How Many Animals Has Peta Killed This Year

Like open-admission animate being shelters beyond the land, PETA performs the heartbreaking task of euthanizing animals who are unwanted for one reason or another: because they are aggressive, sick, hurt, elderly, or at death's door and considering no good homes exist for them. Forepart groups for animal-exploiting industries seize on this aspect of our work to further their agenda, effort to split up our motility, and protect their profits.

One of these groups is the disingenuously named Center for Organizational Research and Teaching—previously known as the Center for Consumer Freedom—which is run by lobbyist Richard Berman and funded by KFC, Outback Steakhouse, Philip Morris, cattle ranchers, and other companies that cruelly bring millions of healthy animals into this earth every twelvemonth just to kill them. Core devotes considerable homo resources, fourth dimension, and money to an effort to mislead people who care near animals with false or deceptive information about PETA'due south piece of work.

An Animal Shelter of Last Resort

PETA operates what could exist called a "shelter of final resort" for the most broken animals. When impoverished families cannot beget to pay a veterinarian to let a suffering and/or aged animal leave this globe, PETA will help. When an aggressive, unsocialized dog has been left to starve at the end of a chain with a collar grown into his neck and his body racked with mange, PETA will spare him from dying slowly and miserably in someone's backyard. As Virginia officials speaking of PETA's euthanasia rate best-selling to United states Today

"PETA will basically accept anything that comes through the door, and other shelters won't exercise that."

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Stopping Animal Homelessness at Its Source

We never turn our back on animals who need help, even if the all-time we tin can offering them is a peaceful release from an uncaring world. PETA also works every 24-hour interval to prevent animals from ending upwardly driveling, homeless, and euthanized in the first place—a fact that the CCF never mentions on its PETA Kills Animals website.

As we explain in The Atlantic, the statistics that CCF reports don't include the many adoptable animals we have referred to loftier-traffic open-admission shelters where they volition have the best chance of being seen and finding a new domicile. Those numbers as well don't accept into account the tens of thousands of animals whose lives we have improved and saved—by providing free spay and neuter surgeries, sturdy doghouses blimp with straw, nutritious food, and much more.

PETA spends millions to stop the animal homelessness crisis at its roots. Our armada of mobile clinics has sterilized more than than 200,000 animals—including thousands of feral cats and pit bulls—for gratuitous or nearly zip since 2001, preventing tens of thousands of animals from being born into a globe already bursting at the seams with unwanted and homeless animals.

We likewise provide hands-on aid to people in indigent communities who don't accept transportation and/or access to veterinarian intendance, nearly of whom could not beget it fifty-fifty if it were available in their community. Every twelvemonth, nosotros assist keep countless animals out of overburdened shelters by providing gratuitous sterilizations and shots as well as counseling to help people work through perceived obstacles to keeping their animals.

While nosotros tackle the creature homelessness crisis easily-on in our ain backyard, PETA too spreads the word nationally about what people can exercise to help. Our print and television ads accept reached millions of people with letters about animal adoption, respect, and the importance of sterilization. We've called on governors and the White House to promote mandatory spay-and-neuter legislation beyond the country and more.

SAVING ALL SPECIES OF ANIMALS

The CCF tries to go far seem like solving the brute homelessness crisis is as unproblematic as setting up huge kennels in which to proceed all the ill, dying, and unwanted animals. Even if money could buy adept homes and even if PETA could build cages sky-high, warehousing animals does nothing to cease the root of the problem—uncontrolled convenance.

We are committed to ending the dog and cat overpopulation crisis, merely PETA as well saves and improves the lives of animals who are suffering on mill farms and fur farms, and in laboratories, circuses, and other abusive industries.

For example, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was slapped with the largest penalty of its kind in U.Due south. history for abusing elephants and lions after PETA urged the U.Due south. Department of Agronomics to accept action confronting Ringling and presented indisputable testify of the circus's animal abuse, including beatings, the death of a lion, lame elephants forced to perform despite chronic pain, and a infant elephant who died during a training routine.

Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS), where PETA documented laboratory workers screaming obscenities at animals, violently slamming cats into cages, and kicking, throwing, and dragging dogs, airtight down and four PLRS employees, including a supervisor, were indicted on precedent-setting felony cruelty-to-animals charges. More than 50 cats and nearly 200 dogs were surrendered, including Buddy and Copper, who are healing at a sanctuary and will be adopted into loving, permanent homes.

