PETA accuses PetSmart supplier of mistreating rodents

Wow i think they're lying and Isn't it illegal to spy and use it against them i got a new name for peta People for Extortion Terror and Abuse!

I am really irritated by comments like "So what you are daying Dennis is it's much better to kill the animal before you toss it into a dumpster behind a grocery store in North Carolinia?" It reminds me of the people bringing up the dumpster situation and trying to compare it to Mike Vick. Though I dislike PETA, I recognize that there is a huge difference between humanely euthanizing unwanted animals and torturing and killing animals. Holding the lives of people above those of animals is natural, eating meat is natural... That's my firm belief anyway. Regardless of the importance we see in a certain animal, as human beings, we should not permit any living, feeling creature to be horribly abused.

So what you are daying Dennis is it's much better to kill the animal before you toss it into a dumpster behind a grocery store in North Carolinia?

It's a shame that most people's information on PETA comes from a website called "petakillsanimals." Would you believe information I gave you from a website with the URL "dickcheneyisanationalhero.com"?

Regardless of what readers think of PETA, large-scale small animal suppliers are famous for their mistreatment of animals. "Producers" of so-called "feeder mice" are particularly notorious. No animal deserves that kind of treatment any more than a human being would.

Petsmart works with local animal rescue organizations to sponsor adoptions of dogs and cats -- why not do the same with small animals? Plenty of small animals are dumped in shelters every year, we don't really need to be breeding any more of them. They reproduce just fine on their own when males and females are accidentally mixed.

The headline of this story is misleading--if you check the PETA site, petsmartcruelty.com, you can see that not just rodents were being abused at this breeding operation. Conditions for birds and rabbits were hideous too--you can see it on the undercover video.

This is all so unnecessary. The last time I was at the Va Beach SPCA, they had a whole room full of rabbits who were up for adoption. No pet stores should be breeding/selling more of them when there are so many who are already in need of homes.

If you want an animal, check petfinder.com--they list every kind of animal from birds to guinea pigs, and of course cats and dogs.

Finally, someone is exposing the suffering that goes on behind closed doors. What we see up front is sad enough - animals confined in cages and tanks day after day, living boring, unnatural lives. Anyone who walks in with a few bucks can bring these helpless animals into God knows what situation. Meanwhile, as PETA has shown, the suppliers and back rooms are where the real horrors lie.

Kind people who want to care for an animal adopt from rescues. Don't support cruelty shown on the video by supporting PetSmart.

How anyone can condone animals being thrown in the garbage alive, stepped on, denied vet care, left without food or water...is incomprehensible. But even if these rants are just because PETA is challenging your "oh-so-insulated" selfish worlds, read what you post before you post it.

All the juvenile PETA acronyms are just silly. Posting comments about subjects that aren't even involved in the article is lazy and ill-informed.

Animals are suffering and dying at Petsmart. Can't we talk about that?

I saw part of the video from PETA's investigation on the Today Show and then watched the whole thing on PETA's Web site (peta.org). It was pretty disturbing. I'm shocked that PetSmart is taking a hard line on this instead of expressing concern over what its supplier is doing to animals. It makes me think that all that adoption stuff is just a PR ploy. If PetSmart really cared about animals, I would think they'd be horrified at what PETA videotaped and want to do whatever they could to distance themselves from it, instead of coming up with lame excuses like the animals don't matter because they are high "volume." I'm really disappointed in PetSmart.

Whether it is done to a human animal or a non-human animal, inflicting pain is just wrong. The pain an animal feels is just as real to him as the pain a human feels.

PETA shutup-you are insignificant. You will never gain the respect you need for your causes as long as you use looney tactics. Regular folks eat meat it tastes good. Vegan stuff makes your breath smell like you ate some feces. I know as the leader of your organization tried talking to me once and oh what a gasp of pollution from that mouth. I have now wasted my life on a paragraph commenting on idiots.

