MUNCHAUSEN BY PETA????

By: N.J.Winograd, Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
Submitted by: S.M.Chatterton

The following does not necessarily contain the views of the NRTA – however, in being consistent with keeping abreast of current canine events, it is being printed here for your own interpretation.

This is submitted in search of a diagnosis as to why Ingrid Newkirk and PETA seek out animals to kill. And also a plea for the movement to stop them so that they won’t continue killing.

In 2006, an official report from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) shows that they took in 3,043 animals, of which 1,960 were cats, 1,030 were dogs, 52 were other companion animals and 1 was a chicken. The results of PETA’s intervention?

By the numbers:
PETA killed 1,942 of the 1, 960 cats, finding homes for only 2 of them.
PETA killed 988 of the 1,030 dogs, finding homes for only 8 of them.
PETA killed 50 of the 52 other companion animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, etc) finding home for only 2 of them.
PETA killed the chicken they took in.

That’s a 97% kill rate. Despite their $30 million in revenues, they found homes for only 12 animals. An additional 21 cats and 25 dogs were transferred to another agency. The rest were put to death.

The founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, formerly held a job killing homeless dogs and cats at the Washington Humane Society, a shelter with a consistently poor record for saving lives and the subject of historical public acrimony for its over-reliance on killing.

In 2005, Newkirk’s employees were charged with over 30 counts of felony animal cruelty in North Carolina after investigators found that PETA was killing animals and routinely throwing the bodies in a shopping mall dumpster. A deputy sheriff involved in the investigation told reporters that PETA employees had assured the shelters they took the animals from that “they were picking up the dogs to take them back to Norfolk, Virginia (PETA’s headquarters), where they would “find them good homes.”

Why? The closest analogy or explanation that I have found which appears to fit is the same phenomenon that causes nurses to kill their patients, some offshoot of  “Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (see: Attack of the Killer Nurses: A Look at a Curious Phenomenon – Nurses Who Kill Their Patients, National Review, May 28, 2001). In the typical case, the nurse or caregiver kills the patients with lethal infections. They often claim they act from “compassion for their ailing victims,” because they want to “end their suffering,” and because they and their colleagues are “severely overburdened.” In their minds, they are the heroes and those who try to stop them are turning their backs on their patients. (Medical Serial Killer, The Kaiser Papers.  http://kaiserpapers.info )

PETA’s Board of Directors, PETA employees, other animal welfare groups and animal rights activists need to stop drinking the Ingrid Newkirk Kool-Aid. They must stop making excuses for the crimes being perpetrated against animals. They need to openly reject views that can only be explained in the pages of the Journal of Psychiatry. And, if they are to protect the thousands of animals whose lives are at future risk from PETA, they must work to remove the political cover provided by her association with PETA which allows Ingrid Newkirk to continue to act on what is nothing less than deeply disturbing impulses that seek out innocent animals to kill.

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