Do you think PeTa have gone to far? They want to end dog shows on TV - Vote and have your say against PeTa?

PETA people need to be medicated! God placed animals on this earth for both company and food, for man to rule over. Therfore, they are ours. So if i want to eat or wear one, I am entitled. What would peta say about indians skinning animals for tee pees and fur coats for warmth? Should they have froze and died so they wouldnt harm a animal? What is wrong with a dog show? All they do is run around.

I think personally, from experience... that when a dog or cat gets pregnant so many times, it leads to health issues and possibly death. I know from experience, I have had a very special cat who passed away after her second liter, she was only 3 years old! Died when the babies were a week old, which left us to raise 5 kittens (3 survived).

Anyways... to the topic. I'm not against peta in any way, because some of their stuff is actually very true and wakes a lot of us up and helps us realize what's raelly going on in the world with all of these billion dollar companies and how they are just making all this money from us, while they continue to kill innocent animals, so in no way am i against peta (i'm a very big animal lover!)..

However, over breeding a dog is UNHEALTHY and NOT a pleasent life, imagine if you were a female dog, and you were constantly pregnant, constantly raising little puppies and having to deal with being seperated, it doesn't seem fun, and it's doing her no good. Dog shows are fun to watch, but if you think about it, the over breeding is wrong. However they are not completly accurate on their information, my dog is a full blooded beagle and we also have a half beagle, my full blooded beagle is a year older than the other, and she has NEVER been to the vet for a sickness, but my mixed breed went when she was a puppy for the common "parvo". So I'm torn, I don't know where I'm even going with this answer anymore lol. Well I guess I'm just saying peta is right, but the information from them is not accurate.

I do think PeTa has done great on some issues but on others its too much. The dog and cat shows need to be left alone, these animals are well cared for, there are so many other more pressing issues to deal with when it comes to animal rights and cruelty. Peta's new thing with calling fish Sea Kittens that's just stupid and kinda ruins their credibility. I'm totally for animal rights and organizations that help prevent animal cruelty but Peta is just over done and over the top. They are making people not like them and their organization and that doesn't do any good for the animals, they need to choose their battles more wisely!

No.

I think that the breeders have some very inhumane practices that need to be stopped. It is awful that any creature should have to go through what some of these poor animals do. I watched a TV program about it as well and was almost in tears over the health of these poor animals who live their lives in pain.

Granted, it may not be all breeders. But it is a despicable practice, the inbreeding that occurs with these animals because of the health problems they get. The poor dog that couldn't stop having painful seizures (who cried out in obvious pain), and the fact that it was easily preventable if not for people who intentionally inbreed the dogs, is a tragedy. And in Britain, it is apparently quite common. As is mating daughters (dogs) with fathers & grandfathers.

As is euthanizing (killing) dogs bred which lack some standard required to be a purebred of whatever breed the breeder is trying to achieve. The dogs can even be otherwise perfectly healthy but because they lack some characteristic the breeder is after, it is perfectly legal (at least when the documentary was created) for the breeder to put them down. And in some cases, it is this characteristic that is unnatural and causes a lifetime of pain for the animal (see the Rhodesian Ridgeback, whose 'desired' trait is actually unnatural and selectively breeding the animals to achieve it has caused countless health problems). And for what? For whose gain? Certainly not the dogs'.

To me, this issue really has nothing to do with PETA and everything to do with irresponsible breeders.

But if they are calling attention to it, then good.

It's unfortuntate that animal welfare has been linked to fanaticism. That's bad news for animals. I love animals. I hope people don't stop caring for animals just because they don't like PETA people. It's best to keep an open mind and find out facts for ourselves before deciding what to support.

PETA is a bit crazy but there trying to expose the true cruelty that is occurring (slaughterhouses etc.) but most people seem to be too ignorant to really care.

I believe in animal rights but if the dogs are loved and well cared for then what is the problem? The targets should be actual animal abusers and puppy mills.

Do I think they've gone too far? Yes, they've gone over the edge of sanity. Long ago, in fact. Really, does ANYBODY really take them seriously? I doubt you will have to worry about them having any impact on tv shows or dog breeding.

Peta has absolutely no credibility in my book. sitting around protesting about animal cruelty and yet they kill animals. they're a bunch of hypocrites. it doesn't matter to me whether a dog is a purebred a cross or a mutt. they're ours not Peta's.

The more of a mutt a dog is, the less problems it has. Pure bred dogs genetically inherit certain diseases / health problems. Mutts are so mixed, that they don't have these problems (It's been proven). I do agree that PETA always goes too far and make vegetarians and animal lovers look extremely bad. But I still don't think that dogs should be bred. If someone is going to love a dog because of their breed, it's not love. There are many dogs in shelters that need homes. If anyone really likes dogs, they'll adopt one from a shelter rather than contributing to overpopulation of dogs and buying them from a breeder. But do they really like dogs, or the breed? It's too superficial, and is bad for many dogs out there.