PETA'southward undercover investigation within laboratories at the University of Utah revealed that more than than 100 cats and dogs from animal shelters were sold to the university each year for apply in invasive, painful, and deadly experiments. After our investigation, the state of Utah amended its archaic police force that forced government-run animal shelters to sell dogs and cats to laboratories.

Following vigorous campaigning by PETA, the Army ended cruel and outdated monthly training exercises at Aberdeen Proving Footing in which monkeys were poisoned with a drug overdose. Endless monkeys have been spared from tearing seizures and bleak lives in a cage every bit a result.

More than 26,000 mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids were saved afterwards PETA revealed horrific abuse at the major pet-trade supplier U.S. Global Exotics, Inc., including animals bars to severely crowded and filthy soda bottles, milk jugs, litter pans, cattle-feeding troughs, and barren wire cages likewise equally employees putting hundreds of sick, injured, and dying animals in a freezer to dice slowly and painfully.

PETA exposes egregious abuse on mill farms, such every bit the Aviagen Turkeys facility in Lewisburg, Westward Virginia. Evidence gathered past PETA undercover investigators revealed workers breaking turkeys' necks, stomping on their heads, and shoving feces and feed into their mouths. The horrific video footage led to 19 indictments, including eleven felony charges, against three sometime Aviagen workers, marking the outset fourth dimension in U.Due south. history that factory-subcontract employees have faced felony cruelty-to-animals charges for abusing birds.

The progress we are making in these areas makes companies that turn a profit from these fell industries fearfulness for their bottom line—so much so that many accept resorted to paying the CCF to attack our piece of work.

Saved!

When Pickles' guardian called PETA to enquire if we could supply a cage for the young rabbit, we learned she was being confined to a small laundry basket at night. A PETA fieldworker explained that life alone in a cage is no life for a rabbit—especially a gregarious, affectionate "lap bunny" similar Pickles—and the adult female agreed to allow PETA to detect the cuddly piddling fluff ball a new home.

Following a astringent flea infestation that acquired nearly all his fur to fall out, Boss' guardians surrendered him to PETA, and we immediately treated his raw and inflamed skin. Boss was adopted and is at present the dominate of a New York City theater teacher and a doctor. Today, Boss enjoys long walks in Cardinal Park and playtime at the local domestic dog park.

Barb's owners were unable to intendance for her properly, then they asked PETA for help. Our fieldworkers defenseless this smart sus scrofa, who was running loose on the property, and placed her with a vegetarian couple. Barb now spends her days hanging out in a lush meadow with two other PETA-rescued pigs.

Beaver had been acquired on a whim for a child who presently lost involvement in her. Fortunately, a PETA staffer learned about her plight and was able to give her a loving "forever" home. At present Beaver spends her days socializing and curling upward with her guinea pig friend, Peanut, and vying for the biggest piece of broccoli.

Pepsi's guardian was a victim of domestic violence and had to move suddenly. She called PETA and asked for help in placing him. Pepsi had the run of PETA's Cruelty Investigations Section before he was adopted by a couple with no other cats. He had contracted feline AIDS (FIV) but is otherwise healthy. He loves the great outdoors and enjoys it safely by going for frequent walks on a ternion.

Amanda was establish wandering the streets of Norfolk, Virginia. She was picked up by brute command, which contacted PETA for help in placing her. Amanda now lives at a spacious vegetarian sanctuary with other rescued animals. She loves pecking around in the grass and settling down in her cozy indoor nest at night.

Spaying and Neutering Cats and Dogs Are the Solution

Attacking those who clean up after a throwaway society that thoughtlessly buys, breeds, and discards cats and dogs does zero to help animals. The simply way to stop euthanasia is to stop puppy mills, breeders, and irresponsible guardians from bringing more dogs and cats into a world that does not offer them the chance for a home—and the only way to practise that is past passing mandatory spay-and-neuter legislation and implementing a full-calibration ban on convenance. Nosotros invite every caring person to bring together united states in working toward the day when every animal has a loving home.

With so many animals in need of refuge, now is a terrible time for an alarming number of animal shelters to arbitrarily implement limited-admission, "no-impale" policies. These policies put animals in danger because they prompt shelters to turn animals abroad or they brand information technology expensive and hard for people who can no longer intendance for their beast companions to surrender them to a shelter. When shelters refuse to accept in animals—and communities neglect to address the underlying causes of the problem—animals pay the price.