PETA offers $2,500 reward in dog killing

[LoZoccolo]

The animal-rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering a $2,500 reward to catch the person who recently killed a dog in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood by dousing it with household cleaner.

Police have said that an intruder or intruders broke into a house Jan. 13 in the 100 block of East Maple Street and poured the chemicals on Lucky, a dark-haired Dachshund-papillion mix. The dog was in a cage at the time.

``People are disgusted and horrified by this case,'' said Kristin DeJournett, a cruelty-case worker for PETA. ``The dog wasn't posing any threat to the burglars, and I can't imagine why they would douse him with chemicals other than to just be cruel and heartless.''

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1233332406145830.xml&coll=7

[Vincardog]

1. This from the organization that "Rescues" animals only to kill them.

:puke: :puke:

[DesertFlower]

2. c'mon PETA does a lot of good.

[MajorChode]

4. So does Hamas

[DesertFlower]

8. PETA doesn't fire rockets

at civilians across the border.

[MajorChode]

18. As misanthropic as PETA is I'm surprised they haven't

They do provide aid and comfort to terrorist organizations though.

[DesertFlower]

19. if they do please

tell me.

[MajorChode]

25. Why is there so much ignorance in regard to PETA?

Their support of terrorist groups is well known and head loon, Ingrid Newkirk makes no secret of it.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=42

[flvegan]

28. There is nothing in that article alluding to support.

[MajorChode]

30. Connect the dots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETA#Support_for_direct_action

[flvegan]

36. Hmm...so if I donate to the legal defense of a presumed innocent

activist, I'm a terrorist supporter?

And Wikipedia? Come on...suspicious footnoting and all.

[MajorChode]

38. Sweet Jebus! You accuse others of reaching?

Now that is just TOO much.

But to your credit, everyone knows how "suspicious" the Southern Poverty Law Center is, right? Yeah, right.

[flvegan]

42. Not really.

6 of one, etc.

[Cid_B]

49. A good breakdown of PETA was on "Bullshit"

There was a showtime show called "Bullshit" with Penn and Teller. One of their best episodes was about PETA. I'm sure you can find it online.

Edit: One of the scenes included an arsonist explaining to a class how to make an incendiary device and the PETA tax returns "loaning" his father 25000 while his son was on the run. If I had time I would find the guys name. He was a big ALF guy and possible an ELF but no time to look now.

[flvegan]

53. Yeah, two hack magicians preaching "truth" for money on a tv show.

Bound to get really good research there.

:eyes:

[Cid_B]

54. Did you watch it? Im interested...

... in which specific points you disagreed with.

[flvegan]

55. I've seen it, yes.

I disagree with spin, which is all that was. I don't promote Fox and I don't promote two idiots earing a paycheck to create controversy.

[Cid_B]

79. Sooooo....

I guess I will ask again. Which points did you disagree with or more accurately which points did you believe were falsified?

[flvegan]

21. That's a heavy accusation.

So they've been charged and convicted of that? Huh. Missed that one.

[MajorChode]

23. By your measure, Bush and Cheney are lilly white also

Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

[flvegan]

27. Nice reach.

You made an accusation about a charity. A very vulnerable, easily investigated charity. And you compare that to the Bush/Cheney empire? Weak.

So then what you're saying is there's not proof of your accusation?

[MajorChode]

31. Who is reaching?

Your claim was they hadn't been "charged and convicted" as you infer that makes them innocent. My retort was neither has the Bush/Cheney cabal. Is this so hard to understand?

If you want proof, ask for proof. If you want to make a smartassed comment, expect one in return.

[flvegan]

35. So then, that proof?

[MajorChode]

39. It's already been posted

Feel free to try and refute the obvious as you always do.

[flvegan]

41. Always?

Odd thing for someone so "new" to say.

Heh heh heh. Sounds like reincarnation might just have something to it, eh?

[MajorChode]

43. Perhaps not always

Sometimes you offer garden variety drivel.

So you are right, I shouldn't be so judgmental.

[flvegan]

44. Summed that up in just a month, eh?

Good for you.

Sockpuppet or zombie? I'm going for the latter. I think I know which one, too.

