{"id":34670,"date":"2013-03-21T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34670"},"modified":"2013-03-21T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:13:43","slug":"peta-really-loves-animals-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34670","title":{"rendered":"PETA Really Loves Animals, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those PETA ads?\u00a0 The ones that equate wearing fur with killing pets?\u00a0 And saying they\u2019d rather go naked than wear fur?<\/p>\n<p>OK, we get it PETA.\u00a0 You don\u2019t wear fur.\u00a0 But you also don\u2019t exactly seem to have much use for animals, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2296572\/PETA-killed-1-600-cats-dogs-Virginia-headquarters-year--90-animals-handed-charitys-American-shelter.html\">1,843 animals were left at PETA\u2019s shelter<\/a> at their Virginia HQ last year &#8211; 1,110 cats and 733 dogs.\u00a0 130 \u00a0(22 cats, 108 dogs) were transferred to another shelter.\u00a0 The disposition of 41 others (34 cats, 7 dogs) was listed as \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d.\u00a0 5 (2 cats, 3 dogs) were reclaimed by their owners.<\/p>\n<p>A grand total of 20 were placed in new homes.\u00a0 (The linked article says 19, but the math seems off &#8211; 7 cats and 13 dogs aren&#8217;t accounted for when you do the math.)<\/p>\n<p>Do I really need to spell out what happened to the other 1,647 (1,045 cats and 602 dogs)?\u00a0 Or to a total of 29,398 animals since 1998?<\/p>\n<p>Hypocritical bastards.\u00a0 With as much $$$ as PETA pulls in from donations, you think maybe they could find a way to find homes for more than 10.64% of the animals left at their shelter.\u00a0 And that 10.64% is best case.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing not all of the 130 dogs and cats transferred to another shelter ended up placed in new homes.\u00a0 And God only knows what &#8220;miscellaneous&#8221; means.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that \u201cE\u201d in PETA doesn\u2019t stand for \u201cEthical\u201d after all. \u00a0 Given the above another word beginning with \u201cE\u201d comes to mind that certainly seems more apropos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those PETA ads?\u00a0 The ones that equate wearing fur with killing pets?\u00a0 And saying they\u2019d &hellip; <a title=\"PETA Really Loves Animals, Right?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34670\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PETA Really Loves Animals, Right?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}