Same Old Story...

Another year, another story on PeTA's horrific kill rate.

Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011...

...Fifteen years' worth of similar records show that since 1998 PETA has killed more than 27,000 animals at its headquarters in Norfolk, VA.

In a February 16 statement, the Center said PETA killed 1,911 cats and dogs last year, finding homes for only 24 pets.

Emphasis mine.  I wrote about the stats released last year.   

My friend Jazz Shaw (writing at Hot Air) is more than a little upset.

Regular readers know that I've had a long standing beef with PETA. (Pun fully intended.) This is an organization which has taken the noble, worthy cause of helping out animals in distress and turned it into a misguided and frequently dangerous cult, frequently doing more to harm legitimate animal care initiatives than to help any four legged friends in need. But the story uncovered by the Daily Caller this week really puts things in perspective. It turns out that in the few cases where PETA operates actual shelters, they have one of the worst records in the country in terms of killing off animals rather than putting in the effort to care for them and find them homes.

As much as PeTA likes to advertise otherwise...

We need your financial support to stop cruelty and save animal lives.

...if you look at quotes from their founders (Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Paccheco) and their supporters, you will see that this behavior is not exactly out of line with their beliefs.

"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about
by human manipulation."  -- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us?
Toward a Nation of Animal Rights" (symposium), Harper's, August
1988, p. 50.

 Even their spokesperson hinted at the philosophy when asked to comment on the report.

PETA media liaison Jane Dollinger told The Daily Caller in an email that "most of the animals we take in are society's rejects; aggressive, on death's door, or somehow unadoptable."

I have one of those "rejects".  My little herding dog has a major case of "fear aggression".  It has taken 4 years of constant training and immersion in the situations that case fear, but he has successfully made the transition from a dog that (in the eyes of PeTA) no one wants to a dog that is very comfortable in his skin now. These dogs are not hopeless - they just need a little extra care - care that they will never get thanks to PeTA.

This is yet another reminder as to why I am an "ex" member of PeTA.  The longer I was with them, the more I read what they were really about, the more I realized that they were not the type of group that they professed to be.