Welcome back to DU! :hi:

This'll probably get deleted, but you'll see it.

Have a nice day.

[MajorChode]

45. I'm sure you'll accuse me of being a freeper too.

It's the next step for false accusers like yourself with no substantive retorts.

[flvegan]

47. No, I don't think you're a freeper.

[LanternWaste]

78. Well, it certainly appears to be for

"Ignorance is bliss I suppose."

Well, it certainly appears to be for those many who throw out spurious allegations of terrorism while maintaining no valid, peer-reviewed evidence to support the claim.




"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information." The Office

[Posteritatis]

84. Probably because they can't get their hands on them yet (nt)

[Renew Deal]

62. lol

:wow:

[Vincardog]

16. I've seen them let dogs out of their crates at dog shows. They are fanatics who don't believe animal...

should live in captivity. Fuck them.

[Critters2]

60. So, you have a problem with them working to find the person

who killed this dog?

What a strange position to take.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

9. And that means that torturing a caged animal shouldn't be a cause they take up?

[superduperfarleft]

10. I know, right? Killing animals is terrible!

So what are you having for dinner tonight? Just curious...

[roguevalley]

12. I suppose you are a vegan ...

[superduperfarleft]

13. Of course, mainly because you omnivores make everything so confusing.

I could never keep track of what animals were okay to eat and what animals weren't, or which ones were Pets and which ones were Food. So I just went vegan to avoid accidentally eating my cat. Things are so much simpler now...

[roguevalley]

14. I'll take your word for it. This is the internet after all. I personally am the

human equivalent to an air fern.

Caring about the senseless murder of an animal is a good thing no matter who is doing the caring. Your angst is sad.

[LeftyMom]

22. He is.

I can vouch for that.

[MajorChode]

33. So what does your cat eat?

It may not be as simple as you think.

Although there is such a thing as vegan cat food, the SPCA recommends against it.

[superduperfarleft]

70. My cat also licks her ass and would eat out of the garbage if I let her.

I don't know about you, but I don't choose to live my life with my cat as a role model (although sitting around sleeping all day does sound quite nice, the ass-licking, not so much).

[Regret My New Name]

46. lol.. cute. I'm gonna use that sometime...

I'm not a vegan nor a vegetarian but I like that.

[tblue]

11. I read that 'report' has been refuted and there's more to the story than the headline.

[Beaverhausen]

29. nevermind

I misread your post.

[flvegan]

20. Either you don't know shit of what you speak, or you'd prefer

to see animals suffer. Which one is it?

[Vincardog]

24. I pick option #3 PETA wants to eliminate all domestic animals. Fanatic thugs

:puke:
Are you down with their radical agenda?

[flvegan]

26. Right. Which is why a number of PETA employess bring their pets to work.

That's brilliant. Got anything else? I mean, I can spin a quote from 30 years ago, too.

[Vincardog]

57. Here is a link to PETA's media center where they call for the ban on domestic animals. Ya got any

thing else? Or is snark the only thing you sell?
< http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=10204 >

[superduperfarleft]

58. That's calling for a ban on ownership for anyone convicted of abusing animals.

Do you think that those convicted of animal abuse should be able to go out and buy more animals?

[Vincardog]

64. IF you want to support them write them a check. I have seen them in action and am not impressed.

[superduperfarleft]

67. Um, I don't support them.

Of course, I'm able to articulate clearly WHY I don't support them, as opposed to just making up bullshit and being too slow to read my own links.

By the way, I don't think "indite" is the word you're looking for. Of course, that makes your inability to read your own link a bit more understandable.

[Beaverhausen]

3. You just had to do it, didn't you?

[LoZoccolo]

6. Had to do...? n/t

[Donnachaidh]

5. PETA is the new Nader? n/t

[Ignis]

15. It certainly seems to be this week's target.

Perhaps he's infuriated that they're both "Green?" :shrug:

[Renew Deal]

66. PETA is the old Nader

DU has always been anti-Peta. But this thread is particularly hysterical. PETA=Hamas :rofl:

[superduperfarleft]

7. Those bastards!!!

(dooga dooga dooga)

[G_j]

17. well I have to say, one of the things I do appreciate about PETA

is the way some people become unhinged at the very mention of their name.
It's quite hilarious.

