Comments on: When is a black cat like a unicorn?

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:31:43 +0000

I have obtained one of PETA’s adoption applications, but it was not easy. Did you happen to save any of those emails?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:06:47 +0000

Do you think PETA actually has an adoption procedure on its web site? I think I know the answer to that!

Back in the day when I was unaware of PETA’s true motives, I applied for a job there thinking I would be able to help animals. From the brief interviews and email exchanges I had, boy can I confirm that PETA is extremely unorganized to say the least!

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:01:24 +0000

Many have pondered that mystery. The best explanation as to why that I’ve seen has come from Nathan Winograd. Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s founder and president, got her start as an animal control officer, and she killed many animals in that capacity. She has created a cult around herself and her desire to continue doing so: http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=10275

While a handful of animal control directors who once followed the catch-and-kill method have renounced it and begun the hard work of taking their shelters to No Kill, she continues to kill thousands, even though, with her $35 million budget, she could easily run a No Kill open-admission shelter in Norfolk starting tonight. It is sick, twisted, and tragic that she does not and has duped so many others into surrendering their souls to her.

By: Amber Gardner

Amber Gardner — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:55:29 +0000

Curious, though, WHY Peta kills animals so quickly and so often? What’s the point? Why take animals from a shelter and immediately kill them? Do they make money somehow??

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:50:59 +0000

Good find!

By: Eucritta

Eucritta — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:03:22 +0000

I continued to look for another hour or so, and it’s the same – no other source for this story or the photographs than PETA.

Here’s more reason to consider it suspicious: local papers – and the Web as a whole! – love rescue stories. So I can’t imagine a story like this not showing up somewhere else if it were true, along a lot more detail. What’s more, if it were true, I find it hard to believe PETA, always ready to toot its own horn, would have buried it in a blog and FB post.

And? Possibly it’s just coincidence, but two years ago *almost to the day* there was, in fact, an outdoor cat stuck in a tree for – wait for it – at least ten days:

http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/09/unleashed_cat_stuck_in_tree_fo.html

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:57:52 +0000

It’s also got to be pretty lonely at PETA headquarters, what with all the other cats, dogs and rabbits chilling out in the walk-in freezer.

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:24:21 +0000

I think it is because there was no No Kill movement until relatively recently. For the first 20 years of PETA’s existence, there was not a single No Kill community in the entire country. With the rise of the No Kill movement, PETA’s killing stands out in sharp contrast to the lifesaving accomplishments of organizations with a tiny fraction of PETA’s budget and reach. I think the Piggly Wiggly Dumpster Incident of 2005 opened a lot of people’s eyes to what PETA really is. Nevertheless, it will take a lot more relentless publicity to make sure everyone knows this. I did an informal survey a couple of years ago, and at that time, almost half of my readers didn’t know that PETA seeks out and kills thousands of healthy and treatable pets every year.

By: Valerie Hayes

Valerie Hayes — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:18:15 +0000

She also doesn’t look like she just survived 10 days without food and water.

By: Diana from CNY

Diana from CNY — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:05:45 +0000

PETA totally disgusts me, how they have managed to bullsnot the public for so long, I just don’t understand, thanks for trying to get the word out about their high (90%) kill rate.