What do you think of PETA's policy on euthanasia?!
Answers: I have read that because there is such a shortage of good homes for all the animals who need them, PETA supports humane methods of euthanasia. While I applaud many of the things PETA has accomplished with regard to animal rights, I have to say that I have strong objections to animal euthanasia of any shape or form. While I know that if many of these animals were forced to spend their natural lives cramped in cages and kennels, they would be miserable, I have to say that one could also argue that since there are so many children who need good homes and will never have any, they should be put them down, also. Of course, no right-thinking person would suggest such a thing, and I see no difference between the many unwanted children of the world and the many unwanted animals.
I don't think it's very productive to blame PETA, considering that the national average for all shelters in the US that use euthanasia hovers around the 92% euthanasia rate. There simply aren't enough loving homes or shelters for the 6 to 8 million unwanted animals who need homes each year. I think the important thing to focus on is spaying and neutering. When there are no more breeders or puppy mills, and when the majority of pet owners spay/neuter their animals, hopefully the euthanasia rates in this country will dramatically decrease.
Here is more info:
PETA makes no secret of having to euthanize most of the animals we take in. Although we do not run an adoption facility (we refer most adoptable animals to well-known shelters with a high rate of public traffic), we have managed to place animals in excellent, lifelong homes. For many of the animals we do accept-such as those who are injured, elderly, aggressive, or otherwise unadoptable-we are a "shelter of last resort," offering a humane death to those who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end.
Unlike "no-kill" shelters, PETA does not refuse animals simply because euthanasia is the only humane option for them. Many of the animals we take in are brought to us because they have been rejected by other facilities. PETA receives calls every week from people who request that we euthanize their animals because they cannot afford to have them euthanized by a vet or because the animals would suffer excessive stress and pain if transported. PETA will not turn its back on these animals simply because they might make our "numbers" look bad.
The best way to save the lives of homeless animals is through spaying and neutering. PETA's mobile spay-and-neuter clinic focuses much of its work in disadvantaged neighborhoods, where we offer free and low-cost surgeries. To date, our clinic has sterilized tens of thousands of animals. With $45, a person could either care for a dog in a "no-kill" shelter for about three days or sterilize one animal, preventing the births of at least eight animals from that animal and her offspring in just one year as well as preventing the births of as many as 67,000 dogs in six years and 420,000 cats in seven years.
The scope of the companion animal overpopulation crisis is truly staggering: Every year, 3 to 4 million of the 6 to 8 million unwanted animals abandoned at animal shelters in the U.S. must be put to death because there are no suitable homes for them. People who are outraged by this deadly epidemic -- and we all should be -- can easily help by spaying or neutering their animal companions.
if people would not get pets and then decide that they don't want them............and if people would get their pets fixed...........there would not be a problem..peta is a waste of money and time
Animals are not concerned with the quantity of their lives. That is truly a human occupation. They only know that they are suffering. Quality of life is everything to an animal. Living in jail when you have done nothing wrong is, well, it makes me fall apart just thinking about it.They live present time consciousness. I am against animal suffering and definitely prefer that they be put out of their misery than suffer needlessly. Children have (potentially long) adult lives ahead of them where they will take care of themselves and perhaps make their lives much better. Facing euthanasia for a child would be scary and something that they would probably not choose for themselves. Children don't have to live their lives in cages, whether they are wanted or not. This will not happen for an animal in captivity. If they don't get adopted out during their pre-adult life cycle stage, the chances are dim that they ever will, and why should they live their entire life in a cage? That is ridiculous to me. In short, animals could care less about the quantity of their lives. They are INNOCENT and have every right to live a life of self-determination or else be put out of their misery.
Please tell me that you didn't just compare the life of a foster child to that of a stray animal?
If you did, then you have some serious issues/demons to work out.
And for the record, "humane euthanasia" is an oxymoron.
***A name is just a name, Tangerine(?). I'm not the one suggesting that killing cats and dogs is equally as bad as killing orphans.
euthanasia is reality. the time to worry about this isn't at the pound it is when people dont spay or neuter their pets or they abuse them to the point that euthanasia is the only humane option.
If you have never worked in an animals shelter, you wouldn't know what you are talking about.
Millions of excess births occur every year, there is no sense in finding a way to "store" all of those animals. It is not justified to compare the way that homeless pets are sheltered to the way that homeless children are cared for. There is nothing more cruel than causing animals to go kennel crazy and pacing circles in their own sh!t and urine.
Why is PeTA always the focus of euthanasia? Every SPCA, Humane Society and animal control agency euthanizes animals because their is no other humane alternative.
What should be done? Should PeTA create a "matrix" of psychological torture for these millions of animals just so that they won't have to kill them. It sickens me that people would blame them for killing cats and dogs despite their huge faults.
PeTA pays for free spay and neuter surgeries, so any criticism in relation to euthanasia bears absolutely no merit.
PETA is a non-profitable / non-religious organization consist of people like you and me.
“The link between animal abuse and more violent conduct has clearly been established. The dismembered remains of dogs and cats today could well be that of children tomorrow.”
Human and animal abuse is nothing new in the history. World's Greatest Crooks, Crime and Corruption by Chancellor Press- A Real-life Crimes Casebook. In a separate research discovered that these "high end" criminals are variable in environment, values, societal status and literacy, but almost instinct, those are- Domestic violence, zoosadism and instinct to meat-eating . Very sorry to say that, but it was proven by the "law of large number"...real case scenarios.
Therefore, PETA is clearly working towards the ROO. Peta also consist of many people like you and me, experts, psychologists, scientists and criminologist.