PETA Employee Arraigned On Felony Dog-Napping Theft Charge

The Center for Consumer Freedom ^ | August 14, 2007

[george76]

Snatched Hunting Dog May Have Been Slated For Death At PETA's Norfolk Headquarters.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employee Andrea Florence Benoit will be arraigned today in Southampton County (VA) Circuit Court on a felony charge of stealing a local Animal Control officer's hunting dog.

The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom, which tracks PETA's program of killing adoptable dogs and cats at PETAkillsAnimals.com, is calling on the animal rights group to stop playing God with other people's pets. Benoit was indicted by a Grand Jury on July 16.

Benoit was arrested in October 2006, shortly after allegedly abducting a free-roaming Walker hound. Police stopped her PETA-owned van as she attempted to transport the dog to PETA's Norfolk office. During a preliminary hearing on June 27, police testified that Benoit initially lied about having taken the animal...

"It's no secret that PETA doesn't like hunters, but the group has no business stealing their dogs," ...

[george76]

PETA has no business stealing hunting dogs...

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[beebuster2000]

PETA's program of killing adoptable dogs and cats at PETAkillsAnimals.com,

Huh?

[goldstategop]

So much for the animal rights lovers... besides eco-terrorism on the side, they now commit felonies. I'd be distraught if someone stole my pets. These people could care less about animals. They actually KILL THEM when no one is looking.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Artemis Webb]

She was a PETA Employee in a PETA truck. I smell a big fat lawsuit!!!

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[MAexile]

Do you think Michael Vick could claim he was working for PETA?

[driftdiver]

“She was a PETA Employee in a PETA truck. I smell a big fat lawsuit!!!”

This could be the lever to bankrupt PETA and stop the slaughter.

[ari-freedom]

[jazusamo]

If found guilty a max sentence is warranted, make an example of her.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

I’m still taken aback by the PETAkillsanimals.com website. If what it says is true... Wow... How can PETA even pretend to care about the “innocent animals slaughtered for fur coats” (their wording not mine)??? Isn’t a little hypocritical? From the website: “Did You Know?
From July 1998 through December 2005, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” That’s more than five defenseless creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies, and contracts with a Virginia Beach company to cremate them.
Not counting the pets PETA spayed and neutered, the group put to death over 90 percent of the animals it took in during 2005. And its angel-of-death pattern shows no sign of changing.”

I guess this really ticks me off because it’s people like PETA that make it so difficult. I live in a small rural Kentucky town, with no animal shelter, and a terribly cruel animal control officer. Recently, under our new Judge Executive, we have formed a group to assist with the animal control problem... however, none of us suggested taking animals from people to put them down just because we don’t like how that person uses an animal. I mean maybe I think it’s cruel for an overweight person to go horseback riding; I’m not going to still their horse and euthanize it.

[vetsvette]

Typical leftist malignant narcissism at work.

These people argue for their own forced institutionalization and treatment of their serious mental disorders.

[San Jacinto]

She stole the dog catcher’s dog?

The dog catcher has a “free-roaming” hound?

If PETA is stealing dogs in order to kill them, I hate to think what they might to to any chickens they might stumble upon.

[Disciplinemisanthropy]

how is stealing a dog ethical? hunters have more of a bond with their dogs than PETA does trying to ‘liberate’ it, leaving it in a kennel and eventually killing it. i hate PETA.

[theDentist]

Shoulda sent this guy to kidnap the dog...

[Secret Agent Man]

It’s true. Read up about it.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

There’s a better story than that. A few years back, a couple of PETA people were going to animal shelters in North Carolina and adopting cats, telling the employees that they were going to find homes for them. Instead they killed them all in the back of their van, then tossed the bodies into local dumpsters.

[AnAmericanMother]

IIRC, they got hammered on this one by the local judge, because the stolen dog belonged to the sheriff or to one of his deputies.

Bad move, PETA.

[AnAmericanMother]

A coon hound HAS to be "free-roaming" to do his job.

Coon hunters release the dogs at night in the woods and listen to the chase from a central location, or follow on mule-back. That's why the dogs all have the radio collars & are chipped. Coon hunters lose a lot fewer dogs than they used to, thanks to modern technology.

Some folks put the radio collars on their retrievers, especially in swamp country.

[rock_lobsta]

If PETA is stealing dogs in order to kill them, I hate to think what they might to to any chickens they might stumble upon.

And on top of that... they don't even EAT them!

[antiRepublicrat]

Huh?

PETA kills more healthy animals than probably any other single organization in the country. It also apparently has a habit of picking up adoptable kittens from vets' offices, killing them in the van, and then dropping the bodies in local dumpsters. This was confirmed in a recent case.

What, you thought PETA was actually pro-animal? They're not. They're just anti-human.