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From Terrierman's Daily Dose

Yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of the arrest of 2 employees of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for throwing the bodies of 21 dogs and cats that they promised to find homes for in a garbage dumpster. The employees picked up the animals from an animal shelter in Bertie County, NC as they did every Wednesday, under the guise that they would find homes for them.

But that’s not what happened.

Instead, PETA employees gave the animals a lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital. After killing them, they drove to a Piggly Wiggly store, put the animals in trash bags, and threw them in a dumpster.

Not so ethical.

Fortunately, a Piggly Wiggly employee alerted police to the fact that he found bags of dead dogs and cats in the dumpster every Thursday morning for several weeks.

Trash bags and dead dog recovered by police from dumpster.

After staking out the dumpster, police witnessed PETA employees putting trash bags in the garbage. When they arrested the PETA employees, police found 13 dead dogs in the van in addition to the 21 animals in the dumpster.

The Atlanta Animal Welfare Examiner published an article last year marking the fifth anniversary of the arrest of the PETA employees. If you haven’t heard about PETA’s systematic killing of shelter pets please read the article and learn how PETA kills shelter pets while raising millions of dollars promoting itself as an animal welfare organization.

Another dead dog inside garbage bag recovered from dumpster by police

Of course, PETA isn’t above using a dog generate some publicity. After the earthquake/tsunami in Japan earlier this year, it’s one representative in Japan took one dog all the way to Canada to be adopted by her parents. Media from all over the world covered the story while hundreds of volunteers continued to help the thousands of animals in Japan left homeless by the disaster.

Who knows how many dogs PETA killed while it basked in the media coverage of this “story”?

Before contributing any money to PETA, remember the thousands of pets it kills each year. And, if you’ve contributed money to PETA, cancel your membership – it’s systematic killing of shelter pets is inexusable and reprehensible.

Here’s the article from the Atlanta Animal Welfare Examiner.

Still killing after all these years: Five years after PETA’s Piggly Wiggly dumpster incident

• June 19, 2010 12:26 am ET

 

Valerie Hayes

June 15, 2010 marked the fifth anniversary of the arrest of two PETA employees when they were caught tossing in a grocery store dumpster the bodies of dogs and cats they had promised to try to find homes for. This event, and the ensuing media frenzy and internationally-publicized trial caused a fair bit of cognitive dissonance among animal-lovers who had been led to believe that PETA was all about protecting animals, from the lowly fly to the mighty elephant, and every dog, cat, rabbit and chicken in between. Surely it couldn’t be true.

Sadly, it is true, and it continues to this day.

The whole sordid incident was very educational for many, who learned that PETA employees lied to those who surrendered animals to them, claiming that they would have no trouble finding homes for said animals, and then killing them in the back of their van moments later. They even pulled their ‘lie and kill’ routine on a veterinarian and on an animal control officer who only found out about the death of his dog when it was brought up during the trial a year and a half later. Why the delay? Well, shortly before killing him, the PETA employees had photographed the dog in a flower patch. They subsequently sent the animal control officer the pictures in an apparent attempt to bolster their lies and lead him to believe that they’d found a home for his dog.  Really.  One shudders to think of the warped psychology behind these perverse actions.

We in Georgia should be grateful that we’re not a short drive from PETA’s “help”.

PETA continues to lie about the policies and procedures of its grossly misnamed Community Animal Project, claiming that it ‘euthanizes’ only incurably ill animals or severely injured ones. The dozens of animals found killed by PETA and dumped in a grocery store dumpster over a one-month period in North Carolina were apparently healthy, however, and those who have requested that PETA back up its claim that the animals it kills are irremediably suffering have been threatened and ignored. The question remains–where is the ‘community’ in killing healthy animals?

Back in June 2005, when PETA was caught with its proverbial pants down, its President, Ingrid Newkirk initially begged forgiveness and offered to make amends for her organization’s wrongdoing. But a year and a half later, the trial finally rolled around, the delays were over, and PETA showed its true colors. It is at once shameless and without pride. During the trial, defense lawyers claimed that the animals killed by PETA employees were its ‘property’, making such acts o.k., never mind that PETA usually campaigns against anyone else treating animals as ‘property’. They also employed the astonishing three-pronged tactic of claiming that:

1. The case was about illegal dumping, not cruelty to animals.
2. The authorities were just out to get PETA.
3. It’s the cops’ fault for allowing the animals to be killed. They should have prevented it from happening.

After the disappointing verdict, in which the PETA employees were acquitted of everything except littering, the defense lawyers filed an appeal on the grounds that it isn’t even littering if you throw the dead pets in a dumpster. Ingrid Newkirk went on to make a feeble attempt to slander Mother Teresa by comparing defendant Adria Hinkle to her. Does she expect us to believe that Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize for driving around the countryside killing people?

Besides, it was really hot out and those dead pets in the back of the van were really starting to stink and the people who surrendered them should have known that the van was too small to transport all of those animals back to Virginia alive. It’s their fault. Silly them for not seeing through all of the lies in time to save those animals.

Get that. People who claim to be proponents of animal rights aren’t being cruel to animals by depriving them of their right to live, and they aren’t even litterbugs because they threw the dead bodies in (somebody else’s privately owned) dumpster! Their lawyers said so, so it must be true. Everything’s cool.

Except that it isn’t.

The animal-loving public, armed with the facts, is becoming increasingly disgusted with PETA’s hypocrisy. PETA wore out its welcome in Northampton and Bertie counties, North Carolina, and only those truly committed to failure continued to support them in the immediate aftermath of the Great Piggly-Wiggly Dumpster Incident of 2005.

A journalist who covered the trial remarked:

If that is [PETA’s] definition of rescue, I sincerely hope that if I’m drowning, they’re not the first on the scene. I may be on the receiving end of a cinderblock rather than a life preserver. And please don’t respond with the tired excuse that all the pets at our local pounds are unhealthy and have to be put to sleep. That’s your wet dream, not ours. If it were the case, then how has an under funded group of volunteers, aka PAWS of Hertford County, adopted out nearly 300 animals since July of last year. If PETA’s “rescue” program had their way, those 300 pets would all be dead by now.

Some may still be ignorant or in denial of PETA’s true policy towards homeless animals. The facts are undeniable, however. PETA has no Petfinder site. They are required to report their statistics to the state of Virginia every year, and those numbers have been getting worse, not better. Last year, they killed 97% of the animals they took in “for purposes of adoption,” finding homes for only a fraction of a percent of them and turning the rest over to kill shelters, since PETA vocally opposes No Kill shelters and the No kill movement. Know this: if you support PETA, they will take your money, but you are not good enough to adopt any of the animals they take in “for purposes of adoption” (and kill almost immediately in the back of a van). PETA has some 2 million supporters but they do not advertise these animals for adoption even to them. To PETA, these animals, most of them healthy or treatable (PETA has failed to provide evidence to the contrary, and surely they would wish to do so if such evidence existed) are better off dead than in a home with a PETA supporter.

It’s long past time to revoke PETA’s ‘license to kill’*. They claim to be synonymous with animal rights, yet they routinely deprive animals of their right to live, killing over 20,000 animals in the past decade. Most were healthy or treatable. Most were not given a chance at adoption. Many were obtained by lying and claiming that they would be given a chance, when the liars knew that there would be no chance, only a needle in the back of a van.

Please don’t give PETA the things it craves—money, animals, and support for their lies. Give them a piece of your mind instead. Tell them to stop the killing.  It’s only been five years since they got caught.