Bogus Ad Placed in Dog Fancy
>
> Dog Fancy Issued a full page apology in their most recent
> issue for
> unknowingly running a PETA ad this summer. The ad read as
> follows:
>
> ABC Puppy Products - Just bought a brand new purebred
> puppy? Welcome
> her/him into your home with a free gift bag! Call us
> today at (866) 834- 6061 to
> claim your bag and hear about our products.
>
> When the number is called a recording plays informing you
> that by
> purchasing a purebred puppy you have sentenced a shelter
> dog to death. It goes on to
> say that all animals need to be altered and the only place
> your future animals
> should come from is a shelter. ABC is Animal Birth
> Control, PETA's newest
> campaign which promotes a "no birth nation" or a
> country where no animals are
> ever bred. The free gift bag? You are told to leave your
> address so PETA can
> send you a body bag that will represent the shelter animal
> you killed by
> buying a purebred puppy.
>
> PETA stood outside of the Westminister dog show this year
> with signs
> reading "BREEDERS KILL shelter dogs chances".
> Looking at their shelter's statistics
> though, it seems like PETA KILLS shelter animals chances.
>
> How does a group which claims to be for "ethical
> treatment of animals"
> justify adopting out only 12 of 3,062 animals in a year,
> while killing 2,981 of
> them? According to their official numbers, that is exactly
> what happened in
> 2006:
>
> Out of the 6,375 cats which came into PETA's shelter
> 4,410 were reclaimed
> by their owners. From the unclaimed cats, PETA adopted out
> 2, transferred 21
> to other shelters and killed 1,942.
>
> Out of the 3,175 dogs which came into PETA's shelter
> 2,131 were reclaimed by
> their owners. From the unclaimed dogs, PETA adopted out 8,
> transferred 25 to
> other shelters and 3 were classified as
> "miscellaneous". 988 of the
> unclaimed dogs were killed by PETA.
>
> Out of the 86 "other companion animals" which
> came into PETA's shelter, 34
> were reclaimed by their owners. From the unclaimed pets,
> PETA adopted out 2
> and killed 50.
>
> The total for pets taken in was 9,637 with 6,575 lucky
> enough to have been
> claimed by their owners. Of the 3,062 unclaimed pets, PETA
> adopted out only
> 12, transferred 46, classified 3 as
> "miscellaneous", had 3 die in the shelter
> and killed 2,981.
>
> And they did even worse with wildlife taking in 249 live
> wild animals,
> release 1 and killing 248.
>
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