Pet Board Takes Action on Abuse... A win!

[Max_Rep]

Okay gang you all contributed to a small win. When I saw the thread on Bob the tortoise, I copied the link and the story and reported it to http://www.idausa.org

We can do something good here. Kudo's again to the Pet Board Mods... you guys rock.

I just recieved a response:

Dear Friend,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding this horrific cruelty case. It is shameful. Our colleagues at the Humane Society of the United States are working on this case in providing the prosecutor information they need in order to prosecute the case. Dale Bartlett is handing the case for HSUS and can be reached at dbartlett@hsus.org. If there is anything more we can do to assist you, please let me know.

Thank you again for your care and compassion.

Sincerely,
Eric Phelps
In Defense of Animals
Join our Action Center at: http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/join.tcl

[JimmyTheFish]

Great Job!!

 

[knny187]

All is good

[Euro-monster]

It's working already!

[~flower~]

That's great news Max!!   

[Lord Humungous]

Im all for fair and ethical treatment of animals of all kinds but I dont support groups like IDA or PETA. Becomming a vegan or never wearing a leather jacket and giving up hunting are not on my agenda for this life.

[~flower~]

Is IDA as radical as PeTA?  PeTA wants to banish evening having animals as pets.

     

[Max_Rep]

Is IDA as radical as PeTA?  PeTA wants to banish evening having animals as pets.

     

No they are really more focused on cases of cruelty, abuse etc. At least that's the impression I get. Lumping them together with PETA is not a fair assessment. What I'm concerned about right now, right here is making sure that the scumbag who mutilated Tortoise Bob gets the MAXIMUM penalty.

I'm not trying to make any political statements or support any group other than Bob's family.

Isn't there another board for politics?

    

[Lord Humungous]

No they are really more focused on cases of cruelty, abuse etc. At least that's the impression I get. Lumping them together with PETA is not a fair assessment. What I'm concerned about right now, right here is making sure that the scumbag who mutilated Tortoise Bob gets the MAXIMUM penalty.

I'm not trying to make any political statements or support any group other than Bob's family.

Isn't there another board for politics?

    

Wasnt trying to get politcal Max I just saw some of their agenda on the site. Like you I think people that abuse animals should be treated about the same as people that abuse children

[Max_Rep]

Wasnt trying to get politcal Max I just saw some of their agenda on the site. Like you I think people that abuse animals should be treated about the same as people that abuse children

Cool. And if IDAUSA can help make that happen in some cases, that's good. I'm not supporting everything they do or say on their website. 

[~flower~]

Isn't there another board for politics?
   

Yes, but asking what the "agenda" of a group is, is a fair question and should be asked. For instance, a lot of people are not aware that PeTA is actually for the extinction of animals of pets.  They come across to the general public is wanting to help pets and animals, but doing a little research shows that some of their causes have a deeper goal to them, and that they actually do not even care about pets. 

 "We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are.
We didn't 'love' animals." --Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New
Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books,
1990),Preface, p. ii.
 

 "Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." -- Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals  (PeTA), Just Like Us? Toward a Nation of Animal Rights"
(symposium), Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.

"The cat, like the dog, must disappear ... We should cut the domestic cat free
from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our
pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." --John Bryant, Fettered
Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982), p. 15.


Even though I do not agree with PeTA as a whole, I do support some of their causes, but the cause itself and not PeTa. 

[rockyfortune]

Yes, but asking what the "agenda" of a group is, is a fair question and should be asked. For instance, a lot of people are not aware that PeTA is actually for the extinction of animals of pets.  They come across to the general public is wanting to help pets and animals, but doing a little research shows that some of their causes have a deeper goal to them, and that they actually do not even care about pets. 

 "We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are.
We didn't 'love' animals." --Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New
Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books,
1990),Preface, p. ii.
 

 "Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." -- Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals  (PeTA), Just Like Us? Toward a Nation of Animal Rights"
(symposium), Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.

"The cat, like the dog, must disappear ... We should cut the domestic cat free
from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our
pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." --John Bryant, Fettered
Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982), p. 15.


Even though I do not agree with PeTA as a whole, I do support some of their causes, but the cause itself and not PeTa. 

they sound like a bunch of nose in the air elitists...