I remember a Far Side cartoon showing a couple kids standing on a dog. There is a sign in the yard that says, “Don’t Stand On The Dog!” and an old man is standing at the front door shaking his fist and shouting, “Hey, you kids! Can’t you read?”
If nothing else, PETA is entertaining. Remember when they were calling fish “sea kittens”?
Myself, I like to squish them into a messy blob with the flyswatter. Guts a over the place. Take that, PETA!
But back to the kid standing on the dog. I've had many dogs in my day. My kids, grandkids, Brownies and Cub Scouts would literally ride, pounce on and generally harass our Rottweilers, but the dogs loved the attention. If a dog doesn't want you doing something to him (in this case, the kid standing on the dog), the dog will let you know soon enough. And if you're smart, you'll never do whatever you were doing again.
PETA is such a joke and so hypocritical. It is public record that PETA destroys (as in "kills") hundreds of dogs a year. But my oh my, such cruelty to the dog from the little kid standing on him /sarcasm/.