On 11 Mar 2006 09:49:55 -0800, "tom" wrote:

Not to side with PETA on this, but you might be surprised at the
euthanasia rates at your local "Humane Society"/ dog pound. My wife
brought home a puppy from the pound yesterday (she'a a volunteer
dog-walker) to be fattened up so he'd be adoptable. Seems that people
see a few ribs on the side of an otherwise healthy puppy, and won't
even think about adopting it. So they're put down. Policy. Spay and
neuter, folks. Tom, getting a little rain in Tucson!

In that link, at least as a single data point for the specific area in
which the PETA gang was caught, the link article pointed out that the SPCA
in that same town was adopting out 73% of the animals placed in its care
vs. the 13.7% that PETA lists as its aggregate 2004 rate.



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