PETA Supports Animal Mutilation

Dwight's Effort ^ | 6/30/07 | Al E. Katt

[kathsua]

The City of Hutchinson should reject the pleas of those who want to force people to mutilate their pets. I believe these sadists refer to the procedure as a "fix".

Maybe I don't understand human language, but when you "fix" something, isn't it supposed to work better … rather than not work anymore?

I wouldn't wish that fate on one of those dumb barkers that you call dogs. We call them barkers because that's the only thing some of them know how to do, or maybe it's the only thing they have left to do because they were "fixed". If anyone needs to be “fixed” it's humans.

We don't have sex with our youngsters like some humans do. We're not the ones overpopulating the world, using up its resources and causing global warming. We don't go around blowing each other up the way humans do.

We should have the same right to make our own reproductive decisions as humans do. Has it ever occurred to you that momma cats might enjoy raising their kittens just as much as human mommas enjoy raising their babies?

Do you think you're the only species that enjoys "making whoopee"? Maybe our approach doesn't appeal to some of you, but we like it. At least we don't kill those we make whoopee with like some humans do.

[kathsua]

I used to go along with the idea of "fixing" pets, which PETA favors, until I read this. I never thought of it from the pet's perspective before. The people who want to force this practice also are trying to get legislation passed in California.

If they can tell people to not let their pets have babies, could they in the future tell women whose babies don't fit their standards they must have abortions?

[TweetEBird007]

CHINA

[Khepera]

There should NOT be a law for or against having an animal “fixed”. Thats called freedom.

[AnAmericanMother]

A bit hyperbolic.

Unfortunately, cats breed almost like bunnies, and dogs are not far behind. Indiscriminate breeding in the face of lack of natural predators means hundreds of unwanted animals to roam the streets sick, hungry, and lame until they are hit by a car or starve or die from distemper or FIP or FLV.

Folks who are not serious hobby breeders should be encouraged to neuter and spay. Benefits include no roaming, spraying, fighting, etc. Females who are spayed have lower rates of cancer and do not die of pyometritis.

And since animals live in the "now", unlike humans, they do not have regrets for what they do not miss. While we all enjoy anthropomorphizing our pets, they DON'T think like humans . . . as most good pet owners have figured out already.

[Old Professer]

Your appointment is for 8:00am next Thursday, counseling is available immediately thereafter; please be on time as we are very busy.

[oyez]

This could be beginning of the end of pedigreed animals or even the end of all domestic animals. The PETA has a hidden agenda that would bring about a situation were human hands would never touch an animal.

[ontap]

PETA is a lot like Edward Kennedy to me, whatever his stance is I’m for the polar opposite!

[AnAmericanMother]

Sorry, I gotta wash my dog.

[oyez]

This article reminds me a a story one of my teachers told. Back in the depression of the 1930’s he was a member of a state program that was involved in helping small farmers make their products more marketable. Basically they were telling then to neuter the male meat animals they indented to raise for market and how to do egg production with out the male bird. Many farmers declared that would be unfair the the animals.

[seowulf]

Back in the depression of the 1930’s he was a member of a state program...

Back in the 1930's depression there were also programs to sterilize poor people in the Appalachian states who were seen as undesirable and had too many children. In many respects the FDR administration was almost as Fascist as Mussolini's

[honeybadger]

Basing an argument on "the pet's perspective" plays right into PETA's hands. This shouldn't be a question of what an animal feels like or doesn't feel like. For me it's a basic issue of the state not having any right to interfere with my property. I have zero sympathy for any proposed legislation because I believe in property rights. Period.

That said, so many unwanted, uncared for, and abandoned stray animals suffer and are needlessly put to death every day. Isn't spaying and neutering more humane than killing them in shelters? I did a little research, and was appalled to find this: 1. Every day 70,000 puppies and kittens are born in this country while only 10,000 people are born. 2. It's simple math - there just aren’t enough homes for all of these animals. 3. Every year 10-12 million animals are euthanized in shelters for lack of available homes. 4. On average, 64% of all animals taken into shelters nationwide have to be euthanized for this reason. 5. At least 50% of the overpopulation problem is non-neutered males. Females can’t do it alone. 6. Purebreds account for 30% of all the animals in shelters. "Papers" don’t mean an animal should be bred.

Do what you want, but I for one think there's enough senseless suffering in this world as it is.

[oyez]

"...sterilize poor people in the Appalachian states who were seen as undesirable and had too many children..."

Until someone said< "Those guys can be persuaded to vote Democratic."