Re: [APD] Check out NO HR 669

[jason stone <jasonstone at gmail_com>]

Their official stance can be found on their website...

http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp


Animal Rights Uncompromised:
PETA on 'Pets'

We at PETA very much love the animal companions who share our homes,
but we believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests
if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept
and regarded as "pets"—never existed. The international pastime of
domesticating animals has created an overpopulation crisis; as a
result, millions of unwanted animals are destroyed every year as
"surplus." This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love
from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from
manipulating their breeding, selling or giving them away casually, and
depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior.
Their lives are restricted to human homes where they must obey
commands and can only eat, drink, and even urinate when humans allow
them to.

Because domesticated animals retain many of their basic instincts and
drives but are not able to survive on their own in the wild, dogs,
cats, or birds, whose strongest desire is to be free, must be confined
to a house, yard, or cage for their own safety.

This is a "best case" scenario. The truth is that millions of dogs
spend their lives outside on heavy chains in all weather extremes, or
they are kept locked up in tiny chain-link pens from which they can
only watch the world go by. Millions more are confined to filthy wire
cages in puppy mills—forced to churn out litter after litter until
they wear out, at which time they are killed or dumped at the local
animal shelter. Even in "good" homes, cats must relieve themselves in
dirty litterboxes and often have their digits removed by "declawing,"
and dogs often have to drink water that has sat around for days, are
hurried along on their walks, and are yelled at to get off the
furniture or be quiet.

Most compassionate people never think that someone would throw a
litter of kittens out the window of a moving car, and they would
certainly be shocked by PETA's inches-thick files on cases of dogs and
cats who have been shot with arrows, blown up with firecrackers,
doused in gasoline and set on fire, cooked in microwave ovens, used as
"bait" in dogfights, tortured in satanic rituals, beaten with baseball
bats by bored kids, dragged behind cars to "teach them a lesson" for
running away, or bound in duct tape to silence their barking. Abuses
such as these happen to many animals every day.

Contrary to myth, PETA does not want to confiscate animals who are
well cared for and "set them free." What we want is for the population
of dogs and cats to be reduced through spaying and neutering and for
people to adopt animals (preferably two so that they can keep each
other company when their human companions aren't home) from pounds or
shelters—never from pet shops or breeders—thereby reducing suffering
in the world.

Learn more about how you can provide full, interesting lives for your
animal companions.
http://www.helpinganimals.com/



On 4/19/09, Jerry Baker <jerry at bakerweb_biz> wrote:
> I am not aware of PETA having an official position on pets. Do you have a source for that? I'd love to have a look.
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>   Take Care......Scotty
>  To me, all I have to see is that PETA is supporting this bill! PETA is against any humans keeping any pets. Period! Please support the effort to put this bill down in the congress. You'll be supporting the pet industry in general to keep your pets.
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