more dangerous than any dog I know.

[Heather]

I've donated to PETA in the past and now I regret that. I don't think PETA members should be blamed, it was 2 people out of thousands. However, if someone feels the need to go and picket and protest, they can do it on their own accord and not under the name of an organization. People ought to withdraw their association with PETA since now its pretty hypocritical to belong to a group that kills animals. With all the money PETA earns, they should be openning up animal shelters and having adoption programs rather than mass murders

[Lindsay]

This is ridiculous, I know people who work for PETA and they have cats and dogs at home, they aren't against that at all. Looks like you should check your facts!

[Ms. Anthrope]

I am rather sick to my stomach after reading this. I am a pit bull owner (and I would never own a different breed BUT a pit bull) I have NEVER had any problems with my dogs. I have a 6 month old daughter, and my main man-dog Bruiser LOVES her!!! F*** BSL, and F*** PETA..... its a bunch of bullshit....

[Old Gray Dog]

PETA is anti-animal and anti-human. What is it they are FOR?

[Caveat]

So, CIGar wants to shut down Dog Politics?

Good luck with that, buddy. This blog is super-popular among intelligent people who get it. It's the number one source for information on dog politics - hence the name.

Most of us are people who have placed many unwanted dogs, helped out and donated to our local animal WELFARE organizations, regularly adopted dogs rather than buy them (I have three right now and for decades prior to now have ONLY had adult dogs from shelters or rescues). We oppose puppy millers, pet shop sellers and others who profit from misery - including the hypocritical money changers at peta who don't donate anything to animal welfare groups.

So let me get this straight. Just because you, a new commenter on this blog, think all the bad guys who read DP are evil breeders who don't spare a thought for unwanted dogs, it must be true?

Stick around - you might actually learn something about what's really going on, instead of focusing on red herrings such as 'pet overpopulation', to give one example.

Oh and by the way - you're entitled to your opinion and you're entitled to disagree. Let us know how your campaign to shut down DP goes, OK?

[Anastacia Vaden]

It is sad that one of the largest world known animal rights organization is actual a fraud and not enough people know the truth about PETA or maybe they want to avoid reality. The truth is that PETA kills animals. The truth is that for every animal adopted ten are killed in shelters. The truth is that society, news, ect. has given Pit bulls Rotts and other large breeds a bad rep. when the truth is that a dog is only as good as its owner. The truth is that there are millions of animals killed each year because there are not enough homes for them. The truth is that breeders are part of the problem. They think they are doing right by animals because they screen the homes before allowing the animals to be adopted. The truth is breeders are lazy people who want money with out actual working for it. The truth is animals are abused every day, every second but, no one is pushing for harsher punishment for these crimes because the world looks at a dog as a thing and not a living creature. The truth is everyone can do more.

[Pam Leitt]

PETA is an abomination. I have felt for years that they're in it for the money, the hell with the animals. Anyone who donates to them, is enabeling this terrible behavior and philosophy.

[C.J.G.]

I am not a PETA person, but if you refuse to acknowledge the fact that there is a very serious pet overpopulation, then you don't give a rat's ___ about animals and this blog is merely a forum for your propaganda to protect your ability to breed and sell dogs for profit and too bad for the homeless animals in the shelters. I will do my utmost to get this blog off the internet.
Editor's Note: I am not a PETA person - NOR am I a breeder. Fyi - Little Miss Smarty Pants - maybe you never heard of free speech. If you want to defend PETA cruising & killing in the name of kindness - then be gone -this is my soapbox!

[Caveat]

The creeps at peta were found guilty of 'littering'. Few days in jail, fines, community service, their death van was confiscated.

I'm pretty disappointed, I thought the charge of obtaining property under false pretences would stick for sure.

But at least everybody knows they can't be trusted around animals. And it's in the record that they killed them immediately after promising to find them homes. They didn't deny that, by the way.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the grasping, ignorant, pretentious idiots at peta.

[Caveat]

Sorry, another overly long comment from me.

Of course the whackjobs at peta and other similar orgs support 'pit bull' bans. The elusive, vaguely defined, popular type of dog is ubiquitous. It's the vagueness they like.

A breed ban is an important first step down the road towards 'total animal elimination'.

One of my favourite points from the ongoing reportage at petakillsanimals dot com was the questioning by the DA on Day 7 (paraphrased here):

'So the shelter knew you'd kill the animals?'

