Well, PETA DOES kill more animals than it saved.
But it isn't only them. Take petco and petsmart or even shelters. Me and my wife tried adopting a kitten from both petco and petsmart (btw, good luck finding a tabby cat online, its literally impossible...the shelters have that in the money bag)
But petsmart denied us. When our mom asked why, the lady was really rude...forgot what she said...(this was over the phone), mom said something back and lady hung up (the lady slammed the phone I guess and mom laughed about it lol). Probably because we don't go to a vet every month (I don't believe an animal or person needs to go to the hospital every month for thousands of shots. Rabies and the basics, yes...and even measle shots I think are important for people...but not 1000 different things going into the cat/kitten). On top of that, petsmart will likely deny anyone (it was actually an adoption through a shelter) who lives in an apartment...that was a big negative for us.
So petsmart/petco/shelter will deny 90% of the people trying to adopt (and more likely anyone in an apartment). And every animal that doesn't get adopted gets killed...so do the math
90% of people are refused and treated horribly. Can't adopt tabby cats at all online. And nearly all of them end up dead. Yet they decline almost everyone. And they probably outlawed adopting tabbies from your next door neighbor or online (you used to find kittens really easily in kids having baskets of them. That does NOT happen anymore, at least in california).
We ended up going through a cat breeder and adopting exotic wild cats (we got two, one is mixed with who knows what...probably a bobcat or tiger or lion or some weird thing. He is supposed to be a bengal, but he is HUGE (growing super fast still) and acts just like a tiger or some kind of wild cat would act like. He even likes running out in the rain and splashing in puddles) and we then adopted a desert lynx cat from another breeder about 6 months later. We'd go with a normal tabby cat, but that is impossible because of the money laundering garbage that shelters have become. Though breeders are a bit iffy. Like our "bengal" is probably mixed with some kind of exotic wild cat, as the lady had TONS of exotic wild animals. Like she had a zebra mixed with donkey that she bred. She had exotic birds, lions, tigers and all kinds of stuff. She even had a camel mixed with zebra, literally no joke. She had a horse mixed with a zebra too I think, don't remember. I know she mixed animals a lot. It was an animal sanctuary, run by volunteers. But the "bengal" is probably something else, or is a bengal mixed with some kind of exotic wild cat. She was breeding super exotic weird mixed animals...so wouldn't be a surprise she bred an exotic mixed weird wild cat.
shelters in california and going through petco/petsmart is really lame though. Going through breeders, you don't have to deal with mountains of paper work (literally trying to adopt a kitten from a shelter/petsmart etc is like doing a highschool exit exam. No joke, our dad had to fill out 20 (yes TWENTY) papers of questions and stuff before he finished to give it back to them. That and the breeders we went too, didn't need to contact the apartment complex either for permission...which is a HUGE plus for us as no way do we want to pay 1000 dollar per cat per month pet rent...heck with that. That was probably the main issue is we live in an apartment, and we didn't want them contacting the apartments. Still really lame. End up with mostly dead animals, and very few people get accepted to have a kitten.
So I know this topic isn't entirely about that. But you guys get my point...even shelters who "protect" animals end up killing most of them because they refuse to allow anyone (at least anyone in an apartment or/and doesn't have a monthly vet) to adopt. that's some messed up stuff.
Edited by Vendayn, March 20 2015 - 5:09 PM.
The species wasn't even a pest! People these days!