[MajorChode]

34. One of the things I find most funny....

Is how people can support an organization like PETA. Either they are ignorant of who they support, or they are just as batshit crazy as Ingrid Newkirk.

If one truly believes in animal rights and ethical treatment of them, there are much better organizations to support.

[Critters2]

61. Awww. did someone tell you you shouldn't eat hot dogs?

Life is hard, ain't it?

[MajorChode]

82. Not for me

Did you not receive enough attention as a young child?

[PVnRT]

32. You really need to get a life

[TZ]

37. I don't like PETA but..

I don't really understand why people have a problem with this story. PETA is offering a reward to catch a sick twisted person.
Plus, people who do crap like this to animals are likely to hurt people too.
If this was the SPCA, I doubt that there would be a peep of disagreement. I have this funny idea that even if I disagree with an organizations behavior, I will judge them on individual acts. And this act, I applaud.

[Critters2]

71. Hey! Don't you come bringin' your fancy facts and reason in here!

We know your type, with all your readin' and thinkin' and rational whatnot. You can just take that logic and git on back where you came from, ya hear?! :grr:

[Sheepshank]

40. I read a study

Tomatoes cry when you pick them, and scream when they are cut for a BLT.

[janx]

48. What does that have to do with a story of a dog being murdered

in its own home? I'm not a member of PETA by any means, but that comment was just stupid.

[Cid_B]

50. Remember that episode of "Lost in space"...

... with the planet of the screaming vegetable men. It still cracks me up to this day.

[geardaddy]

72. What if they're cut for a salad?

:o

[yewberry]

51. Another example of PETA doing something good and

a whole bunch of people coming out of the woodwork to talk about how awful they are.

Whatever.

I hope that poor dog rests in peace, and the inhumane filth who did that to him are caught. Anyone who hates PETA enough to wish otherwise can kiss my ass.

[flvegan]

52. Well said.

[Omaha Steve]

56. I used to thumb my nose at PETA

I changed on that a couple years ago. I watched the Paul McCartney PETA video. This post was about a dog that suffered. Where are the pro lifers on this? Life is life.

[Critters2]

59. So, apparently, there are DUers who don't support a reward for turning in

an animal abuser. Stunning.

[4 t 4]

65. What state was that

that just made animal abuse a felony I hope many more states follow

[La Lioness Priyanka]

63. your obsession w.peta makes me feel much towards you as i do towards peta

crazy, obsessive and rather stupid.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

69. How does he find the time to also slander Indians?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4968506&mesg_id=4971386

It'd be really ironic if he was saving time by outsourcing his stupidity.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

73. ...

:loveya: :rofl: :hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

74. i'd like to add that i am not even opposed to ending the h-1b visas now

that americans desperately need jobs. Its the callousness and gloating at other peoples problems that gets me. so unnecessarily cruel. also the random lies about indians people know.

by the way, have i ever told you about my white friends xyz from whom i can extrapolate to a lot more white people?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

75. I feel exactly the same way.

Of course, any time I mention my problem is with attacking Indians in general, I get shouted down as a "corporatist," even though I'm opposed to the H-1B program as a whole.

It's ironic that anytime the subject of illegal immigration comes up, any remotely unflattering thing said about Latinos is attacked (as it should be), but apparently, Indians are fair game.

by the way, have i ever told you about my white friends xyz from whom i can extrapolate to a lot more white people?

No, but I bet he's like the rest of 'em. :sarcasm: :P

[La Lioness Priyanka]

76. i mean i have 5 white friends, one is even from alabama and they have a history

of slavery. can you imagine that? a history in which they kept slaves.

atrocious.

:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

77. I have Arab friends, and you know how they are.

:P

[Evoman]

80. True, but the sheer number of people who seem to hate latinos is way higher!

Ha...I'm really not trying to out-racism you though :P.

Fuck though...DU can be dammmmn racist sometimes.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

81. Hey, we're trying to catch up with you.

:P

[LoZoccolo]

83. How do you "know" I was talking about someone who was Indian? n/t

[underseasurveyor]

68. GO PETA!

:applause: