The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has
apologized for confiscating- and killing- a little girl’s pet chihuahua.
Additionally, the organization paid the family $49,000 after two people
affiliated with the group went to the mobile home park where the family lives
because they claim they had been asked to pick up wild dogs and feral cats.
Once there, they absconded with an “unattended” chihuahua named Maya, who was
subsequently put to death. Turns out, Maya was a Christmas gift to nine-year-old
Cynthia Zarate. Oops.
Who
knew roving bands of PETA members patrol our lands looking for pets to put
down? Cynthia’s father sued PETA for its actions, which included euthanizing
Maya the same day she was abducted, in violation of a state law which requires a five-day grace period.
Legally, PETA was given the proverbial “slap on the wrist,” in the form of a
$500 fine, for assassinating the Zarate’s beloved pet. However, it did agree to
settle the lawsuit, in order to avoid trial, by paying the Zarates as well as
giving a $2,000 donation to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. So, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has to pay the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) two grand for treating
an animal unethically and cruelly? You can’t make this up.*
Mr.
Zarate avers that PETA operates under a policy of putting down healthy animals
because it “considers pet ownership to be a form of involuntary bondage.” PETA
denies the charge, and asserts that this incident, which occurred in 2014, was
a “terrible accident.”
People
for the Euthanizing of Tamed Animals: “Better Dead Than Led!”
*(See
my post of March 20, 2017: “PETA Files” for more on this topic).
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