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PETA stole dog and immediately euthanized her

Desert Fox

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I am making no comment about the amount that the lawsuit is for but just sad state of affairs

http://www.pilotonline.com/news/fam...cle_6715657f-db21-5630-8a1a-f87ad6471fde.html

Carey and Woods went to the Zarates’ trailer park home in Accomack County in October 2014 and took the young girl’s 3-year-old Chihuahua, Maya, off the family’s porch, according to court documents.

Carey was a contract worker for PETA and had been the nonprofit’s human resources director. Woods is PETA’s senior communications administrator and had volunteered to go with Carey on her own time.

Maya was euthanized that day, but state law required her to be held for five days.

Some of the comments are pretty much part of what I am thinking. . . .They were caught because of security cameras but how often have they actually done this in reality. How often have they actually stolen people's animals.
 
Given that it's PETA that did it...yeah, that sounds about right for them.
 
I have no idea why anybody would do that, and neither is a reason suggested.

But this - "Wilber Zarate and his daughter, Cynthia, seek more than $9 million" - demonstrates what it's all about. I bet they had a party when they realised their dog had been killed by PETA, assuming that's what happened.
 
baron said:
I have no idea why anybody would do that, and neither is a reason suggested.

But this - "Wilber Zarate and his daughter, Cynthia, seek more than $9 million" - demonstrates what it's all about. I bet they had a party when they realised their dog had been killed by PETA, assuming that's what happened.
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You don't think they cared about their dog?

I'd love to see them get a $9,000,000.00 judgment, it would hopefully put PETA out of business in their area.
 
baron said:
I have no idea why anybody would do that, and neither is a reason suggested.

But this - "Wilber Zarate and his daughter, Cynthia, seek more than $9 million" - demonstrates what it's all about. I bet they had a party when they realised their dog had been killed by PETA, assuming that's what happened.
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Some people care more about their pets. They see them like their own children. In which case this would be kidnapping and first-degree murder.

And when you're suing a large and wealthy organization that has done something clearly illegal, the amount has to be high. It needs to be high enough to be a deterrent, and not something they can count as an ordinary expense.
 
ehcks said:
Some people care more about their pets. They see them like their own children. In which case this would be kidnapping and first-degree murder.

And when you're suing a large and wealthy organization that has done something clearly illegal, the amount has to be high. It needs to be high enough to be a deterrent, and not something they can count as an ordinary expense.
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I don't know much about PETA so I'm not defending them, but $9m? That's a joke. I guarantee that this family didn't love their dog more than I love mine, but if someone did this to me I wouldn't for a minute think of becoming a multi-millionaire on the strength of it (and it wouldn't do me any good in any event as I'd likely be in jail for making paraplegics of the people who'd done it). If there's a call for millions in compensation then let the bulk of it go to other animal charities, not a greedy family profiting from the death of their dog.
 
if someone did that to my dogs I'd be under arrest right now for murdering some PETA members...... Or I'd sue them for every penny I could wring out them, partly to make them squeal, and partly to give a huge cash gift to local non-kill animal shelters...
 
Is this a thing PETA normally does? Just going around looking for dogs they assume to be strays to "rescue"?
 
baron said:
I don't know much about PETA so I'm not defending them, but $9m? That's a joke. I guarantee that this family didn't love their dog more than I love mine, but if someone did this to me I wouldn't for a minute think of becoming a multi-millionaire on the strength of it (and it wouldn't do me any good in any event as I'd likely be in jail for making paraplegics of the people who'd done it). If there's a call for millions in compensation then let the bulk of it go to other animal charities, not a greedy family profiting from the death of their dog.
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PETA is a rather well-off corporation (they collected over $50million in 2014). Furthermore, it is a group that is regularly seen as lying, hypocritical, and for the most part totally useless when it comes to protecting animals.

It is true that $9 million seems excessive, but the organization can afford it, plus (as another poster stated), any lawsuit has to be high enough to deter future bad activities (and not just be treated as the 'cost of doing business'.)

Its the difference between a lawsuit against McDonalds vs. your local food truck/chip wagon... the fact that McDonald's is a bigger company means that lawsuits must be higher.
 
HenryLee said:
Is this a thing PETA normally does? Just going around looking for dogs they assume to be strays to "rescue"?
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Not sure about 'strays' but they have done similar things...

From: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Better-dead-than-fed-PETA-says-2626614.php
...two PETA employees were charged with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty each, after authorities found them dumping the dead bodies of 18 animals they had just picked up from a North Carolina animal shelter.
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In 1991, PETA killed 18 rabbits and 14 roosters it had previously "rescued" from a research facility.
 
Segnosaur said:
Not sure about 'strays' but they have done similar things...

From: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Better-dead-than-fed-PETA-says-2626614.php
...two PETA employees were charged with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty each, after authorities found them dumping the dead bodies of 18 animals they had just picked up from a North Carolina animal shelter.
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In 1991, PETA killed 18 rabbits and 14 roosters it had previously "rescued" from a research facility.
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PETA has euthanized the majority of animals they "save" for a long time. There's always going to some animals that are too sick but PETA's numbers are way out of line with other shelters.

https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vd...acility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthanization-rate_n_6612490.html

As always,

 
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