Data Manipulation by Animal Rights Groups and the Animal Shelter Shortage
Posted November 18th, 2009 by LaurenAnimal Rights organizations, namely HSUS and PeTA, manipulate data to support claims of "pet overpopulation" and high euthanasia rates. These organizations use a lot of sensationalism and emotion to make data that contradicts their claims appear to support their claims. What follows is the data used by these organizations and the facts behind the dramatic nonsense spewed in Animal Rights.
Top 10 things you will never hear an AR say
Posted September 22nd, 2009 by Lauren10. Shelter dogs can have problems; they aren't for everyone.
9. Your animals are kind of a mess. I know you mean well so we're
going to get you some help.
8. Mandatory spay/neuter is a lousy idea. If all dogs are sterilized,
where will the puppies come from?
7. We're firing all the lobbyists and lawyers and we're going to put
the money into training animal control workers, improving shelters,
and organizing transport programs.
6. We're good at raising money but we don't know much about animals.
If you want advice about animal policy, you should talk to an
SourceWatch Needs Work
Posted July 22nd, 2009 by LaurenThe Examiner, an animal ownership separatist-friendly publication, recently published an article opposing NAIA’s (http://www.naiaonline.org/) billboard campaign (http://exposeanimalrights.com/) against animal rights groups that fight against animal ownership. The Examiner’s article cited SourceWatch.com for its information on NAIA. SourceWatch is a wiki, which means that anyone can change the content in its pages. So, wikians, there may be a bit of work for you here.
Links to various SourceWatch pages follow.
Links to Shelter Databases
Posted May 9th, 2009 by LaurenThe purpose of this post is to provide a resource to links to state animal shelter databases and other statistics-related links. Just post comments to the blog with new links as they are discovered.
The starting list follows.
http://www.naiashelterproject.org/charts_map.cfm
http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/vet/index.html
http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi
Here is a page with links to sources,
http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.html.