PETA runs a shelter at its headquarters in Norfolk,
Virginia, where most animals who come in don’t make it out alive.
The figures have been released for how many animals died
there in 2015. They prove — once again — that it’s past time for that shelter’s
practices to change, or for the shelter to shut down altogether.
Well, at least the killing’s gone down a little in the last
year.
According to a statement the nonprofit put out on Friday,
PETA euthanized 1,502 dogs, cats and other animals in 2015 at the nonprofit’s
only animal shelter.
PETA’s shelter took in 2,063 animals in total in 2015,
according to another statement. That means 72.8 percent of the animals who came
into the shelter were euthanized.
(We don’t have the breakdown yet for how many of these are
cats, dogs, or others.)
That’s less than in 2014. According to self-reported
figures filed with Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
3,017 came into the shelter, of which 2,455 animals were killed — a kill rate
of 81.3 percent.
This all may come as a surprise to you if you are someone
who isn’t already familiar with PETA’s controversial shelter. It certainly came
as a surprise to me when I first began reporting on — and trying to make sense
of — the nonprofit’s strikingly high kill rate a couple of years ago.
What I’ve come to understand, after all this time, is that
PETA’s approach to companion animals, to pets, doesn’t actually make sense —
unless you hold the perverse belief, which I do not, that many animals should
die to be saved.
Take that PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals!– is part of a terrible anti-Pit Bull coalition. PETA also encourages
the killing of feral cats.
To read more on this story, click here: Op-Ed: PETA’s Shelter Euthanized 72% Of Its Animals Last Year. That’s A Problem And It NeedsTo Change.
