PETA shelter kill rate

[Andaka]

According to official shelter reports filed with the Commonwealth of Virginia (where the PETA "shelter", if you want to call it that, is located), PETA took in 2345 animals, of which 44 were adopted out, 2,200 were killed (euphemistic word used in report is "euthanized"), and 63 were transferred out of the shelter. PETA's kill rate in 2010 was 93.81%.

Copies of Official Commonwealth of Virginia reports here:

http://petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf

Article on PETA's record here (they haven't updated the article to show the 2010 numbers yet, reports just came out)

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

According to the combined yearly totals (since 1998), PETA has taken in
29,823 animals into their "shelter", and killed 25,840 of these for a kill rate of 85.1% - a rate that I would suspect is among the highest in the country (even shelters in the deep South typically don't have a kill rate above 60% if that.)

And PETA is telling breeders, farmers, etc what they should be doing??!!

Make sure these numbers get spread far and wide!!!

Margo Milde
Illinois Federation of Dog Clubs and Owners
cross posted with permission by Daphne Szczuka

[Polistes]

PETA and HSUS are so full of hypocrites its not even funny. Their goal is the abolition of all pet keeping and the "extinction" of domesticated dogs and animals created by man. Whatever happened to the measure to get those two audited by the IRS?

[mssandslinger]

wow i knew PETA was a PITA

[CarrieJ]

PETA= People Eat Tasty Animals

That said, I'm glad some of these issues are coming out. I remember there was an issue sometime back where these people were "euthanizing" so many animals that they got cited for dumping the bodies in local grocery store dumpsters. That was someplace back East.

Hm...the odds of that many "unadoptable" animals is astronomically impossible.

[Syaoransbear]

PETA does not want anyone to have pets or animals period, they are not promoting the ethical treatment of animals, their goal is to have non-existent treatment of animals. They believe that animals belong in the wild, and since domestic animals cannot be returned to the wild they euthanize them because they believe the animal is better off dead than being domesticated. They are not friends to pet owners. They've done some good, but their ultimate goal is for pet and animal ownership to be abolished.

[PupperLove]

I don't really know anything about PITA, but that sounds kind of like a cult!

[Polistes]

Originally Posted by PupperLove

I don't really know anything about PITA, but that sounds kind of like a cult!

A very dangerous one, that uses misinformation and lies to get people to support them. They tug at your heartstrings with those sappy commercials of abandoned animals then ask for money, but then they use that money to lobby lawmakers to make pet ownership harder and hard, rather than using itr to help the animals they claim to want to help. HSUS does this too.

I am not sure about the ASPCA(Or some similar organization)

[tierra nuestra]

Peta plays on people emotions for financial gain.It all boils down to profit and yearly dividens.The CEO of peta was audited 2 years ago and she was and still is in some fishy business beyond calling people out for wearing furs.I believe that there is a petition in congress to make/label them an actual terrorist group.
You can find out what the profits were last year if you fish around.Staggering!and an eye opener that a group/business can pull in that much money preaching h-ell damning morality and sufferage yet they save none of what they are campaigning for.Gag me.

[BowWowMeow]

I'm not a big fan of PETA (for different reasons than many of you, I suspect) but I am even less of a fan for the Center for Consumer Freedom, who sponsors this website. Center for Consumer Freedom - SourceWatch

They have a vested (as in PAID) interest in opposing both PETA and HSUS.

Also, could you please cite your source on the 60% euthanasia rate at kill shelters? That is far lower than I've ever seen.

[Dainerra]

I have no problem with any group being PAID. After all, it IS a job to marshal protests to do leaflet campaigns, to inform the public.

I have never given them money, but I am more supportive of the ideas behind the CCF. I don't think it the government's job to decide what we can/not eat, drink, ingest etc. Take the ban of happy meal toys. Seriously???? How about parents just stand up and grow a backbone. Same goes for smoking, drinking, porn, and a million other vices that are a personal choice. (I don't have a problem with smoking bans, but think it should be up to the individual business to decide whether or not to be smoke free.)

http://gvaw.org/Documents/GVAWReport.pdf - this is for the state of GA, but bottom of page three gives the average at 62% most other things I've found put it in the 60-70% nationwide for the worst shelters