No Animals Left

Animal Rights organizations, namely HSUS and PeTA, manipulate data to support claims of "pet overpopulation" and high euthanasia rates. These organizations use a lot of sensationalism and emotion to make data that contradicts their claims appear to support their claims. What follows is the data used by these organizations and the facts behind the dramatic nonsense spewed in Animal Rights.

10. Shelter dogs can have problems; they aren't for everyone.

9. Your animals are kind of a mess. I know you mean well so we're
going to get you some help.

8. Mandatory spay/neuter is a lousy idea. If all dogs are sterilized,
where will the puppies come from?

7. We're firing all the lobbyists and lawyers and we're going to put
the money into training animal control workers, improving shelters,
and organizing transport programs.

6. We're good at raising money but we don't know much about animals.
If you want advice about animal policy, you should talk to an

The Examiner, an animal ownership separatist-friendly publication, recently published an article opposing NAIA’s (http://www.naiaonline.org/) billboard campaign (http://exposeanimalrights.com/) against animal rights groups that fight against animal ownership. The Examiner’s article cited SourceWatch.com for its information on NAIA. SourceWatch is a wiki, which means that anyone can change the content in its pages. So, wikians, there may be a bit of work for you here.

Links to various SourceWatch pages follow.

The purpose of this post is to provide a resource to links to state animal shelter databases and other statistics-related links. Just post comments to the blog with new links as they are discovered.

The starting list follows.

http://www.naiashelterproject.org/charts_map.cfm

http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/vet/index.html

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi

Here is a page with links to sources,
http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.html.

http://www.seattle.gov/animalshelter/statistics.htm

http://www.rpanimalshelter.org/shelterstats.shtml

There are organizations writing legislation in many states to severely limit or hinder animal ownership. *You* will be affected by this legislation in spite of the catchy “anti-puppy mill” titles of the laws. The primary organization behind the laws is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). HSUS is neither a humane society nor is it affiliated with a government entity. The second strongest instigator of anti-animal ownership legislation is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), which is an ethically-challenged organization that supports militant animal rights practices and owns an animal euthanasia warehouse in Virginia that it calls a “shelter” where it has killed more than 20,000 adoptable dogs and cats in the past ten years. PeTA is compensated by the state of Virginia for its service of killing adoptable animals.

Despite the incredibly deep pockets available to organizations such as HSUS and PeTA, it IS possible to fight back.

The President's family recently created a stir when they were looking for a White House dog. They choose the breed Portuguese Water Dog for their family for its temperament and hypo-allergenic qualities. Animal "Rights" groups pressured the Obama's to get a dog from a rescue organization or shelter, but they acquired a re-home puppy from a breeder instead.