In the wake of the recent arrest of two employees of People for the Ethical treatment of Animals (PETA) who stole and killed Maya, a nine-year-old girl’s Chihuahua, the No Kill Advocacy Center (NKAC) has filed a petition asking the Virginia State Veterinarian to revoke PETA’s status as an animal shelter in order to eliminate PETA’s ability to kill animals. Maya’s theft was not the first time that PETA employees have been arrested over their taking and killing of animals. In a 2007 criminal trial against two other PETA employees in North Carolina, jurors heard testimony from individuals that they turned over animals to PETA after PETA promised to find the animals homes only to learn that PETA killed the animals, in some cases within minutes of taking them, in the back of a PETA van stocked with syringes and lethal doses of sodium pentobarbital. This is not the first time PETA has been accused of taking animals from people under false pretenses and putting the animals to death, thus suggesting that the taking and killing of Maya cannot be dismissed as the action of rogue employees.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:53:57 +0000
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