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   Sean Casten Posted 7:01 am
   14 Jan 2008

   Quick!Someone get Michael Vick a job application.  

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   SamaraE Posted 9:03 am
   14 Jan 2008

   Check the source because something ain't rightThat 'story' referenced in your blog post is actually a news release from the so-called Center for Consumer Freedom, which is a front for the tobacco and restaurant industries set up by Phillip Morris. Really. Wikipedia it.  I don't agree with everything PETA says or does, but in the interest of fair journalism, it would be behoove you to get a reply from PETA about those figures referenced.

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 9:49 am
   14 Jan 2008

   Somethings fishy......that post says they put to death more than 97% of dogs, and found homes for only 12 pets.  Now, I'm not very good at math, but to me that only comes out to 'bout 400 animals total (though I imagine they do have some that they have kept, but have not found homes for yet).
   Yet the report states that they killed close to 3,000 animals.
   Fuzzy math?  Or am I missin' some info.?

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   Steve Bloom Posted 11:29 am
   14 Jan 2008

   Dirty hippies get theirsI believe DR has indicated in the past that he believes PETA to be dirty hippies, and we all know what treatment every dirty hippy deserves from the media.  

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   rjl20 Posted 4:27 pm
   14 Jan 2008

   Fuzzy math?Well, according to the report, PETA took in 3175 dogs in 2006, of which 2131 were claimed by their owners, 8 were adopted, 25 were transferred to  another agency, 3 died in the facility, 988 were euthanized, 17 were still at the facility at the end of the year, and 3 were "miscellaneous".
   If you don't count dogs that were returned to their owners, that's 988 killed and 56 not killed, or about a 5.7% survival rate. It's worse for cats: 1942 euthanized, 2 adopted, 21 transferred (and 4410 returned to their owners), for a 1.2% survival rate.
   That's, uh... not so good. CCF may be a front for Phillip Morris, but those numbers apparently came from PETA itself.

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   Pangolin Posted 8:57 pm
   14 Jan 2008

   Such a waste....There's good eatin on a dog.
   Since I'm located at ground zero for the feral cats plague and I've also been attacked by a stray pit bull I'm not feeling sympathetic.
   Polluting our planet with excess pets is still pollution. Since we've removed the wolves, cougers, owls and coyotes that would keep excess levels of household pets down it's up to us to do it.
   Wasting the resources (meat, bone and hide meal) that could at the least provide fertilier is just unconsionable.
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 2:09 am
   15 Jan 2008

   More info. needed...If you don't count dogs that were returned to their owners, that's 988 killed and 56 not killed, or about a 5.7% survival rate. It's worse for cats: 1942 euthanized, 2 adopted, 21 transferred (and 4410 returned to their owners), for a 1.2% survival rate.
   Yes, but as ya said, that doesn't include pets that were returned to their owners (the vast majority were, more than at a typical shelter operation, I think).  I wonder how that kill rate compares to typical shelters?
   Also, it'd be nice if they broke down into categories, the reasons/numbers for havin' to put down the animals.
   
   

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   rjl20 Posted 7:16 am
   15 Jan 2008

   "reclaimed by owner"I'm pretty sure it's safe to discount the "reclaimed by owner" numbers because those are the animals that were brought in by their owners to be spayed/neutered. A very small percentage of those "reclaimed by owner" numbers are probably some of the strays from the intake numbers. But if you compare the "Others" intake and "Reclaimed by owner" disposition numbers, they match up pretty closely. As do--and this is the point--the "Surrendered by owner" and "Euthanized" numbers.
   PETA managed to place 12 animals for adoption in 2006. Do they even have an adoption program? Because I'd expect numbers like that to account for, say, shelter workers adopting animals themselves.

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   rjl20 Posted 12:37 pm
   15 Jan 2008

   Other facilitiesIf you're interested in comparing numbers with other facilities in the area, here's a link. Take the Norfolk City Animal Control and Pound Facility, for example. Euthanized 3,046 animals in 2006, and found homes for 993. So they euthanized about as many animals as PETA, and adopted out 82 times as many. Hm. Maybe the city pound is trying 82 times harder than PETA to place animals with families. Or maybe somehow the animals that are given to PETA by their owners are 1/82nd as cute and healthy as the strays the pound picks up. I dunno.
   Something's fishy, but I don't think it's the math.

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