Let's be clear. These people aren't doing this just to annoy you. There is a problem here. Yes, bacon tastes good. A clear conscious tastes better.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/TV_Episode.aspx?clip=3&episode=6&#videoTop

http://ngcblog.nationalgeographic.com/ngcblog/2007/11/hog_genius_the_amazing_pig.html

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=uruguay_kosher_slaughter_web_12_2007&Player=wm

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp

The "unhappy meal" fiasco was a few years ago. It is not been threatened this year...as far as I know

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was cited as saying that
if McDonald's does not agree to the changes, the group will pass out
"Unhappy Meals" at McDonald's restaurants and junior high schools in 40 U.S.
cities this summer and fall.
"Unhappy Meals" are, this story explained, mock-ups of McDonald's popular
children's hamburger meal. A PETA spokesman was cited as saying that PETA's
version features the company's icon, Ronald McDonald, brandishing a bloody
butcher knife on the side of the box, and toy animals with severed heads and
limbs can be found inside.

...Chicken... You know, I would like to have a bar-b-que in front of the building and exercise my Freedom of Speech. Anyone with me?

Bear in mind, that this is the supplier , not Petsmart that is being accused by Peta. Peta is an organization who once planned to hand out "unhappy meals" with gruesome scenes and/or toys at McDonald's to children.
In my opinion ethics is not one of their stronger suits. Let he who is without sin throw the first stone. Well maybe the supplier will use gloves & a sharper razor on his next rabbit neutering adventure. Peta may not realize this, but, neutering may be the only solution to rabbit overpopulation. They breed like rabbits. Lisa: "Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"
Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness."
~Matt Groening, The Simpsons

Are we talking about the same peta (people embarrassing the Tidewater area) that crossed over state lines and loaded hundreds of puppies and kittens in a van, on the guise of taking them to Virginia and finding homes for them. The getting their jollies off by killing the puppies and kittens and throwing them in a dumpster behind a grocery store. Is that the same peta? Have you ever had a business around an industrial waterfront area? Have you ever seen the rats there? Do you wonder how peta controls the rodents? You can bet it's not by catch and release. It's time we throw this foreign run organization of hypocrites out on their can. It's time to start charging them for their criminal behavior. It's time to revoke their green cards or work permits and send them back to their own country. Of course their own country wouldn't tolerate their behavior. I'm just glad my kids were never terrified by these bunch of lunatics that run around scaring kids with their psycho antics. I'm glad they were never near my kids because I would most likely ended up in jail or prison for taking care of the problem. Don't mess with a caring mother!

Rats are HIGHLY intelligent, like comparable to your dog. They are definitely not animals we should ignore being abused. However, I question EVERYTHING this organization says. PETA believes all animals used by humans for meat, fur, milk, HONEY, or even just pampered pets are enslaved and therefore abused. They think dogs and cats are better off dead than in even the best of homes. As such, PETA will attack any organization or breed of animal (see Pit Bulls especially) that they see as potentially vulnerable. If they can get them shut down and get several animals humanely euthanized, they feel they have done something good for animal-kind. I wouldn't ignore this accusation completely, but it shouldn't warrant any rash responses. Investigate and find out if any of what they're saying is true.

At least they weren't killing the innocent little creatures and tossing them in dumpsters. Wait... what? Oh, sorry.

Morons from PETA must get alot more laughs from Terrorists than us regular hardworking Americans. While they whine about tossin rats-our Soldiers, Sailors, Airman & Marines are fighting a war and dying for these fools whining about tossin rats. PETA shut up. Oh yeh, sorry I ran over a possum in Texas with my El Camino in the 80's. Then the time I flushed down my carnival goldfish after I got sick of him staring at me with those big bulgy eyes. Was that mean? Am I not sensitive to the animals needs?

Or maybe the pilot is realizing that peta is not really newsworthy with their comedy situations, and ran the story to fill waste space. Again, the Pretty Energetic, Totally Asine group appears to be worried about rats? Rodents? Where do these people find the time! Get a life!

Did someone drop this tory behind a file cabinet or something? I thought it sounded familiar so I checked it out. The PeTA press release is dated 23 January.

Did someone miss a deadline?

jmo