Zalac added. "Decent people would call animal control for help...
By the way, what does PETA think animal control does with rabid coons?
Zalac added. "Decent people would call animal control for help...
PETA makes it sound like a raccoon is your friend. This wasn't the neighbor's dog that got out of the yard, it was a wild animal.
lmaoKing told Fox News on Tuesday that he'd offer PETA more hospitality than the animal.
As mentioned, he didnt shoot the coon in the house, but...I don't understand the idea of shooting a critter inside the house. Huge mess, damage to the house.
Calling animal control is certainly more humane for all parties, including the well being of the house.
I would have done the same, but I do have more respect for the life of a raccoon than a member of PETA.
"It doesn't give you comfort in your representatives when a member of Congress finds it amusing to boast of shooting a desperately cold animal who is 100 times smaller than he is and whose only misstep was trying to get into a large, warm house,"
and served them bacon and eggs the next morning
Zach S said:As mentioned, he didnt shoot the coon in the house, but...
As someone who has dealt with a wild animal in the house, and in retrospect, regrets chasing it out of the house rather than shooting it, I'm going to add a word to your post...
I don't understand the idea of not shooting a critter inside the house. Huge mess, damage to the house.
Noted...If the animal is hostile and/or destructive, and inside, and one wants to kill it, seems like the better tool for the job would be an object with which to bludgeon.
Not knocking on PETA or anything... but they seem to just be out looking to pick "fights" with politicians... remember when they were all over Obama because he killed a FLY! ... oh yeah.... a damn fly, of all things!
Obama and the Fly said:Well, I guess it can't be said that President Obama wouldn't hurt a fly. The commander in chief was recently pestered by a fly during an interview. He swatted at the insect and killed the little guy instantly.
Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution.
In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.
If all this has you wondering how you can be a bigger person (figuratively, as well as literally) in your dealings with exoskeletal beings, check out our handy-dandy bug catcher—one of which we are sending to President Obama for future insect incidents. I can tell you from personal experience that it sure came in handy the other day, when one of my cats was chasing the World's Largest Palmetto Bug around the house.
Obama and the Fly said:Because we've heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA's position on "Flygate," we've decided to explore the question of "to bee or not to bee" in a bit more depth.
As we all know, human beings often don't think before they act. We don't condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn't the Buddha and shouldn't be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It's the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of "uninvited guests."
We have lots of other items on our agenda, as you can imagine, and PETA's focus will remain on our core issues—promoting alternatives to eating animals, opposing fur and products made from animal skin, opposing laboratories that torment animals, and fighting the abuse of animals in circus training camps as well as other overt abuses that fall within our mission statement, which states that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.
We support compassion for all animals, even the most curious, smallest, and least sympathetic ones. We hope that everyone will take inspiration from Nobel Peace Prize–winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who believed that even insects were deserving of compassion and who would stop to move a worm from hot pavement to cool earth. Aware of the problems and responsibilities that go along with an expanded ethical code, Schweitzer said that we each must "live daily from judgment to judgment, deciding each case as it arises, as wisely and mercifully as we can."
We can't stop all suffering, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop any. Our wish is for all people to act wisely and mercifully toward animals.