[il-talk] peta

[Don Gillmore]

(from the barking moonbat file.)
>From an interview with Daphna Nachminovitch, Vice-President of Cruelty
> Investigations for PETA, in the Los Angeles Times blog L.A. Unleashed
> (posted 1/10/09):
[NACHMINOVITCH:] There will never be a perfect world, but in the world
> we're in now, we support some working dog situations and decry others.
> Hearing dog programs that pull dogs from animal shelters and ensure that
> they are in safe and loving homes have our stamp of approval; they live
> with the family for their entire life, they learn interesting things,
> enjoy life, and love helping. On the other hand, we oppose most
> seeing-eye-dog programs because the dogs are bred as if there are no
> equally intelligent dogs literally dying for homes in shelters, they are
> kept in harnesses almost 24/7, people are prohibited from petting or
> playing with them and they cannot romp and run and interact with other
> dogs; and their lives are repeatedly disrupted (they are trained for
> months in one home and bond, then sent to a second, and after years of
> bonding with the person they have "served," they are whisked away again
> because they are old and no longer "useful"). We have a member who is
> blind who actually moved states to avoid "returning" her beloved dog. We
> feel that the human community should do more to support blind people,
> and give dogs a break. A deaf person can see if a dog has a medical
> issue such as blood in her urine, a blind person living alone cannot,
> and so on.
Read the whole article (with the option to leave a comment) here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/01/when-we-first-r.html

You can e-mail Daphna Nachminovitch at
> DaphnaN at peta.org
> , or call her at
> 757-622-7382, extension 1338.

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