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I've seen a bunch of articles the last few months about how outrageous an organization centered on animal rights or whatever kills more than 90% of the animals that the "shelter" that is their headquarters in Norfolk takes in, but I don't really understand how people can get so upset over it if they have any idea how pet adoption works.

I volunteer at a "no-kill" shelter in my area. What "no-kill" means is that they only take in animals that they think are "adoptable." If they're too mean or too sick (We have an on-site vet, but they can only do so much), they get taken to the other shelter, where they get killed there! Great. So "No-kill" shelters just mean "we don't kill on the premises." There are really too many pets to get adopted, ever. (Spay & neuter, folks! Seriously, please. It's kitten season and we get in so many cute little kittens and we know for sure most of them can never be adopted. It almost breaks my heart almost.)

First, everyone always knew PETA was crazy and not some god-sent animal saviour group anyway, they're more about awareness I guess. I've never heard about anything they've done to save or protect animals but I've heard plenty about wacky campaigns they do. Pretty strange thing to want to give your money to, so all of the people who have really shouldn't be disappointed with the garbage they waste it on because it's what they were getting themselves into e_e

I guess it's a little awful that they didn't put very much effort at all into "saving" most of the animals (I read that something like only 12 dogs and 7 cats got adopted from them last year e_e) but really there isn't that much you can do. According to the Humane Society's website, about half of impounded pets don't get adopted and the few thousand abandoned pets that PETA's shelter killed really doesn't skew those numbers at all, and there are "normal" shelters with kill-rates more or less the same as theirs was. I looked at PETA’s site and it even TELLS YOU that they will PROBABLY PUT THE ANIMAL OUT OF ITS HOMELESSNESS AND SUFFERING BY EUTHANIZING IT. So … Yeah.

And like is killing the animals better than letting them suffer ??? Because I think so :T

I can’t link to any articles because I’m a New Scratcher but if you Google “Peta kills animals” or something lots of stuff should come up

So, all in all, my message here is to please spay & neuter your pets