[Norm Lenhart]

Many by Peta.

[1rudeboy]

Mine’s on the way. Waiting to see the note.

[RansomOttawa]

But animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said it's not enough and expressed concerns that it could set back the movement to encourage shelters over pet shops.

Disingenuous.

PETA believes owning pets causes "immeasurable suffering," and doesn't really want people to have them at all.

[Red Badger]

Would you like it in a box? With a fox? ...........

[bk1000]

Oh for heaven’s sake, must everything come with a warning now? What if the kid wants a freaking hamster? They don’t have shelters for hamsters...or fish. Its a Dr. Seuss book! Should we warn children that the Cat in the Hat may have been a pedofile, and Things One and Two were held in involuntarily servitude? There is enough political correctness in some of his later books without these freaking nannies going into a tither about a pet store. Sheesh!

[eartrumpet]

As it is, up to 4 million shelter animals are euthanized each year.

And very few are killed at pet shops...

[Talisker]

Ingrid Newkirk is a monster.

[Morgana]

PETA here is my new pet Spot, Go ahead and pet her! I do mean her.

[golux]

Cuddly, warm, obedient... Care and feeding are a cinch

And a mink never pees on the floor.

What's not to love?

[IronJack]

Dear Ingrid Newkirk, you squawk like a duck,
So why should I give a rat’s fiddley-f-—?

[Kirkwood]

Please don’t spoil the book by telling me what pet they got.

[Jim from C-Town]

Pet stores sell pets. That is why they are in business.

I own several tropical fish. I bought them at the pet store. Was I supposed to go to the Amazon river and trap them myself and bring them home to Ohio? Was I supposed to go to lake Victoria and get the Ciclids from the source.

I think it is better that I get them from a reputable pet store that buys them from breeders as apposed to poachers.

As for dogs. If you want a specific breed, I would have no idea where to go. I have no dogs and am not interested in owning one. To me the best dog is one that I do not live wit and doesn’t use my yard as a rest stop.

A rescue animal is great, but like single children to middle aged career women a pet is often the child they forgot to have when they where young, fertile and trying to crack the glass ceiling. So they just want what they want. That is often an exotic breed that is only available from pet stores or high end breeders who claim they are not puppy mills. How would they really know?

[Calpublican]

PETA kills domestic pets. They disapprove of, among other things, the fact that pet food is made of other animals.

[MarMema]

Awesome.