July 2002 When we heard that the Cleveland City Council was considering an ordinance that would ban the possession of exotic animals as “pets,” we wrote to each council member as well as the mayor to voice our support. We sent each official information about the cruelty and dangers associated with “owning” exotic animals and alerted … Read more »
July 2002 After a Cookeville, Tennessee, police officer shot a dog during a traffic stop last December, PETA immediately sent letters to the police department requesting training for officers in how to deal with animals in routine and emergency situations. We also contacted the governor and an animal-friendly senator suggesting a statewide training program. In response, … Read more »
April 2002 PETA first contacted Target in 1999 to ask that it remove AquaBabies from its shelves. We sent countless follow-up letters and provided statements from experts describing why the tiny tanks are sorely inadequate for the fish, frogs, and snails imprisoned in them. We also posted action alerts and a feature on our Web site … Read more »
April 2002 Indiana residents contacted us after learning of a horrible case of animal abuse in which the owner of several dogs hired a man, who claimed to be licensed, to cut the ears of the dogs in a “fighting crop.” The man was not licensed, and he bound the dogs’ legs and mouths and cut … Read more »
April 2002 A Los Angeles activist contacted PETA about his struggle to convince a property management group in the city to cancel an Easter contest in which the prizes were live rabbits. Until the contest, the rabbits were being displayed, along with several ducklings, inside one of the buildings that the company manages. It is illegal … Read more »
April 2002 A Texas man, angry with his girlfriend, hung her 4-month-old puppy by his leash in a bedroom closet. He then used toothpaste to draw an outline of the dog on their bed, with the letters “R.I.P.” After the man’s arrest, PETA worked with prosecutors to ensure a successful trial. The jury found the man … Read more »
April 2002 Lincoln County, Montana, residents contacted PETA when they learned that their animal shelter was planning to buy a gas chamber. Apparently, the managers of the shelter could not keep accurate records on euthanasia, and the veterinarian with whom they contracted refused to do intravenous injections for them anymore. After we and countless concerned citizens … Read more »
January 2002 A Florida man, annoyed by his cat’s meowing, cut her throat and mutilated her with a steak knife while a friend took pictures. The owner and his accomplices were arrested after Walgreens photo developers called the police. Photographs depict not only the attack, but also the butchered carcass suspended from a shower rail while … Read more »
October 2001 After the two airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center, residents of nearby apartment buildings quickly fled, not realizing that it would be days before they were allowed to return. Others were at work and returned home to find their entry barred. PETA received dozens of calls from New York City residents, desperate to … Read more »
July 2001 An activist alerted PETA that several cats had suffered and/or died after becoming entangled in the batting cages’ netting at Incarnate Word Academy in Corpus Christi, Texas. PETA obtained disturbing video footage of a cat trapped in the mesh, spread-eagled, panting, and clearly in distress, desperately struggling to escape. The footage also showed the … Read more »
July 2001 DAIA was contacted by a Florida woman whose two cats had been poisoned to death with antifreeze. When the second cat got sick, she found a bowl of tuna mixed with antifreeze in her neighbor’s yard and called the police. Her neighbor admitted to the police that he had put out the antifreeze intentionally … Read more »
April 2001 PETA was inundated with e-mail messages and calls of concern about a product being sold by 1-800-FLOWERS called “Enchanted Tranquil Garden.” Many of the callers told us they had received the product, a vase containing a betta fish and a plant, as a gift and that the fish had arrived dead! We immediately wrote … Read more »
April 2001 PETA received a call from a floral manager of a Tops Market, a grocery-store chain with more than 130 stores scattered across the East Coast, about a product she was to begin selling in her store called “Betta Fish Arrangement,” a small vase containing a betta fish and a plant. We immediately sent a … Read more »
April 2001 Florida residents contacted us in February after hearing a local radio show during which a caller had bragged about killing his dog. The man stated that the dog had bitten his son, who had apparently been kicking her. The caller bragged that after dropping his child at the doctor, he returned to the house … Read more »
