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PETA the Puppy Slayer?

Secret to PETA's "cruelty-free living" revealed!

Step 1)  Receive adoptable cats and dogs from local veterinarians, shelters, and clinics.
Step 2)  Improperly euthanize same.
Step 3)  Dump carcasses behind Piggly Wiggly.

According to Ahoskie, N.C., police, that's how a pair of employees of the organization "dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals" went about it.  From the Virginian-Pilot (emphasis mine, throughout the post)):

Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were arrested on animal cruelty charges in Ahoskie, N.C., after investigators saw dead dogs being thrown into a grocery store garbage container Wednesday, according to the Ahoskie Police Department.
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[Local vet Patrick Proctor] also identified what he called a “death kit” that police found in the van. It was filled with syringes and two drugs that only licensed veterinarians can have, he said.

“PETA will never pick up another animal from my practice,” Proctor said.

According to Proctor, among the dumped animals were "a healthy, 6-month-old mutt with a needle mark on its front right leg" and a family of cats that included "two very adoptable" kittens.

From a follow-up Pilot article:

Police suspected that PETA workers were killing the dogs and cats they were picking up from shelters and clinics because carcasses wrapped in plastic bags were found in the bins every Wednesday for four straight weeks, according to Ahoskie police Detective Jeremy Roberts. A total of 80 dead animals were dumped, he said
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Animals were not supposed to be killed in North Carolina, except by veterinarians hired by the organization or if they were in too much pain to travel, PETA said.

After they are killed, [PETA President Ingrid] Newkirk said, the carcasses are supposed to be sent to a crematorium, not dumped in bins.
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The two PETA employees: Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, and Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, appeared Friday in Hertford County District Court. Each faces 31 felony charges of animal cruelty and eight counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one of trespassing.

Newkirk has condemned the actions of the two employees, but noted, "Shelter officials knew some of the animals, which are not always 'cute, cuddly, housebroken or small,' would need to be put down."

Given that, consider this (from the PETA website FAQ):

"What do you mean by 'animal rights'?"

Animal rights means that animals deserve certain kinds of consideration - consideration of what is in their own best interests regardless of whether they are cute, useful to humans, or an endangered species and regardless of whether any human cares about them at all (just as a mentally-challenged human has rights even if he or she is not cute or useful or even if everyone dislikes him or her).

I'm no animal rights activist, but this is pretty sick.  It also takes hypocrisy to dizzying heights.  Maybe they ought to worry less about vegan conversion drives and spoiling everyone's 4th of July and focus more on internal controls.  Or maybe they ought to at least remove this copy from their main page:

PETA seeks to solve the animal overpopulation problem in North Carolina by subsidizing spay/neuter services, but we do not and will not hesitate to roll up our sleeves and do the dirty work at our own expense.

Dumping cats and dogs in the supermarket trash - yep, that's dirty work all right.

Watch the video report from Pilot 13 News.

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PETA the Puppy Slayer?

Secret to PETA's "cruelty-free living" revealed!

Step 1)  Receive adoptable cats and dogs from local veterinarians, shelters, and clinics.
Step 2)  Improperly euthanize same.
Step 3)  Dump carcasses behind Piggly Wiggly.

According to Ahoskie, N.C., police, that's how a pair of employees of the organization "dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals" went about it.  From the Virginian-Pilot (emphasis mine, throughout the post)):

Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were arrested on animal cruelty charges in Ahoskie, N.C., after investigators saw dead dogs being thrown into a grocery store garbage container Wednesday, according to the Ahoskie Police Department.
...
[Local vet Patrick Proctor] also identified what he called a “death kit” that police found in the van. It was filled with syringes and two drugs that only licensed veterinarians can have, he said.

“PETA will never pick up another animal from my practice,” Proctor said.

According to Proctor, among the dumped animals were "a healthy, 6-month-old mutt with a needle mark on its front right leg" and a family of cats that included "two very adoptable" kittens.

From a follow-up Pilot article:

Police suspected that PETA workers were killing the dogs and cats they were picking up from shelters and clinics because carcasses wrapped in plastic bags were found in the bins every Wednesday for four straight weeks, according to Ahoskie police Detective Jeremy Roberts. A total of 80 dead animals were dumped, he said
...
Animals were not supposed to be killed in North Carolina, except by veterinarians hired by the organization or if they were in too much pain to travel, PETA said.

After they are killed, [PETA President Ingrid] Newkirk said, the carcasses are supposed to be sent to a crematorium, not dumped in bins.
...
The two PETA employees: Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, and Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, appeared Friday in Hertford County District Court. Each faces 31 felony charges of animal cruelty and eight counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one of trespassing.

Newkirk has condemned the actions of the two employees, but noted, "Shelter officials knew some of the animals, which are not always 'cute, cuddly, housebroken or small,' would need to be put down."

Given that, consider this (from the PETA website FAQ):

"What do you mean by 'animal rights'?"

Animal rights means that animals deserve certain kinds of consideration - consideration of what is in their own best interests regardless of whether they are cute, useful to humans, or an endangered species and regardless of whether any human cares about them at all (just as a mentally-challenged human has rights even if he or she is not cute or useful or even if everyone dislikes him or her).

I'm no animal rights activist, but this is pretty sick.  It also takes hypocrisy to dizzying heights.  Maybe they ought to worry less about vegan conversion drives and spoiling everyone's 4th of July and focus more on internal controls.  Or maybe they ought to at least remove this copy from their main page:

PETA seeks to solve the animal overpopulation problem in North Carolina by subsidizing spay/neuter services, but we do not and will not hesitate to roll up our sleeves and do the dirty work at our own expense.

Dumping cats and dogs in the supermarket trash - yep, that's dirty work all right.

Watch the video report from Pilot 13 News.