Oh yes. I don't even need to click the link, this is where PETA members threw dead dogs into dumpsters.
A little research into Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and leader of PETA would be educational for most people. Wayne Pacelle, leader of HSUS, is one of her disciples.
Just a few little pearls from Newkirk on Pets:
On pets
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
Newsday, 1988February 21
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
Harper's, 1988August 1
I don’t use the word 'pet.' I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer 'companion animal.' For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship — enjoyment at a distance.
The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223
You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
The Chicago Daily Herald, 1990March 1
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.
Animals, 1993May 1
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.
New York Times, 2001[15][16]
And I love walking someone else’s dog. I don’t have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else’s dog. I just came back from the shelter today and they let me walk three dogs at lunchtime. It was great.
Satya, January, 2001 [17]
We do not advocate "right to life" for animals.
On a postcard to Nathan Winograd, a neuter/release and no-kill shelter advocate[18]
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.
At a press conference in 2005, after two PETA employees were arrested for animal cruelty after dumping hundreds of dead animals in a dumpster [19]
A little research into Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and leader of PETA would be educational for most people. Wayne Pacelle, leader of HSUS, is one of her disciples.
Just a few little pearls from Newkirk on Pets:
On pets
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
Newsday, 1988February 21
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
Harper's, 1988August 1
I don’t use the word 'pet.' I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer 'companion animal.' For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship — enjoyment at a distance.
The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223
You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
The Chicago Daily Herald, 1990March 1
The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.
Animals, 1993May 1
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.
New York Times, 2001[15][16]
And I love walking someone else’s dog. I don’t have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else’s dog. I just came back from the shelter today and they let me walk three dogs at lunchtime. It was great.
Satya, January, 2001 [17]
We do not advocate "right to life" for animals.
On a postcard to Nathan Winograd, a neuter/release and no-kill shelter advocate[18]
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.
At a press conference in 2005, after two PETA employees were arrested for animal cruelty after dumping hundreds of dead animals in a dumpster [19]
