PETA, the people that demand the chicken dinner off your table, are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of seizures, and euthinzations of pit bulls. I believe that they should not only be forced to stop such a genocide on innocent animals, but each and every member should be held accountable for allowing such an atrocity to happen, and every direct murderer retain a hefty sentence. I believe this is a very cruel and fixable situation because it not only effects the owners of pit bulls who have loving caring pets that couldn’t hurt a fly, but it also impacts the war hero dogs, as well as service and therapy dogs. If a police K9 mauls someone’s arm off and they fight against it, the criminal gets charged with assault on an officer and either rots in prison, or is punished by death. If this is the case then how is PETA allowed to get away with murdering dogs that served in the military? Shouldn’t that too be considered assault and or murder of a soldier?

On October 18, 2014, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals drove their van to the small community of Parksley, Virginia. Parksley is an out of the way rural town of less than 1,000 people. The destination of the PETA van was a trailer park located there, made up largely of poor, Spanish speaking immigrants. The park is described by a local resident as “difficult to find unless you know where you are going.” The PETA employees knew exactly where they were going because they had been there before. Over several weeks, PETA representatives had been visiting the trailer park and befriending the residents. They got to know who lived where and who had dogs and cats. They sat with the families on their porches, talking to them, offering biscuits to the dogs, promoting vaccinations, sterilization, and other PETA services. One of the families they spent time with had a three year old Chihuahua named Maya, a happy, healthy, and beloved dog. And on October 18, her home was one of the houses PETA set out to visit. This time, however, they were not there to talk to the family or any of the other residents or to offer any kind of assistance. In fact, they knew the family was not home. The PETA employees backed their van up to the porch and threw biscuits to Maya, who was sitting on her porch, hoping to coax her off her property and give PETA the ability to claim she was a stray dog “at large” whom they could therefore legally impound. In Virginia, PETA is licensed as an “animal shelter.” But Maya refused to stay off the property and after grabbing the biscuit, ran back to the safety of her porch. One of the employees went onto the property and stole Maya. But larceny wasn’t the only law the PETA employees would break. Virginia law requires dogs to be held for five days before they can be killed by shelters. It also requires private shelters like PETA to notify the municipal animal control shelter of any “stray” dogs they take in. PETA would do neither. Within hours, Maya was dead. PETA had killed her with a lethal dose of poison.

- Nathan J. Winograd, Contributor
Director of the No Kill Advocacy Center
10/18/2017 (Huffington Post)