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More Fabulous Victories!
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- North Carolina officials have filed six counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals against a North Carolina man for acts documented in our 2007 undercover investigation of a Smithfield supplier's sow farm. The charges are for acts of dragging pigs by the ear, striking a pig in the face with a handling board, and gouging a pig's eyes with his fingers.
- After talks with PETA, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway agreed to stop its plans to feature live elephants at a NASCAR race.
- During a routine visit to a North Carolina trailer park, our Cruelty Investigations Department found two pit bulls suffering from severe puncture wounds and infections—neither of the dogs had been treated for their injuries. One of the dogs appears to have been used as a bait dog and lost both her ears. All 13 thin and miserable dogs—most living in mud pits—were turned over to PETA within four days. The bait dog had to have tubes put in her neck to treat the infection that had spread.
- On the spay-and-neuter front, Our SNIP-mobile spayed and neutered 476 dogs, cats, and rabbits in the last 30 days! And our new ABC bus spayed and neutered 69 animals; most of the surgeries were done completely free of charge!
- A butterfly release planned as part of a celebration of two merging Michigan hospitals was called off after speaking with PETA staffers. The butterflies, which had already been received, were taken home by a hospital worker who lives on a farm. The butterflies were released in a secure area.
Stay tuned for future victories!
Posted by Jennifer Cierlitsky
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PETA you do amazing work.
Keep it up, and so will we...
Go Vegan save up to 100 farm animals per year...
PS
Hey here is an amazing animal video.
check it out...
http://www.slide.com/r/hD6DvyAOxD9ClUhvUpVcUMABW9QzpGnQ
Posted by: Holly | July 22, 2008 09:47 AM
Keep up the good work, PETA.
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | July 22, 2008 11:37 AM
Holly, thanks for the video!
Thanks PETA, I would also love to see more on these terrible butterfly kits that are sold in stores. I worked at a science store that sold them and the butterflies really did poorly.
The kit said to release the butterflies shortly after they hatched, but people never did, including the store owners who wanted to leave it on display.
One year I begged them to let me release them, and I took them to a public garden. I hated releasing captive bred animals into the wild, but I did not want them to suffer.
Butterflies should never be bred or forced to live their lives and die in a box. Save the ones in the wild instead.
Posted by: Maya, CVT | July 22, 2008 12:07 PM
Those idiots were going to release butterflies in the city to die instantly?
Do these people have brains? How can they run a hospital with such a disregard for life?
Posted by: kelly | July 22, 2008 12:34 PM
God bless you!!!
Posted by: Isabelle | July 22, 2008 12:40 PM
Why was the butterfly release cancelled?
Posted by: Tabitha | July 22, 2008 12:47 PM
YEA PETA - That's why I LOVE YOU!
Posted by: Phyllis | July 24, 2008 11:38 AM
Congrats on the jobs so well done! GO PETA!!!!!
Posted by: jan curtis | July 24, 2008 05:20 PM