The local Animal Shelter around here does a lot to help my community. It's mostly a no kill shelter but some animals will be euthanized if they are sick.
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Peta is the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and is an amazing organization based out of Virginia.
That great that the shelter is doing that. Unfortunately over here its the opposite but the situation is improving for animals. Lots of people as of late have been adopting and raising more awareness about animals.
That's great. That's what the Human Society does. They address animal cruelties on a national level and work to fix these problems.
Yeah. Regardless of PETA or not, one should be and feel responsible to treat animals with respect and to solve these problems.
Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own existence and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
Its advocates oppose the assignment of moral value and fundamental protections on the basis of species membership alone—an idea known since 1970 as speciesism, when the term was coined by Richard D. Ryder—arguing that it is a prejudice
that made San Francisco the first "no-kill city" in the United States. The SFSPCA will keep any cat or dog under its roof until a home is found for it. The only time an animal will be euthanized is if it is determined to be suffering medically or behaviorally.
The model includes a set of tactics that, in combination, reduce the number of animals entering the shelter system and place most shelter animals in permanent homes. Some of these tactics are mobile adoption outreach units, aggressive early spay