They do sometimes euthanize healthy animals, just like your local Humane Society does. The thing is, there are no-kill shelters in Norfolk, VA. When they turn away animals because they’re at capacity, those animals either end up at kill shelters, or on the street where they’re likely to kill other animals and die a worse death.
The employees who took Maya the Chihuahua were tasked with collecting stray dogs from that neighborhood who were harassing local livestock. One of those dogs was an unattended brown female chihuahua with no tags, and they accidentally picked up the wrong unattended brown female chihuahua with no tags. You know what happened to the employees who did that? They were fired, because they didn’t follow PETA’s own guidelines about keeping animals for a certain amount of time before euthanizing them.
Sidenote, maybe you should question why that family let this chihuahua out on the street in a neighborhood where there were stray dogs attacking livestock, and also why PETA didn’t kidnap their other dogs, who were safely contained in their yard at the time.
Some further reading. Please don’t disregard it just because it comes from PETA’s website. If you disagree with anything they say, you should be able to verbalize that disagreement
Pardon me while I go on a tangent. I worked at a no-kill shelter for 10 years, so I think I’m pretty fucking qualified to say that kill shelters like PETA’s are necessary. There were cats and dogs at our shelter that we got as puppies and kittens who lived there until their teens. It feels nice to know that we’re not going to euthanize an animal just because it hasn’t been adopted, until you think about the fact that we have a limited amount of space for animals.
A dog takes up a whole dog run. A cat takes up a whole cat kennel. There is limited space for animals at shelters, and they’re always at capacity. How many perfectly healthy and adoptable animals did we turn away to be dumped on the street or sent to a kill shelter so that we could keep a chronically ill or otherwise unadoptable animal alive for years and years and years? You save one life, and condemn dozens of others to death. A no-kill shelter is just a deferred kill shelter.
Completely fine and treatable animals.
They do sometimes euthanize healthy animals, just like your local Humane Society does. The thing is, there are no-kill shelters in Norfolk, VA. When they turn away animals because they’re at capacity, those animals either end up at kill shelters, or on the street where they’re likely to kill other animals and die a worse death.
The employees who took Maya the Chihuahua were tasked with collecting stray dogs from that neighborhood who were harassing local livestock. One of those dogs was an unattended brown female chihuahua with no tags, and they accidentally picked up the wrong unattended brown female chihuahua with no tags. You know what happened to the employees who did that? They were fired, because they didn’t follow PETA’s own guidelines about keeping animals for a certain amount of time before euthanizing them.
Sidenote, maybe you should question why that family let this chihuahua out on the street in a neighborhood where there were stray dogs attacking livestock, and also why PETA didn’t kidnap their other dogs, who were safely contained in their yard at the time.
Some further reading. Please don’t disregard it just because it comes from PETA’s website. If you disagree with anything they say, you should be able to verbalize that disagreement
Pardon me while I go on a tangent. I worked at a no-kill shelter for 10 years, so I think I’m pretty fucking qualified to say that kill shelters like PETA’s are necessary. There were cats and dogs at our shelter that we got as puppies and kittens who lived there until their teens. It feels nice to know that we’re not going to euthanize an animal just because it hasn’t been adopted, until you think about the fact that we have a limited amount of space for animals.
A dog takes up a whole dog run. A cat takes up a whole cat kennel. There is limited space for animals at shelters, and they’re always at capacity. How many perfectly healthy and adoptable animals did we turn away to be dumped on the street or sent to a kill shelter so that we could keep a chronically ill or otherwise unadoptable animal alive for years and years and years? You save one life, and condemn dozens of others to death. A no-kill shelter is just a deferred kill shelter.