P: Yep.

'Then why did you toss the bodies into the dumpster? Why didn't you just leave them with the shelter, which has disposal facilities?'

Yeah, how come, Ingrid?

These twits think having a dog is 'slavery' or 'exploitation'. Yeah, OK. My question is, 'who's exploiting who here?' I think the dogs are winning.

The other excellent point is that if the hypocrites at peta think animals are equal to humans, then bumping them off serially must be a pretty serious crime, no?

btw, I do actually think animals are equal to humans because humans are animals too. I just understand that 'different' doesn't necessarily mean 'unequal'.

Let's hope that this case opens the eyes of the suckers, like the poster below who thinks they've actually helped dogs, so that they donate to animal WELFARE organizations, not political machines who collect huge sums of money which is spent on advertising and lobbying - period.

Oh, and maybe a few of the peta inner circle, those who have survived cancer through medical intervention, those who use insulin and the rest could practise what they preach - maybe once?

All this 'let's return dogs to the wild' nonsense wears thin pretty quickly. Here's a question for you:

What wild?

Believe me, my dogs don't want to hunt, forego vet care, scrounge for dens, fight to survive, etc.

They'd rather lie around, ride in the car, go to parties and have me feeding, grooming and just plain loving them.

Pets, and especially dogs, are better off now than they have been at any time in history. People who work in shelters and rescue get a skewed view of things, much like the police - they only see the downside of life. The upside is so much larger.

Goodbye peta, we hardly knew ye.

[C.J.G.]

Following is an email I received on a dog rescue list serve. This is reality - no one can save all the homeless animals - euthanasia is not an option. However, please become involved if you are interested in saving dogs:

HAMMOND MUNICIPAL, LA, SHELTER IS DRASTICALLY OVER-CROWDED. MANY ANIMALS ARE BEING KILLED BECAUSE THERE IS NO SPACE FOR THEM.

"... mass-scale euthanasia is occurring daily now."
"32 litters of puppies arrived in only one week!"

Please, if you love kittens, puppies, dogs, or cats, consider opening your heart and home to an animal that needs you desperately. The animal shelter in Hammond, LA is experiencing such overcrowding and influx of new animals daily that mass-scale euthanasia is occurring daily now. 32 litters of puppies arrived in only one week! The staff there has also been cut by the parish government because of budget considerations and shortage of funds.

The workers there are doing everything humanly possible to save these animals by finding them new homes, but the numbers of pets in need is staggering.

PLEASE won't you adopt or if you can't adopt, consider being a foster for one of these little angels until a new home can be found or transport to a no-kill shelter can be arranged? Volunteers are working to find such shelters right now.

God bless.

If you can think of any way to help in this crisis,
please contact: [email protected] (@ aol.com)

[Katrina]

A slight misperception here. PeTA is not trying to eradicate animals. They are trying to eradicate the human/animal bond. They don't have a problem with cats/dogs/etc living on the earth. But at a distance and untouched or protected or cared for by humans. Their ultimate goal is the cessation of human life. The world would be a far better place if not populated by humans. At least according to PeTA and other animal rights groups.

Don't worry, I am in TOTAL disagreement with their philosophy or the way they are going about achieving it. Katrina

[pitbullEmily]

this pretty much says it all, a quote from a local person

""The PETA people? Well, it's kinda funny," Willie says. "PETA is supposed to be an animal rights group, but they're going around killing dogs. I mean, you know, we've had women's rights, civil rights, and now they have immigrants' rights, and so forth, but all the leaders don't go around killing the people."

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/Trial_Weekend.cfm

[kirstan]

Seriously with the rescue comment? They call themselves
'animal rights group'. They say that they are ETHICAL. Please tell me how lying about finding animals good homes then killing them and unceremoniously (not that ceremony would have helped) dumping them in the bin at a store is ETHICAL treatment of an animal?

I walk the shelters A LOT; I do it because I'm looking for dogs to pull to place (gasp!) not in a trash bag in a dumpster but in a home. Wonder of all wonders, eh?

Peta has never been a 'good' organization. They have been good at selling themselves as a 'good' organization. They are very good at gaining celebrity supportand, apparently, celebrities don't do any sort of background check on them.

