Secretive U.S. Agency Kills Pets And Hides Their Bodies, Says Whistleblower
In a shocking report released this week, the notoriously secretive USDA agency Wildlife Services admitted to having killed a staggering 2.7 million animals in 2014 — but that number may be even higher yet.
Easily missed among the multitude of wild creatures shot, poisoned or snared in traps is a small but no less troubling number of domestic animals whose deaths were listed as "unintentional." According to the troublingly high death toll data, 16 "pets or livestock" were killed last year in addition to 1,001 "feral or free-ranging" dogs and cats.
"I don't believe their number," Atwood said. "Wildlife Services likes to say they selectively target animals, but we know that's just not possible with the poisons and traps they use. They're supposed to post signs warning of traps and poison, but they routinely do not. There are problems here that are systemic and pervasive."
"Specifically with household pets, when we caught those pets, we were told to take their collars off. We were told to get rid of the collars. We were told to bury the dogs, and we were told to never report that," Shaddox says in the film "Exposed: USDA's Secret War on Wildlife."
In this award-winning film three former federal agents and a Congressman blow the whistle on Wildlife Services--a barbaric, wasteful and misnamed agency within the USDA--and expose the government's secret war on wildlife on the taxpayer's dime. Wildlife Services has been having their way for almost a century, killing over 100,000 native predators and millions of birds each year, as well as maiming, poisoning, and brutalizing countless pets.
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