Peta has never been 'for' animals. They have always been 'anti-pet'. There is no good that can come from an organization that completely wants to do away with pets. They are a group of self absorbed, narcissistic asses. They have NOT helped the animals.

Kirstan
VEGAN PIT BULL OWNER (not guardian, damnit!)

[Meaghan Edwards]

"I really, truly, absolutely don't understand why a dog support group would blast PETA - a group that has benefited animals more than any other organization in history."

They support Breed Specific Legislation -- and ending pet ownership. That gives me any reason why any dog group would be against them.

THAT has got to be some sort of sick joke to dump those poor animals behind Piggly Wiggly.

[Tiffany S]

This all I have to say in response to C.J.G.:
In 2005 PeTA only adopted out 6.8% of animals it took in. My local high kill shelter has a better rate than that, and they are only county funded, unlike PeTA who is sitting on literally MILLIONS of dollars.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/images/chart_deathToll.gif

[Jan B]

A lot of people have been trying to warn the rest of us about PeTA, the K9 Kevorkians, for a long time, now. Here is the proof that they want our dogs dead. What more do you need to know?

[C.J.G.]

I really, truly, absolutely don't understand why a dog support group would blast PETA - a group that has benefited animals more than any other organization in history. If you are an animal rights supporter, and are not making a profit by breeding, then PETA is your friend and ally. I am willing to bet that anyone who believes that it is possible to find homes for all of the homeless pets in shelters and that euthanizing a majority of those homeless animals is not necesssary has never visited a animal shelter. I suggest that, for just one week, you visit animals shelters in the cities around you. Better yet, try visiting a shelter in a large city in your state, and then judge whether euthanizing animals is a necessary evil. I worked for many years in a shelter that euthanized animals each week - there was no choice - there were too many animals and not enough homes. I suggest that, instead of focusing on PETA's euthanization policies, that you form groups to support the spaying and neutering of cats and dogs. Breeders and irresponsible pet owners are the problems - the shelters are trying to solve the overpopulation that those people cause.
Editor's Note: We think euthanizating an animal should be a LAST STEP - not the FIRST STEP. Furthermore, PETA is on trial for obtaining these animals under false pretenses by promising adoptive homes, then killing the animals in their van in the parking lot using controlled substances for which they not have a license- then illegally dumping their carcasses in a dumpster. Does that sound like animal rights?

[Tiffany S]

I think it would be totally fitting if they tried the PeTA crew as if the animals had the same rights as humans. Thats right, put them on trial for 96 MURDERS after all according to them a pig is a rat is a boy right? Give them a taste of thier own BS. And as for PeTa euthanizing the homeless and foster children? Well I am willing to bet money they would be ALL for it.

[Pat Robinson]

PETA should take examples of heros like Blake Kirschbaum, president of NuVet Labs who donated over $450,000 to no kill shelters in 2006. We need more people like this in our world.
Pat

[Marychris Mass]

How about buttons that say "PETA is dead"...

[Jennifer in Michigan]

I'm going to have to reserach more about PETA and who funds this organization! Unbelievable. First off the name of the instiution is all wrong. Such as the Humane Society. What is humane about killing adoptable animals? I'll definately want to read about any comments from those two - I don't want to call them people because I can not believe that people are so cruel! I own a bully and have seen what happens to the breed. I say animals LOVERS need to REFORM the system. Let's get people who abandon and are cruel to animals - to pay- literally - and this would fund programs or an orgaization that works to find homes for domestic pets:)

[jj]

Peta is a sick group who's main goal is to eradicate every animal, breed by breed. They are pushing laws that have caused thousands of Pitbull's and Rotties to die for no just cause. Peta has caused a nationwide fear of the breed.All part of the grand plan.
It is time to vote out all legislators than vote to ban any canine or remove our right to own and breed animals. Get Peta backers out of office.
The people that ordered Hinkle to kill and dump animals needs to be on trial with her. Conspiracy to commit a crime. They should all be facing charges.

[pitbullEmily]

oy...
but who could be surprised?

you could say the of Newkirk's acolytes that they are "sheep following the sheep" but only humans are so mindlessly cruel

if anything postive comes out of this it will be the exposure of PETA for the monsters they are.

it's extremists like this that make it impossible to advance beyond the "animals are property; our only responsibility is minimal humane treatment" mode we're stuck on.

are there any animal rightists who aren't blatent hypocrites?